[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mac80211: use blacklist for duplicate IE check" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mac80211: use blacklist for duplicate IE check

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 22247f6d2944e20ade4626e7f881f9398aa33c4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:19:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: use blacklist for duplicate IE check
X-Extended-Stable: 3.5

commit 9690fb169b433a66485c808e4fc352b8a0f8d866 upstream.

Instead of the current whitelist which accepts duplicates
only for the quiet and vendor IEs, use a blacklist of all
IEs (that we currently parse) that can't be duplicated.

This avoids detecting a beacon as corrupt in the future
when new IEs are added that can be duplicated.

Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
[ herton: dropped WLAN_EID_VHT_CAPABILITY and WLAN_EID_VHT_OPERATION
  choices, not present in 3.5 ]
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/util.c |   40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 92d84f5..9ff0a85 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -628,13 +628,39 @@ u32 ieee802_11_parse_elems_crc(u8 *start, size_t len,
 			break;
 		}

-		if (id != WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC &&
-		    id != WLAN_EID_QUIET &&
-		    test_bit(id, seen_elems)) {
-			elems->parse_error = true;
-			left -= elen;
-			pos += elen;
-			continue;
+		switch (id) {
+		case WLAN_EID_SSID:
+		case WLAN_EID_SUPP_RATES:
+		case WLAN_EID_FH_PARAMS:
+		case WLAN_EID_DS_PARAMS:
+		case WLAN_EID_CF_PARAMS:
+		case WLAN_EID_TIM:
+		case WLAN_EID_IBSS_PARAMS:
+		case WLAN_EID_CHALLENGE:
+		case WLAN_EID_RSN:
+		case WLAN_EID_ERP_INFO:
+		case WLAN_EID_EXT_SUPP_RATES:
+		case WLAN_EID_HT_CAPABILITY:
+		case WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION:
+		case WLAN_EID_MESH_ID:
+		case WLAN_EID_MESH_CONFIG:
+		case WLAN_EID_PEER_MGMT:
+		case WLAN_EID_PREQ:
+		case WLAN_EID_PREP:
+		case WLAN_EID_PERR:
+		case WLAN_EID_RANN:
+		case WLAN_EID_CHANNEL_SWITCH:
+		case WLAN_EID_EXT_CHANSWITCH_ANN:
+		case WLAN_EID_COUNTRY:
+		case WLAN_EID_PWR_CONSTRAINT:
+		case WLAN_EID_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL:
+			if (test_bit(id, seen_elems)) {
+				elems->parse_error = true;
+				left -= elen;
+				pos += elen;
+				continue;
+			}
+			break;
 		}

 		if (calc_crc && id < 64 && (filter & (1ULL << id)))
--
1.7.9.5