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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix sw crypto

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On Monday 25 January 2010 11:36:16 Johannes Berg wrote:

> What a stupid mistake. In
> 
>     commit 813d76694043d00b59475baa1fbfaf54a2eb7fad
>     Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Date:   Sun Jan 17 01:47:58 2010 +0100
> 
>         mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment
> 
> I inserted code testing the wrong flags field,
> which means that the test is almost always true
> (it's really testing for the peer's WMM support)
> and thus the later parts of the stack assume hw
> crypto will be done even if that's not true.
> 
> Obviously, that broke software crypto. Maxim
> said so specifically, and Jochen probably uses
> some cipher that iwl3945 doesn't support in
> hardware, which might also explain that Maxim
> reports that even hw crypto is broken.
> 
> Fix this to test the right flags field.
> 

Tested-by: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@xxxxxxxxx>

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