2007-11-26 17:35:27

by drago01

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Subject: [PATCH] rate limit wep decrypt failed messages

On Nov 26, 2007 6:01 PM, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > looking at the code seems not:
> > ---
> > if (ieee80211_wep_decrypt_data(local->wep_rx_tfm, rc4key, klen,
> > skb->data + hdrlen + WEP_IV_LEN,
> > len)) {
> > printk(KERN_DEBUG "WEP decrypt failed (ICV)\n");
> > ret = -1;
> > }
> > ---
>
> Huh I thought they were. Of course they need to be rate limited then.
> Can you send a patch?
>
sure attached.
----
Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <[email protected]>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wep.c b/net/mac80211/wep.c
index 9bf0e1c..b5f3413 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wep.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wep.c
@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ int ieee80211_wep_decrypt(struct ieee80211_local
*local, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (ieee80211_wep_decrypt_data(local->wep_rx_tfm, rc4key, klen,
skb->data + hdrlen + WEP_IV_LEN,
len)) {
- printk(KERN_DEBUG "WEP decrypt failed (ICV)\n");
+ if (net_ratelimit())
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "WEP decrypt failed (ICV)\n");
ret = -1;
}