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<title>linux-stable.git/net/mac80211/key.c, branch linux-5.2.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'spdx-5.2-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx</title>
<updated>2019-06-21T16:58:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-21T16:58:42+00:00</published>
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Pull still more SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Another round of SPDX updates for 5.2-rc6

  Here is what I am guessing is going to be the last "big" SPDX update
  for 5.2. It contains all of the remaining GPLv2 and GPLv2+ updates
  that were "easy" to determine by pattern matching. The ones after this
  are going to be a bit more difficult and the people on the spdx list
  will be discussing them on a case-by-case basis now.

  Another 5000+ files are fixed up, so our overall totals are:
	Files checked:            64545
	Files with SPDX:          45529

  Compared to the 5.1 kernel which was:
	Files checked:            63848
	Files with SPDX:          22576

  This is a huge improvement.

  Also, we deleted another 20000 lines of boilerplate license crud,
  always nice to see in a diffstat"

* tag 'spdx-5.2-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx: (65 commits)
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 507
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 506
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 505
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 503
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 502
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 501
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 499
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 498
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 497
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 496
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 495
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 491
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 490
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 489
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 488
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 487
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 486
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 485
  ...
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Pull still more SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Another round of SPDX updates for 5.2-rc6

  Here is what I am guessing is going to be the last "big" SPDX update
  for 5.2. It contains all of the remaining GPLv2 and GPLv2+ updates
  that were "easy" to determine by pattern matching. The ones after this
  are going to be a bit more difficult and the people on the spdx list
  will be discussing them on a case-by-case basis now.

  Another 5000+ files are fixed up, so our overall totals are:
	Files checked:            64545
	Files with SPDX:          45529

  Compared to the 5.1 kernel which was:
	Files checked:            63848
	Files with SPDX:          22576

  This is a huge improvement.

  Also, we deleted another 20000 lines of boilerplate license crud,
  always nice to see in a diffstat"

* tag 'spdx-5.2-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx: (65 commits)
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 507
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 506
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 505
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 503
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 502
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 501
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 499
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 498
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 497
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 496
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 495
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 491
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 490
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 489
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 488
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 487
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 486
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 485
  ...
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T08:11:33+00:00</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: remove set but not used variable 'old'</title>
<updated>2019-05-24T09:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YueHaibing</name>
<email>yuehaibing@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-29T14:07:54+00:00</published>
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Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:

net/mac80211/key.c: In function 'ieee80211_set_tx_key':
net/mac80211/key.c:271:24: warning:
 variable 'old' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

It is not used since introduction in
commit 96fc6efb9ad9 ("mac80211: IEEE 802.11 Extended Key ID support")

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:

net/mac80211/key.c: In function 'ieee80211_set_tx_key':
net/mac80211/key.c:271:24: warning:
 variable 'old' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

It is not used since introduction in
commit 96fc6efb9ad9 ("mac80211: IEEE 802.11 Extended Key ID support")

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2019-04-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next</title>
<updated>2019-04-26T20:05:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-26T20:05:52+00:00</published>
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Johannes Berg says:

====================
Various updates, notably:
 * extended key ID support (from 802.11-2016)
 * per-STA TX power control support
 * mac80211 TX performance improvements
 * HE (802.11ax) updates
 * mesh link probing support
 * enhancements of multi-BSSID support (also related to HE)
 * OWE userspace processing support
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Johannes Berg says:

====================
Various updates, notably:
 * extended key ID support (from 802.11-2016)
 * per-STA TX power control support
 * mac80211 TX performance improvements
 * HE (802.11ax) updates
 * mesh link probing support
 * enhancements of multi-BSSID support (also related to HE)
 * OWE userspace processing support
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: IEEE 802.11 Extended Key ID support</title>
<updated>2019-04-26T11:02:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Wetzel</name>
<email>alexander@wetzel-home.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-19T20:34:08+00:00</published>
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Add support for Extended Key ID as defined in IEEE 802.11-2016.

