mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:15:43 +0000 (11:15 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Jun 2014 23:02:15 +0000 (16:02 -0700)
commit40dccfb2259f13eed66993a0d9b153e0695c8504
tree881d39b12de63035f41ea9834b3585727d4407d7
parent595cfbc5ae5bfaefa29b57a3f4dec04b76e108c5
mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode

commit 6329b8d917adc077caa60c2447385554130853a3 upstream.

If an Ad-Hoc node receives packets with the Cell ID or its own MAC
address as source address, it hits a WARN_ON in sta_info_insert_check()
With many packets, this can massively spam the logs. One way that this
can easily happen is through having Cisco APs in the area with rouge AP
detection and countermeasures enabled.
Such Cisco APs will regularly send fake beacons, disassoc and deauth
packets that trigger these warnings.

To fix this issue, drop such spoofed packets early in the rx path.

Reported-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: use compare_ether_addr() instead of ether_addr_equal()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/rx.c