2010-11-30 14:45:57

by Senthil Balasubramanian

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Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: Fix STA disconnect due to MIC failure

Th commit titled "mac80211: clean up rx handling wrt. found_sta"
removed found_sta variable which caused a MIC failure event
to be reported twice for a single failure to supplicant resulted
in STA disconnect.

This should fix WPA specific countermeasures WiFi test case (5.2.17)
issues with mac80211 based drivers which report MIC failure events in
rx status.

Cc: Stable <[email protected]> (2.6.37)
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <[email protected]>
---
net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index fdeabb1..b5f57ca 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -2748,6 +2748,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,

if (ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle(&rx, skb, true))
return;
+ goto out;
}
}

@@ -2787,6 +2788,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
return;
}

+ out:
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
}

--
1.7.2.1