mac80211: enable assoc check for mesh interfaces
authorBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:16:31 +0000 (10:16 -0400)
committerDanny Wood <danwood76@gmail.com>
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:10:02 +0000 (13:10 +0000)
commitb827b95c5d114fbb258e92554f0130b80cda0719
tree772527862f5a825c0b37f05ec4a3fe947534062a
parent94946b223bc70afa6ca2e549ec3bac15729de740
mac80211: enable assoc check for mesh interfaces

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 <agreen@cococorp.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Jones <jjones@cococorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/tx.c