[MAC80211]: fix software decryption

When doing key selection for software decryption, mac80211 gets
a few things wrong: it always uses pairwise keys if configured,
even if the frame is addressed to a multicast address. Also, it
doesn't allow using a key index of zero if a pairwise key has
also been found.

This patch changes the key selection code to be (more) in line
with the 802.11 specification. I have confirmed that with this,
multicast frames are correctly decrypted and I've tested with
WEP as well.

While at it, I've cleaned up the semantics of the hardware flags
IEEE80211_HW_WEP_INCLUDE_IV and IEEE80211_HW_DEVICE_HIDES_WEP
and clarified them in the mac80211.h header; it is also now
allowed to set the IEEE80211_HW_DEVICE_HIDES_WEP option even if
it only applies to frames that have been decrypted by the hw,
unencrypted frames must be dropped but encrypted frames that
the hardware couldn't handle can be passed up unmodified.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 000b8e3133ba..6a2a0c3e7255 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 /*
- * Low-level hardware driver -- IEEE 802.11 driver (80211.o) interface
+ * mac80211 <-> driver interface
+ *
  * Copyright 2002-2005, Devicescape Software, Inc.
  * Copyright 2006-2007	Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
+ * Copyright 2007	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
@@ -472,10 +474,16 @@ struct ieee80211_hw {
 	 */
 #define IEEE80211_HW_HOST_GEN_BEACON_TEMPLATE (1<<1)
 
-	/* Some devices handle decryption internally and do not
+	/*
+	 * Some devices handle decryption internally and do not
 	 * indicate whether the frame was encrypted (unencrypted frames
 	 * will be dropped by the hardware, unless specifically allowed
-	 * through) */
+	 * through.)
+	 * It is permissible to not handle all encrypted frames and fall
+	 * back to software encryption; however, if this flag is set
+	 * unencrypted frames must be dropped unless the driver is told
+	 * otherwise via the set_ieee8021x() callback.
+	 */
 #define IEEE80211_HW_DEVICE_HIDES_WEP (1<<2)
 
 	/* Whether RX frames passed to ieee80211_rx() include FCS in the end */
@@ -489,6 +497,18 @@ struct ieee80211_hw {
 	 * can fetch them with ieee80211_get_buffered_bc(). */
 #define IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING (1<<4)
 
+	/*
+	 * This flag is only relevant if hardware encryption is used.
+	 * If set, it has two meanings:
+	 *  1) the IV and ICV are present in received frames that have
+	 *     been decrypted (unless IEEE80211_HW_DEVICE_HIDES_WEP is
+	 *     also set)
+	 *  2) on transmission, the IV should be generated in software.
+	 *
+	 * Please let us know if you *don't* use this flag, the stack would
+	 * really like to be able to get the IV to keep key statistics
+	 * accurate.
+	 */
 #define IEEE80211_HW_WEP_INCLUDE_IV (1<<5)
 
 /* hole at 6 */
@@ -496,11 +516,12 @@ struct ieee80211_hw {
 	/* Force software encryption for TKIP packets if WMM is enabled. */
 #define IEEE80211_HW_NO_TKIP_WMM_HWACCEL (1<<7)
 
-	/* Some devices handle Michael MIC internally and do not include MIC in
-	 * the received packets passed up. device_strips_mic must be set
-	 * for such devices. The 'encryption' frame control bit is expected to
-	 * be still set in the IEEE 802.11 header with this option unlike with
-	 * the device_hides_wep configuration option.
+	/*
+	 * Some devices handle Michael MIC internally and do not include MIC in
+	 * the received packets passed up. This flag must be set for such
+	 * devices. The 'encryption' frame control bit is expected to be still
+	 * set in the IEEE 802.11 header with this option unlike with the
+	 * IEEE80211_HW_DEVICE_HIDES_WEP flag.
 	 */
 #define IEEE80211_HW_DEVICE_STRIPS_MIC (1<<8)