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Re: [RFC PATCH] rt2800lib: unconditionally enable MFP

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Hello

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 04:07:23PM +0100, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> Hi, Stanislaw,
> 
> On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 12:18, Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@xxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > AFICT more work need to be done to support MFP by HW encryption properly
> > on rt2x00. See this message and whole thread:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/977a3cf4-3ec5-4aaa-b3d4-eea2e8593652@xxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Stanislaw
> 
> This RT2790 has been working just fine with my patch for hours. No
> hangs at all. What additional bad behaviour should I expect?

If you use new cipher like WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_AES_CMAC (what I think is
default for MFP setups) things will work just fine, because all
encryption will be done by software.

For older ciphers that are offloaded to hardware, namely
WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_CCMP, management frames like Disassociate, Deauthenticate,
Action, will not be sent properly encrypted.

On quoted thread described visible problem was lag and performance drop
due to failed A-MPDU aggregation session setup.

Stanislaw



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