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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Hauke Mehrtens
65835e0d5f mac80211: Update to backports-5.10.68
Refresh all patches.
The removed patches were integrated upstream.

This contains fixes for CVE-2020-3702

1. These patches (ath, ath9k, mac80211)  were included in kernel
versions since 4.14.245 and 4.19.205. They fix security vulnerability
CVE-2020-3702 [1] similar to KrØØk, which was found by ESET [2].

Thank you Josef Schlehofer for reporting this problem.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3702
[2] https://www.welivesecurity.com/2020/08/06/beyond-kr00k-even-more-wifi-chips-vulnerable-eavesdropping/

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
2021-09-22 22:36:15 +02:00
Felix Fietkau
a078037ace mac80211: improve rate control performance
Call rate control handler after intermediate queueuing
Includes follow-up fixes

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>

cherry-picked from commits:
- 7dd8829ef9
- a603e82dd3
- 8bb4437c01
2021-06-30 19:12:20 +02:00
Felix Fietkau
3839a4c7e9 mac80211: fix minstrel sample time check
We need to skip sampling if the next sample time is after jiffies, not before.
This patch fixes an issue where in some cases only very little sampling (or none
at all) is performed, leading to really bad data rates

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
2021-06-17 12:45:08 +02:00