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From: Marco Trudel <mtrudel@gmx.ch>
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Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] implementing security mode 2 or 3
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:32:02 +0200

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> 
>>>>>the 2.6.7 will fail. The needed security hooks are introduced with
>>>>>2.6.10 and the RFCOMM service level security with 2.6.11 according to my
>>>>>patch logs.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>If not, which part of the kernel has to be fixed? Is it a part of bluez?
>>>>>
>>>>>It is inside the BlueZ core and the RFCOMM layer.
>>>>
>>>>How long would you have to backport that to kernel 2.6.7?
>>>>Maybe we can arrainge something with a donation...
>>>
>>>tell me what interfaces are you going to use. Is it always USB? What
>>>kernel layers are involved? RFCOMM, BNEP, CMTP, HIDP?
>>
>>always USB. RFCOMM services.
>>
>>authentication/encryption enabled as suggested on the list:
>>    int opt = RFCOMM_LM_AUTH|RFCOMM_LM_ENCRYPT;
>>    setsockopt(sock, SOL_RFCOMM, RFCOMM_LM, &opt, sizeof(opt));
> 
> 
> this means HCI, L2CAP, RFCOMM and hci_usb driver updates up to
> 2.6.12-rc2 should be included.

sounds reasonable...

>>>You will need more than this two patches for a 2.6.7 based kernel,
>>>because there are some serious problems, too.
>>
>>actually I never run into problems with the 2.4 kernel. But I think it 
>>would definitely make sense to have this things fixed too...
> 
> 
> Some of them were hard to trigger and there is still one RFCOMM thing
> that is unresolved. Btw do you need a SMP or HT kernel?

No. I don't think so.
I work with an arm SBC with one processor and a very minimal redhat. not 
much fancy stuff...

regards
Marco


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