This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: refuse aggregations sessions before authorized to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mac80211-refuse-aggregations-sessions-before-authori.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8b0b336cb3a9acaf0378d77e5e9b86966e9a6b2c Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 3 20:15:29 2022 +0100 mac80211: refuse aggregations sessions before authorized [ Upstream commit a6bce78262f5dd4b50510f0aa47f3995f7b185f3 ] If an MFP station isn't authorized, the receiver will (or at least should) drop the action frame since it's a robust management frame, but if we're not authorized we haven't installed keys yet. Refuse attempts to start a session as they'd just time out. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220203201528.ff4d5679dce9.I34bb1f2bc341e161af2d6faf74f91b332ba11285@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c index f140c2b94b2c..f30cdd7f3a73 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ * Copyright 2007, Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx> * Copyright 2007-2010, Intel Corporation * Copyright(c) 2015-2017 Intel Deutschland GmbH - * Copyright (C) 2018 - 2021 Intel Corporation + * Copyright (C) 2018 - 2022 Intel Corporation */ #include <linux/ieee80211.h> @@ -615,6 +615,14 @@ int ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, u16 tid, return -EINVAL; } + if (test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_MFP) && + !test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_AUTHORIZED)) { + ht_dbg(sdata, + "MFP STA not authorized - deny BA session request %pM tid %d\n", + sta->sta.addr, tid); + return -EINVAL; + } + /* * 802.11n-2009 11.5.1.1: If the initiating STA is an HT STA, is a * member of an IBSS, and has no other existing Block Ack agreement