kernel/linux
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ synced 2026-11-10 20:48:12 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Packages Activity
No description
1,400,084 commits 117 branches 5,827 tags 6.3 GiB
  • C 96.8%
  • Assembly 0.9%
  • Rust 0.7%
  • Shell 0.6%
  • Python 0.5%
  • Other 0.3%
Find a file
Jouni Malinen a21704df40 wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address 
commit 193d18f605 upstream.

Beacon frames are required to be sent to the broadcast address, see IEEE
Std 802.11-2020, 11.1.3.1 ("The Address 1 field of the Beacon .. frame
shall be set to the broadcast address"). A unicast Beacon frame might be
used as a targeted attack to get one of the associated STAs to do
something (e.g., using CSA to move it to another channel). As such, it
is better have strict filtering for this on the received side and
discard all Beacon frames that are sent to an unexpected address.

This is even more important for cases where beacon protection is used.
The current implementation in mac80211 is correctly discarding unicast
Beacon frames if the Protected Frame bit in the Frame Control field is
set to 0. However, if that bit is set to 1, the logic used for checking
for configured BIGTK(s) does not actually work. If the driver does not
have logic for dropping unicast Beacon frames with Protected Frame bit
1, these frames would be accepted in mac80211 processing as valid Beacon
frames even though they are not protected. This would allow beacon
protection to be bypassed. While the logic for checking beacon
protection could be extended to cover this corner case, a more generic
check for discard all Beacon frames based on A1=unicast address covers
this without needing additional changes.

Address all these issues by dropping received Beacon frames if they are
sent to a non-broadcast address.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: af2d14b01c ("mac80211: Beacon protection using the new BIGTK (STA)")
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215151134.104501-1-jouni.malinen@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-01-08 10:17:12 +01:00
arch x86/microcode/AMD: Fix Entrysign revision check for Zen5/Strix Halo 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
block block: Clear BLK_ZONE_WPLUG_PLUGGED when aborting plugged BIOs 2026-01-08 10:16:58 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: seqiv - Do not use req->iv after crypto_aead_encrypt 2026-01-08 10:16:43 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-sm8550: Add missing required power-domains and resets 2026-01-02 12:57:27 +01:00
drivers wifi: iwlwifi: Fix firmware version handling 2026-01-08 10:17:12 +01:00
fs lockd: fix vfs_test_lock() calls 2026-01-08 10:17:10 +01:00
include mm: consider non-anon swap cache folios in folio_expected_ref_count() 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/rsrc: fix lost entries after cloned range 2026-01-02 12:57:30 +01:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel kernel/kexec: fix IMA when allocation happens in CMA area 2026-01-08 10:17:10 +01:00
lib idr: fix idr_alloc() returning an ID out of range 2026-01-08 10:17:10 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm/page_owner: fix memory leak in page_owner_stack_fops->release() 2026-01-08 10:17:10 +01:00
net wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address 2026-01-08 10:17:12 +01:00
rust rust: maple_tree: rcu_read_lock() in destructor to silence lockdep 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
samples samples/ftrace: Adjust LoongArch register restore order in direct calls 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
scripts mcb: Add missing modpost build support 2026-01-08 10:16:47 +01:00
security kernel/kexec: change the prototype of kimage_map_segment() 2026-01-08 10:17:10 +01:00
sound ASoC: qcom: qdsp6: q6asm-dai: set 10 ms period and buffer alignment. 2026-01-08 10:16:54 +01:00
tools selftests/mm: fix thread state check in uffd-unit-tests 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM: Fix last_boosted_vcpu index assignment bug 2026-01-02 12:57:21 +01:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap 8 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable, 7 are against mm/. 2025-11-26 12:38:05 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: mark ISDN subsystem as orphan 2025-10-27 17:49:45 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS soc: fixes for 6.18, part 4 2025-11-28 09:57:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18.3 2026-01-02 12:57:31 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

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.