[PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Fix incorrect sense of ether_addr_equal

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Wed Nov 7 03:33:14 UTC 2018


In commit b37f9e1c3801 ("staging: rtl8723bs: Fix lines too long in
update_recvframe_attrib()."), the refactoring involved replacing
two memcmp() calls with ether_addr_equal() calls. What the author
missed is that memcmp() returns false when the two strings are equal,
whereas ether_addr_equal() returns true when the two addresses are
equal. One side effect of this error is that the strength of an
unassociated AP was much stronger than the same AP after association.
This bug is reported at bko#201611.

Fixes: b37f9e1c3801 ("staging: rtl8723bs: Fix lines too long in update_recvframe_attrib().")
Cc: Stable <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Cc: youling257 <youling257 at gmail.com>
Cc: u.srikant.patnaik at gmail.com
Reported-and-tested-by: youling257 <youling257 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c
index 85077947b9b8..85aba8a503cd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c
@@ -109,12 +109,12 @@ static void update_recvframe_phyinfo(union recv_frame *precvframe,
 	rx_bssid = get_hdr_bssid(wlanhdr);
 	pkt_info.bssid_match = ((!IsFrameTypeCtrl(wlanhdr)) &&
 				!pattrib->icv_err && !pattrib->crc_err &&
-				!ether_addr_equal(rx_bssid, my_bssid));
+				ether_addr_equal(rx_bssid, my_bssid));
 
 	rx_ra = get_ra(wlanhdr);
 	my_hwaddr = myid(&padapter->eeprompriv);
 	pkt_info.to_self = pkt_info.bssid_match &&
-		!ether_addr_equal(rx_ra, my_hwaddr);
+		ether_addr_equal(rx_ra, my_hwaddr);
 
 
 	pkt_info.is_beacon = pkt_info.bssid_match &&
-- 
2.19.1



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