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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Use a separate CCMP PN receive counter for management frames

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On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 19:46 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> When management frame protection (IEEE 802.11w) is used, we must use a
> separate counter for tracking received CCMP packet number for the
> management frames. The previously used NUM_RX_DATA_QUEUESth queue was
> shared with data frames when QoS was not used and that can cause
> problems in detecting replays incorrectly for robust management frames.
> Add a new counter just for robust management frames to avoid this issue.

Hmm, could you add a comment to the change in the header file that says
right there it's used for mgmt frames?

johannes

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