[PATCH] mac80211: fix low throughput due to invalid addba extension

[Govindaraj <gsamin@codeaurora.org>]

Addba request action frame received with the extension element from
certain 11ac stations, but the cmd id and length not matching to addba
extension and it failing in element parsing. Due to this, addba request
not acknowledged and aggregation not started which is causing low
throughput. Hence validating the cmd id before processing addba extension.

Signed-off-by: Govindaraj <gsamin@codeaurora.org>
---
 net/mac80211/agg-rx.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
index cce28e3..ea473d7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
@@ -494,7 +494,8 @@ void ieee80211_process_addba_request(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 
 	ies_len = len - offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt,
 				 u.action.u.addba_req.variable);
-	if (ies_len) {
+	if (ies_len &&
+	    mgmt->u.action.u.addba_req.variable[0] == WLAN_EID_ADDBA_EXT) {
 		ieee802_11_parse_elems(mgmt->u.action.u.addba_req.variable,
                                 ies_len, true, &elems, mgmt->bssid, NULL);
 		if (elems.parse_error)
-- 
2.7.4