Commit 65c3b582 authored May 07, 2018 by Emmanuel Grumbach Committed by Luca Coelho Aug 31, 2018

iwlwifi: mvm: send BCAST management frames to the right station



Probe responses were sent to the multicast station while
they should be routed to the broadcast station.
This has no negative effect since the frame was still
routed to the right queue, but it looked very fishy
to send a frame to a (queue, station) tuple where
'queue' is not mapped to 'station'.

Fixes: 7c305de2 ("iwlwifi: mvm: Direct multicast frames to the correct station")
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>

parent 06c34dee

drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_non_sta(struct iwl_mvm mvm, struct sk_buff skb)
		if (info.control.vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE \|\|
		info.control.vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP \|\|
		info.control.vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) {
		if (info.control.vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE)
		if (!ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control))
		sta_id = mvmvif->bcast_sta.sta_id;
		else
		sta_id = mvmvif->mcast_sta.sta_id;

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