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authorJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>2012-10-25 11:10:18 -0700
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-10-25 21:54:41 +0200
commitf7fbf70ee9db6da6033ae50d100e017ac1f26555 (patch)
treedeb479e5b5f1de2d80dde4e24f9db87fa5ea186f /net/mac80211
parentmac80211: Don't drop frames received with mesh ttl == 1 (diff)
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mac80211: don't inspect Sequence Control field on control frames
Per IEEE Std. 802.11-2012, Sec 8.2.4.4.1, the sequence Control field is not present in control frames. We noticed this problem when processing Block Ack Requests. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Lopez <jlopex@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index f73e0dda0d86..c6865f2f47f8 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1462,6 +1462,10 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_defragment(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)rx->skb->data;
fc = hdr->frame_control;
+
+ if (ieee80211_is_ctl(fc))
+ return RX_CONTINUE;
+
sc = le16_to_cpu(hdr->seq_ctrl);
frag = sc & IEEE80211_SCTL_FRAG;