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[1/2] mac80211: allow self-protected frame tx without sta

Message ID 1371797459-16585-1-git-send-email-thomas@cozybit.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
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Thomas Pedersen June 21, 2013, 6:50 a.m. UTC 
Useful for userspace mesh to authenticate and peer without
a station entry, since both steps may fail anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
---
 net/mac80211/cfg.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Johannes Berg June 24, 2013, 2 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 23:50 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> Useful for userspace mesh to authenticate and peer without
> a station entry, since both steps may fail anyway.

Both patches applied.

johannes

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Patch

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 18ba7ed..d6f9823 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -2821,7 +2821,8 @@  static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
 		    !rcu_access_pointer(sdata->bss->beacon))
 			need_offchan = true;
 		if (!ieee80211_is_action(mgmt->frame_control) ||
-		    mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_PUBLIC)
+		    mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_PUBLIC ||
+		    mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_SELF_PROTECTED)
 			break;
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		sta = sta_info_get(sdata, mgmt->da);