From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: TKIP encryption should allocate enough tailroom Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:23:24 -0600 Message-ID: <45AE5B8C.2070407@lwfinger.net> References: <87bqky759v.fsf@ten22.rhodesmill.org> <87mz4h61p0.fsf@ten22.rhodesmill.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:36892 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932584AbXAQRZL (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:25:11 -0500 To: Brandon Craig Rhodes In-Reply-To: <87mz4h61p0.fsf@ten22.rhodesmill.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.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