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From: "Zhengyejian (Zetta)" <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
To: Mathy Vanhoef <Mathy.Vanhoef@kuleuven.be>
Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	yuehaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
	Zhangjinhao <zhangjinhao2@huawei.com>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"johannes.berg@intel.com" <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4.4] mac80211: fix handling A-MSDUs that start with an RFC 1042 header
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:39:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70d0f888685a443881322319c657bfa5@huawei.com> (raw)

> > How about linux 4.9 below, are they compliant  with 802.11 standard or not?
> 
> They are compliant.
> 
> > Would they need additional patches to mitigate the aggregation attack?
> 
> They need the backport of "[PATCH 04/18] cfg80211: mitigate A-MSDU
> aggregation attacks" to mitigate attacks. This patch has been backported
> to 4.4:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=
> v4.4.275&id=daea7ff51861cec93ff7f561095d9048b673b51f
> 
> So if you take all the patches that have been backported to 4.4 you
> should be OK.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mathy

I get it now, thanks.

Best regards,
Zheng Yejian

             reply	other threads:[~2021-07-20  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-20  7:39 Zhengyejian (Zetta) [this message]
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2021-07-19  9:32 [RFC PATCH 4.4] mac80211: fix handling A-MSDUs that start with an RFC 1042 header Zhengyejian (Zetta)
2021-07-20  6:59 ` Mathy Vanhoef
2021-07-16  7:11 Zheng Yejian
2021-07-17 11:54 ` Mathy Vanhoef

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