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authorJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>2012-10-25 11:10:18 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-11-17 13:15:56 -0800
commit7be001e0fa58fa84e81fcc8a7951a3f3fe7c642c (patch)
tree547d250a0b903cd569ba380837dfa56c5e3e3a0e
parent739b9fa801cab6bd63d51de7d7a97b7bd8bbbdc8 (diff)
mac80211: don't inspect Sequence Control field on control frames
commit f7fbf70ee9db6da6033ae50d100e017ac1f26555 upstream. 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. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-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 94b6f397fd3e..d58a3285233d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1465,6 +1465,10 @@ 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;