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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-11-14 00:28:44 +0400
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-11-14 14:08:38 +0400
commit04baaa27b43d389879237b32f8bd194a94cf1ca7 (patch)
tree5bfa25ca8690f3bc905599b6c2698325ee4b495e /drivers/net/wireless
parent31df3bb78be614fb9125abe56972dfee79bd3e18 (diff)
downloadlinux-04baaa27b43d389879237b32f8bd194a94cf1ca7.tar.xz
iwlwifi: fix monitor mode FCS flag
When the firmware is in SNIFFER mode, it leaves the FCS at the end of frame. Not telling mac80211 means it won't add the right flag to the radiotap header and that confuses wireshark. Since mac80211 doesn't have a per-packet flag, set the HW flag dynamically. This works as the monitor vif can only be present in the driver by itself. This fixes a regression introduced by my commit 578977264199de9815ace51ade87cec4894cf010 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Date: Fri May 11 10:53:18 2012 +0200 iwlwifi: support explicit monitor interface Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.5+] Reported-by: MARK PHILLIPS <mark.phillips@virgin.net> Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c
index fa4d1b8cd9f6..2d9eee93c743 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c
@@ -1354,6 +1354,20 @@ static int iwlagn_mac_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
vif_priv->ctx = ctx;
ctx->vif = vif;
+ /*
+ * In SNIFFER device type, the firmware reports the FCS to
+ * the host, rather than snipping it off. Unfortunately,
+ * mac80211 doesn't (yet) provide a per-packet flag for
+ * this, so that we have to set the hardware flag based
+ * on the interfaces added. As the monitor interface can
+ * only be present by itself, and will be removed before
+ * other interfaces are added, this is safe.
+ */
+ if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+ priv->hw->flags |= IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS;
+ else
+ priv->hw->flags &= ~IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS;
+
err = iwl_setup_interface(priv, ctx);
if (!err || reset)
goto out;