From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:01:55 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: [MAC80211]: filter locally-originated multicast frames
X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~26468^2~717
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b331615722779b078822988843ddffd4eaec9f83;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git

[MAC80211]: filter locally-originated multicast frames

In STA mode, the AP will echo our traffic.  This includes multicast
traffic.

Receiving these frames confuses some protocols and applications,
notably IPv6 Duplicate Address Detection.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index e2c6f5c..969be3a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -988,9 +988,10 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_data(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *rx)
 		memcpy(dst, hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN);
 		memcpy(src, hdr->addr3, ETH_ALEN);
 
-		if (sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA) {
+		if (sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA ||
+		    (is_multicast_ether_addr(dst) &&
+		     !compare_ether_addr(src, dev->dev_addr)))
 			return TXRX_DROP;
-		}
 		break;
 	case 0:
 		/* DA SA BSSID */