mac80211: QoS multicast frames have No Ack policy
authorThomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Fri, 4 Nov 2011 04:11:11 +0000 (21:11 -0700)
committerChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:02:45 +0000 (22:02 +0100)
commit83cf639325d2819ac04cae9c086b7062da60b762
treeb7831ab9e66302129eb1680f9f5e77404b36f4d4
parent64bc2546cb67ab5a8d64da79632c10bd0f79a709
mac80211: QoS multicast frames have No Ack policy

Previously QoS multicast frames had the Normal Acknowledgment QoS
control bits set. This would cause broadcast frames to be discarded by
peers with which we have a BA session, since their sequence number would
fall outside the allowed range. Set No Ack QoS control bits on multicast
QoS frames and filter these in de-aggregation code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
v2: Use proper QoS Ack Policy ctl field mask (Christian)

v3: Clean up conditional (Johannes)
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
include/linux/ieee80211.h