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Hi Felix,

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2012-02-01 5:27 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:44:08PM +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Mohammed Shafi
>>> <shafi.wireless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Laurent Bonnans <bonnans.l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> Since the update from linux 3.2.1 to 3.2.2, dhcp stopped working on
>>> >> some APs on my laptop with an AR9285 Wireless card.
>>> >>
>>> >> dhcp works fine on an open wifi network but receives no response on a
>>> >> wep network I use. I haven't been able to test it on a third network
>>> >> for now.
>>> >
>>> >  reverting  "ath9k_hw: fix interpretation of the rx KeyMiss flag" does
>>> > helps.  i  need to analyze
>>> > if it exposes some real issue which need to be fixed.
>>> >
>>>
>>> this seems to be a problem in WEP alone, where the key miss is always
>>> set for this case and RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED is not set. mac80211 trys to
>>> decrypt,  but fails due to ICV mismatch.
>>
>> OK...any way to differentiate this case at that point in the code?
>>
>> John
> Please try this patch:
>
> ---
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
> @@ -823,6 +823,15 @@ static bool ath9k_rx_accept(struct ath_c
>                (ATH9K_RXERR_DECRYPT | ATH9K_RXERR_CRC | ATH9K_RXERR_MIC |
>                 ATH9K_RXERR_KEYMISS));
>
> +       /*
> +        * First 4 slots are reserved for WEP, and for packets using them,
> +        * ATH9K_RXERR_KEYMISS can be reported even though decryption was
> +        * successful, since no MAC address based key cache lookup was
> +        * performed.
> +        */
> +       if (rx_stats->rs_keyix < 4)
> +               rx_stats->rs_status &= ~ATH9K_RXERR_KEYMISS;
> +
>        if (!rx_stats->rs_datalen)
>                return false;
>         /*


unfortunately as the rx_keyix is always 'INVALID' (as obtained from
the descriptor) this check does not seems to help

-- 
shafi
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