Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Since the driver was first introduced into the kernel, it has only
> handled the ciphers associated with WEP, WPA, and WPA2. It fails with
> WPA3 even though mac80211 can handle those additional ciphers in software,
> b43legacy did not report that it could handle them. By setting MFP_CAPABLE using
> ieee80211_set_hw(), the problem is fixed.
>
> With this change, b43legacy will handle the ciohers it knows in hardare,
> and let mac80211 handle the others in software. It is not necessary to
> use the module parameter NOHWCRYPT to turn hardware encryption off.
> Although this change essentially eliminates that module parameter,
> I am choosing to keep it for cases where the hardware is broken,
> and software encryption is required for all ciphers.
>
> This patch fixes a problem that has been in b43legacy since commit
> 75388acd0cd8 ("[B43LEGACY]: add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx
> devices").
>
> Fixes: 75388acd0cd8 ("[B43LEGACY]: add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices")
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'll do the same changes here as in patch 1.
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