From 19d19e960598161be92a7e4828eb7706c6410ce6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:38:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: use driver-indicated transmitter STA only for data frames MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When I originally introduced using the driver-indicated station as an optimisation to avoid the hashtable lookup/iteration, of course it wasn't intended to really functionally change anything. I neglected, however, to take into account VLAN interfaces, which have the property that management and data frames are handled differently: data frames go directly to the station and the VLAN while management frames continue to be processed over the underlying/associated AP-type interface. As a consequence, when a driver used this optimisation for management frames and the user enabled VLANs, my change broke things since any management frames, particularly disassoc/deauth, were missed by hostapd. Fix this by restoring the original code path for non-data frames, they aren't critical for performance to begin with. This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713. Big thanks goes to Jarek who bisected the issue and provided a very detailed bug report, including the crucial information that he was using VLANs in his configuration. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 771e846bea9e ("mac80211: allow passing transmitter station on RX") Reported-and-tested-by: Jarek Kamiński Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/rx.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index 28cc494a774d..e48724a6725e 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -4086,15 +4086,17 @@ static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control))) ieee80211_scan_rx(local, skb); - if (pubsta) { - rx.sta = container_of(pubsta, struct sta_info, sta); - rx.sdata = rx.sta->sdata; - if (ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle(&rx, skb, true)) - return; - goto out; - } else if (ieee80211_is_data(fc)) { + if (ieee80211_is_data(fc)) { struct sta_info *sta, *prev_sta; + if (pubsta) { + rx.sta = container_of(pubsta, struct sta_info, sta); + rx.sdata = rx.sta->sdata; + if (ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle(&rx, skb, true)) + return; + goto out; + } + prev_sta = NULL; for_each_sta_info(local, hdr->addr2, sta, tmp) { -- 2.20.1