nl80211: Fix set_key regression with some drivers
authorJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Wed, 4 May 2011 05:45:16 +0000 (22:45 -0700)
committerSteve Conklin <sconklin@canonical.com>
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:20:53 +0000 (12:20 -0500)
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793702

commit 0e579d6a8f4aea346da818f13ee71401c125e639 upstream.

Commit dbd2fd656f2060abfd3a16257f8b51ec60f6d2ed added a mechanism for
user space to indicate whether a default key is being configured for
only unicast or only multicast frames instead of all frames. This
commit added a driver capability flag for indicating whether separate
default keys are supported and validation of the set_key command based
on that capability.

However, this single capability flag is not enough to cover possible
difference based on mode (AP/IBSS/STA) and the way this change was
introduced resulted in a regression with drivers that do not indicate
the new capability (i.e.., more or less any non-mac80211 driver using
cfg80211) when using a recent wpa_supplicant snapshot.

Fix the regression by removing the new check which is not strictly
speaking needed. The new separate default key functionality is needed
only for RSN IBSS which has a separate capability indication.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>

net/wireless/nl80211.c

index 9b62710..47d9a87 100644 (file)
@@ -1679,14 +1679,6 @@ static int nl80211_set_key(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                if (err)
                        goto out;
 
-               if (!(rdev->wiphy.flags &
-                               WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SEPARATE_DEFAULT_KEYS)) {
-                       if (!key.def_uni || !key.def_multi) {
-                               err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-                               goto out;
-                       }
-               }
-
                err = rdev->ops->set_default_key(&rdev->wiphy, dev, key.idx,
                                                 key.def_uni, key.def_multi);