* [PATCH] mac80211: remove unused don't-encrypt flag
@ 2010-08-12 13:37 Johannes Berg
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2010-08-12 13:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Linville; +Cc: linux-wireless, Jouni Malinen
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When MFP is disabled, action frames will not
be encrypted since they are management frames
and the only management frames that can then
be encrypted are authentication frames.
Therefore, setting the don't-encrypt flag on
action frames is unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2010-08-12 13:42:52.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2010-08-12 13:42:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -1575,8 +1575,6 @@ static int ieee80211_action(struct wiphy
return -ENOLINK;
break;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
- if (!(sdata->u.mgd.flags & IEEE80211_STA_MFP_ENABLED))
- flags |= IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT;
break;
default:
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
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