Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Link Keys should be stored if MITM is not required

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Hi Johan,

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Vishal,
>
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012, Johan Hedberg wrote:
>> Hi Vishal,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012, Vishal AGARWAL wrote:
>> > I am testing with PTS. I have attached the HCI dump also for this
>> > case.
>>
>> First of all please stop top posting. It's not tolerated on this list.
>> Replying to an inline quoted mail makes it even doubly worse since it
>> completely messes up the history of the thread.
>>
>> About the hcidump you attached we're getting the following from the
>> remote device:
>>
>>  HCI Event: IO Capability Response (0x32) plen 9
>>     bdaddr 00:80:98:E7:32:4C capability 0x01 oob 0x00 auth 0x00
>>     Capability: DisplayYesNo (OOB data not present)
>>     Authentication: No Bonding (No MITM Protection)
>>
>> I.e. the PTS is telling us to *not* store the key. Which test case is
>> this? To my understanding the PTS doesn't have BR/EDR GAP tests but you
>> need to use the BITE for them. Has something changed in that regard?
>>
>> Looking at the full trace we're getting a link key request before
>> dropping the ACL. What we should probably do is to not immediately drop
>> the key from our list but instead keep it there as long as the
>> connection is up. I think that would still be in line with what the
>> specification expects us to do with no-bonding keys.
>>
>> Now that I look at hciops it's more or less what's happening: it never
>> writes the key to the file system but does keep it in its list at
>> runtime.
>>
>> So to conclude, the right fix is not what you've proposed but to modify
>> the code to hang on to the key until the ACL link goes down. I.e. please
>> add a "persistent" flag to struct link_key and add code to remove any
>> such keys from hdev->link_keys when the ACL goes away.
>
> Additionally, to avoid iterating hdev->link_keys unnecessarily it'd
> probably make sense to add a flag to hci_conn to indicate that it has a
> temporary key in hdev->link_keys, or maybe even add a direct reference
> to the key to struct hci_conn.
>
> Also, please let me know if you can do this by the end of this week
> since it's something that should preferably be fixed before 3.4 goes
> out.
OK, I will add a new bool variable temporary_key in struct hci_conn.
I will do it in this week itself.

>
> Johan
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Thanks
Vishal
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