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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2015-03-12 08:53:27 +0200
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2015-05-09 23:16:30 +0100
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nl80211: ignore HT/VHT capabilities without QoS/WMM
commit 496fcc294daab18799e190c0264863d653588d1f upstream. As HT/VHT depend heavily on QoS/WMM, it's not a good idea to let userspace add clients that have HT/VHT but not QoS/WMM. Since it does so in certain cases we've observed (client is using HT IEs but not QoS/WMM) just ignore the HT/VHT info at this point and don't pass it down to the drivers which might unconditionally use it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - VHT is not supported] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index cb4168e..e1f73b6 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -2650,6 +2650,14 @@ static int nl80211_new_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (parse_station_flags(info, &params))
return -EINVAL;
+ /* HT requires QoS, but if we don't have that just ignore HT/VHT
+ * as userspace might just pass through the capabilities from the IEs
+ * directly, rather than enforcing this restriction and returning an
+ * error in this case.
+ */
+ if (!(params.sta_flags_set & BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_WME)))
+ params.ht_capa = NULL;
+
/* parse WME attributes if sta is WME capable */
if ((rdev->wiphy.flags & WIPHY_FLAG_AP_UAPSD) &&
(params.sta_flags_set & BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_WME)) &&