[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "rt2x00: disable TKIP on USB" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jul 10 11:18:04 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rt2x00: disable TKIP on USB

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From f1995a05e3613fd0e1f6c9cc4dbc5e46b1caf667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:51:06 +0200
Subject: rt2x00: disable TKIP on USB

commit 8edcb0ba0d56f5914eef11eda6db8bfe74eb9ca8 upstream.

On USB we can not get atomically TKIP key. We have to disable support
for TKIP acceleration on USB hardware to avoid bug as showed bellow.

[  860.827243] BUG: scheduling while atomic: hostapd/3397/0x00000002
<snip>
[  860.827280] Call Trace:
[  860.827282]  [<ffffffff81682ea6>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
[  860.827284]  [<ffffffff8167eb9b>] __schedule_bug+0x47/0x55
[  860.827285]  [<ffffffff81685bb3>] __schedule+0x733/0x7b0
[  860.827287]  [<ffffffff81685c59>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[  860.827289]  [<ffffffff81684f8a>] schedule_timeout+0x15a/0x2b0
[  860.827291]  [<ffffffff8105ac50>] ? ftrace_raw_event_tick_stop+0xc0/0xc0
[  860.827294]  [<ffffffff810c13c2>] ? __module_text_address+0x12/0x70
[  860.827296]  [<ffffffff81686823>] wait_for_completion_timeout+0xb3/0x140
[  860.827298]  [<ffffffff81080fc0>] ? wake_up_state+0x20/0x20
[  860.827301]  [<ffffffff814d5b3d>] usb_start_wait_urb+0x7d/0x150
[  860.827303]  [<ffffffff814d5cd5>] usb_control_msg+0xc5/0x110
[  860.827305]  [<ffffffffa02fb0c6>] rt2x00usb_vendor_request+0xc6/0x160  [rt2x00usb]
[  860.827307]  [<ffffffffa02fb215>] rt2x00usb_vendor_req_buff_lock+0x75/0x150 [rt2x00usb]
[  860.827309]  [<ffffffffa02fb393>] rt2x00usb_vendor_request_buff+0xa3/0xe0 [rt2x00usb]
[  860.827311]  [<ffffffffa023d1a3>] rt2x00usb_register_multiread+0x33/0x40 [rt2800usb]
[  860.827314]  [<ffffffffa05805f9>] rt2800_get_tkip_seq+0x39/0x50  [rt2800lib]
[  860.827321]  [<ffffffffa0480f88>] ieee80211_get_key+0x218/0x2a0  [mac80211]
[  860.827322]  [<ffffffff815cc68c>] ? __nlmsg_put+0x6c/0x80
[  860.827329]  [<ffffffffa051b02e>] nl80211_get_key+0x22e/0x360 [cfg80211]

Reported-and-tested-by: Peter Wu <lekensteyn at gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
index 2b724fc4e306..c03748dafd49 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
@@ -489,6 +489,8 @@ int rt2x00mac_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, enum set_key_cmd cmd,
 	crypto.cipher = rt2x00crypto_key_to_cipher(key);
 	if (crypto.cipher == CIPHER_NONE)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	if (crypto.cipher == CIPHER_TKIP && rt2x00_is_usb(rt2x00dev))
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

 	crypto.cmd = cmd;

--
1.9.1





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