[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mac80211: don't inspect Sequence Control field on control" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mac80211: don't inspect Sequence Control field on control

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From d4e316f99b944a1d5a6b0cf9a786160a764e452e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Javier Cardona <javier at cozybit.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:10:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: don't inspect Sequence Control field on control
 frames
X-Extended-Stable: 3.5

commit f7fbf70ee9db6da6033ae50d100e017ac1f26555 upstream.

Per IEEE Std. 802.11-2012, Sec 8.2.4.4.1, the sequence Control field is
not present in control frames.  We noticed this problem when processing
Block Ack Requests.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier at cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Lopez <jlopex at cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/rx.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 33c49d5..4e4fc93 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1465,6 +1465,10 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_defragment(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)

 	hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)rx->skb->data;
 	fc = hdr->frame_control;
+
+	if (ieee80211_is_ctl(fc))
+		return RX_CONTINUE;
+
 	sc = le16_to_cpu(hdr->seq_ctrl);
 	frag = sc & IEEE80211_SCTL_FRAG;

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1.7.9.5