From: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, j@w1.fi
Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211/mac80211: drop GTK-protected unicast IP packets
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:43:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <529DB5E9.2080003@lri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <529DB560.40805@lri.fr>
On 03/12/2013 11:41, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 10:45, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:44 +0100, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
>>> On 02/12/2013 19:51, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>>> + if (!ipv4_is_multicast(ip.hdr4.daddr))
>>>> + return -1;
>>>
>>> So broadcasting to e.g. 192.168.255.255 is now forbidden ?
>>
>> Please, read the patch :)
>
> I read the patch further. ipv4_is_multicast only checks if the
> address is in 224/4, so this patch makes __ieee80211_data_to_8023
> returns 0 for 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255, and returns -1 for
> everything else, including the 255.255.255.255, 192.168.255.255 and
> other limited broadcast addresses
Err, i mean directed broadcast addresses.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-03 10:44 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
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 [this message]
2013-12-03 10:48 ` Johannes Berg
2013-12-03 10:51 ` Johannes Berg
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