mac80211: don't look at the PM bit of BAR frames

egrumbach · jmberg-intel · commit 769dc04db3ed · 2017-06-13T10:24:31.000+02:00
When a peer sends a BAR frame with PM bit clear, we should
not modify its PM state as madated by the spec in
802.11-20012 10.2.1.2.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1613,12 +1613,16 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_sta_process(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 	 */
 	if (!ieee80211_hw_check(&sta->local->hw, AP_LINK_PS) &&
 	    !ieee80211_has_morefrags(hdr->frame_control) &&
+	    !ieee80211_is_back_req(hdr->frame_control) &&
 	    !(status->rx_flags & IEEE80211_RX_DEFERRED_RELEASE) &&
 	    (rx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
 	     rx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN) &&
-	    /* PM bit is only checked in frames where it isn't reserved,
+	    /*
+	     * PM bit is only checked in frames where it isn't reserved,
 	     * in AP mode it's reserved in non-bufferable management frames
 	     * (cf. IEEE 802.11-2012 8.2.4.1.7 Power Management field)
+	     * BAR frames should be ignored as specified in
+	     * IEEE 802.11-2012 10.2.1.2.
 	     */
 	    (!ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) ||
 	     ieee80211_is_bufferable_mmpdu(hdr->frame_control))) {
