From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:15:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: mac80211: fix spurious client reconnects triggered by rejected action frames being... 
X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fsvn-archive%2Farchive.git;a=commitdiff_plain;hb=eeb7b9f23cd8a0c08ba37aab35f2c9996ecfbcac

mac80211: fix spurious client reconnects triggered by rejected action frames being interpreted as chan switch announcements

SVN-Revision: 19064
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diff --git a/package/mac80211/patches/550-mac80211_action_frame_fix.patch b/package/mac80211/patches/550-mac80211_action_frame_fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9283af64a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/mac80211/patches/550-mac80211_action_frame_fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
++++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+@@ -1451,7 +1451,9 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_rx_queued_mgmt
+ 			rma = ieee80211_rx_mgmt_disassoc(sdata, mgmt, skb->len);
+ 			break;
+ 		case IEEE80211_STYPE_ACTION:
+-			/* XXX: differentiate, can only happen for CSA now! */
++			if (mgmt->u.action.category != WLAN_CATEGORY_SPECTRUM_MGMT)
++				break;
++
+ 			ieee80211_sta_process_chanswitch(sdata,
+ 					&mgmt->u.action.u.chan_switch.sw_elem,
+ 					(void *)ifmgd->associated->priv);
+--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
++++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
+@@ -1934,6 +1934,10 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_action(struct ieee80211_r
+ 		}
+ 		break;
+ 	default:
++		/* do not process rejected action frames */
++		if (mgmt->u.action.category & 0x80)
++			return RX_DROP_MONITOR;
++
+ 		return RX_CONTINUE;
+ 	}
+