---

yaml
---
r: 134400
b: refs/heads/master
c: 47f4d88
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7230645e329b4a9c566fefa9327eb8734c7d392c
+refs/heads/master: 47f4d8872ffc57ad92d0fb344e677d12acc34acd

trunk/net/mac80211/tx.c

@@ -1433,10 +1433,31 @@ int ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 				 struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
+	struct ieee80211_channel *chan = local->hw.conf.channel;
 	struct ieee80211_radiotap_header *prthdr =
 		(struct ieee80211_radiotap_header *)skb->data;
 	u16 len_rthdr;
 
+	/*
+	 * Frame injection is not allowed if beaconing is not allowed
+	 * or if we need radar detection. Beaconing is usually not allowed when
+	 * the mode or operation (Adhoc, AP, Mesh) does not support DFS.
+	 * Passive scan is also used in world regulatory domains where
+	 * your country is not known and as such it should be treated as
+	 * NO TX unless the channel is explicitly allowed in which case
+	 * your current regulatory domain would not have the passive scan
+	 * flag.
+	 *
+	 * Since AP mode uses monitor interfaces to inject/TX management
+	 * frames we can make AP mode the exception to this rule once it
+	 * supports radar detection as its implementation can deal with
+	 * radar detection by itself. We can do that later by adding a
+	 * monitor flag interfaces used for AP support.
+	 */
+	if ((chan->flags & (IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS | IEEE80211_CHAN_RADAR |
+	     IEEE80211_CHAN_PASSIVE_SCAN)))
+		goto fail;
+
 	/* check for not even having the fixed radiotap header part */
 	if (unlikely(skb->len < sizeof(struct ieee80211_radiotap_header)))
 		goto fail; /* too short to be possibly valid */