mac80211: prevent the buffering or frame transmission to non-assoc mesh STA

This patch is intended to avoid the buffering to non-assoc mesh STA
and also to avoid the triggering of frame to non-assoc mesh STA which
could cause kernel panic in specific hw.

One of the examples, is kernel panic happens to ath9k if user space
inserts the mesh STA and not proceed with the SAE and AMPE, and later
the same mesh STA is detected again. The sta_state of the mesh STA remains
at IEEE80211_STA_NONE and if the ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup is called
and subsequently the ath_tx_aggr_wakeup, the kernel panic due to
ath_tx_node_init is not called before to initialize the require data
structures.

This issue is reported by Cedric Voncken before.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg106342.html

[<831ea6b4>] ath_tx_aggr_wakeup+0x44/0xcc [ath9k]
[<83084214>] ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup+0xb8/0x208 [mac80211]
[<830b9824>] ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update+0x94/0x108 [mac80211]
[<83099398>] ieee80211_sta_ps_transition+0xc94/0x34d8 [mac80211]
[<8022399c>] nf_iterate+0x98/0x104
[<8309bb60>] ieee80211_sta_ps_transition+0x345c/0x34d8 [mac80211]

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
index 3b7bfc01ee36..22290a929b94 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
@@ -229,6 +229,10 @@ void ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update(struct sta_info *sta)
         enum nl80211_mesh_power_mode pm;
         bool do_buffer;
 
+        /* For non-assoc STA, prevent buffering or frame transmission */
+        if (sta->sta_state < IEEE80211_STA_ASSOC)
+                return;
+
         /*
          * use peer-specific power mode if peering is established and the
          * peer's power mode is known