openwrtv4/package/network/services/hostapd/patches/000-0001-Reduce-undesired-logging-of-ACL-rejection.patch
Jo-Philipp Wich 3e633bb370 hostapd: fix MAC filter related log spam
Backport two upstream fixes to address overly verbose logging of MAC ACL
rejection messages.

Fixes: FS#1468
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
2018-10-16 12:11:20 +02:00

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From 6588f712220797c69dbd019daa19b82a50d92782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:57:22 +0300
Subject: Reduce undesired logging of ACL rejection events from AP mode
When Probe Request frame handling was extended to use MAC ACL through
ieee802_11_allowed_address(), the MSG_INFO level log print ("Station
<addr> not allowed to authenticate") from that function ended up getting
printed even for Probe Request frames. That was not by design and it can
result in excessive logging and MSG_INFO level if MAC ACL is used.
Fix this by printing this log entry only for authentication and
association frames. In addition, drop the priority of that log entry to
MSG_DEBUG since this is not really an unexpected behavior in most MAC
ACL use cases.
Fixes: 92eb00aec2a0 ("Extend ACL check for Probe Request frames")
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
---
src/ap/ieee802_11.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/src/ap/ieee802_11.c
+++ b/src/ap/ieee802_11.c
@@ -1636,9 +1636,11 @@ ieee802_11_allowed_address(struct hostap
is_probe_req);
if (res == HOSTAPD_ACL_REJECT) {
- wpa_printf(MSG_INFO,
- "Station " MACSTR " not allowed to authenticate",
- MAC2STR(addr));
+ if (!is_probe_req)
+ wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG,
+ "Station " MACSTR
+ " not allowed to authenticate",
+ MAC2STR(addr));
return HOSTAPD_ACL_REJECT;
}