On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 09:33 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 16:15 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 15:19 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > > > As you feared: the firmware is corrupting incoming management > > > frames. However, it does so only when a rxkey was configured. > > > So as a possible trade-off, MFP will only be supported by p54, > > > when the firmware crypto offloading is relieved of his duties > > > (disabled). > > > > > > Note: Strictly speaking, it would be enough to no longer upload > > > any rx key which could affect management frames, as the firmware > > > does not decrypt any frames unless there is a fitting key candidate. > > > > Right, however, that would kinda defeat the point. Unless ... maybe we > > can tell the driver if 11w is going to be used at all? If we did that, > > we could make it work in the set_key callback. > > > > For now your patch looks good though. > > We can't get this to happen without a module option? Is there a way to > turn the crypto offloading off when we know we're connecting to a W > protected AP? Yeah that's what I was thinking. I suppose we *could* somehow do this by setting some key flag in mac80211 that the driver can check. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
