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    rsi: fix AP mode with WPA failure due to encrypted EAPOL · 31453804
    Martin Fuzzey authored
    In AP mode WPA2-PSK connections were not established.
    
    The reason was that the AP was sending the first message
    of the 4 way handshake encrypted, even though no pairwise
    key had (correctly) yet been set.
    
    Encryption was enabled if the "security_enable" driver flag
    was set and encryption was not explicitly disabled by
    IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT.
    
    However security_enable was set when *any* key, including
    the AP GTK key, had been set which was causing unwanted
    encryption even if no key was avaialble for the unicast
    packet to be sent.
    
    Fix this by adding a check that we have a key and drop
    the old security_enable driver flag which is insufficient
    and redundant.
    
    The Redpine downstream out of tree driver does it this way too.
    
    Regarding the Fixes tag the actual code being modified was
    introduced earlier, with the original driver submission, in
    dad0d04f ("rsi: Add RS9113 wireless driver"), however
    at that time AP mode was not yet supported so there was
    no bug at that point.
    
    So I have tagged the introduction of AP support instead
    which was part of the patch set "rsi: support for AP mode" [1]
    
    It is not clear whether AP WPA has ever worked, I can see nothing
    on the kernel side that broke it afterwards yet the AP support
    patch series says "Tests are performed to confirm aggregation,
    connections in WEP and WPA/WPA2 security."
    
    One possibility is that the initial tests were done with a modified
    userspace (hostapd).
    
    [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg165302.htmlSigned-off-by: default avatarMartin Fuzzey <martin.fuzzey@flowbird.group>
    Fixes: 38ef6235 ("rsi: security enhancements for AP mode")
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1622564459-24430-1-git-send-email-martin.fuzzey@flowbird.group
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