Okay, here is the first of the five patches. After applying all
of them you should be able to build/join huge city mesh networks
(e.g. with the OLSR protocol) with the most of the mac80211 wireless
drivers by setting a fixed BSSID in the ad hoc mode. (If you found no
other bug/problem.) This was not specified in the original standard,
but is a widely used de facto standard.
The first patch now completely disallow to set multicast MAC addresses
as BSSID. The behavior before was really strange.
Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
{
struct ieee80211_if_sta *ifsta;
int res;
+ bool valid;
ifsta = &sdata->u.sta;
+ valid = is_valid_ether_addr(bssid);
if (memcmp(ifsta->bssid, bssid, ETH_ALEN) != 0) {
- memcpy(ifsta->bssid, bssid, ETH_ALEN);
+ if(valid)
+ memcpy(ifsta->bssid, bssid, ETH_ALEN);
+ else
+ memset(ifsta->bssid, 0, ETH_ALEN);
res = 0;
/*
* Hack! See also ieee80211_sta_set_ssid.
}
}
- if (is_valid_ether_addr(bssid))
+ if (valid)
ifsta->flags |= IEEE80211_STA_BSSID_SET;
else
ifsta->flags &= ~IEEE80211_STA_BSSID_SET;