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The protection of the management frames is mainly done by mac80211. However, frames for the management of the BlockAck sessions are directly sent by the device. These frames have to be protected if MFP is in use. So the driver has to pass the MFP configuration to the device. Until now, the BlockAck management frames were completely unprotected whatever the status of the MFP negotiation. So, some devices dropped these frames. The device has two knobs to control the MFP. One global and one per station. Normally, the driver should always enable global MFP. Then it should enable MFP on every station with which MFP was successfully negotiated. Unfortunately, the older firmwares only provide the global control. So, this patch enable global MFP as it is exposed in the beacon. Then it marks every station with which the MFP is effective. Thus, the support for the old firmwares is not so bad. It may only encounter some difficulties to negotiate BA sessions when the local device (the AP) is MFP capable (ieee80211w=1) but the station is not. The only solution for this case is to upgrade the firmware. Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200825085828.399505-1-Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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