We found ath9k could occasionally receive some frames from Linux IP stack with empty source
and destination mac address, especially when the radio mode works as a wireless client and
configure a static IP. If the ADDBA has been negotiated, this kind of error packets will cause
the driver failed to find the opposite node (VAP) while in the function of processing these frame's TX
complete interrupt.
The above failure happens inside the TX complete processing
function ath_tx_process_buffer while calling ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr.
Inside the function ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr,
the condition of ether_addr_equal(sta->sdata->vif.addr, localaddr) will return false
since localaddr(hdr->addr2, 802.3 source mac) is an empty mac address.
Finally, this function will return NULL to ath_tx_process_buffer.
And then ath_tx_process_buffer will call ath_tx_complete_aggr to complete the frame(s),
However, the sta is NULL at this moment, so it could complete this kind
of the frame(s) but doesn't (and cannot) update the BA window.
Please see the below snippet of ath_tx_complete_aggr
if (!sta) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bf_head);
while (bf) {
bf_next = bf->bf_next;
if (!bf->bf_state.stale || bf_next != NULL)
list_move_tail(&bf->list, &bf_head);
ath_tx_complete_buf(sc, bf, txq, &bf_head, NULL, ts, 0);
bf = bf_next;
}
return;
}
To fix this issue, we could remove the comparison of localaddr of ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr
when works as a wireless client - it won't have more than one sta (VAP) found, but I don't think
it is the best solution. Dropping this kind of error packet before it
goes into the driver, should be the right direction.
Signed-off-by: Ming Chen <ming.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4:
-Add more details for the changelog
v3:
-Fix s-o-b location
v2:
-According to review feedback, use the is_zero_ether_addr to check if the mac address is empty.
---
net/mac80211/tx.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index db38be1b75fa..b18745a3f6b0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -2489,6 +2489,13 @@ static struct sk_buff *ieee80211_build_hdr(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (IS_ERR(sta))
sta = NULL;
+ /* drop this skb when source mac or destination mac is empty */
+ if (is_zero_ether_addr(skb->data) ||
+ is_zero_ether_addr(skb->data + ETH_ALEN)) {
+ ret = -ENOTCONN;
+ goto free;
+ }
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
if (local->force_tx_status)
info_flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS;
@@ -3435,6 +3442,11 @@ static bool ieee80211_xmit_fast(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (skb->sk && skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_WIFI_STATUS)
return false;
+ /* drop this skb when source mac or destination mac is empty */
+ if (is_zero_ether_addr(skb->data) ||
+ is_zero_ether_addr(skb->data + ETH_ALEN))
+ return false;
+
if (hdr->frame_control & cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA)) {
tid = skb->priority & IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TAG1D_MASK;
tid_tx = rcu_dereference(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid]);
--
2.17.1
