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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-07-11 22:33:26 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-11 15:38:42 -0700
commitcfc93260cc19e2dbbe1dda395d005140a6addbf9 (patch)
treef816fcf222a11688dc6c7d08e74398201a5710e0 /net
parent1053689ef41dd8de992c15425f60ff3ea90262f5 (diff)
mac80211: fix duplicate retransmission detection
commit 6b0f32745dcfba01d7be33acd1b40306c7a914c6 upstream. The duplicate retransmission detection code in mac80211 erroneously attempts to do the check for every frame, even frames that don't have a sequence control field or that don't use it (QoS-Null frames.) This is problematic because it causes the code to access data beyond the end of the SKB and depending on the data there will drop packets erroneously. Correct the code to not do duplicate detection for such frames. I found this error while testing AP powersave, it lead to retransmitted PS-Poll frames being dropped entirely as the data beyond the end of the SKB was always zero. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 8ce9feb1301..067aa2a2305 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -831,8 +831,14 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_check(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)rx->skb->data;
struct ieee80211_rx_status *status = IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(rx->skb);
- /* Drop duplicate 802.11 retransmissions (IEEE 802.11 Chap. 9.2.9) */
- if (rx->sta && !is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) {
+ /*
+ * Drop duplicate 802.11 retransmissions
+ * (IEEE 802.11-2012: 9.3.2.10 "Duplicate detection and recovery")
+ */
+ if (rx->skb->len >= 24 && rx->sta &&
+ !ieee80211_is_ctl(hdr->frame_control) &&
+ !ieee80211_is_qos_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control) &&
+ !is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) {
if (unlikely(ieee80211_has_retry(hdr->frame_control) &&
rx->sta->last_seq_ctrl[rx->seqno_idx] ==
hdr->seq_ctrl)) {