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authorLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>2009-10-22 20:19:53 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-11-04 18:44:44 -0500
commit77165d8809cda1a77bc8752148a6252d7735c12e (patch)
treed5aa420b1e545487763c244aa91c21120da0397c /drivers
parent447ced07d04525218ae586cd70b759b48bcb1fc8 (diff)
mwl8k: enforce FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC when no STA interfaces are active
When FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC is not set, we enable the hardware's BSS filter so that we'll only see packets destined for our BSS. But if no STA interfaces have been configured, we would end up passing the BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 into the POST_SCAN command, which actually disables the hardware's BSS filter, as it's not a valid BSSID. Fix this by passing in 01:00:00:00:00:00 instead (the criterion is that the OUI part of the BSSID must be nonzero), and add comments to explain what PRE_SCAN and POST_SCAN do. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
index cc58ecba211..53447f6a0e5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
@@ -2705,12 +2705,23 @@ static void mwl8k_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
return;
if (changed_flags & FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC) {
- if (*total_flags & FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC)
+ if (*total_flags & FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC) {
+ /*
+ * Disable the BSS filter.
+ */
mwl8k_cmd_set_pre_scan(hw);
- else {
+ } else {
u8 *bssid;
- bssid = "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00";
+ /*
+ * Enable the BSS filter.
+ *
+ * If there is an active STA interface, use that
+ * interface's BSSID, otherwise use a dummy one
+ * (where the OUI part needs to be nonzero for
+ * the BSSID to be accepted by POST_SCAN).
+ */
+ bssid = "\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00";
if (priv->vif != NULL)
bssid = MWL8K_VIF(priv->vif)->bssid;