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RE: [PATCH 1/2] mwifiex: return success in set_default_key for WPA/WPA2

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Hi,

> > Ok Jouni and I just discussed this briefly, and it looks like there is
> > indeed a special case where the GTK is also set as the default TX key:
> > this case is when the station requested "no pairwise" or when the AP did
> > the same thing in the configuration.
> 
> From the wpa_supplicant debug log generated by Amit, it seems that
> set_default_key() is called while installing PTK to the driver. Is it
> expected?
> 
> WPA: Installing PTK to the driver.
> WPA: RSC - hexdump(len=6): 00 00 00 00 00 00
> wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=12 alg=2 addr=0x80a7168 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=6 key_len=32
>    addr=00:1b:2f:55:79:7e
> 
> The complete log file is attached for your reference.

Hmm. I'll need to look at that in more detail. But yeah, set_tx=1
indicates that it'll call set_default_key.

> > Is it possible that this just happens to be the case in your tests? It
> > looks like that would be rather strange, but that's a corner case where
> > the supplicant would possibly set the GTK as the default key.
> 
> Not the same corner case. In our test both pairwise and groupwise are configured.
> 
> > 
> > In any case, this patch seems wrong in that you should never return
> > success if the operation actually failed.
> 
> Could you please advise how we should resolve this?

What happens if you just reject the set_default_key and return -EINVAL
instead of 0?

johannes

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