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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Ahmad Masri <amasri@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wil6210@qti.qualcomm.com,
	Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] wil6210: fix PTK re-key race
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:23:15 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190910132315.D7AC7602F2@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1567931575-27984-5-git-send-email-merez@codeaurora.org>

Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org> wrote:

> Fix a race between cfg80211 add_key call and transmitting of 4/4 EAP
> packet. In case the transmit is delayed until after the add key takes
> place, message 4/4 will be encrypted with the new key, and the
> receiver side (AP) will drop it due to MIC error.
> 
> Wil6210 will monitor and look for the transmitted packet 4/4 eap key.
> In case add_key takes place before the transmission completed, then
> wil6210 will let the FW store the key and wil6210 will notify the FW
> to use the PTK key only after 4/4 eap packet transmission was
> completed.

This is rather ugly but I guess still ok. Or what do people think?

But for a proper fix you should look at:

[PATCH v2] wpa_supplicant: Send EAPoL-Key frames over NL80211 where available

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2019-September/040516.html

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11136851/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-10 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-08  8:32 [PATCH 00/11] wil6210 patches Maya Erez
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 01/11] wil6210: add wil_netif_rx() helper function Maya Erez
2019-09-12 15:08   ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 02/11] wil6210: add support for pci linkdown recovery Maya Erez
2019-09-12 15:22   ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 03/11] wil6210: add debugfs to show PMC ring content Maya Erez
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 04/11] wil6210: fix PTK re-key race Maya Erez
2019-09-10 13:23   ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2019-09-11  7:50     ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-09-11 18:32     ` Alexander Wetzel
2019-09-12 17:39       ` Denis Kenzior
2019-09-12 21:04         ` Alexander Wetzel
2019-09-13  8:04           ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-09-13 14:33             ` Denis Kenzior
2019-09-13 20:48               ` Alexander Wetzel
2019-09-17 15:32                 ` Denis Kenzior
2019-09-13 18:43             ` Alexander Wetzel
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 05/11] wil6210: make sure DR bit is read before rest of the status message Maya Erez
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 06/11] wil6210: verify cid value is valid Maya Erez
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 07/11] wil6210: properly initialize discovery_expired_work Maya Erez
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 08/11] wil6210: report boottime_ns in scan results Maya Erez
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 09/11] wil6210: use writel_relaxed in wil_debugfs_iomem_x32_set Maya Erez
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 10/11] wil6210: fix RX short frame check Maya Erez
2019-09-08  8:32 ` [PATCH 11/11] wil6210: ignore reset errors for FW during probe Maya Erez

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