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mac80211: Use 3-address format for mesh broadcast frames.

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The 11s task group recently changed the frame mesh multicast/broadcast frame
format to use 3-address.  This was done to avoid interactions with widely
deployed lazy-WDS access points.

This patch changes the format of group addressed frames, both mesh-originated
and proxied, to use the data format defined in draft D2.08 and forward.  The
address fields used for group addressed frames is:

In 802.11 header
 ToDS:0  FromDS:1
 addr1: DA  (broadcast/multicast address)
 addr2: TA
 addr3: Mesh SA

In address extension header:
 addr4: SA  (only present if frame was proxied)

Note that this change breaks backward compatibility with earlier mesh stack
versions.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Javier Cardona
2009-08-10 12:15:48 -07:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent a9e3091bf0
commit 3c5772a527
5 changed files with 136 additions and 56 deletions
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net/wireless/util.c
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@@ -274,11 +274,11 @@ static int ieee80211_get_mesh_hdrlen(struct ieee80211s_hdr *meshhdr)
switch (ae) {
case 0:
return 6;
case 1:
case MESH_FLAGS_AE_A4:
return 12;
case 2:
case MESH_FLAGS_AE_A5_A6:
return 18;
case 3:
case (MESH_FLAGS_AE_A4 | MESH_FLAGS_AE_A5_A6):
return 24;
default:
return 6;
@@ -333,10 +333,18 @@ int ieee80211_data_to_8023(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 *addr,
}
break;
case cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FCTL_FROMDS):
if (iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION ||
if ((iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) ||
(is_multicast_ether_addr(dst) &&
!compare_ether_addr(src, addr)))
return -1;
if (iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) {
struct ieee80211s_hdr *meshdr =
(struct ieee80211s_hdr *) (skb->data + hdrlen);
hdrlen += ieee80211_get_mesh_hdrlen(meshdr);
if (meshdr->flags & MESH_FLAGS_AE_A4)
memcpy(src, meshdr->eaddr1, ETH_ALEN);
}
break;
case cpu_to_le16(0):
if (iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)