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Commit cc117298 authored by Bertold Van den Bergh's avatar Bertold Van den Bergh Committed by Johannes Berg
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mac80211: Only accept data frames in OCB mode 



Currently OCB mode accepts frames with bssid==broadcast and type!=beacon.
Some non-data frames are sent matching this, for example probe responses.
This results in unnecessary creation of STA entries.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBertold Van den Bergh <bertold.vandenbergh@esat.kuleuven.be>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 5765f9f6

net/mac80211/rx.c

+1 −1
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@@ -3316,7 +3316,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_accept_frame(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx) 
	case NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB:

		if (!bssid)

			return false;

		if (ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control))

		if (!ieee80211_is_data_present(hdr->frame_control))

			return false;

		if (!is_broadcast_ether_addr(bssid))

			return false;