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Re: [PATCH 12/24] mac80211: ignore NullFunc frames in the duplicate detection

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On Sat, 2018-12-15 at 19:31 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:20 AM Luca Coelho <luca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > NullFunc packets should never be duplicate just like
> > QoS-NullFunc packets.
> > 
> > We saw a client that enters / exits power save with
> > NullFunc frames (and not with QoS-NullFunc) despite the
> > fact that the association supports HT.
> > This specific client also re-uses a non-zero sequence number
> > for different NullFunc frames.
> > At some point, the client had to send a retransmission of
> > the NullFunc frame and we dropped it, leading to a
> > misalignment in the power save state.
> > Fix this by never consider a NullFunc frame as duplicate,
> > just like we do for QoS NullFunc frames.
> > 
> > This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201449
> > 
> 
> This has already been sent, it is in net.git already :)

Oops, sorry, my bad.  I obviously forgot to look it up before sending.

--
Cheers,
Luca.




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