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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] cfg80211: NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER support for CMD_CONNECT
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:58:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1480949899.31788.34.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58457FEA.4030305@gmail.com> (sfid-20161205_155540_425685_7615F26E)


> Detecting it is easy, sure.  But I'm a bit lost on how you propose
> to 
> 'use' it.  The connection is active up until the next rekey
> event.  If 
> rekey offloading is supported, then this might never involve user
> space. 
>   But if it isn't (and I can't get rekey offload to work on any
> recent 
> kernel I tried) then how do you propose userspace obtains the rekey 
> counter, or the various keys used in the connection?
> 
> What about all the other state information?  FT, Pre-Authentication,
> etc?

Well, no, that'd only work with an open connection :)

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-05 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02 20:56 [PATCH][RFC] cfg80211: NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER support for CMD_CONNECT Andrew Zaborowski
2016-12-05 13:51 ` Johannes Berg
2016-12-05 14:55   ` Denis Kenzior
2016-12-05 14:58     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-12-05 15:05       ` Denis Kenzior
2016-12-05 15:14         ` Johannes Berg
2016-12-05 15:32           ` Denis Kenzior
2016-12-06  7:16             ` Johannes Berg
2016-12-06 21:42               ` Denis Kenzior
2016-12-07  1:40                 ` Andrew Zaborowski
2016-12-07  6:19                   ` Johannes Berg
2016-12-07  9:49                     ` Andrew Zaborowski
2016-12-07  6:15                 ` Johannes Berg
2016-12-07  6:40                   ` Denis Kenzior
2016-12-07  6:48                     ` Johannes Berg
2016-12-07  7:07                       ` Denis Kenzior
2016-12-07  7:38                         ` Johannes Berg
2016-12-05 15:40           ` Marcel Holtmann

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