While doing a little test with the llsec implementation I saw these
issues. We should move decryption and encruption somewhere else,
otherwise while capturing with wireshark the mac header shows secuirty
fields but the payload is plaintext.
A complete other issue is what doing with HardMAC drivers where the
payload is always plaintext. I think we need a special handling then in
userspace. We currently doesn't support any HardMAC transceivers, so we
should fix the first issue for SoftMAC transceivers.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac802154/rx.c | 4 ++++
net/mac802154/tx.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/mac802154/rx.c b/net/mac802154/rx.c
index d1c33c1..42e9672 100644
--- a/net/mac802154/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/rx.c
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ ieee802154_subif_frame(struct ieee802154_sub_if_data *sdata,
skb->dev = sdata->dev;
+ /* TODO this should be moved after netif_receive_skb call, otherwise
+ * wireshark will show a mac header with security fields and the
+ * payload is already decrypted.
+ */
rc = mac802154_llsec_decrypt(&sdata->sec, skb);
if (rc) {
pr_debug("decryption failed: %i\n", rc);
diff --git a/net/mac802154/tx.c b/net/mac802154/tx.c
index 5ee596e..b205bbe 100644
--- a/net/mac802154/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/tx.c
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ ieee802154_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
struct ieee802154_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE802154_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
int rc;
+ /* TODO we should move it to wpan_dev_hard_header and dev_hard_header
+ * functions. The reason is wireshark will show a mac header which is
+ * with security fields but the payload is not encrypted.
+ */
rc = mac802154_llsec_encrypt(&sdata->sec, skb);
if (rc) {
netdev_warn(dev, "encryption failed: %i\n", rc);
--
2.5.3
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