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| author | Johannes Berg | 2011-12-14 12:20:27 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville | 2011-12-15 20:45:45 +0100 |
| commit | bdd90d5e36a55271beb957b3d7ca3e29b2a90207 (patch) | |
| tree | 79243e73e6c64217bc676507504b72a2d59fc096 /net/mac80211/cfg.c | |
| parent | nl80211: add TDLS peer flag to policy (diff) | |
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cfg80211: validate nl80211 station handling better
The nl80211 station handling code is a bit messy
and doesn't do a lot of validation. It seems like
this could be an issue for drivers that don't use
mac80211 to validate everything.
As cfg80211 doesn't keep station state, move the
validation of allowing supported_rates to change
for TDLS only in station mode to mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/cfg.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/cfg.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c index 393b2a4445b8..944051b43bad 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -976,6 +976,14 @@ static int ieee80211_change_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, return -EINVAL; } + /* in station mode, supported rates are only valid with TDLS */ + if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION && + params->supported_rates && + !test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_TDLS_PEER)) { + rcu_read_unlock(); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (params->vlan && params->vlan != sta->sdata->dev) { vlansdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(params->vlan); |