mac80211: fix skb size calculation in 4addr mode (FS#24)
authorJo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:43:22 +0000 (22:43 +0200)
committerJo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:43:22 +0000 (22:43 +0200)
commit1e03998e2b85e0250dd55da5146199a720e214af
tree367b69817837d786ee8ab01cc508746c7b84a2f5
parent8d51706616bc23032b8afaa53733c08476c86211
mac80211: fix skb size calculation in 4addr mode (FS#24)

The PDU length of incoming LLC frames is set to the total skb payload size
in __ieee80211_data_to_8023() of net/wireless/util.c which incorrectly
includes the length of the IEEE 802.11 header.

The resulting LLC frame header has a too large PDU length, causing the
llc_fixup_skb() function of net/llc/llc_input.c to reject the incoming
skb, effectively breaking STP.

Solve the problem by properly substracting the IEEE 802.11 frame header size
from the PDU length, allowing the LLC processor to pick up the incoming
control messages.

Special thanks to Gerry Rozema for tracking down the regression and proposing
a suitable patch.

Fixes FS#24.

References:
https://bugs.lede-project.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=24

Reported-by: Gerry Rozema <gerryr@rozeware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
package/kernel/mac80211/patches/533-mac80211_correct_4addr_skbsize.patch [new file with mode: 0644]