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authorThomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>2013-06-20 23:50:58 -0700
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-06-24 15:59:20 +0200
commitac49e1a8969eeb819c4fc2eced9ee9ef9f35a4a9 (patch)
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parenta33d402610d2d3a422136defe8237f4ddfb69fd9 (diff)
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mac80211: allow self-protected frame tx without sta
Useful for userspace mesh to authenticate and peer without a station entry, since both steps may fail anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/cfg.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/cfg.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 93120de776f0..8184d121ff09 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -2827,7 +2827,8 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
!rcu_access_pointer(sdata->bss->beacon))
need_offchan = true;
if (!ieee80211_is_action(mgmt->frame_control) ||
- mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_PUBLIC)
+ mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_PUBLIC ||
+ mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_SELF_PROTECTED)
break;
rcu_read_lock();
sta = sta_info_get(sdata, mgmt->da);