From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Sathishkumar Muruganandam <murugana@codeaurora.org>
Cc: ath11k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: enable TKIP when using encapsulation offloading
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 16:44:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86c1e5d23093f350bdabdde4c305c33ecde06b3b.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92eddf5d153781b2698ad258aac2fbe4@codeaurora.org>
On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 20:10 +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote:
> On 2020-05-29 18:16, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 17:59 +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote:
> > > Yes, currently only tx encap support is added and rx decap support is
> > > in
> > > progress to do TKIP MIC error reporting to userspace via
> > > cfg80211_michael_mic_failure().
> >
> > Yes, but can you actually call that? It requires a netdev. I don't
> > think
> > you can easily get it from the vif?
> >
>
> Yes, that's right. Currently the plan is to add new mac80211 api for rx
> decap where
> we can call cfg80211_michael_mic_failure() and not called directly from
> driver.
Sure, that sounds fine.
Really what I was saying is that we should have that together, not just
this patch that allows TKIP offload, but then nothing that actually
makes that working properly/safely.
> Whether we can expose netdev to driver for doing such cfg80211 call ?
I've always worried that if we expose the netdev we'll just get all
kinds of messy things happening in the driver :)
But maybe not. I guess it doesn't make a big difference.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-29 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-24 9:35 [PATCH 0/2] mac80211: enable TKIP when using encapsulation offloading Sathishkumar Muruganandam
2020-04-24 9:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Sathishkumar Muruganandam
2020-05-26 12:44 ` Johannes Berg
2020-05-29 12:08 ` Sathishkumar Muruganandam
2020-05-29 12:10 ` Johannes Berg
2020-05-29 12:29 ` Sathishkumar Muruganandam
2020-05-29 12:46 ` Johannes Berg
2020-05-29 14:40 ` Sathishkumar Muruganandam
2020-05-29 14:44 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2020-05-29 14:51 ` Sathishkumar Muruganandam
2020-04-24 9:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] ath11k: add 802.3 undecap support to fix TKIP MIC error reporting Sathishkumar Muruganandam
2020-05-29 14:42 ` Kalle Valo
2020-04-24 9:47 ` [PATCH 0/2] mac80211: enable TKIP when using encapsulation offloading Kalle Valo
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