Commit 8d350c14 authored by Jérôme Pouiller's avatar Jérôme Pouiller Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: wfx: fix handling of MMIC error

As expected, when the device detect a MMIC error, it returns a specific
status. However, it also strip IV from the frame (don't ask me why).

So, with the current code, mac80211 detects a corrupted frame and it
drops it before it handle the MMIC error. The expected behavior would be
to detect MMIC error then to renegotiate the EAP session.

So, this patch correctly informs mac80211 that IV is not available. So,
mac80211 correctly takes into account the MMIC error.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201007101943.749898-2-Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 8750de90
......@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ void wfx_rx_cb(struct wfx_vif *wvif,
memset(hdr, 0, sizeof(*hdr));
if (arg->status == HIF_STATUS_RX_FAIL_MIC)
hdr->flag |= RX_FLAG_MMIC_ERROR;
hdr->flag |= RX_FLAG_MMIC_ERROR | RX_FLAG_IV_STRIPPED;
else if (arg->status)
goto drop;
......
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