[PATCH 3.5 33/71] mac80211: clear sequence/fragment number in QoS-null frames
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Mar 31 13:22:39 UTC 2014
3.5.7.33 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
commit 864a6040f395464003af8dd0d8ca86fed19866d4 upstream.
Avoid leaking data by sending uninitialized memory and setting an
invalid (non-zero) fragment number (the sequence number is ignored
anyway) by setting the seq_ctrl field to zero.
Fixes: 3f52b7e328c5 ("mac80211: mesh power save basics")
Fixes: ce662b44ce22 ("mac80211: send (QoS) Null if no buffered frames")
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.5:
- Dropped changes to mps_qos_null_get() as 3f52b7e328c5 ("mac80211: mesh
power save basics") is not present in 3.5 kernel ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index 55975bd..15162a0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -1049,6 +1049,7 @@ static void ieee80211_send_null_response(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
memcpy(nullfunc->addr1, sta->sta.addr, ETH_ALEN);
memcpy(nullfunc->addr2, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
memcpy(nullfunc->addr3, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
+ nullfunc->seq_ctrl = 0;
skb->priority = tid;
skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, ieee802_1d_to_ac[tid]);
--
1.9.1
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