On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:48 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> When running as a 4-addr station against an AP that has the 4-addr VLAN
> interface and the main 3-addr AP interface bridged together, sometimes
> frames originating from the station were looping back from the 3-addr AP
> interface, causing the bridge code to emit warnings about receiving frames
> with its own source address.
> I'm not sure why this is happening yet, but I think it's a good idea to
> drop all frames (except 802.1x/EAP frames) that do not match the configured
> addressing mode, including 4-address frames sent to a 3-address station.
> User test reports indicate that the problem goes away with this patch.
This looks better, thanks. But did they really test _this_ patch? :)
johannes
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/mac80211/rx.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> index a6701ed..1236710 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> @@ -1556,17 +1556,36 @@ __ieee80211_data_to_8023(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
> {
> struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = rx->sdata;
> struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)rx->skb->data;
> + bool check_port_control = false;
> + struct ethhdr *ehdr;
> + int ret;
>
> if (ieee80211_has_a4(hdr->frame_control) &&
> sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN && !sdata->u.vlan.sta)
> return -1;
>
> + if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
> + !!sdata->u.mgd.use_4addr != !!ieee80211_has_a4(hdr->frame_control)) {
> +
> + if (!sdata->u.mgd.use_4addr)
> + return -1;
> + else
> + check_port_control = true;
> + }
> +
> if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) &&
> - ((sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN && sdata->u.vlan.sta) ||
> - (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION && sdata->u.mgd.use_4addr)))
> + sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN && sdata->u.vlan.sta)
> return -1;
>
> - return ieee80211_data_to_8023(rx->skb, sdata->vif.addr, sdata->vif.type);
> + ret = ieee80211_data_to_8023(rx->skb, sdata->vif.addr, sdata->vif.type);
> + if (ret < 0 || !check_port_control)
> + return ret;
> +
> + ehdr = (struct ethhdr *) rx->skb->data;
> + if (ehdr->h_proto != rx->sdata->control_port_protocol)
> + return -1;
> +
> + return 0;
> }
>
> /*
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