[PATCH] ieee80211: Drop and count duplicate data frames to remove 'replay detected' log messages

In the SoftMAC version of the IEEE 802.11 stack, not all duplicate messages are
detected. For the most part, there is no difficulty; however for TKIP and CCMP
encryption, the duplicates result in a "replay detected" log message where the
received and previous values of the TSC are identical. This change adds a new
variable to the ieee80211_device structure that holds the 'seq_ctl' value for
the previous frame. When a new frame repeats the value, the frame is dropped and
the appropriate counter is incremented.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ieee80211.h b/include/net/ieee80211.h
index cb255432e4e4..e6af381e206d 100644
--- a/include/net/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/net/ieee80211.h
@@ -1080,6 +1080,8 @@ struct ieee80211_device {
         int perfect_rssi;
         int worst_rssi;
 
+        u16 prev_seq_ctl;       /* used to drop duplicate frames */
+
         /* Callback functions */
         void (*set_security) (struct net_device * dev,
                               struct ieee80211_security * sec);
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c
index d9265195656d..ce28d571afac 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c
@@ -478,6 +478,11 @@ int ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb,
                         goto rx_exit;
         }
 #endif
+        /* drop duplicate 802.11 retransmissions (IEEE 802.11 Chap. 9.29) */
+        if (sc == ieee->prev_seq_ctl)
+                goto rx_dropped;
+        else
+                ieee->prev_seq_ctl = sc;
 
         /* Data frame - extract src/dst addresses */
         if (skb->len < IEEE80211_3ADDR_LEN)