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authorJouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>2011-09-21 19:11:33 +0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-09-27 22:29:54 +0400
commit6d30240e3d68f1da7303801f840132d0821f1767 (patch)
tree56bb2d85ccda77d9d12187cc699e9820d3161de7 /net/wireless
parent37a41b4affa33bb237d3692bf51f1b5ebcaf29d8 (diff)
downloadlinux-6d30240e3d68f1da7303801f840132d0821f1767.tar.xz
cfg80211: Remove strict validation of AKM suites
NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES can be used to configure new AKMs, like FT or the SHA-256 -based AKMs or FT from 802.11r/802.11w. In addition, vendor specific AKMs could be used. The current validation code for the connect command prevents cfg80211-based drivers from using these mechanisms even if the driver would not actually use this AKM value (i.e., it uses WPA/RSN IE from user space). mac80211-based drivers allow any AKM to be used since this value is not used there. Remove the unnecessary validation step in cfg80211 to allow drivers to decide what AKMs are supported. In theory, we could handle this by advertising supported AKMs, but that would not be very effective unless we enforce all drivers (including mac80211) to advertise the set of supported AKMs. This would require additional changes in many places whenever a new AKM is introduced even though no actually functionality changes may be required in most drivers. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c12
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 3c6427abdf34..1722998f4984 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -4126,12 +4126,6 @@ static bool nl80211_valid_wpa_versions(u32 wpa_versions)
NL80211_WPA_VERSION_2));
}
-static bool nl80211_valid_akm_suite(u32 akm)
-{
- return akm == WLAN_AKM_SUITE_8021X ||
- akm == WLAN_AKM_SUITE_PSK;
-}
-
static bool nl80211_valid_cipher_suite(u32 cipher)
{
return cipher == WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_WEP40 ||
@@ -4295,7 +4289,7 @@ static int nl80211_crypto_settings(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES]) {
void *data;
- int len, i;
+ int len;
data = nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES]);
len = nla_len(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES]);
@@ -4305,10 +4299,6 @@ static int nl80211_crypto_settings(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
return -EINVAL;
memcpy(settings->akm_suites, data, len);
-
- for (i = 0; i < settings->n_ciphers_pairwise; i++)
- if (!nl80211_valid_akm_suite(settings->akm_suites[i]))
- return -EINVAL;
}
return 0;