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Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/tx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/tx.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c index 7b013fb0d27..f1c726d94f4 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c @@ -1433,10 +1433,31 @@ int ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr); + struct ieee80211_channel *chan = local->hw.conf.channel; struct ieee80211_radiotap_header *prthdr = (struct ieee80211_radiotap_header *)skb->data; u16 len_rthdr; + /* + * Frame injection is not allowed if beaconing is not allowed + * or if we need radar detection. Beaconing is usually not allowed when + * the mode or operation (Adhoc, AP, Mesh) does not support DFS. + * Passive scan is also used in world regulatory domains where + * your country is not known and as such it should be treated as + * NO TX unless the channel is explicitly allowed in which case + * your current regulatory domain would not have the passive scan + * flag. + * + * Since AP mode uses monitor interfaces to inject/TX management + * frames we can make AP mode the exception to this rule once it + * supports radar detection as its implementation can deal with + * radar detection by itself. We can do that later by adding a + * monitor flag interfaces used for AP support. + */ + if ((chan->flags & (IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS | IEEE80211_CHAN_RADAR | + IEEE80211_CHAN_PASSIVE_SCAN))) + goto fail; + /* check for not even having the fixed radiotap header part */ if (unlikely(skb->len < sizeof(struct ieee80211_radiotap_header))) goto fail; /* too short to be possibly valid */ |