This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode to the 3.10-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-drop-spoofed-packets-in-ad-hoc-mode.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6329b8d917adc077caa60c2447385554130853a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:15:43 +0200 Subject: mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6329b8d917adc077caa60c2447385554130853a3 upstream. If an Ad-Hoc node receives packets with the Cell ID or its own MAC address as source address, it hits a WARN_ON in sta_info_insert_check() With many packets, this can massively spam the logs. One way that this can easily happen is through having Cisco APs in the area with rouge AP detection and countermeasures enabled. Such Cisco APs will regularly send fake beacons, disassoc and deauth packets that trigger these warnings. To fix this issue, drop such spoofed packets early in the rx path. Reported-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 @@ -3002,6 +3002,9 @@ static int prepare_for_handlers(struct i case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: if (!bssid) return 0; + if (ether_addr_equal(sdata->vif.addr, hdr->addr2) || + ether_addr_equal(sdata->u.ibss.bssid, hdr->addr2)) + return 0; if (ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control)) { return 1; } else if (!ieee80211_bssid_match(bssid, sdata->u.ibss.bssid)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/mac80211-use-sta_info_get_bss-for-nl80211-tx-and-client-probing.patch queue-3.10/mac80211-drop-spoofed-packets-in-ad-hoc-mode.patch queue-3.10/mac80211-update-sta-last_rx-on-acked-tx-frames.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html