[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mac80211: fix AP-mode frame matching" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    mac80211: fix AP-mode frame matching

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.2.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From daa076f8cdad2af4682c0d7d9a5e52e4ae51cae7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 16:42:40 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix AP-mode frame matching

commit 2b9ccd4e4308272e5aec614b77c5385e7ec2ec90 upstream.

In AP mode, ignore frames with mis-matched BSSID that aren't
multicast or sent to the correct destination. This fixes
reporting public action frames to userspace multiple times
on multiple virtual AP interfaces.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/rx.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 580704e..bed1b09 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -2950,6 +2950,9 @@ static int prepare_for_handlers(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx,
 			 * and location updates. Note that mac80211
 			 * itself never looks at these frames.
 			 */
+			if (!multicast &&
+			    !ether_addr_equal(sdata->vif.addr, hdr->addr1))
+				return 0;
 			if (ieee80211_is_public_action(hdr, skb->len))
 				return 1;
 			if (!ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control))
--
1.8.1.2