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Testing brcmfmac with more recent firmwares resulted in AP interfaces not working in some specific setups. Debugging resulted in discovering support for IAPP in Broadcom's firmwares. Older firmwares were only generating 802.11f frames. Newer ones like: 1) 10.10 (TOB) (r663589) 2) 10.10.122.20 (r683106) for 4366b1 and 4366c0 respectively seem to also /respect/ 802.11f frames in the Tx path by performing a STA disassociation. This obsoleted standard and its implementation is something that: 1) Most people don't need / want to use 2) Can allow local DoS attacks 3) Breaks AP interfaces in some specific bridge setups To solve issues it can cause this commit modifies brcmfmac to drop IAPP packets. If affects: 1) Rx path: driver won't be sending these unwanted packets up. 2) Tx path: driver will reject packets that would trigger STA disassociation perfromed by a firmware (possible local DoS attack). It appears there are some Broadcom's clients/users who care about this feature despite the drawbacks. They can switch it on using a new module param. This change results in only two more comparisons (check for module param and check for Ethernet packet length) for 99.9% of packets. Its overhead should be very minimal. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.