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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: strictly check mesh address extension mode

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On Sun, 2017-05-14 at 21:41 -0700, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> Mesh forwarding path checks for address extension mode to fetch
> appropriate proxied address and MPP address. Existing condition
> that looks for 6 address format is not strict enough so that
> frames with improper values are processed and invalid entries
> are added into MPP table. Fix that by adding a stricter check before
> processing the packet.
> 
> Per IEEE Std 802.11s-2011 spec. Table 7-6g1 lists address extension
> mode 0x3 as reserved one. And also Table Table 9-13 does not specify
> 0x3 as valid address field.

Yeah ...

applied, thanks.

johannes



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