[PATCH V2 0/9] nl80211: add support for PTK/GTK handshake offload

[Arend Van Spriel]

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On 17-5-2017 16:19, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think this looks really good. One thing though:
> 
>> Another change is the
>> addition of the flag ATTR_WANT_1X_4WAY_HS that user-space has to pass
>> in CONNECT request. Some drivers may need to be aware before the PMK
>> is programmed through SET_PMK request.
> 
> I wonder how we really should do this, and if this is good enough.
> 
> There might be drivers that simply don't support the non-offloaded
> case, so they assume you always have the newer wpa_s. That would seem
> to be a legitimate decision, since the compatibility with that might
> not make much sense for a completely new driver, and it might be a lot
> of work to support TK operations.
> 
> We should therefore probably set the expectation that wpa_s - if it's
> new enough - always uses the offloaded functionality and always sets
> the WANT_1X. Then this is even better with such drivers, since they can
> immediately reject the connect() command if want_1x isn't set.
> 
> Thoughts?

Personally I am fine with this and it is how I tested it. So no network
configuration or driver parameter in wpa_s.conf (mainly because I am
lazy ;-) ). However, if the driver supports both offload and non-offload
why not leave it up to user-space. Might be useful if people can try
either way for example when debugging connection issues.

Regards,
Arend