Commit 9b1ce526eb917c8b5c8497c327768130ee683392

Authored by Björn Smedman
Committed by John W. Linville
1 parent d18ba452d7

mac80211: fix for incorrect sequence number on hostapd injected frames

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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1445 1445 if (tmp_sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
1446 1446 continue;
1447 1447 if (compare_ether_addr(tmp_sdata->dev->dev_addr,
1448   - hdr->addr2)) {
  1448 + hdr->addr2) == 0) {
1449 1449 dev_hold(tmp_sdata->dev);
1450 1450 dev_put(sdata->dev);
1451 1451 sdata = tmp_sdata;