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

Shayne Chen (陳軒丞) Shayne.Chen at mediatek.com
Sun Apr 7 23:07:48 PDT 2024


On Wed, 2024-04-03 at 12:56 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
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>  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.
> 
Hi Felix,

I missed that line, will send v2 to fix it.

Thanks,
Shayne
> - Felix


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