mac80211: fix monitor mode tx radiotap header handling
When an injected frame gets buffered for a powersave STA or filtered
and retransmitted, mac80211 attempts to parse the radiotap header
again, which doesn't work because it's gone at that point.
This patch adds a new flag for checking the availability of a radiotap
header, so that it only attempts to parse it once, reusing the tx info
on the next call to ieee80211_tx().
This fixes severe issues with rekeying in AP mode.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 1e9c930..74ccf30 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@
* @IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRANSMISSION: This frame is being retransmitted
* after TX status because the destination was asleep, it must not
* be modified again (no seqno assignment, crypto, etc.)
+ * @IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP: This frame was injected and still
+ * has a radiotap header at skb->data.
*/
enum mac80211_tx_control_flags {
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS = BIT(0),
@@ -296,6 +298,7 @@
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_PSPOLL_RESPONSE = BIT(17),
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_MORE_FRAMES = BIT(18),
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRANSMISSION = BIT(19),
+ IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP = BIT(20),
};
/**
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 14c7045..e7b1cdc 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@
tx->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_FRAGMENTED;
/* process and remove the injection radiotap header */
- if (unlikely(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED)) {
+ if (unlikely(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP)) {
if (!__ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap(tx, skb))
return TX_DROP;
@@ -1117,6 +1117,7 @@
* the radiotap header that was present and pre-filled
* 'tx' with tx control information.
*/
+ info->flags &= ~IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP;
}
/*
@@ -1499,7 +1500,8 @@
int hdrlen;
u16 len_rthdr;
- info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED;
+ info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED |
+ IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_HAS_RADIOTAP;
len_rthdr = ieee80211_get_radiotap_len(skb->data);
hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)(skb->data + len_rthdr);