From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759966AbbJIAVE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:21:04 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:35520 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759000AbbJIARe (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:17:34 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Johannes Berg" , "Jesse Jones" , "Bob Copeland" , "Alexis Green" Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 01:12:27 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 034/107] mac80211: enable assoc check for mesh interfaces In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.247 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.72-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Bob Copeland commit 3633ebebab2bbe88124388b7620442315c968e8f upstream. We already set a station to be associated when peering completes, both in user space and in the kernel. Thus we should always have an associated sta before sending data frames to that station. Failure to check assoc state can cause crashes in the lower-level driver due to transmitting unicast data frames before driver sta structures (e.g. ampdu state in ath9k) are initialized. This occurred when forwarding in the presence of fixed mesh paths: frames were transmitted to stations with whom we hadn't yet completed peering. Reported-by: Alexis Green Tested-by: Jesse Jones Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/mac80211/tx.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c @@ -278,9 +278,6 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_check_assoc(struct ieee80 if (tx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) return TX_CONTINUE; - if (tx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) - return TX_CONTINUE; - if (tx->flags & IEEE80211_TX_PS_BUFFERED) return TX_CONTINUE;