From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>,
Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] b43: Fix connection problem with WPA3
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 15:38:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eer5v9h9.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200526155909.5807-2-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> (Larry Finger's message of "Tue, 26 May 2020 10:59:08 -0500")
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:
> Since the driver was first introduced into the kernel, it has only
> handled the ciphers associated with WEP, WPA, and WPA2. It fails with
> WPA3 even though mac80211 can handle those additional ciphers in software,
> b43 did not report that it could handle them. By setting MFP_CAPABLE using
> ieee80211_set_hw(), the problem is fixed.
>
> With this change, b43 will handle the ciohers it knows in hardare,
I'll change this to:
"ciphers it knows in hardware"
> and let mac80211 handle the others in software. It is not necessary to
> use the module parameter NOHWCRYPT to turn hardware encryption off.
> Although this change essentially eliminates that module parameter,
> I am choosing to keep it for cases where the hardware is broken,
> and software encryption is required for all ciphers.
>
> This patch fixes a prooblem that has been in the driver since it was first
> merged with commit e4d6b7951812 ("[B43]: add mac80211-based driver for
> modern BCM43xx devices").
>
> Fixes e4d6b7951812 ("[B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices")
I consider this as a new feature, not a bugfix. So I'll remove the Fixes
line and the paragraph above it. Ok?
--
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-27 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-26 15:59 [PATCH 0/2] Fix WPA3 problems with b43 and b43_legacy Larry Finger
2020-05-26 15:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] b43: Fix connection problem with WPA3 Larry Finger
2020-05-27 12:38 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2020-05-27 16:58 ` Sasha Levin
2020-05-29 17:14 ` Kalle Valo
2020-05-26 15:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] b43_legacy: " Larry Finger
2020-05-27 12:39 ` Kalle Valo
2020-05-27 14:57 ` Larry Finger
2020-05-27 16:57 ` Sasha Levin
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