From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932647Ab2KNFw5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:52:57 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:55318 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756509Ab2KNFvP (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:51:15 -0500 Message-Id: <20121114053937.496099557@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:39:59 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Javier Cardona , Javier Lopez , Johannes Berg Subject: [ 26/82] mac80211: dont inspect Sequence Control field on control frames In-Reply-To: <20121114053933.726869752@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Javier Cardona 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 Signed-off-by: Javier Lopez Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/mac80211/rx.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index f73e0dd..c6865f2 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -1462,6 +1462,10 @@ 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;