mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:15:43 +0000 (11:15 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:02:00 +0000 (14:02 +0000)
commitf9ec1e9afbfea2bac94d54dd92d969755798160d
tree4e4fc7b68849d71a672f81da0049e9c226b4d1fa
parent5005abcbe8ff0d235cf9cee5e520e3cf551eab10
mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode

commit 6329b8d917adc077caa60c2447385554130853a3 upstream.

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.

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>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: use compare_ether_addr() instead of ether_addr_equal()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/mac80211/rx.c