From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@lri.fr>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Do not encrypt EAPOL frames in IBSS Mode.
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:12:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57ae7aaa1353b4e9794d54187262126f@secure.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327581742-15460-1-git-send-email-cavallar@lri.fr>
On 2012-01-26 05:42, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
> Currently, EAPOL Frames in IBSS mode are encrypted if a PTK
> is available. This patch turn off encryption for all EAPOL
> frames when on IBSS mode, as there is no suitable userspace
> calls to configure the control port protocol and settings.
>
> IBSS RSN sort-of worked without this patch because PTKs
> are only installed after the completion of a successful
> EAPOL exchange, so unicast operations would work, but
> multicast and rekeying would often fail.
Err, NACK? I'm 99% sure this is completely wrong -- point out where the
IEEE RSN spec allows this.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-26 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 12:42 [PATCH] mac80211: Do not encrypt EAPOL frames in IBSS Mode Nicolas Cavallari
2012-01-26 18:12 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-01-28 4:38 ` Johannes Berg
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