On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jouni Malinen
<jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In order for frame injection to work properly for some use cases
> (e.g., finding the station entry and keys for encryption), mac80211
> needs to find the correct sdata entry. This works when the main vif
> is in AP mode, but commit a2c1e3dad516618cb0fbfb1a62c36d0b0744573a
> broke this particular use case for station main vif. While this type of
> injection is quite unusual operation, it has some uses and we should fix
> it. Do this by changing the monitor vif sdata selection to allow station
> vif to be selected instead of limiting it to just AP vifs. We still need
> to skip some iftypes to avoid selecting unsuitable vif for injection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> Ânet/mac80211/tx.c | Â Â7 ++++++-
> Â1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/tx.c   2010-11-26 20:21:02.000000000 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/tx.c Â2010-11-26 20:36:22.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1595,7 +1595,12 @@ static void ieee80211_xmit(struct ieee80
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âlist) {
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âif (!ieee80211_sdata_running(tmp_sdata))
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âcontinue;
> - Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â if (tmp_sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
> + Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â if (tmp_sdata->vif.type ==
> + Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ||
Ah, for some reason I thought we were able to push frames as a monitor
all along, no wonder packetspammer didn't work, or should it?
Luis
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