5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Benjamin Berg benjamin@sipsolutions.net
[ Upstream commit cf1b684a06170d253b47d6a5287821de976435bd ]
When processing a PREQ the code would always check whether we have a mesh path locally and reply accordingly. However, when forwarding is disabled then we should not reply with this information as we will not forward data packets down that path.
Move the check for dot11MeshForwarding up in the function and skip the mesh path lookup in that case. In the else block, set forward to false so that the rest of the function becomes a no-op and the dot11MeshForwarding check does not need to be duplicated.
This explains an effect observed in the Freifunk community where mesh forwarding is disabled. In that case a mesh with three STAs and only bad links in between them, individual STAs would occionally have indirect mpath entries. This should not have happened.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg benjamin@sipsolutions.net Reviewed-by: Rouven Czerwinski rouven@czerwinskis.de Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250430191042.3287004-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c index 4848e3c2f0af9..a8e80cb6a5cec 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static void hwmp_preq_frame_process(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, mesh_path_add_gate(mpath); } rcu_read_unlock(); - } else { + } else if (ifmsh->mshcfg.dot11MeshForwarding) { rcu_read_lock(); mpath = mesh_path_lookup(sdata, target_addr); if (mpath) { @@ -638,6 +638,8 @@ static void hwmp_preq_frame_process(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, } } rcu_read_unlock(); + } else { + forward = false; }
if (reply) { @@ -655,7 +657,7 @@ static void hwmp_preq_frame_process(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, } }
- if (forward && ifmsh->mshcfg.dot11MeshForwarding) { + if (forward) { u32 preq_id; u8 hopcount;