On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:09:21AM +0200, Gabriele Gristina wrote:
> I have a problem with mac80211 injection:
> if i setup interface in monitor mode with iwconfig and i try to send a
> custum 802.11 frame i see twice the packet in monitor interface.
> The first packet is right, the second is different only in the radiotap
> header: rtap len is fixed to 13 bytes...
> If i setup interface with airmon-ng the packet is sended once but the
> radiotap header is fixed to 13 bytes.
>
> Patch for 2.6.31.4
>
> --- net/mac80211/main.c.orig 2009-10-16 00:50:00.000000000 +0200
> +++ net/mac80211/main.c 2009-10-15 23:06:03.000000000 +0200
> @@ -607,6 +607,9 @@
> skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_802_2);
> memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
>
> + if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS))
> + goto out_no_echo;
> +
> rcu_read_lock();
> list_for_each_entry_rcu(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) {
> if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) {
> @@ -630,7 +633,8 @@
> skb = NULL;
> }
> rcu_read_unlock();
> - dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> +out_no_echo:
> + if (skb) dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_tx_status);
>
Thanks for the patch! But I need a Signed-off-by line...
http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
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