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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Subject: Re: Hw Accel in Secured Mesh No Longer Work
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:31:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331130686.3519.14.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEFj984tNRXvBL4cCdJAq2VL7_AgeFYDB=w1b=aLy89pCM5UdA@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20120307_152224_978018_6FCBF45E)

Hi,

> > Huh? Well that's odd, maybe there's a race condition and you program the
> > key before the peer was added to the device?
> 
> Not so sure. The adding of key is actually done by the meshd-nl80211
> (authsae) daemon running in userspace.
> 
> https://github.com/cozybit/authsae/blob/master/linux/meshd-nl80211.c
> 
> /* key to encrypt/decrypt unicast data AND mgmt traffic to/from this peer */
> install_key(&nlcfg, peer, CIPHER_CCMP, NL80211_KEYTYPE_PAIRWISE, 0, mtk);

Yeah but that always required a station ... now you have a station but
it's not uploaded.

> > What device are you working with?
> I am using atheros 11n chipset (ath9k).

Ok.

I think you're probably trying to set a key before the station is set to
associated?

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAEFj984b_Aihd9hc-dMArPxZPod8eKsxzekLwO74XbTUKGX9LQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <CAEFj984gKDRtjP9NJYqjvWCZ=HxwW3DQ036guVY6Vbj=yx1H6g@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-07  7:38   ` Hw Accel in Secured Mesh No Longer Work Johannes Berg
     [not found]     ` <CAEFj985EYVeAYef1-G3uVPOxZqwjose9Ge7=MRsbmFWrLNz_RQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-07 14:21       ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-03-07 14:31         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-03-07 14:33           ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-07 14:47             ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-03-07 14:50               ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-07 15:29                 ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2012-03-07 16:07                   ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow

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