[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: don't attempt to reorder multicast frames" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    mac80211: don't attempt to reorder multicast frames

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.
-Luis

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>From 5f125a1077ee96413f50e451241447033abe44eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:28:27 +0100
Subject: mac80211: don't attempt to reorder multicast frames

commit 051a41fa4ee14f5c39668f0980973b9a195de560 upstream.

Multicast frames can't be transmitted as part of an aggregation
session (such a session couldn't even be set up) so don't try to
reorder them. Trying to do so would cause the reorder to stop
working correctly since multicast QoS frames (as transmitted by
the Aruba APs this was found with) would cause sequence number
confusion in the buffer.

Reported-by: Blaise Gassend <blaise at suitabletech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/rx.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index ee8f525a..02e3f9a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -764,7 +764,8 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_reorder_ampdu(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 	u16 sc;
 	u8 tid, ack_policy;

-	if (!ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control))
+	if (!ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control) ||
+	    is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1))
 		goto dont_reorder;

 	/*
--
1.8.3.2