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mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames
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An earlier optimization on removing unnecessary traffic on cooked
monitor interfaces ("mac80211: reduce the amount of unnecessary traffic
on cooked monitor interfaces ") ended up removing quite a bit more
than just unnecessary traffic. It was not supposed to remove TX status
reporting for injected frames, but ended up doing it by checking the
injected flag in skb->cb only after that field had been cleared with
memset.. Fix this by taking a local copy of the injected flag before
skb->cb is cleared.

This broke user space applications that depend on getting TX status
notifications for injected data frames. For example, STA inactivity
poll from hostapd did not work and ended up kicking out stations even
if they were still present.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jouni Malinen authored and John W. Linville committed Dec 4, 2009
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion net/mac80211/status.c
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Expand Up @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
struct net_device *prev_dev = NULL;
struct sta_info *sta;
int retry_count = -1, i;
bool injected;

for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES; i++) {
/* the HW cannot have attempted that rate */
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -297,6 +298,9 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
/* for now report the total retry_count */
rthdr->data_retries = retry_count;

/* Need to make a copy before skb->cb gets cleared */
injected = !!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED);

/* XXX: is this sufficient for BPF? */
skb_set_mac_header(skb, 0);
skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
Expand All @@ -311,7 +315,7 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
continue;

if ((sdata->u.mntr_flags & MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES) &&
!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED) &&
!injected &&
(type == IEEE80211_FTYPE_DATA))
continue;

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