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Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: Fix STA disconnect issue due to received MIC failed bcast frames

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John

Can you please revert this patch and apply my v2 patch? My apologies
for the trouble...

I overlooked an issue in one place and for some reason my testing
also did not show any issue... Thanks to Felix for pointing this
issue..

Thanks
Senthil

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:19:20PM +0530, Senthil Balasubramanian wrote:
> AR_RxKeyIdxValid will not be set for bcast/mcast frames and so relying
> this status for MIC failed frames is buggy.
> 
> Due to this, MIC failure events for broadcast frames are not sent to
> supplicant resulted in AP disconnecting the STA.
> 
> Able to pass Wifi Test case 5.2.18 with this fix.
> 
> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> (2.6.36+)
> Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c  |    3 +--
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c |    4 +++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c
> index b04b37b..7978b27 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c
> @@ -702,8 +702,7 @@ int ath9k_hw_rxprocdesc(struct ath_hw *ah, struct ath_desc *ds,
>  			rs->rs_phyerr = phyerr;
>  		} else if (ads.ds_rxstatus8 & AR_DecryptCRCErr)
>  			rs->rs_status |= ATH9K_RXERR_DECRYPT;
> -		else if ((ads.ds_rxstatus8 & AR_MichaelErr) &&
> -		         rs->rs_keyix != ATH9K_RXKEYIX_INVALID)
> +		else if (ads.ds_rxstatus8 & AR_MichaelErr)
>  			rs->rs_status |= ATH9K_RXERR_MIC;
>  		else if (ads.ds_rxstatus8 & AR_KeyMiss)
>  			rs->rs_status |= ATH9K_RXERR_DECRYPT;
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
> index 262c815..429fa81 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
> @@ -1037,9 +1037,11 @@ static void ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess(struct ath_common *common,
>  	int hdrlen, padpos, padsize;
>  	u8 keyix;
>  	__le16 fc;
> +	bool is_mc;
>  
>  	/* see if any padding is done by the hw and remove it */
>  	hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) skb->data;
> +	is_mc = !!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1);
>  	hdrlen = ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb(skb);
>  	fc = hdr->frame_control;
>  	padpos = ath9k_cmn_padpos(hdr->frame_control);
> @@ -1060,7 +1062,7 @@ static void ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess(struct ath_common *common,
>  
>  	keyix = rx_stats->rs_keyix;
>  
> -	if (!(keyix == ATH9K_RXKEYIX_INVALID) && !decrypt_error &&
> +	if ((is_mc || !(keyix == ATH9K_RXKEYIX_INVALID)) && !decrypt_error &&
>  	    ieee80211_has_protected(fc)) {
>  		rxs->flag |= RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED;
>  	} else if (ieee80211_has_protected(fc)
> -- 
> 1.7.2.1
> 
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