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| author | Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> | 2012-01-14 15:08:34 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-01-16 15:01:15 -0500 |
| commit | 7a532fe7131216a02c81a6c1b1f8632da1195a58 (patch) | |
| tree | 183c13f11d014deba1b4fba2b8cc4c60f791bd3a /drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c | |
| parent | 28e7d218da975f6ae1751e293aed938952c55c98 (diff) | |
ath9k_hw: fix interpretation of the rx KeyMiss flag
Documentation states that the KeyMiss flag is only valid if RxFrameOK is
unset, however empirical evidence has shown that this is false.
When KeyMiss is set (and RxFrameOK is 1), the hardware passes a valid frame
which has not been decrypted. The driver then falsely marks the frame
as decrypted, and when using CCMP this corrupts the rx CCMP PN, leading
to connection hangs.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c index fd3f19c2e550..e196aba77acf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c @@ -618,10 +618,11 @@ int ath9k_hw_rxprocdesc(struct ath_hw *ah, struct ath_desc *ds, rs->rs_status |= ATH9K_RXERR_DECRYPT; else if (ads.ds_rxstatus8 & AR_MichaelErr) rs->rs_status |= ATH9K_RXERR_MIC; - if (ads.ds_rxstatus8 & AR_KeyMiss) - rs->rs_status |= ATH9K_RXERR_KEYMISS; } + if (ads.ds_rxstatus8 & AR_KeyMiss) + rs->rs_status |= ATH9K_RXERR_KEYMISS; + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ath9k_hw_rxprocdesc); |