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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] mac80211: reply to directed probes in IBSS
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:49:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296564563.3989.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

At least the WMM spec says we should reply to
unicast probe request frames that go to us.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
 net/mac80211/ibss.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/ibss.c	2011-02-01 12:58:16.000000000 +0100
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/ibss.c	2011-02-01 13:47:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_req(
 	       mgmt->bssid, tx_last_beacon);
 #endif /* CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG */
 
-	if (!tx_last_beacon)
+	if (!tx_last_beacon && !(status->rx_flags & IEEE80211_RX_RA_MATCH))
 		return;
 
 	if (memcmp(mgmt->bssid, ifibss->bssid, ETH_ALEN) != 0 &&



             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01 12:49 Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-02-08 11:11 ` [RFC] mac80211: reply to directed probes in IBSS Mohammed Shafi
2011-02-14 10:12   ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-14 10:28     ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-02-14 10:48       ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-02-14 12:28     ` Jouni Malinen
2011-02-14 12:31       ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-14 13:38         ` Jouni Malinen

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