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| author | Vamsi Krishna <vamsin@qti.qualcomm.com> | 2016-12-02 23:59:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-01-12 11:39:23 +0100 |
| commit | 45816391e1a5f32e25b8eb2f0c18033ea4b4b6a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e05366dddbcf86b9a73c2174b1b832011157328 /net | |
| parent | cd84516473a78a6932b1e034e71742e14842e8dc (diff) | |
nl80211: Use different attrs for BSSID and random MAC addr in scan req
commit 2fa436b3a2a7009c11a3bc03fe0ff4c26e80fd87 upstream.
NL80211_ATTR_MAC was used to set both the specific BSSID to be scanned
and the random MAC address to be used when privacy is enabled. When both
the features are enabled, both the BSSID and the local MAC address were
getting same value causing Probe Request frames to go with unintended
DA. Hence, this has been fixed by using a different NL80211_ATTR_BSSID
attribute to set the specific BSSID (which was the more recent addition
in cfg80211) for a scan.
Backwards compatibility with old userspace software is maintained to
some extent by allowing NL80211_ATTR_MAC to be used to set the specific
BSSID when scanning without enabling random MAC address use.
Scanning with random source MAC address was introduced by commit
ad2b26abc157 ("cfg80211: allow drivers to support random MAC addresses
for scan") and the issue was introduced with the addition of the second
user for the same attribute in commit 818965d39177 ("cfg80211: Allow a
scan request for a specific BSSID").
Fixes: 818965d39177 ("cfg80211: Allow a scan request for a specific BSSID")
Signed-off-by: Vamsi Krishna <vamsin@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index c510810f0b7c..a2dd6edaae37 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = { [NL80211_ATTR_NAN_MASTER_PREF] = { .type = NLA_U8 }, [NL80211_ATTR_NAN_DUAL] = { .type = NLA_U8 }, [NL80211_ATTR_NAN_FUNC] = { .type = NLA_NESTED }, + [NL80211_ATTR_BSSID] = { .len = ETH_ALEN }, }; /* policy for the key attributes */ @@ -6677,7 +6678,20 @@ static int nl80211_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) request->no_cck = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]); - if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC]) + /* Initial implementation used NL80211_ATTR_MAC to set the specific + * BSSID to scan for. This was problematic because that same attribute + * was already used for another purpose (local random MAC address). The + * NL80211_ATTR_BSSID attribute was added to fix this. For backwards + * compatibility with older userspace components, also use the + * NL80211_ATTR_MAC value here if it can be determined to be used for + * the specific BSSID use case instead of the random MAC address + * (NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS is used to enable random MAC address use). + */ + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_BSSID]) + memcpy(request->bssid, + nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_BSSID]), ETH_ALEN); + else if (!(request->flags & NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR) && + info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC]) memcpy(request->bssid, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC]), ETH_ALEN); else |