This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: ignore (E)CSA in probe response frames
to the 3.11-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-ignore-e-csa-in-probe-response-frames.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d70b7616d9080ec9f868fbd31db5fd4341435d61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:48:48 +0200
Subject: mac80211: ignore (E)CSA in probe response frames
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
commit d70b7616d9080ec9f868fbd31db5fd4341435d61 upstream.
Seth reports that some APs, notably the Netgear WNDAP360, send
invalid ECSA IEs in probe response frames with the operating
class and channel number both set to zero, even when no channel
switch is being done. As a result, any scan while connected to
such an AP results in the connection being dropped.
Fix this by ignoring any channel switch announcment in probe
response frames entirely, since we're connected to the AP we
will be receiving a beacon (and maybe even an action frame) if
a channel switch is done, which is sufficient.
Reported-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/mlme.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2851,14 +2851,6 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct
ieee80211_rx_bss_put(local, bss);
sdata->vif.bss_conf.beacon_rate = bss->beacon_rate;
}
-
- if (!sdata->u.mgd.associated ||
- !ether_addr_equal(mgmt->bssid, sdata->u.mgd.associated->bssid))
- return;
-
- ieee80211_sta_process_chanswitch(sdata, rx_status->mactime,
- elems, true);
-
}
@@ -3147,6 +3139,9 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_beacon(str
ieee80211_rx_bss_info(sdata, mgmt, len, rx_status, &elems);
+ ieee80211_sta_process_chanswitch(sdata, rx_status->mactime,
+ &elems, true);
+
if (ieee80211_sta_wmm_params(local, sdata, elems.wmm_param,
elems.wmm_param_len))
changed |= BSS_CHANGED_QOS;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.11/mac80211-ignore-e-csa-in-probe-response-frames.patch
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