Re: [PATCH 1/2] wifi: nl80211: force WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE in big endian in NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com> writes:

> User-space supplicant (observed at least on wpa_supplicant) historically
> parses the NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES from the NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH
> message as big endian _only_ when its value is WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE, while
> processing anything else in host endian. This behavior makes any driver
> relying on SAE external auth to switch AKM suite to big endian if it is
> WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE. A fix bringing compatibility with both endianness
> has been brought into wpa_supplicant, however we must keep compatibility
> with older versions, while trying to reduce the occurences of this manual
> conversion in wireless drivers.
>
> Add the be32 conversion specifically on WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE in nl80211 layer
> to keep compatibility with older wpa_supplicant versions.
>
> Suggested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>

A pointer to the discussion would be nice to have:

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/09eeb7d4-c922-45ee-a1ac-59942153dbce@bootlin.com/

I assume Johannes can add that.

Alexis, thanks so much for working on this! This has been bugging me for
long but never found the time to investigate it.

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