[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: use sta_info_get_bss() for nl80211 tx and client probing" 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: use sta_info_get_bss() for nl80211 tx and client probing

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 c97a555d9bfb3d144d304af0978cea1aba37a386 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:39:33 +0200
Subject: mac80211: use sta_info_get_bss() for nl80211 tx and client probing

commit 03bb7f42765ce596604f03d179f3137d7df05bba upstream.

This allows calls for clients in AP_VLANs (e.g. for 4-addr) to succeed

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.5: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/cfg.c | 1 +
 net/mac80211/tx.c  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 0042e61..a461c10 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -2847,6 +2847,7 @@ static int ieee80211_probe_client(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,

 	rcu_read_lock();
 	sta = sta_info_get(sdata, peer);
+	sta = sta_info_get_bss(sdata, peer);
 	if (sta) {
 		qos = test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_WME);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index d417c48..83755a5 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1156,7 +1156,8 @@ ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 		tx->sta = rcu_dereference(sdata->u.vlan.sta);
 		if (!tx->sta && sdata->dev->ieee80211_ptr->use_4addr)
 			return TX_DROP;
-	} else if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED ||
+	} else if (info->flags & (IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED |
+				  IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NL80211_FRAME_TX) ||
 		   tx->sdata->control_port_protocol == tx->skb->protocol) {
 		tx->sta = sta_info_get_bss(sdata, hdr->addr1);
 	}
--
1.8.3.2