tree 04ec94d00b4f1b654afb1946cc98bd5d65172763
parent 5c9fc93bc9bc417418fc1b6366833ae6a07b804d
author Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> 1374226659 +0800
committer Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> 1374499967 +0200

mac80211: prevent the buffering or frame transmission to non-assoc mesh STA

This patch is intended to avoid the buffering to non-assoc mesh STA
and also to avoid the triggering of frame to non-assoc mesh STA which
could cause kernel panic in specific hw.

One of the examples, is kernel panic happens to ath9k if user space
inserts the mesh STA and not proceed with the SAE and AMPE, and later
the same mesh STA is detected again. The sta_state of the mesh STA remains
at IEEE80211_STA_NONE and if the ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup is called
and subsequently the ath_tx_aggr_wakeup, the kernel panic due to
ath_tx_node_init is not called before to initialize the require data
structures.

This issue is reported by Cedric Voncken before.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg106342.html

[<831ea6b4>] ath_tx_aggr_wakeup+0x44/0xcc [ath9k]
[<83084214>] ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup+0xb8/0x208 [mac80211]
[<830b9824>] ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update+0x94/0x108 [mac80211]
[<83099398>] ieee80211_sta_ps_transition+0xc94/0x34d8 [mac80211]
[<8022399c>] nf_iterate+0x98/0x104
[<8309bb60>] ieee80211_sta_ps_transition+0x345c/0x34d8 [mac80211]

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>