This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: fix AP-mode frame matching
to the 3.9-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-fix-ap-mode-frame-matching.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2b9ccd4e4308272e5aec614b77c5385e7ec2ec90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 16:42:40 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix AP-mode frame matching
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 2b9ccd4e4308272e5aec614b77c5385e7ec2ec90 upstream.
In AP mode, ignore frames with mis-matched BSSID that aren't
multicast or sent to the correct destination. This fixes
reporting public action frames to userspace multiple times
on multiple virtual AP interfaces.
Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/rx.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -3032,6 +3032,9 @@ static int prepare_for_handlers(struct i
* and location updates. Note that mac80211
* itself never looks at these frames.
*/
+ if (!multicast &&
+ !ether_addr_equal(sdata->vif.addr, hdr->addr1))
+ return 0;
if (ieee80211_is_public_action(hdr, skb->len))
return 1;
if (!ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/mac80211-use-just-spin_lock-in-ieee80211_get_tkip_p2k.patch
queue-3.9/cfg80211-fix-wiphy_register-error-path.patch
queue-3.9/mac80211-fix-ap-mode-frame-matching.patch
queue-3.9/cfg80211-fix-wowlan-wakeup-tracing.patch
queue-3.9/iwlwifi-mvm-always-use-scan_type_forced.patch
queue-3.9/cfg80211-fix-sending-wowlan-tcp-wakeup-settings.patch
queue-3.9/iwlwifi-mvm-prevent-setting-assoc-flag-in-mac_context_cmd.patch
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