This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: rtl8723bs: Fix incorrect sense of ether_addr_equal
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From c948c6915b620f075496846df8d4487ee0c56121 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 21:33:14 -0600
Subject: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix incorrect sense of ether_addr_equal
In commit b37f9e1c3801 ("staging: rtl8723bs: Fix lines too long in
update_recvframe_attrib()."), the refactoring involved replacing
two memcmp() calls with ether_addr_equal() calls. What the author
missed is that memcmp() returns false when the two strings are equal,
whereas ether_addr_equal() returns true when the two addresses are
equal. One side effect of this error is that the strength of an
unassociated AP was much stronger than the same AP after association.
This bug is reported at bko#201611.
Fixes: b37f9e1c3801 ("staging: rtl8723bs: Fix lines too long in update_recvframe_attrib().")
Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: youling257 <youling257@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: u.srikant.patnaik@xxxxxxxxx
Reported-and-tested-by: youling257 <youling257@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c
index 85077947b9b8..85aba8a503cd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c
@@ -109,12 +109,12 @@ static void update_recvframe_phyinfo(union recv_frame *precvframe,
rx_bssid = get_hdr_bssid(wlanhdr);
pkt_info.bssid_match = ((!IsFrameTypeCtrl(wlanhdr)) &&
!pattrib->icv_err && !pattrib->crc_err &&
- !ether_addr_equal(rx_bssid, my_bssid));
+ ether_addr_equal(rx_bssid, my_bssid));
rx_ra = get_ra(wlanhdr);
my_hwaddr = myid(&padapter->eeprompriv);
pkt_info.to_self = pkt_info.bssid_match &&
- !ether_addr_equal(rx_ra, my_hwaddr);
+ ether_addr_equal(rx_ra, my_hwaddr);
pkt_info.is_beacon = pkt_info.bssid_match &&
--
2.19.1
