From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix paged RX crypto
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:36:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270697769.10745.12.camel@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270696951.10745.11.camel@debian>
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 11:22 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 17:26 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> >
> > WEP crypto was broken, but upon finding the problem
> > it is evident that other things were broken by the
> > paged RX patch as well.
> >
> > To fix it, for now move the linearising in front.
> > This means that we linearise all frames, which is
> > not at all what we want, but at least it fixes the
> > problem for now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
>
> I thought it over. We don't need to handle nonlinear skb in
> ieee80211_get_mmie_keyidx(), because we only need to touch fields out of
> 802.11 header for management frames, and we have already skb_linearize
> all management frames before. Now we just need to handle WEP IV
> correctly. How about this patch?
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
V2: reset hdr.
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 14366d4..23312dd 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -894,6 +894,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
rx->key = key;
return RX_CONTINUE;
} else {
+ u8 keyid;
/*
* The device doesn't give us the IV so we won't be
* able to look up the key. That's ok though, we
@@ -916,7 +917,8 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
* no need to call ieee80211_wep_get_keyidx,
* it verifies a bunch of things we've done already
*/
- keyidx = rx->skb->data[hdrlen + 3] >> 6;
+ skb_copy_bits(rx->skb, hdrlen + 3, &keyid, 1);
+ keyidx = keyid >> 6;
rx->key = rcu_dereference(rx->sdata->keys[keyidx]);
@@ -940,6 +942,8 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
if (skb_linearize(rx->skb))
return RX_DROP_UNUSABLE;
+ hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
+
/* Check for weak IVs if possible */
if (rx->sta && rx->key->conf.alg == ALG_WEP &&
ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control) &&
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-08 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-07 9:26 [PATCH] mac80211: fix paged RX crypto Johannes Berg
2010-04-08 3:22 ` Zhu Yi
2010-04-08 3:36 ` Zhu Yi [this message]
2010-04-08 6:14 ` Johannes Berg
2010-04-08 7:14 ` Zhu Yi
2010-04-08 7:16 ` Johannes Berg
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