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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] d80211: Fix TKIP phase1 key mixing for hwcrypto
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:32:48 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> @@ -192,10 +192,15 @@ u8 * ieee80211_tkip_add_iv(u8 *pos, stru
>  
>  
>  void ieee80211_tkip_gen_phase1key(struct ieee80211_key *key, u8 *ta,
> -				  u16 *phase1key)
> +				  u8 *phase1key)
>  {
> +	__le16 *k = (__le16 *)phase1key;
> +	int i;
> +
>  	tkip_mixing_phase1(ta, &key->key[ALG_TKIP_TEMP_ENCR_KEY],
> -			   key->u.tkip.iv32, phase1key);
> +			   key->u.tkip.iv32, (u16 *)k);
> +	for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
> +		k[i] = cpu_to_le16(k[i]);
>  }

Maybe a slightly better type checking but still looks ugly:

@@ -192,10 +192,16 @@ u8 * ieee80211_tkip_add_iv(u8 *pos, stru
 
 
 void ieee80211_tkip_gen_phase1key(struct ieee80211_key *key, u8 *ta,
-				  u16 *phase1key)
+				  u8 *phase1key)
 {
+	u16 *tmp_result = (u16 *)phase1key;
+	__le16 *k = (__le16 *)phase1key;
+	int i;
+
 	tkip_mixing_phase1(ta, &key->key[ALG_TKIP_TEMP_ENCR_KEY],
-			   key->u.tkip.iv32, phase1key);
+			   key->u.tkip.iv32, tmp_result);
+	for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
+		k[i] = cpu_to_le16(tmp_result[i]);
 }
 
 void ieee80211_tkip_gen_rc4key(struct ieee80211_key *key, u8 *ta,


Moreover, I'm not sure if GCC is able to optimize out the for loop in
this case :-(

 Jiri

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs