From 480e82a645421e5318cf30f84b39d24e3e32a726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mattias=20Walstr=C3=B6m?= <lazzer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 10:14:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] hostapd: Remove insane logic that some MAC addresses are not
 allowed

This is described on the internet as:
"If you are unlucky and have a device with wrong MAC address,
too bad"

For us: We set mac addresses static, and do not use hostapds, insane
MAC address allocation (radio MAC + n).
---
 .../hostapd/0001-no-limit-bssid-mask.patch    | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 patches/hostapd/0001-no-limit-bssid-mask.patch

diff --git a/patches/hostapd/0001-no-limit-bssid-mask.patch b/patches/hostapd/0001-no-limit-bssid-mask.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9301eff4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/hostapd/0001-no-limit-bssid-mask.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+diff --git a/src/ap/hostapd.c b/src/ap/hostapd.c
+index 2406658da..23edf0349 100644
+--- a/src/ap/hostapd.c
++++ b/src/ap/hostapd.c
+@@ -949,18 +949,6 @@ skip_mask_ext:
+ 	if (!auto_addr)
+ 		return 0;
+ 
+-	for (i = 0; i < ETH_ALEN; i++) {
+-		if ((hapd->own_addr[i] & mask[i]) != hapd->own_addr[i]) {
+-			wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, "Invalid BSSID mask " MACSTR
+-				   " for start address " MACSTR ".",
+-				   MAC2STR(mask), MAC2STR(hapd->own_addr));
+-			wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, "Start address must be the "
+-				   "first address in the block (i.e., addr "
+-				   "AND mask == addr).");
+-			return -1;
+-		}
+-	}
+-
+ 	return 0;
+ }
+