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[3.8.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "nl80211: fix mgmt tx status and testmode reporting for netns" has been added to staging queue

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Kamal Mostafa Aug. 15, 2013, 1:05 a.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    nl80211: fix mgmt tx status and testmode reporting for netns

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From e45d233745eff2328970a859aedbd7de9e61a6c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:17:17 +0200
Subject: nl80211: fix mgmt tx status and testmode reporting for netns

commit a0ec570f4f69c4cb700d743a915096c2c8f56a99 upstream.

These two events were sent to the default network
namespace.

This caused AP mode in a non-default netns to not
work correctly. Mgmt tx status was multicasted to
a different (default) netns instead of the one the
AP was in.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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1.8.1.2
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diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index f45706a..c6268cb 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -5800,12 +5800,14 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_testmode_alloc_event_skb);

 void cfg80211_testmode_event(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp)
 {
+	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = ((void **)skb->cb)[0];
 	void *hdr = ((void **)skb->cb)[1];
 	struct nlattr *data = ((void **)skb->cb)[2];

 	nla_nest_end(skb, data);
 	genlmsg_end(skb, hdr);
-	genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, nl80211_testmode_mcgrp.id, gfp);
+	genlmsg_multicast_netns(wiphy_net(&rdev->wiphy), skb, 0,
+				nl80211_testmode_mcgrp.id, gfp);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_testmode_event);
 #endif
@@ -8754,7 +8756,8 @@  void nl80211_send_mgmt_tx_status(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,

 	genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);

-	genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, gfp);
+	genlmsg_multicast_netns(wiphy_net(&rdev->wiphy), msg, 0,
+				nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, gfp);
 	return;

  nla_put_failure: