[PATCH 09/10] wifi: mt76: mt7996: let upper layer handle MGMT frame protection

Felix Fietkau nbd at nbd.name
Wed Apr 3 03:56:08 PDT 2024


On 20.03.24 12:09, Shayne Chen wrote:
> From: Michael-CY Lee <michael-cy.lee at mediatek.com>
> 
> The firmware support for management frame protection has limitations:
> - do not support cipher BIP-GMAC-128 and BIP-GMAC-256
> - support cipher BIP-CMAC-128 and BIP-CMAC-256, except action frame with
>    action type 'not robust'.
> 
> Therefore, to simplify the logic, do not set the IGTK to firmware and
> let the encryption of management frames be handled by upper layer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael-CY Lee <michael-cy.lee at mediatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shayne Chen <shayne.chen at mediatek.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/main.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/main.c
> index 338ff10b121d..4ab4d2bcbedc 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/main.c
> @@ -352,10 +352,6 @@ static int mt7996_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, enum set_key_cmd cmd,
>   
>   	/* fall back to sw encryption for unsupported ciphers */
>   	switch (key->cipher) {
> -	case WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_AES_CMAC:
> -		wcid_keyidx = &wcid->hw_key_idx2;

Did you intend to drop the wcid_keyidx line? If so, I don't see anything 
related to that in the patch description.

- Felix



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