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| author | Volker Braun <vbraun@physics.upenn.edu> | 2007-09-14 11:10:25 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:49:30 -0700 |
| commit | 139c3a0492745192f999aaa67d11cb63983211f5 (patch) | |
| tree | 564aa64234227385c118a28f82353ddb8e0a012d /net | |
| parent | c39e3a0d0380b12f45bf85a619d3df45e437ee45 (diff) | |
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[MAC80211]: ignore key index on pairwise key (WEP only)
Work-around for broken APs that use a non-zero key index for WEP
pairwise keys. With this patch, WEP encryption only is exempt from
providing a zero key index.
Signed-off-by: Volker Braun <volker.braun@physik.hu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c index e1c4502b26bf..51dca21f77c7 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c @@ -73,17 +73,23 @@ static int ieee80211_set_encryption(struct net_device *dev, u8 *sta_addr, sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev); + if (idx < 0 || idx >= NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS) { + printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: set_encrypt - invalid idx=%d\n", + dev->name, idx); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (is_broadcast_ether_addr(sta_addr)) { sta = NULL; - if (idx >= NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS) { - printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: set_encrypt - invalid idx=%d\n", - dev->name, idx); - return -EINVAL; - } key = sdata->keys[idx]; } else { set_tx_key = 0; - if (idx != 0) { + /* + * According to the standard, the key index of a pairwise + * key must be zero. However, some AP are broken when it + * comes to WEP key indices, so we work around this. + */ + if (idx != 0 && alg != ALG_WEP) { printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: set_encrypt - non-zero idx for " "individual key\n", dev->name); return -EINVAL; |