mac80211: use blacklist for duplicate IE check
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:19:53 +0000 (14:19 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:21:24 +0000 (17:21 +0200)
Instead of the current whitelist which accepts duplicates
only for the quiet and vendor IEs, use a blacklist of all
IEs (that we currently parse) that can't be duplicated.

This avoids detecting a beacon as corrupt in the future
when new IEs are added that can be duplicated.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/util.c

index 22ca35054dd065753b9e7d6c4f3e5ab990903e83..e6e4bda0528e02741f8ee17e4086703c53a85665 100644 (file)
@@ -643,13 +643,41 @@ u32 ieee802_11_parse_elems_crc(u8 *start, size_t len,
                        break;
                }
 
-               if (id != WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC &&
-                   id != WLAN_EID_QUIET &&
-                   test_bit(id, seen_elems)) {
-                       elems->parse_error = true;
-                       left -= elen;
-                       pos += elen;
-                       continue;
+               switch (id) {
+               case WLAN_EID_SSID:
+               case WLAN_EID_SUPP_RATES:
+               case WLAN_EID_FH_PARAMS:
+               case WLAN_EID_DS_PARAMS:
+               case WLAN_EID_CF_PARAMS:
+               case WLAN_EID_TIM:
+               case WLAN_EID_IBSS_PARAMS:
+               case WLAN_EID_CHALLENGE:
+               case WLAN_EID_RSN:
+               case WLAN_EID_ERP_INFO:
+               case WLAN_EID_EXT_SUPP_RATES:
+               case WLAN_EID_HT_CAPABILITY:
+               case WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION:
+               case WLAN_EID_VHT_CAPABILITY:
+               case WLAN_EID_VHT_OPERATION:
+               case WLAN_EID_MESH_ID:
+               case WLAN_EID_MESH_CONFIG:
+               case WLAN_EID_PEER_MGMT:
+               case WLAN_EID_PREQ:
+               case WLAN_EID_PREP:
+               case WLAN_EID_PERR:
+               case WLAN_EID_RANN:
+               case WLAN_EID_CHANNEL_SWITCH:
+               case WLAN_EID_EXT_CHANSWITCH_ANN:
+               case WLAN_EID_COUNTRY:
+               case WLAN_EID_PWR_CONSTRAINT:
+               case WLAN_EID_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL:
+                       if (test_bit(id, seen_elems)) {
+                               elems->parse_error = true;
+                               left -= elen;
+                               pos += elen;
+                               continue;
+                       }
+                       break;
                }
 
                if (calc_crc && id < 64 && (filter & (1ULL << id)))