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mac80211: fix for incorrect sequence number on hostapd injected frames
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When hostapd injects a frame, e.g. an authentication or association
response, mac80211 looks for a suitable access point virtual interface
to associate the frame with based on its source address. This makes it
possible e.g. to correctly assign sequence numbers to the frames.

A small typo in the ethernet address comparison statement caused a
failure to find a suitable ap interface. Sequence numbers on such
frames where therefore left unassigned causing some clients
(especially windows-based 11b/g clients) to reject them and fail to
authenticate or associate with the access point. This patch fixes the
typo in the address comparison statement.

Signed-off-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Björn Smedman authored and John W. Linville committed Oct 27, 2009
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/mac80211/tx.c
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Expand Up @@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@ static void ieee80211_xmit(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (tmp_sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
continue;
if (compare_ether_addr(tmp_sdata->dev->dev_addr,
hdr->addr2)) {
hdr->addr2) == 0) {
dev_hold(tmp_sdata->dev);
dev_put(sdata->dev);
sdata = tmp_sdata;
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