[PATCH 1/1][saucy] mac80211: ignore (E)CSA in probe response frames

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Fri Aug 23 15:26:10 UTC 2013


From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>

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.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Reported-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1201470
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/mlme.c | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index cc9e02d..7a98d52 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2851,14 +2851,6 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 		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(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 
 	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;
-- 
1.8.1.2





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