[[PATCH mac80211] 1/1] ieee80211: mesh: handle secured PREQ frames

[Hari Nagalla <hnagalla@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Maital Hahn <maitalm@xxxxxx>

Add handling of encrypted broadcast action frames (Group addressed privacy)
Up until now all broadcast action frames and management were not encrypted.

When we send Mesh path selection action frames we need to send a broadcast
action frame which is encrypted.

Change applied to tx.c file adding a case where we handle these specific cases
which are defined in the spec in Table 8-38 Category values (Group addressed privacy)

Code: 13 - Mesh
Code: 14 - Multihop

Signed-off-by: Chen Loewy <c-loewy@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Maital Hahn <maitalm@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hari Nagalla <hnagalla@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/ieee80211.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 net/mac80211/tx.c         | 13 ++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index c83478271c2e..6c84af4f7171 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -3025,6 +3025,25 @@ static inline bool ieee80211_is_robust_mgmt_frame(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	return _ieee80211_is_robust_mgmt_frame((void *)skb->data);
 }
 
+static inline bool ieee80211_is_not_group_privacy(struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr)
+{
+	if (ieee80211_is_action(hdr->frame_control)) {
+		u8 *category;
+
+		/*
+		 * Action frames, excluding Public Action frames, are Robust
+		 * Management Frames. However, if we are looking at a Protected
+		 * frame, skip the check since the data may be encrypted and
+		 * the frame has already been found to be a Robust Management
+		 * Frame (by the other end).
+		 */
+		category = ((u8 *)hdr) + 24;
+		return *category != WLAN_CATEGORY_MESH_ACTION &&
+			*category != WLAN_CATEGORY_MULTIHOP_ACTION;
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
 /**
  * ieee80211_is_public_action - check if frame is a public action frame
  * @hdr: the frame
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 2f726cde9998..ed8f561142a3 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -468,12 +468,19 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_multicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 static int ieee80211_use_mfp(__le16 fc, struct sta_info *sta,
 			     struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	if (!ieee80211_is_mgmt(fc))
-		return 0;
 
-	if (sta == NULL || !test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_MFP))
+	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
+
+	if (!ieee80211_is_mgmt(fc))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) {
+		if (!ieee80211_is_not_group_privacy(hdr))
+			return 1;
+	} else {
+		if (sta == NULL || !test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_MFP))
+			return 0;
+	}
 	if (!ieee80211_is_robust_mgmt_frame(skb))
 		return 0;
 
-- 
2.17.1