From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Since multicast addresses don't exist as stations, don't attempt
to look them up in the hashtable on TX.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
---
This replaces the broken commit "mac80211: simplify station
assignment in ieee80211_tx_prepare()".
---
net/mac80211/tx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 88a18ffe2975..0e56ac5729ef 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
tx->sdata->control_port_protocol == tx->skb->protocol) {
tx->sta = sta_info_get_bss(sdata, hdr->addr1);
}
- if (!tx->sta)
+ if (!tx->sta && !is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1))
tx->sta = sta_info_get(sdata, hdr->addr1);
if (tx->sta && ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control) &&
--
2.1.4
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