From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Use a separate CCMP PN receive counter for management frames
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:04:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1276247087.3640.9.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100611024625.GB3985@jm.kir.nu>
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 19:46 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> When management frame protection (IEEE 802.11w) is used, we must use a
> separate counter for tracking received CCMP packet number for the
> management frames. The previously used NUM_RX_DATA_QUEUESth queue was
> shared with data frames when QoS was not used and that can cause
> problems in detecting replays incorrectly for robust management frames.
> Add a new counter just for robust management frames to avoid this issue.
Hmm, could you add a comment to the change in the header file that says
right there it's used for mgmt frames?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-11 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-11 2:46 [PATCH] mac80211: Use a separate CCMP PN receive counter for management frames Jouni Malinen
2010-06-11 9:04 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-06-11 17:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Jouni Malinen
2010-06-12 17:34 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-06-12 17:47 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-12 17:58 ` Pavel Roskin
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