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From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	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, 5 Dec 2016 09:05:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5845824B.4090304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480949899.31788.34.camel@sipsolutions.net>

Hi Johannes,

On 12/05/2016 08:58 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> 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 :)
>

And even that is questionable in my mind for some of the more advanced 
cases.

But I'm not sure what your point is, do you still have objections to 
this approach?

Regards,
-Denis

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-05 15:05 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
2016-12-05 15:05       ` Denis Kenzior [this message]
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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