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mwifiex: MAC randomization should not be persistent
authorBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Wed, 5 Apr 2017 22:26:40 +0000 (15:26 -0700)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:17:01 +0000 (10:17 +0300)
commit7e2f18f06408ff56d7f75e68de8064777137b319
tree8c196134eded8773c963fbe35dbeab175590a832
parent26ecfe01790381c4caa65ec9cce484c623f092c4
mwifiex: MAC randomization should not be persistent

nl80211 provides the NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR for every scan
request that should be randomized; the absence of such a flag means we
should not randomize. However, mwifiex was stashing the latest
randomization request and *always* using it for future scans, even those
that didn't set the flag.

Let's zero out the randomization info whenever we get a scan request
without NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR. I'd prefer to remove
priv->random_mac entirely (and plumb the randomization MAC properly
through the call sequence), but the spaghetti is a little difficult to
unravel here for me.

Fixes: c2a8f0ff9c6c ("mwifiex: support random MAC address for scanning")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c