From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: agreen@cococorp.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jesse Jones <jjones@cococorp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Check SN for deactivated mpaths
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:00:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1434531646.1884.18.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557B5F4F.1060703@cococorp.com> (sfid-20150613_003822_322805_8822167A)
On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 15:38 -0700, Alexis Green wrote:
> From: Jesse Jones <jjones@cococorp.com>
>
> When processing a PREQ or PREP it's critical to use the incoming SN. If
> that is improperly done routing loops and other types of badness can
> happen. But the code was always processing path messages for deactivated
> paths. This path fixes that so that if we have a valid SN then we use it
> to verify that it is a message we can accept. For reference the relevant
> section of the standard is 13.10.8.4 which doesn't address the deactivated
> path case at all.
>
> I also included a special case for when our peer reboots or restarts
> networking. This is an important case because without it there can be a
> very long delay before we accept path messages from that peer. It's also a
> simple case and intimately associated with processing messages for
> deactivated paths so I used one patch instead of two.
Applied.
johannes
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2015-06-12 22:38 [PATCH] mac80211: Check SN for deactivated mpaths Alexis Green
2015-06-17 9:00 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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