3.16.63-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumb...@intel.com> commit 990d71846a0b7281bd933c34d734e6afc7408e7e upstream. NullFunc packets should never be duplicate just like QoS-NullFunc packets. We saw a client that enters / exits power save with NullFunc frames (and not with QoS-NullFunc) despite the fact that the association supports HT. This specific client also re-uses a non-zero sequence number for different NullFunc frames. At some point, the client had to send a retransmission of the NullFunc frame and we dropped it, leading to a misalignment in the power save state. Fix this by never consider a NullFunc frame as duplicate, just like we do for QoS NullFunc frames. This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201449 Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumb...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: The condition for "should we check for duplication" is in ieee80211_rx_h_check() and is not inverted] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> --- net/mac80211/rx.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -967,6 +967,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_check(struct ieee80211_rx */ if (rx->skb->len >= 24 && rx->sta && !ieee80211_is_ctl(hdr->frame_control) && + !ieee80211_is_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control) && !ieee80211_is_qos_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control) && !is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) { if (unlikely(ieee80211_has_retry(hdr->frame_control) &&
