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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, svens@stackframe.org,
	vh.nguyen@actiasodielec.fr
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT 2/2] ath10k: don't start monitor vdev for promisc
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:28:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C69A32.3090305@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405516873-26411-2-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com>

On 07/16/2014 06:21 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> ath10k doesn't apply any extra rx filters so
> there's no need to start monitor vdev for
> promiscuous mode.
>
> This fixes crashes with 4addr station interface
> bridging and some very rare crashes of AP
> interfaces with bridging as well.

Ahh, I was just working on some related hack-arounds to make sure
I left a vdev slot open for the monitor interface in case some poor
person started a sniffer on an interface and made it go promisc...

With this patch, I can be sure monitor interfaces will not
be automatically created without explicit user request?

Any idea if it will be a problem to apply this to what is
effectively a 3.15 kernel?

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-16 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-16 13:21 [RFC/RFT 1/2] ath10k: fix monitor start/stop sequences Michal Kazior
2014-07-16 13:21 ` [RFC/RFT 2/2] ath10k: don't start monitor vdev for promisc Michal Kazior
2014-07-16 15:28   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2014-07-17  5:15     ` Michal Kazior
2014-07-21 17:39 ` [RFC/RFT 1/2] ath10k: fix monitor start/stop sequences Kalle Valo
2014-07-22  8:14   ` Michal Kazior

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