Besides being a potential DoS vector (and thus panicing on anything like that == bad idea), what legitimate-but-broken circumstances could cause a node to hear its own announcement?
Adrian On 15 February 2011 07:00, Monthadar Al Jaberi <montha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hej, > > I found that a panic can be generated when having a couple of > ieee80211s nodes in a line topology with one of them being a ROOT > node. A ping from ROOT in a newly started nodes causes a panic: > panic: ieee80211_mesh_rt_add: adding self to the routing table > KDB: enter: panic > [ thread pid 0 tid 100030 ] > Stopped at kdb_enter+0x50: lui at,0x804e > db> > > This is because we receive a copy of our own generated > IEEE80211_ELEMID_MESHPREP packet from our neighbor node. > I added check code in the begining of hwmp_recv_prep(...) similar to > the check code found in hwmp_recv_preq(...). Here is a diff output: > > --- freebsd/head/sys/net80211/ieee80211_hwmp.c 2010-11-03 > 09:29:25.023610380 +0000 > +++ src/head-current/sys/net80211/ieee80211_hwmp.c 2011-02-15 > 10:06:02.526163874 +0000 > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ > */ > #include <sys/cdefs.h> > #ifdef __FreeBSD__ > -__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$"); > +__FBSDID("$FreeBSD: src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_hwmp.c,v 1.4.2.7.2.1 > 2010/12/21 17:09:25 kensmith Exp $"); > #endif > > /* > @@ -951,6 +951,12 @@ > if (ni == vap->iv_bss || > ni->ni_mlstate != IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_ESTABLISHED) > return; > + /* > + * Ignore PREPs from us. Could happen because someone forward it > + * back to us. > + */ > + if (IEEE80211_ADDR_EQ(vap->iv_myaddr, prep->prep_targetaddr)) > + return; > if (!IEEE80211_ADDR_EQ(vap->iv_myaddr, prep->prep_origaddr) && > !(ms->ms_flags & IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_FWD)) > return; > > -- > //Monthadar Al Jaberi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"