This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nl80211: fix mgmt tx status and testmode reporting for netns
to the 3.4-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:
nl80211-fix-mgmt-tx-status-and-testmode-reporting-for-netns.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a0ec570f4f69c4cb700d743a915096c2c8f56a99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:17:17 +0200
Subject: nl80211: fix mgmt tx status and testmode reporting for netns
From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
commit a0ec570f4f69c4cb700d743a915096c2c8f56a99 upstream.
These two events were sent to the default network
namespace.
This caused AP mode in a non-default netns to not
work correctly. Mgmt tx status was multicasted to
a different (default) netns instead of the one the
AP was in.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -5081,12 +5081,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_testmode_alloc_ev
void cfg80211_testmode_event(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp)
{
+ struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = ((void **)skb->cb)[0];
void *hdr = ((void **)skb->cb)[1];
struct nlattr *data = ((void **)skb->cb)[2];
nla_nest_end(skb, data);
genlmsg_end(skb, hdr);
- genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, nl80211_testmode_mcgrp.id, gfp);
+ genlmsg_multicast_netns(wiphy_net(&rdev->wiphy), skb, 0,
+ nl80211_testmode_mcgrp.id, gfp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_testmode_event);
#endif
@@ -7768,7 +7770,8 @@ void nl80211_send_mgmt_tx_status(struct
genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
- genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, gfp);
+ genlmsg_multicast_netns(wiphy_net(&rdev->wiphy), msg, 0,
+ nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, gfp);
return;
nla_put_failure:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/nl80211-fix-mgmt-tx-status-and-testmode-reporting-for-netns.patch
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