This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

iwlwifi: mvm: mark MIC stripped MPDUs

to the 4.14-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: iwlwifi-mvm-mark-mic-stripped-mpdus.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 bf19037074e770aad74b3b90f37b8b98db3f3748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Sara Sharon sara.sharon@intel.com Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 23:30:47 +0200 Subject: iwlwifi: mvm: mark MIC stripped MPDUs

From: Sara Sharon sara.sharon@intel.com

commit bf19037074e770aad74b3b90f37b8b98db3f3748 upstream.

When RADA is active, the hardware decrypts the packets and strips off the MIC as it is useless after decryption. Indicate that to mac80211.

[this is needed for the 9000-series HW to work properly] Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon sara.sharon@intel.com Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho luciano.coelho@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rxmq.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rxmq.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rxmq.c @@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ static int iwl_mvm_rx_crypto(struct iwl_ return -1;

stats->flag |= RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED; + if (pkt_flags & FH_RSCSR_RADA_EN) + stats->flag |= RX_FLAG_MIC_STRIPPED; *crypt_len = IEEE80211_CCMP_HDR_LEN; return 0; case IWL_RX_MPDU_STATUS_SEC_TKIP:

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sara.sharon@intel.com are

queue-4.14/iwlwifi-mvm-mark-mic-stripped-mpdus.patch