[PATCH v2 0/4] wifi: libertas: IE handling fixes
Doug Brown
doug at schmorgal.com
Sat Jan 7 17:30:12 PST 2023
This series implements two fixes for the libertas driver that restore
compatibility with modern wpa_supplicant versions, and adds support for
WPS in the process.
1) Better handling of the RSN/WPA IE in association requests:
The previous logic was always just grabbing the first one, and didn't
handle multiple IEs properly, which wpa_supplicant adds nowadays.
2) Support for IEs in scan requests:
Modern wpa_supplicant always adds an "extended capabilities" IE,
which violates max_scan_ie_len in this driver. Go ahead and allow
scan IEs, and handle WPS based on the info that Dan provided.
These changes have been tested on a Marvell PXA168-based device with a
Marvell 88W8686 Wi-Fi chipset. I've confirmed that with these changes
applied, modern wpa_supplicant versions connect properly and WPS also
works correctly (tested with "wpa_cli -i wlan0 wps_pbc any").
Dan, I wanted to point out that based on my packet sniffing, I
determined that the 0x011B TLV automatically wraps its contents in a
vendor-specific IE header. I may have misunderstood and you were already
saying that, but I wanted to clarify just to be sure. If I explicitly
included the WPS IE's 2-byte 0xDD/length header inside of the TLV data,
I ended up with a duplicate 0xDD, with the outer one having a length
that was 2 more than the inner/original. Wireshark barfed on it.
Changes since V1 (which was a single patch linked here [1]):
- Switch to cfg80211_find_*_elem when looking for specific IEs,
resulting in cleaner/safer code.
- Use mrvl_ie_data struct for cleaner manipulation of TLV buffer, and
fix capitalization of the "data" member to avoid checkpatch warnings.
- Implement idea suggested by Dan to change max_scan_ie_len to be
nonzero and enable WPS support in probe requests while we're at it.
- Remove "Fixes:" tag; I'm not sure if it's still appropriate or not
with it depending on the capitalization fix.
- Clarify comments.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230102234714.169831-1-doug@schmorgal.com/
Doug Brown (4):
wifi: libertas: fix capitalization in mrvl_ie_data struct
wifi: libertas: only add RSN/WPA IE in lbs_add_wpa_tlv
wifi: libertas: add new TLV type for WPS enrollee IE
wifi: libertas: add support for WPS enrollee IE in probe requests
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c | 76 +++++++++++++++----
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/types.h | 3 +-
2 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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