This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: mesh: drop frames appearing to be from us
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: mac80211-mesh-drop-frames-appearing-to-be-from-us.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:13:29 CET 2018
From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 15:51:53 +0100 Subject: mac80211: mesh: drop frames appearing to be from us
From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com
[ Upstream commit 736a80bbfda709fb3631f5f62056f250a38e5804 ]
If there are multiple mesh stations with the same MAC address, they will both get confused and start throwing warnings.
Obviously in this case nothing can actually work anyway, so just drop frames that look like they're from ourselves early on.
Reported-by: Gui Iribarren gui@altermundi.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -3611,6 +3611,8 @@ static bool ieee80211_accept_frame(struc } return true; case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT: + if (ether_addr_equal(sdata->vif.addr, hdr->addr2)) + return false; if (multicast) return true; return ether_addr_equal(sdata->vif.addr, hdr->addr1);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@intel.com are
queue-4.9/mac80211_hwsim-fix-a-possible-sleep-in-atomic-bug-in-hwsim_get_radio_nl.patch queue-4.9/nl80211-check-for-the-required-netlink-attribute-presence.patch queue-4.9/mac80211-mesh-drop-frames-appearing-to-be-from-us.patch