From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix Public Action frame RX in AP mode
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:45:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456843521.3926.30.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456784940-32328-1-git-send-email-jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 00:29 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Public Action frames use special rules for how the BSSID field
> (Address
> 3) is set. A wildcard BSSID is used in cases where the transmitter
> and
> recipient are not members of the same BSS. As such, we need to accept
> Public Action frames with wildcard BSSID.
>
> Commit db8e17324553 ("mac80211: ignore frames between TDLS peers when
> operating as AP") added a rule that drops Action frames to TDLS-peers
> based on an Action frame having different DA (Address 1) and BSSID
> (Address 3) values. This is not correct since it misses the
> possibility
> of BSSID being a wildcard BSSID in which case the Address 1 would not
> necessarily match.
>
> Fix this by allowing mac80211 to accept wildcard BSSID in an Action
> frame when in AP mode.
>
Applied, thanks.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-01 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-29 22:29 [PATCH] mac80211: Fix Public Action frame RX in AP mode Jouni Malinen
2016-03-01 14:05 ` Arik Nemtsov
2016-03-01 14:45 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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