netdev - Re: [RFC] mac80211: clean up frame receive handling

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:49:33 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>,
	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>, Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: clean up frame receive handling

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:24:04PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> @@ -1014,6 +992,24 @@ ieee80211_drop_unencrypted(struct ieee80
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static bool ieee80211_frame_allowed(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *rx)
> +{
> +	static const u8 pae_group_addr[ETH_ALEN]
> +		= { 0x01, 0x80, 0xC2, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03 };
> +	struct ethhdr *ehdr = (struct ethhdr *)rx->skb->data;
> +
> +	if (rx->skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_PAE) &&
> +	    (compare_ether_addr(ehdr->h_dest, pae_group_addr) == 0 ||
> +	     compare_ether_addr(ehdr->h_dest, rx->dev->dev_addr) == 0))
> +		return true;

Should you reverse these two compare_ether_addr calls?
rx->dev->dev_addr seems more likely for any given packet.  It probably
makes little difference but it seems like checking for that first
would still be better.

John
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John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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