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From: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Ahmad Masri <amasri@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wil6210@qti.qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] wil6210: fix PTK re-key race
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:50:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea0e8482-f4ba-3ed7-633d-06265e4f04e0@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190910132315.D7AC7602F2@smtp.codeaurora.org>



On 9/10/2019 3:23 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> 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?

The idea is similar to what we have in brcmfmac although it looks like a 
lot more code. So there seems precedent for the approach.

> 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

However, I agree that Denis did a better job with this and we should aim 
to use it. It is on my largish TODO list for brcmfmac.

Regards,
Arend

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-11  7:50 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
2019-09-11  7:50     ` Arend Van Spriel [this message]
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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