commit 6a29d134c04a8acebb7a95251acea7ad7abba106 upstream.
Since the driver was first introduced into the kernel, it has only
handled the ciphers associated with WEP, WPA, and WPA2. It fails with
WPA3 even though mac80211 can handle those additional ciphers in software,
b43legacy did not report that it could handle them. By setting MFP_CAPABLE using
ieee80211_set_hw(), the problem is fixed.
With this change, b43legacy will handle the ciphers it knows in hardware,
and let mac80211 handle the others in software. It is not necessary to
use the module parameter NOHWCRYPT to turn hardware encryption off.
Although this change essentially eliminates that module parameter,
I am choosing to keep it for cases where the hardware is broken,
and software encryption is required for all ciphers.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526155909.5807-3-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 75d057bda1fbca6ade21378aa45db712e5f7d962 upstream.
Since the driver was first introduced into the kernel, it has only
handled the ciphers associated with WEP, WPA, and WPA2. It fails with
WPA3 even though mac80211 can handle those additional ciphers in software,
b43 did not report that it could handle them. By setting MFP_CAPABLE using
ieee80211_set_hw(), the problem is fixed.
With this change, b43 will handle the ciphers it knows in hardware,
and let mac80211 handle the others in software. It is not necessary to
use the module parameter NOHWCRYPT to turn hardware encryption off.
Although this change essentially eliminates that module parameter,
I am choosing to keep it for cases where the hardware is broken,
and software encryption is required for all ciphers.
Reported-and-tested-by: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526155909.5807-2-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit ec4d3e3a054578de34cd0b587ab8a1ac36f629d9 upstream.
This patch fixes commit 75388acd0cd8 ("add mac80211-based driver for
legacy BCM43xx devices")
In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207093, a defect in
b43legacy is reported. Upon testing, thus problem exists on PPC and
X86 platforms, is present in the oldest kernel tested (3.2), and
has been present in the driver since it was first added to the kernel.
The problem is a corrupted channel status received from the device.
Both the internal card in a PowerBook G4 and the PCMCIA version
(Broadcom BCM4306 with PCI ID 14e4:4320) have the problem. Only Rev, 2
(revision 4 of the 802.11 core) of the chip has been tested. No other
devices using b43legacy are available for testing.
Various sources of the problem were considered. Buffer overrun and
other sources of corruption within the driver were rejected because
the faulty channel status is always the same, not a random value.
It was concluded that the faulty data is coming from the device, probably
due to a firmware bug. As that source is not available, the driver
must take appropriate action to recover.
At present, the driver reports the error, and them continues to process
the bad packet. This is believed that to be a mistake, and the correct
action is to drop the correpted packet.
Fixes: 75388acd0cd8 ("add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices")
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-and-tested by: F. Erhard <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200407190043.1686-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Larry Finger