The following commit has been merged in the linux branch: commit fbc44bf7177dfd61381da55405550b693943a432 Author: Johannes Berg johannes@sipsolutions.net Date: Thu Oct 1 22:06:29 2009 +0200
mac80211: fix vlan and optimise RX
When receiving data frames, we can send them only to the interface they belong to based on transmitting station (this doesn't work for probe requests). Also, don't try to handle other frames for AP_VLAN at all since those interface should only receive data.
Additionally, the transmit side must check that the station we're sending a frame to is actually on the interface we're transmitting on, and not transmit packets to functions that live on other interfaces, so validate that as well.
Another bug fix is needed in sta_info.c where in the VLAN case when adding/removing stations we overwrite the sdata variable we still need.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes@sipsolutions.net Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index c01588f..865fbc0 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -2164,11 +2164,17 @@ static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
skb = rx.skb;
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) { + if (rx.sdata && ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control)) { + rx.flags |= IEEE80211_RX_RA_MATCH; + prepares = prepare_for_handlers(rx.sdata, &rx, hdr); + if (prepares) + prev = rx.sdata; + } else list_for_each_entry_rcu(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) { if (!netif_running(sdata->dev)) continue;
- if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) + if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR || + sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN) continue;
rx.flags |= IEEE80211_RX_RA_MATCH; diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c index eec0014..594f231 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c @@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ int sta_info_insert(struct sta_info *sta) u.ap);
drv_sta_notify(local, &sdata->vif, STA_NOTIFY_ADD, &sta->sta); + sdata = sta->sdata; }
#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG @@ -496,6 +497,7 @@ static void __sta_info_unlink(struct sta_info **sta)
drv_sta_notify(local, &sdata->vif, STA_NOTIFY_REMOVE, &(*sta)->sta); + sdata = (*sta)->sdata; }
if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif)) { diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c index fd40282..db4bda6 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c @@ -1704,7 +1704,8 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr.addr1)) { rcu_read_lock(); sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr.addr1); - if (sta) + /* XXX: in the future, use sdata to look up the sta */ + if (sta && sta->sdata == sdata) sta_flags = get_sta_flags(sta); rcu_read_unlock(); }