ath9k: Fix STA disconnect issue due to received MIC failed bcast frames
authorSenthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:45:39 +0000 (20:15 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:45:02 +0000 (13:45 -0500)
commit916448e77f6bcaaa7f13c3de0c3851783ae2bfd0
tree8c58a26a5a02eb44260b4fbcda4a697f6981bbe0
parent8e26d5ad2f9c038609d42eebc676cd1107709eef
ath9k: Fix STA disconnect issue due to received MIC failed bcast frames

AR_RxKeyIdxValid will not be set for bcast/mcast frames and so relying
this status for MIC failed frames is buggy.

Due to this, MIC failure events for broadcast frames are not sent to
supplicant resulted in AP disconnecting the STA.

Able to pass Wifi Test case 5.2.18 with this fix.

Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> (2.6.36+)
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c