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From: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: j@w1.fi, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211/mac80211: drop GTK-protected unicast IP packets
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:52:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529D9BBE.6040900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386010316-2540-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net>

On 2013-12-02 19:51, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>
> The GTK is shared by all stations in an 802.11 BSS and as such any
> one of them can send forged group-addressed frames. To prevent this
> kind of attack, drop unicast IP packets if they were protected with
> the GTK, i.e. were multicast packets at the 802.11 layer.
>

[...]

>
> +/**
> + * cfg80211_is_ip_unicast - check if packet is IP unicast
> + * @skb: skb, in 802.3 format
> + */
> +bool cfg80211_is_ip_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb);
> +

Not implemented anywhere. Leftovers?

Cheers,

Pontus


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-03  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-02 18:51 [RFC] cfg80211/mac80211: drop GTK-protected unicast IP packets Johannes Berg
2013-12-03  8:52 ` Pontus Fuchs [this message]
2013-12-03  8:54   ` Johannes Berg
2013-12-03  9:20 ` Krishna Chaitanya
2013-12-03  9:34   ` Johannes Berg
2013-12-03 11:16     ` Krishna Chaitanya
2013-12-03  9:44 ` Nicolas Cavallari
2013-12-03  9:45   ` Johannes Berg
2013-12-03 10:41     ` Nicolas Cavallari
2013-12-03 10:43       ` Nicolas Cavallari
2013-12-03 10:48       ` Johannes Berg
2013-12-03 10:51         ` Johannes Berg

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