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| author | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2007-10-09 22:46:35 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-11-02 08:44:11 -0700 |
| commit | 54b932c50865c707877ae954bae499e6539c37b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 339a0cd80cc01a0e09a44e831ff9b8fcfe2d52a5 | |
| parent | dec0da2c0b439daf394957660e62824987f9b021 (diff) | |
mac80211: filter locally-originated multicast frames
patch b331615722779b078822988843ddffd4eaec9f83 in mainline.
In STA mode, the AP will echo our traffic. This includes multicast
traffic.
Receiving these frames confuses some protocols and applications,
notably IPv6 Duplicate Address Detection.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/ieee80211.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c index 4e84f24fd439..42725e1cf7d3 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c @@ -2615,9 +2615,10 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_data(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *rx) memcpy(dst, hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN); memcpy(src, hdr->addr3, ETH_ALEN); - if (sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA) { + if (sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA || + (is_multicast_ether_addr(dst) && + !compare_ether_addr(src, dev->dev_addr))) return TXRX_DROP; - } break; case 0: /* DA SA BSSID */ |