mac80211: enable assoc check for mesh interfaces
authorBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:16:31 +0000 (10:16 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 02:46:04 +0000 (03:46 +0100)
commita661308ed4fd046ce6fe74a24e64f002f7930758
treef9b82592abc93a9361169943c2297f5182986434
parent94bd776756d122719536033a7629b3afa52a284c
mac80211: enable assoc check for mesh interfaces

commit 3633ebebab2bbe88124388b7620442315c968e8f upstream.

We already set a station to be associated when peering completes, both
in user space and in the kernel.  Thus we should always have an
associated sta before sending data frames to that station.

Failure to check assoc state can cause crashes in the lower-level driver
due to transmitting unicast data frames before driver sta structures
(e.g. ampdu state in ath9k) are initialized.  This occurred when
forwarding in the presence of fixed mesh paths: frames were transmitted
to stations with whom we hadn't yet completed peering.

Reported-by: Alexis Green <agreen@cococorp.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Jones <jjones@cococorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/mac80211/tx.c