On 12-06-14 09:35, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
--- This bug was there for years, however didn't cause any problems. It was exposed recently by the 3.15 release by the: commit 3afc2167f60a327a2c1e1e2600ef209a3c2b75b7 Author: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 4 16:50:13 2014 +0200 cfg80211/mac80211: ignore signal if the frame was heard on wrong channel Should we mark it for stable for 3.15 only? Or all olders kernels as well?Up to you - my patch is in 3.15 only I think.
Is there any scenario that would expose the worng info. Maybe when using monitor mode?
Gr. AvS
--- drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c index 4f38f19..6e6ef3f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c @@ -811,9 +811,13 @@ void b43_rx(struct b43_wldev *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, const void *_rxhdr) break; case B43_PHYTYPE_G: status.band = IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ; - /* chanid is the radio channel cookie value as used - * to tune the radio. */ - status.freq = chanid + 2400; + /* Somewhere between 478.104 and 508.1084 firmware for G-PHY + * has been modified to be compatible with N-PHY and others. + */ + if (dev->fw.rev >= 508) + status.freq = ieee80211_channel_to_frequency(chanid, status.band); + else + status.freq = chanid + 2400; break; case B43_PHYTYPE_N: case B43_PHYTYPE_LP: -- 1.8.4.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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