Re: WPA-EAP/802.1x AP mode without NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION driver support

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On 10/7/2020 10:30 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
Hello! I would like to remind this issue.

Hi Pali,

Why not follow the regular contribution process and submit a patch?

Regards,
Arend

On Tuesday 02 June 2020 10:49:17 Pali Rohár wrote:
Jouni or Johannes, when you have a time, could you please look at this
issue below?

I would like to enable WPA-EAP mode on mwifiex_sdio wifi card but due to
hostapd issue described bellow it is not possible right now.

On Monday 11 May 2020 12:37:50 Pali Rohár wrote:
Hello Jouni!

When hostapd is compiled without CONFIG_NO_VLAN option then
WPA-EAP/802.1x AP mode is not working with wifi card which does not
support NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION command and uses nl80211 hostapd driver.

NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION command is used by nl80211 hostapd driver to
configure NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN, see i802_set_sta_vlan() function.

Here is hostapd log from Turris MOX router when is configured in WPA-EAP
AP mode. It has SDIO wifi card managed by kernel driver mwifiex_sdio
which does not implement NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION command when card is in
AP mode.

May 11 09:31:28 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 RADIUS: Received RADIUS packet matched with a pending request, round trip time 0.00 sec
May 11 09:31:28 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.11: binding station to interface 'wlan1'
May 11 09:31:28 turris hostapd: nl80211: NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN (addr=c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 ifname=wlan1 vlan_id=0) failed: -524 (No error information)
May 11 09:31:28 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.11: could not bind the STA entry to vlan_id=0
May 11 09:31:28 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: decapsulated EAP packet (code=3 id=27 len=4) from RADIUS server: EAP Success
May 11 09:31:28 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: Sending EAP Packet (identifier 27)
May 11 09:31:31 turris hostapd: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-RETRANSMIT2 c4:d9:87:6c:38:01
May 11 09:31:31 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: Sending EAP Packet (identifier 27)
May 11 09:31:37 turris hostapd: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-RETRANSMIT2 c4:d9:87:6c:38:01
May 11 09:31:37 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: Sending EAP Packet (identifier 27)
May 11 09:31:47 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
May 11 09:31:47 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 WPA: event 2 notification

EAP authentication from radius server is successful, wpa_supplicant on
client side also see successful authentication, but link is not
established.

That failed error code 524 is internal Linux kernel number for ENOTSUPP
(double PP), see [1]. Userspace uses ENOTSUP (single P) code 95.

Error printed in hostapd log is triggered by ap_sta_bind_vlan() call
from ieee802_1x_receive_auth() function located in src/ap/ieee802_1x.c
file.

ap_sta_bind_vlan() calls hostapd_drv_set_sta_vlan() which for
unsupported hostapd driver returns zero and for supported hostapd driver
calls appropriate kernel interface, i.e. hostapd_drv_set_sta_vlan().
Which for card with unsupported NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION command returns
error code -524.

When hostapd is compiled with CONFIG_NO_VLAN then ap_sta_bind_vlan()
always returns zero.

I applied following change to hostapd sources:

diff --git a/src/ap/sta_info.c b/src/ap/sta_info.c
index 93f1f0c20..9059162a8 100644
--- a/src/ap/sta_info.c
+++ b/src/ap/sta_info.c
@@ -1092,6 +1092,10 @@ skip_counting:
  		hostapd_logger(hapd, sta->addr, HOSTAPD_MODULE_IEEE80211,
  			       HOSTAPD_LEVEL_DEBUG, "could not bind the STA "
  			       "entry to vlan_id=%d", sta->vlan_id);
+		/* Ignore error when driver does not support setting vlan
+		 * and we were not requested to set non-zero vlan id */
+		if (ret == -ENOTSUP && sta->vlan_id == 0)
+			ret = 0;
  	}
/* During 1x reauth, if the vlan id changes, then remove the old id. */
diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
index d48f8cb76..0906508d4 100644
--- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
+++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
@@ -6848,6 +6848,8 @@ static int i802_set_sta_vlan(struct i802_bss *bss, const u8 *addr,
ret = send_and_recv_msgs(drv, msg, NULL, NULL);
  	if (ret < 0) {
+		if (ret == -524) /* 524 - Linux internal ENOTSUPP (double PP) */
+			ret = -ENOTSUP;
  		wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, "nl80211: NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN (addr="
  			   MACSTR " ifname=%s vlan_id=%d) failed: %d (%s)",
  			   MAC2STR(addr), ifname, vlan_id, ret,

It changes error code from ENOTSUP (single P) and ENOTSUPP (double PP)
to zero, which is propagated back to the ieee802_1x_receive_auth()
function.

And with this change WPA-EAP/802.1x AP mode started working. Here is
hostapd log:

May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 RADIUS: Received RADIUS packet matched with a pending request, round trip time 0.00 sec
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.11: binding station to interface 'wlan1'
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: nl80211: NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN (addr=c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 ifname=wlan1 vlan_id=0) failed: -95 (Not supported)
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.11: could not bind the STA entry to vlan_id=0
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: old identity 'anonymous' updated with User-Name from Access-Accept 'anonymous'
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: decapsulated EAP packet (code=3 id=27 len=4) from RADIUS server: EAP Success
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS2 c4:d9:87:6c:38:01
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: Sending EAP Packet (identifier 27)
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 WPA: sending 1/4 msg of 4-Way Handshake
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 WPA: received EAPOL-Key frame (2/4 Pairwise)
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 WPA: sending 3/4 msg of 4-Way Handshake
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 WPA: received EAPOL-Key frame (4/4 Pairwise)
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: AP-STA-CONNECTED c4:d9:87:6c:38:01
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: authorizing port
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 RADIUS: starting accounting session 0C7AC96B17442FD4
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: RADIUS Sending RADIUS message to accounting server
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: RADIUS Next RADIUS client retransmit in 3 seconds
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 IEEE 802.1X: authenticated - EAP type: 21 (TTLS)
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: RADIUS Received 20 bytes from RADIUS server
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: RADIUS Received RADIUS message
May 11 09:28:20 turris hostapd: wlan1: STA c4:d9:87:6c:38:01 RADIUS: Received RADIUS packet matched with a pending request, round trip time 0.00 sec

Jouni, I think this is bug in hostapd's 802.1X code. Function
ieee802_1x_receive_auth() skips whole processing of 802.1X path when
receives RADIUS_CODE_ACCESS_ACCEPT response and ap_sta_bind_vlan()
function fails.

The most suspicious part for me is why hostapd_drv_set_sta_vlan()
function returns zero when hostapd driver does not support
set_sta_vlan() function, but returns -ENOTSUP (or -ENOTSUPP) when kernel
driver does not support this functionality. And also why this code path
is ignored when hostapd is configured with CONFIG_NO_VLAN compile time
option.

Do you have any suggestions how to make AP working in WPA-EAP/802.1x
mode for cards without NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION command? I would like to
avoid having custom hostapd patch (like one above) and have ability to
use upstream unpatched hostapd daemon.

[1] - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/linux/errno.h

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