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Re: [PATCH 8/8] mt76: validate rx CCMP PN

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On 2018-01-24 17:20, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 17:11 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> 
>> I guess I will have to look into fragmentation. I have a second driver
>> pending that only reports the CCMP PN outside of the packet, and for
>> performance reasons I really don't want to translate it and move it to a
>> place where mac80211 can parse it.
>> I'm also looking into doing parallel rx in software to see if I can get
>> more performance that way. I think for that I would also need CCMP PN
>> validation in the driver.
> 
> Fair enough. We also do it, except we just decide that fragmented
> packets we don't care and can use mac80211 - but we get the PN in-
> frame, just can't always use mac80211 due to parallel RX.
I guess I could make the driver translate the header for fragmented
packets only.

- Felix



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