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[3.5,33/71] mac80211: clear sequence/fragment number in QoS-null frames

Message ID 1396272197-13394-34-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques March 31, 2014, 1:22 p.m. UTC 
3.5.7.33 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

commit 864a6040f395464003af8dd0d8ca86fed19866d4 upstream.

Avoid leaking data by sending uninitialized memory and setting an
invalid (non-zero) fragment number (the sequence number is ignored
anyway) by setting the seq_ctrl field to zero.

Fixes: 3f52b7e328c5 ("mac80211: mesh power save basics")
Fixes: ce662b44ce22 ("mac80211: send (QoS) Null if no buffered frames")
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.5:
  - Dropped changes to mps_qos_null_get() as 3f52b7e328c5 ("mac80211: mesh
    power save basics") is not present in 3.5 kernel ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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 net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index 55975bd..15162a0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -1049,6 +1049,7 @@  static void ieee80211_send_null_response(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	memcpy(nullfunc->addr1, sta->sta.addr, ETH_ALEN);
 	memcpy(nullfunc->addr2, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
 	memcpy(nullfunc->addr3, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
+	nullfunc->seq_ctrl = 0;
 
 	skb->priority = tid;
 	skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, ieee802_1d_to_ac[tid]);