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wifi: mac80211: fix control port frame addressing

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For an AP interface, when userspace specifieds the link ID to
transmit the control port frame on (in particular for the
initial 4-way-HS), due to the logic in ieee80211_build_hdr()
for a frame transmitted from/to an MLD, we currently build a
header with

 A1 = DA = MLD address of the peer MLD
 A2 = local link address (!)
 A3 = SA = local MLD address

This clearly makes no sense, and leads to two problems:
 - if the frame were encrypted (not true for the initial
   4-way-HS) the AAD would be calculated incorrectly
 - if iTXQs are used, the frame is dropped by logic in
   ieee80211_tx_dequeue()

Fix the addressing, which fixes the first bullet, and the
second bullet for peer MLDs, I'll fix the second one for
non-MLD peers separately.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg 2022-08-24 12:30:16 +02:00
parent 8b06d13ed2
commit a6ba64d0b1
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@ -2676,7 +2676,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *ieee80211_build_hdr(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
goto free;
}
memcpy(hdr.addr2, link->conf->addr, ETH_ALEN);
} else if (link_id == IEEE80211_LINK_UNSPECIFIED) {
} else if (link_id == IEEE80211_LINK_UNSPECIFIED ||
(sta && sta->sta.mlo)) {
memcpy(hdr.addr2, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
} else {
struct ieee80211_bss_conf *conf;