[rt2x00-users] [rt2800pci (AP) - ath9k] 802.11w: broken aggregation handling?

[Andreas Hartmann]

Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> On Mon, May 07 2012 at 07:11:31 +0200 
> Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann at 01019freenet.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> I switched on 802.11w on my AP (rt2860) in hostapd with ieee80211w=1 and
>> in wpa_supplicant with ieee80211w=2 (ath9k). key_mgmt is WPA-EAP (TLS) /
>> CCMP for both pairwise and group.
>>
>> On both machines, compat-wireless-2012-04-26 (or
>> compat-wireless-3.4-rc3) is running.
>>
>> Directly after authorization, dhcp is started and therefore the opening
>> of the BA session is started by the AP but times out because of no
>> answer of the supplicant:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>
>> The deauth request from wpa_supplicant -> AP isn't recognized on the AP,
>> too.
> 
> Meanwhile, I found the reason (I forgot to take care of hostapd's
> logfile - I would have expected an error message from the driver in
> messages, too :-)):
> 
> AP (hostapd.log):
> ...
> 1336372202.462946: WPA: 48:5d:60:3e:a3:18 WPA_PTK entering state INITIALIZE
> 1336372202.462965: wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=17 alg=0 addr=0x673d40 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> 1336372202.462977:    addr=48:5d:60:3e:a3:18
> 1336372202.462999: WPA: 48:5d:60:3e:a3:18 WPA_PTK_GROUP entering state IDLE
> 1336372202.463007: WPA: 48:5d:60:3e:a3:18 WPA_PTK entering state AUTHENTICATION
> 1336372202.463018: WPA: 48:5d:60:3e:a3:18 WPA_PTK entering state AUTHENTICATION2
> 1336372202.463025: WPA: Re-initialize GMK/Counter on first station
> 1336372202.463896: GMK - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED]
> 1336372202.464771: Key Counter - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED]
> 1336372202.465639: GTK - hexdump(len=16): [REMOVED]
> 1336372202.466502: IGTK - hexdump(len=16): [REMOVED]
> 1336372202.466524: wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=17 alg=3 addr=0x44fbbe key_idx=1 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=16
> 1336372202.466539:    broadcast key
> 1336372202.478318: wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=17 alg=4 addr=0x44fbbe key_idx=4 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=16
> 1336372202.478349:    broadcast key
> 1336372202.478389: nl80211: set_key failed; err=-22 Invalid argument)
> ....
> 1336372202.529973: wlan0: STA 48:5d:60:3e:a3:18 IEEE 802.1X: authenticated - EAP type: 13 (TLS)
> 
> 
> But there are some questions open anyway:
> 
> - Why is the authentication started here at all, regardless of an error?
> - Why does TLS succeed? (802.11g is "working"). 
> - Why does set_key fail?
> 
> 
> I'm getting the same error, regardless if nohwcrypt is enabled for
> rt2800pci or not.

The attached patch seems to enable 802.11w for rt2800pci (AP). It does
not work for rt2800usb (rt3572 SUPP), even if the set_key error
disappears (originally the flag IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE was set
unconditionally).

I can't say, if it works with all rt2800pci devices and I can't say, if
it works with rt2800pci device used as supplicant.

Tested (incl. PTK rekeying) with ath9k supplicant. Deauthentication does
work fine, too. I couldn't test, if using more then one supplicant at
the same time, does work, too.

Legacy driver (rt5572sta) seems to not support 802.11w at all (with
ralink driver). Even if ieee80211w=2 in supplicant.conf is enabled, it
uses plain text management frames.


Regards,
Andreas Hartmann
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