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mac80211: drop control frames after processing

After ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl() processing we only
want to process management (including action)
frames, so there's no point in letting control
frames continue.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 6 1
      net/mac80211/rx.c

+ 6 - 1
net/mac80211/rx.c

@@ -1844,7 +1844,12 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx, struct sk_buff_head *frames)
 		return RX_QUEUED;
 	}
 
-	return RX_CONTINUE;
+	/*
+	 * After this point, we only want management frames,
+	 * so we can drop all remaining control frames to
+	 * cooked monitor interfaces.
+	 */
+	return RX_DROP_MONITOR;
 }
 
 static void ieee80211_process_sa_query_req(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,