From 0efcdfd6ed4e7ac74c45e7c3218fd1a7416fdb3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alina Friedrichsen Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 02:41:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: Disallow to set multicast BSSID Okay, here is the first of the five patches. After applying all of them you should be able to build/join huge city mesh networks (e.g. with the OLSR protocol) with the most of the mac80211 wireless drivers by setting a fixed BSSID in the ad hoc mode. (If you found no other bug/problem.) This was not specified in the original standard, but is a widely used de facto standard. The first patch now completely disallow to set multicast MAC addresses as BSSID. The behavior before was really strange. Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 1297602..f80dc25 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -2548,11 +2548,16 @@ int ieee80211_sta_set_bssid(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *bssid) { struct ieee80211_if_sta *ifsta; int res; + bool valid; ifsta = &sdata->u.sta; + valid = is_valid_ether_addr(bssid); if (memcmp(ifsta->bssid, bssid, ETH_ALEN) != 0) { - memcpy(ifsta->bssid, bssid, ETH_ALEN); + if(valid) + memcpy(ifsta->bssid, bssid, ETH_ALEN); + else + memset(ifsta->bssid, 0, ETH_ALEN); res = 0; /* * Hack! See also ieee80211_sta_set_ssid. @@ -2566,7 +2571,7 @@ int ieee80211_sta_set_bssid(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *bssid) } } - if (is_valid_ether_addr(bssid)) + if (valid) ifsta->flags |= IEEE80211_STA_BSSID_SET; else ifsta->flags &= ~IEEE80211_STA_BSSID_SET; -- 2.7.4