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From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Brandon Craig Rhodes <brandon@rhodesmill.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TKIP encryption should allocate enough tailroom
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:23:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45AE5B8C.2070407@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mz4h61p0.fsf@ten22.rhodesmill.org>

Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> 
> Having further reviewed my code, I have changed my mind; the
> ieee80211_crypt_tkip routines are not designed to be responsible for
> creating enough headroom and tailroom.  The "hostap" driver should be
> doing this.  In fact, I now see that the "hostap" driver actually
> attempts to create enough headroom and tailroom, but computes them
> incorrectly.
> 
> I will, per the MAINTAINERS file, head back to the hostap mailing list
> with a patch for hostap_80211_tx.c - this time, CC'ing the official
> maintainer, as I ought; thank you, Michael Wu, for making me aware of
> that bit of courtesy.

This makes sense. I have used the bcm43xx driver with WPA-PSK TKIP encryption for at least a year,
and I have never seen this error.

Larry



  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-17 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-17  2:31 TKIP encryption should allocate enough tailroom Brandon Craig Rhodes
2007-01-17  3:39 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2007-01-17  3:34   ` Brandon Craig Rhodes
2007-01-17  6:34     ` Herbert Xu
2007-01-17  7:18       ` Herbert Xu
2007-01-17  3:50 ` Michael Wu
2007-01-17 16:46 ` Brandon Craig Rhodes
2007-01-17 17:23   ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-01-17 17:38     ` Brandon Craig Rhodes
2007-01-18 13:16   ` Pekka Pietikainen
2007-01-18 13:55     ` Brandon Craig Rhodes
2007-01-19 12:23       ` Pekka Pietikainen

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