From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:58127 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753109Ab0E3Mxs (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2010 08:53:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: drop control frames after processing From: Johannes Berg To: John Linville Cc: linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 14:53:43 +0200 Message-ID: <1275224023.3599.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: After ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl() processing we only want to process management (including action) frames, so there's no point in letting control frames continue. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/rx.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/rx.c 2010-05-30 14:49:30.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/rx.c 2010-05-30 14:50:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -1853,7 +1853,12 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl(struct ieee80211_rx_ return RX_QUEUED; } - return RX_CONTINUE; + /* + * After this point, we only want management frames, + * so we can drop all remaining control frames to + * cooked monitor interfaces. + */ + return RX_DROP_MONITOR; } static void ieee80211_process_sa_query_req(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,