Commit ac49e1a8 authored by Thomas Pedersen's avatar Thomas Pedersen Committed by Johannes Berg
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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: default avatarThomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent a33d4026

net/mac80211/cfg.c

+2 −1
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@@ -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);