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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    rt2x00: disable TKIP on USB

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.27.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 331913c68b4f5a1aeb38e65113bfe2592d1a6b39 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 65225fa..7195a30 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