From 8ab65b03b7893da4a49009e7e356e36e27b0c407 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan-Espen Pettersen Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:29:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: don't send empty extended rates IE The association request includes a list of supported data rates. 802.11b: 4 supported rates. 802.11g: 12 (8 + 4) supported rates. 802.11a: 8 supported rates. The rates tag of the assoc request has room for only 8 rates. In case of 802.11g an extended rate tag is appended. However in net/wireless/mlme.c an extended (empty) rate tag is also appended if the number of rates is exact 8. This empty (length=0) extended rates tag causes some APs to deny association with code 18 (unsupported rates). These APs include my ZyXEL G-570U, and according to Tomas Winkler som Cisco APs. 'If count == 8' has been used to check for the need for an extended rates tag. But count would also be equal to 8 if the for loop exited because of no more supported rates. Therefore a check for count being less than rates_len would seem more correct. Thanks to: * Dan Williams for newbie guidance * Tomas Winkler for confirming the problem Signed-off-by: Jan-Espen Pettersen Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 09a56e24b799..74777ade6b22 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ static void ieee80211_send_assoc(struct net_device *dev, } } - if (count == 8) { + if (rates_len > count) { pos = skb_put(skb, rates_len - count + 2); *pos++ = WLAN_EID_EXT_SUPP_RATES; *pos++ = rates_len - count; -- 2.30.2