Commit 8e26d5ad authored Nov 30, 2010 by Senthil Balasubramanian Committed by John W. Linville Nov 30, 2010

mac80211: Fix STA disconnect due to MIC failure



Th commit titled "mac80211: clean up rx handling wrt. found_sta"
removed found_sta variable which caused a MIC failure event
to be reported twice for a single failure to supplicant resulted
in STA disconnect.

This should fix WPA specific countermeasures WiFi test case (5.2.17)
issues with mac80211 based drivers which report MIC failure events in
rx status.

Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> (2.6.37)
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 2c31333a

net/mac80211/rx.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2745,6 +2745,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,

		if (ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle(&rx, skb, true))
		return;
		goto out;
		}
		}

		@@ -2784,6 +2785,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
		return;
		}

		out:
		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
		}

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