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authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2017-06-08 14:00:49 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2017-06-13 10:24:31 +0200
commit769dc04db3ed8484798aceb015b94deacc2ba557 (patch)
tree3ed9a3ddef9ba9d81ba938e64445a3d91ce5ad05 /net/mac80211
parent0bed865060836dc5f26b68052de0a504d66d9fae (diff)
mac80211: don't look at the PM bit of BAR frames
When a peer sends a BAR frame with PM bit clear, we should not modify its PM state as madated by the spec in 802.11-20012 10.2.1.2. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 1f75280ba26c..3674fe3d67dc 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1613,12 +1613,16 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_sta_process(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
*/
if (!ieee80211_hw_check(&sta->local->hw, AP_LINK_PS) &&
!ieee80211_has_morefrags(hdr->frame_control) &&
+ !ieee80211_is_back_req(hdr->frame_control) &&
!(status->rx_flags & IEEE80211_RX_DEFERRED_RELEASE) &&
(rx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
rx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN) &&
- /* PM bit is only checked in frames where it isn't reserved,
+ /*
+ * PM bit is only checked in frames where it isn't reserved,
* in AP mode it's reserved in non-bufferable management frames
* (cf. IEEE 802.11-2012 8.2.4.1.7 Power Management field)
+ * BAR frames should be ignored as specified in
+ * IEEE 802.11-2012 10.2.1.2.
*/
(!ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) ||
ieee80211_is_bufferable_mmpdu(hdr->frame_control))) {