linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 147/155] nl80211: ignore HT/VHT capabilities without QoS/WMM

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Message-Id: <5ebbb95cc7fbf91bf8472371f99e659a5a8b575f.1428411004.git.jslaby@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue,  7 Apr 2015 14:51:56 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 147/155] nl80211: ignore HT/VHT capabilities without QoS/WMM

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

commit 496fcc294daab18799e190c0264863d653588d1f upstream.

As HT/VHT depend heavily on QoS/WMM, it's not a good idea to
let userspace add clients that have HT/VHT but not QoS/WMM.
Since it does so in certain cases we've observed (client is
using HT IEs but not QoS/WMM) just ignore the HT/VHT info at
this point and don't pass it down to the drivers which might
unconditionally use it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 388123667f1e..79c3e641581d 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -4096,6 +4096,16 @@ static int nl80211_new_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	if (parse_station_flags(info, dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype, &params))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/* HT/VHT requires QoS, but if we don't have that just ignore HT/VHT
+	 * as userspace might just pass through the capabilities from the IEs
+	 * directly, rather than enforcing this restriction and returning an
+	 * error in this case.
+	 */
+	if (!(params.sta_flags_set & BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_WME))) {
+		params.ht_capa = NULL;
+		params.vht_capa = NULL;
+	}
+
 	/* When you run into this, adjust the code below for the new flag */
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(NL80211_STA_FLAG_MAX != 7);
 
-- 
2.3.4

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