From: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Thu,  4 Feb 2016 13:31:17 +0100

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
> 
> In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
> add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
> enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv4 unicast packets encapsulated in
> link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
> be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
> as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
> is shared between all stations.
> 
> Additionally, enabling this option provides compliance with a SHOULD
> clause of RFC 1122.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <j...@ssi.bg>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>

Applied.
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