Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix sw crypto

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:36 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: 
> What a stupid mistake. In
> 
>     commit 813d76694043d00b59475baa1fbfaf54a2eb7fad
>     Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
>     Date:   Sun Jan 17 01:47:58 2010 +0100
> 
>         mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment
> 
> I inserted code testing the wrong flags field,
> which means that the test is almost always true
> (it's really testing for the peer's WMM support)
> and thus the later parts of the stack assume hw
> crypto will be done even if that's not true.
> 
> Obviously, that broke software crypto. Maxim
> said so specifically, and Jochen probably uses
> some cipher that iwl3945 doesn't support in
> hardware, which might also explain that Maxim
> reports that even hw crypto is broken.
This patch works for me. Thanks.

What chipers does iwl3945 support?
I use CCMP, and I also know that software encryption is used by default.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky 
> 
> Fix this to test the right flags field.
> 
> Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/tx.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/tx.c	2010-01-25 11:13:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/tx.c	2010-01-25 11:29:24.000000000 +0100
> @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_select_key(struct ieee802
>  		}
>  
>  		if (!skip_hw && tx->key &&
> -		    tx->key->conf.flags & KEY_FLAG_UPLOADED_TO_HARDWARE)
> +		    tx->key->flags & KEY_FLAG_UPLOADED_TO_HARDWARE)
>  			info->control.hw_key = &tx->key->conf;
>  	}
>  
> 
>