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Re: [PATCH 06/14] mac80211: adding 802.11n essential A-MSDURxcapability

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>>> The one thing I'm not sure about here is the EAPOL frame handling
>>> johannes

>> I agree. Good point and thanks for the catch.
>> assuming I identify A-MSDU, I'll loop for each internal MSDU on:
>>   ieee80211_rx_h_802_1x_pae
>>   ieee80211_rx_h_drop_unencrypted
>>   ieee80211_rx_h_data
>> return value of ieee80211_rx_h_data_agg to
>> __ieee80211_invoke_rx_handlers will be this small loop's return value
>> Do you think this approach makes sense?
>> ron

> I'm not convinced. That seems fairly ad-hoc and likely to break in the
> future because only parts of the 802.11 header can be reconstructed.
> incorporates all the three callbacks you list above.That'd be similar
> what I did with the crypto code (where we now only have a single hndler
> doing it all rather than a bunch doing different pieces of the
> functionality)
>
> It'd basically look like this
>
> handle_data_frame
> {
>       result = handle_pae()
>       if (result == ...)
>
>       if (should_drop_unencrypted && is_unencrypted())
>               return DROP
>
>       ...
> }
>
> and rx_h_data would simply reframe the frame and pass it to this
> function, and your deaggregation handler would loop over this function.
> johannes

okay. looking in the architecture i think your approach is better, and
this bug should be fixed the way you suggested.
ron
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