[PATCH 1/1] macsec: handle missing macsec kernel module

d. caratti davide.caratti at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 07:53:53 PDT 2017


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Sabrina Dubroca <sd at queasysnail.net> wrote:
> 2017-08-18, 19:30:40 +0200, Michael Braun wrote:
>> This fixes the following crash:
>>
>> 0. do not modprobe macsec
>> 1. create veth pair
>> 2. run two wpa_supplicant linux_macsec instances on both ends
>> 3. see one instance crash
>
> Wasn't that fixed by commit 5db86df6a849? (cc'ing Davide)
>

ouch!  no, that one fixed only SIGSEGV when wpa_supplicant was started
on the first interface of a pair.
As soon as a second process is started on the veth peer, it receives
the EAPOL packet  from the first one
and then the SIGSEGV occurs again.

thank you for fixing this!

regards,
--
davide



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