 - Implement the nl80211 API for Extended Key ID
 - Extend mac80211 API to allow drivers to support Extended Key ID
 - Enable Extended Key ID by default for drivers only supporting SW
   crypto (e.g. mac80211_hwsim)
 - Allow unicast Tx usage to be supressed (IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_NO_AUTO_TX)
 - Select the decryption key based on the MPDU keyid
 - Enforce existing assumptions in the code that rekeys don't change the
   cipher

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel &lt;alexander@wetzel-home.de&gt;
[remove module parameter]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Add support for Extended Key ID as defined in IEEE 802.11-2016.

 - Implement the nl80211 API for Extended Key ID
 - Extend mac80211 API to allow drivers to support Extended Key ID
 - Enable Extended Key ID by default for drivers only supporting SW
   crypto (e.g. mac80211_hwsim)
 - Allow unicast Tx usage to be supressed (IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_NO_AUTO_TX)
 - Select the decryption key based on the MPDU keyid
 - Enforce existing assumptions in the code that rekeys don't change the
   cipher

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel &lt;alexander@wetzel-home.de&gt;
[remove module parameter]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: Optimize tailroom_needed update checks</title>
<updated>2019-04-26T11:02:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Wetzel</name>
<email>alexander@wetzel-home.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-16T20:44:43+00:00</published>
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Optimize/cleanup the delay tailroom checks and adds one missing tailroom
update.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel &lt;alexander@wetzel-home.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
Optimize/cleanup the delay tailroom checks and adds one missing tailroom
update.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel &lt;alexander@wetzel-home.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: Honor SW_CRYPTO_CONTROL for unicast keys in AP VLAN mode</title>
<updated>2019-04-09T11:40:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Wetzel</name>
<email>alexander@wetzel-home.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-09T14:01:38+00:00</published>
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Restore SW_CRYPTO_CONTROL operation on AP_VLAN interfaces for unicast
keys, the original override was intended to be done for group keys as
those are treated specially by mac80211 and would always have been
rejected.

Now the situation is that AP_VLAN support must be enabled by the driver
if it can support it (meaning it can support software crypto GTK TX).

Thus, also simplify the code - if we get here with AP_VLAN and non-
pairwise key, software crypto must be used (driver doesn't know about
the interface) and can be used (driver must've advertised AP_VLAN if
it also uses SW_CRYPTO_CONTROL).

Fixes: db3bdcb9c3ff ("mac80211: allow AP_VLAN operation on crypto controlled devices")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel &lt;alexander@wetzel-home.de&gt;
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Restore SW_CRYPTO_CONTROL operation on AP_VLAN interfaces for unicast
keys, the original override was intended to be done for group keys as
those are treated specially by mac80211 and would always have been
rejected.

Now the situation is that AP_VLAN support must be enabled by the driver
if it can support it (meaning it can support software crypto GTK TX).

Thus, also simplify the code - if we get here with AP_VLAN and non-
pairwise key, software crypto must be used (driver doesn't know about
the interface) and can be used (driver must've advertised AP_VLAN if
it also uses SW_CRYPTO_CONTROL).

Fixes: db3bdcb9c3ff ("mac80211: allow AP_VLAN operation on crypto controlled devices")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel &lt;alexander@wetzel-home.de&gt;
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: remove unnecessary NULL check</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T08:15:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-04T13:20:01+00:00</published>
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Both old and new cannot be NULL at the same time, hence checking
new when old is not NULL is unnecessary.

Also, notice that new is being dereferenced before it is checked:

	idx = new-&gt;conf.keyidx;

The above triggers a static code analysis warning.

Address this by removing the NULL check on new and adding a code
comment based on the following piece of code:

387        /* caller must provide at least one old/new */
388        if (WARN_ON(!new &amp;&amp; !old))
389                return 0;

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1473176 ("Dereference before null check")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Both old and new cannot be NULL at the same time, hence checking
new when old is not NULL is unnecessary.

Also, notice that new is being dereferenced before it is checked:

	idx = new-&gt;conf.keyidx;

The above triggers a static code analysis warning.

