Commit 17ad353b authored by Felix Fietkau's avatar Felix Fietkau Committed by John W. Linville
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mac80211: fix monitor mode tx radiotap header handling 



When an injected frame gets buffered for a powersave STA or filtered
and retransmitted, mac80211 attempts to parse the radiotap header
again, which doesn't work because it's gone at that point.
This patch adds a new flag for checking the availability of a radiotap
header, so that it only attempts to parse it once, reusing the tx info
on the next call to ieee80211_tx().
This fixes severe issues with rekeying in AP mode.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 4754ffd6

include/net/mac80211.h

+3 −0
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@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ struct ieee80211_bss_conf { 
 * @IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRANSMISSION: This frame is being retransmitted

 *	after TX status because the destination was asleep, it must not

 *	be modified again (no seqno assignment, crypto, etc.)

 * @IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP: This frame was injected and still

 *	has a radiotap header at skb->data.

 */

enum mac80211_tx_control_flags {

	IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS		= BIT(0),
@@ -296,6 +298,7 @@ enum mac80211_tx_control_flags { 
	IEEE80211_TX_CTL_PSPOLL_RESPONSE	= BIT(17),

	IEEE80211_TX_CTL_MORE_FRAMES		= BIT(18),

	IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRANSMISSION	= BIT(19),

	IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP		= BIT(20),

};



/**

net/mac80211/tx.c

+4 −2
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@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, 
	tx->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_FRAGMENTED;



	/* process and remove the injection radiotap header */

	if (unlikely(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED)) {

	if (unlikely(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP)) {

		if (!__ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap(tx, skb))

			return TX_DROP;
@@ -1117,6 +1117,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, 
		 * the radiotap header that was present and pre-filled

		 * 'tx' with tx control information.

		 */

		info->flags &= ~IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP;

	}



	/*
@@ -1499,7 +1500,8 @@ static void ieee80211_xmit(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, 
		int hdrlen;

		u16 len_rthdr;



		info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED;

		info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED |

			       IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP;



		len_rthdr = ieee80211_get_radiotap_len(skb->data);

		hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)(skb->data + len_rthdr);

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