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Re: [RFC] mac80211: Don't encrypt beacons

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Hi,

> This patch is intended to for your experimental patch:
> 	019-mac80211-tx-info-skb-cb.patch
> 
> Beacons shouldn't be encryped, so mac80211 should set
> the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT flag in tx info flags.
> Otherwise the driver will cause a NULL pointer dereference
> when it tries to access the info->control.hw_key which isn't
> configured.

Shouldn't this apply before that change as well? I'll happily roll it
into the skb->cb/txinfo patch, but it seems it should be there w/o that
too.

johannes

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