mac80211: use driver-indicated transmitter STA only for data frames
When I originally introduced using the driver-indicated station as an
optimisation to avoid the hashtable lookup/iteration, of course it
wasn't intended to really functionally change anything.
I neglected, however, to take into account VLAN interfaces, which have
the property that management and data frames are handled differently:
data frames go directly to the station and the VLAN while management
frames continue to be processed over the underlying/associated AP-type
interface. As a consequence, when a driver used this optimisation for
management frames and the user enabled VLANs, my change broke things
since any management frames, particularly disassoc/deauth, were missed
by hostapd.
Fix this by restoring the original code path for non-data frames, they
aren't critical for performance to begin with.
This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713.
Big thanks goes to Jarek who bisected the issue and provided a very
detailed bug report, including the crucial information that he was
using VLANs in his configuration.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 771e846bea9e ("mac80211: allow passing transmitter station on RX")
Reported-and-tested-by: Jarek Kamiński <jarek@freeside.be>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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