2011-05-04 06:47:45

by Jouni Malinen

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Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: Fix set_key regression with some drivers

Commit dbd2fd656f2060abfd3a16257f8b51ec60f6d2ed added a mechanism for
user space to indicate whether a default key is being configured for
only unicast or only multicast frames instead of all frames. This
commit added a driver capability flag for indicating whether separate
default keys are supported and validation of the set_key command based
on that capability.

However, this single capability flag is not enough to cover possible
difference based on mode (AP/IBSS/STA) and the way this change was
introduced resulted in a regression with drivers that do not indicate
the new capability (i.e.., more or less any non-mac80211 driver using
cfg80211) when using a recent wpa_supplicant snapshot.

Fix the regression by removing the new check which is not strictly
speaking needed. The new separate default key functionality is needed
only for RSN IBSS which has a separate capability indication.

Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>

Index: wireless-testing/net/wireless/nl80211.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/wireless/nl80211.c 2011-05-03 09:51:44.718988609 -0700
+++ wireless-testing/net/wireless/nl80211.c 2011-05-03 09:52:27.114455629 -0700
@@ -1682,14 +1682,6 @@
if (err)
goto out;

- if (!(rdev->wiphy.flags &
- WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SEPARATE_DEFAULT_KEYS)) {
- if (!key.def_uni || !key.def_multi) {
- err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
- goto out;
- }
- }
-
err = rdev->ops->set_default_key(&rdev->wiphy, dev, key.idx,
key.def_uni, key.def_multi);


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