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authorChun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>2014-11-16 03:05:41 +0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2014-11-17 15:32:15 -0500
commit60fc4962549cf3acad85b67c6934785afa014b8e (patch)
treeaa4e105c4df3ef0424cc068d89cec2c054bbf4b9 /drivers
parente6510b11209a4f4668924d9178ead304a692a9b2 (diff)
ath9k_htc: Enable software crypto for mgmt frame in Tx for USB devices
In secured mesh, the unicast mgmt frame is encrypted using the same key that used for encrypting the unicast data frame. This patch "ath9k_htc_firmware: fix the offset of CCMP header for mesh data frame" applied to open-ath9k-htc-firmware allows the ath9k_htc to be loaded without "nohwcrypt=1". Unfortunately, this is not working and we still need CCMP encryption of transmitted management frames to be done in software. So this patch allows the software encryption for transmitted management frame to be done in software but remain the hardware decryption for received management frame. This patch is tested with the following hardwares: - TP-Link TL-WN821N v3 802.11n [Atheros AR7010+AR9287] - AR9271 802.11n and managed to work with peer mesh STA equipped with ath9k. Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
index c1c2f2158b75..fa9e5e998337 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
@@ -1598,7 +1598,10 @@ static void ath9k_hw_init_mfp(struct ath_hw *ah)
* frames when constructing CCMP AAD. */
REG_RMW_FIELD(ah, AR_AES_MUTE_MASK1, AR_AES_MUTE_MASK1_FC_MGMT,
0xc7ff);
- ah->sw_mgmt_crypto_tx = false;
+ if (AR_SREV_9271(ah) || AR_DEVID_7010(ah))
+ ah->sw_mgmt_crypto_tx = true;
+ else
+ ah->sw_mgmt_crypto_tx = false;
ah->sw_mgmt_crypto_rx = false;
} else if (AR_SREV_9160_10_OR_LATER(ah)) {
/* Disable hardware crypto for management frames */