Re: Issue with iwd + Linux 5.8.3 + WPA Enterprise

[Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>]

Dear Caleb,


Thank you for the report. Linux has a no regression policy, so the 
correct forum to report this to is the Linux kernel folks. I am adding 
the crypto and stable folks to the receiver list.

Am 26.08.20 um 07:51 schrieb caljorden@hotmail.com:

> I wanted to note an issue that I have hit with iwd when I upgraded to
> the Linux 5.8.3 stable kernel.  My office network uses WPA Enterprise
> with EAP-PEAPv0 + MSCHAPv2.  When using this office network,
> upgrading to Linux 5.8.3 caused my system to refuse to associate
> successfully to the network.  I get the following in my dmesg logs:
> 
> [   40.846535] wlan0: authenticate with <redacted>:60
> [   40.850570] wlan0: send auth to <redacted>:60 (try 1/3)
> [   40.854627] wlan0: authenticated
> [   40.855992] wlan0: associate with <redacted>:60 (try 1/3)
> [   40.860450] wlan0: RX AssocResp from <redacted>:60 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=11)
> [   40.861620] wlan0: associated
> [   41.886503] wlan0: deauthenticating from <redacted>:60 by local choice (Reason: 23=IEEE8021X_FAILED)
> [   42.360127] wlan0: authenticate with <redacted>:22
> [   42.364584] wlan0: send auth to <redacted>:22 (try 1/3)
> [   42.370821] wlan0: authenticated
> [   42.372658] wlan0: associate with <redacted>:22 (try 1/3)
> [   42.377426] wlan0: RX AssocResp from <redacted>:22 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=15)
> [   42.378607] wlan0: associated
> [   43.402009] wlan0: deauthenticating from <redacted>:22 by local choice (Reason: 23=IEEE8021X_FAILED)
> [   43.875921] wlan0: authenticate with <redacted>:60
> [   43.879988] wlan0: send auth to <redacted>:60 (try 1/3)
> [   43.886244] wlan0: authenticated
> [   43.889273] wlan0: associate with <redacted>:60 (try 1/3)
> [   43.894586] wlan0: RX AssocResp from <redacted>:60 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=11)
> [   43.896077] wlan0: associated
> [   44.918504] wlan0: deauthenticating from <redacted>:60 by local choice (Reason: 23=IEEE8021X_FAILED)
> 
> This continues as long as I let iwd run.
> 
> I downgraded back to Linux 5.8.2, and verified that everything works
> as expected.  I also tried using Linux 5.8.3 on a different system at
> my home, which uses WPA2-PSK.  It worked fine (though it uses an
> Atheros wireless card instead of an Intel card - but I assume that is
> irrelevant).
> 
> I decided to try to figure out what caused the issue in the changes
> for Linux 5.8.3.  I assumed that it was something that changed in the
> crypto interface, which limited my bisection to a very few commits.
> Sure enough, I found that if I revert commit
> e91d82703ad0bc68942a7d91c1c3d993e3ad87f0 (crypto: algif_aead - Only
> wake up when ctx->more is zero), the problem goes away and I am able
> to associate to my WPA Enterprise network successfully, and use it.
> I found that in order to revert this commit, I also first had to
> revert 465c03e999102bddac9b1e132266c232c5456440 (crypto: af_alg - Fix
> regression on empty requests), because the two commits have coupled
> changes.
> 
> I normally would have assumed that this should be sent to the kernel
> list, but I thought I would first mention it here because of what I
> found in some email threads on the Linux-Crypto list about the crypto
> interfaces to the kernel being sub-optimal and needing to be fixed.
> The changes in these commits look like they are just trying to fix
> what could be broken interfaces, so I thought that it would make
> sense to see what the iwd team thinks about the situation first.
> 
> The wireless card I was using during this testing is an Intel
> Wireless 3165 (rev 81).  If there is any additional information I
> could help provide, please let me know.

It’d be great, if you verified, if the problem occurs with Linus’ master 
branch too.


Kind regards,

Paul