This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: Fix Public Action frame RX in AP mode
to the 4.4-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-fix-public-action-frame-rx-in-ap-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1ec7bae8bec9b72e347e01330c745ab5cdd66f0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jouni Malinen <jouni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 00:29:00 +0200
Subject: mac80211: Fix Public Action frame RX in AP mode
From: Jouni Malinen <jouni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1ec7bae8bec9b72e347e01330c745ab5cdd66f0e upstream.
Public Action frames use special rules for how the BSSID field (Address
3) is set. A wildcard BSSID is used in cases where the transmitter and
recipient are not members of the same BSS. As such, we need to accept
Public Action frames with wildcard BSSID.
Commit db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when
operating as AP") added a rule that drops Action frames to TDLS-peers
based on an Action frame having different DA (Address 1) and BSSID
(Address 3) values. This is not correct since it misses the possibility
of BSSID being a wildcard BSSID in which case the Address 1 would not
necessarily match.
Fix this by allowing mac80211 to accept wildcard BSSID in an Action
frame when in AP mode.
Fixes: db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when operating as AP")
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/rx.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -3385,6 +3385,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_accept_frame(struc
return false;
/* ignore action frames to TDLS-peers */
if (ieee80211_is_action(hdr->frame_control) &&
+ !is_broadcast_ether_addr(bssid) &&
!ether_addr_equal(bssid, hdr->addr1))
return false;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jouni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mac80211-fix-public-action-frame-rx-in-ap-mode.patch
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