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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Check SN for deactivated mpaths

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On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 15:38 -0700, Alexis Green wrote:
> From: Jesse Jones <jjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When processing a PREQ or PREP it's critical to use the incoming SN. If
> that is improperly done routing loops and other types of badness can
> happen. But the code was always processing path messages for deactivated
> paths. This path fixes that so that if we have a valid SN then we use it
> to verify that it is a message we can accept. For reference the relevant
> section of the standard is 13.10.8.4 which doesn't address the deactivated
> path case at all.
> 
> I also included a special case for when our peer reboots or restarts
> networking. This is an important case because without it there can be a
> very long delay before we accept path messages from that peer. It's also a
> simple case and intimately associated with processing messages for
> deactivated paths so I used one patch instead of two.

Applied.

johannes

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