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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Cc: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: Drop protected data frames that have not been decrypted
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:18:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1266304698.3771.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B79CC6B.5000905@free.fr>

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 23:36 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:

> Just for my own understanding. It seems the implementation has 2 
> different code path :
> - "real" monitor mode which is handled right after ieee80211_rx() so
> it 
> is not affected
> - "cook" monitor mode which is handled as part of the RX handlers.
> 
> BTW, why do we have 2 different code path? I'm sure I missed something
> 
> obvious here.

cooked monitor reports only usable, decrypted frames that the kernel
didn't know how to handle.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-16  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-14 23:37 [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: Drop protected data frames that have not been decrypted Benoit Papillault
2010-02-14 23:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Add HT IE to IBSS beacons and probe responses Benoit Papillault
2010-02-15  9:35   ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-15 22:32     ` Benoit PAPILLAULT
2010-02-16  7:17       ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-15  0:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: Drop protected data frames that have not been decrypted Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-15  7:45   ` Benoit PAPILLAULT
2010-02-15  9:34     ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-15 22:36       ` Benoit PAPILLAULT
2010-02-16  7:18         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-02-15  9:36 ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-16  9:58 ` Johannes Berg

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