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mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:15:43 +0000 (11:15 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:56:06 +0000 (19:56 +0200)
commit6329b8d917adc077caa60c2447385554130853a3
tree3172f146ce72e6f47d66be6bb18c39b1c05a1fd9
parentf478f33a93f9353dcd1fe55445343d76b1c3f84a
mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode

If an Ad-Hoc node receives packets with the Cell ID or its own MAC
address as source address, it hits a WARN_ON in sta_info_insert_check()
With many packets, this can massively spam the logs. One way that this
can easily happen is through having Cisco APs in the area with rouge AP
detection and countermeasures enabled.
Such Cisco APs will regularly send fake beacons, disassoc and deauth
packets that trigger these warnings.

To fix this issue, drop such spoofed packets early in the rx path.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/rx.c