Address this by removing the NULL check on new and adding a code
comment based on the following piece of code:

387        /* caller must provide at least one old/new */
388        if (WARN_ON(!new &amp;&amp; !old))
389                return 0;

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1473176 ("Dereference before null check")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: Fix PTK rekey freezes and clear text leak</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T08:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Wetzel</name>
<email>alexander@wetzel-home.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-31T13:00:38+00:00</published>
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Rekeying PTK keys without "Extended Key ID for Individually Addressed
Frames" did use a procedure not suitable to replace in-use keys and
could caused the following issues:

 1) Freeze caused by incoming frames:
    If the local STA installed the key prior to the remote STA we still
    had the old key active in the hardware when mac80211 switched over
    to the new key.
    Therefore there was a window where the card could hand over frames
    decoded with the old key to mac80211 and bump the new PN (IV) value
    to an incorrect high number. When it happened the local replay
    detection silently started to drop all frames sent with the new key.

 2) Freeze caused by outgoing frames:
    If mac80211 was providing the PN (IV) and handed over a clear text
    frame for encryption to the hardware prior to a key change the
    driver/card could have processed the queued frame after switching
    to the new key. This bumped the PN value on the remote STA to an
    incorrect high number, tricking the remote STA to discard all frames
    we sent later.

 3) Freeze caused by RX aggregation reorder buffer:
    An aggregation session started with the old key and ending after the
    switch to the new key also bumped the PN to an incorrect high number,
    freezing the connection quite similar to 1).

 4) Freeze caused by repeating lost frames in an aggregation session:
    A driver could repeat a lost frame and encrypt it with the new key
    while in a TX aggregation session without updating the PN for the
    new key. This also could freeze connections similar to 2).

 5) Clear text leak:
    Removing encryption offload from the card cleared the encryption
    offload flag only after the card had deleted the key and we did not
    stop TX during the rekey. The driver/card could therefore get
    unencrypted frames from mac80211 while no longer be instructed to
    encrypt them.

To prevent those issues the key install logic has been changed:
 - Mac80211 divers known to be able to rekey PTK0 keys have to set
   @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0,
 - mac80211 stops queuing frames depending on the key during the replace
 - the key is first replaced in the hardware and after that in mac80211
 - and mac80211 stops/blocks new aggregation sessions during the rekey.

For drivers not setting
@NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0 the user space must avoid PTK
rekeys if "Extended Key ID for Individually Addressed Frames" is not
being used. Rekeys for mac80211 drivers without this flag will generate a
warning and use an extra call to ieee80211_flush_queues() to both
highlight and try to prevent the issues with not updated drivers.

The core of the fix changes the key install procedure from:
 - atomic switch over to the new key in mac80211
 - remove the old key in the hardware (stops encryption offloading, fall
   back to software encryption with a potential clear text packet leak
   in between)
 - delete the inactive old key in mac80211
 - enable hardware encryption offloading for the new key
to:
 - if it's a PTK mark the old key as tainted to drop TX frames with the
   outgoing key
 - replace the key in hardware with the new one
 - atomic switch over to the new (not marked as tainted) key in
   mac80211 (which also resumes TX)
 - delete the inactive old key in mac80211

With the new sequence the hardware will be unable to decrypt frames
encrypted with the old key prior to switching to the new key in mac80211
and thus prevent PNs from packets decrypted with the old key to be
accounted against the new key.

For that to work the drivers have to provide a clear boundary.
Mac80211 drivers setting @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0 confirm
to provide it and mac80211 will then be able to correctly rekey in-use
PTK keys with those drivers.

The mac80211 requirements for drivers to set the flag have been added to
the "Hardware crypto acceleration" documentation section. It drills down
to:
The drivers must not hand over frames decrypted with the old key to
mac80211 once the call to set_key() with %DISABLE_KEY has been
completed. It's allowed to either drop or continue to use the old key
for any outgoing frames which are already in the queues, but it must not
send out any of them unencrypted or encrypted with the new key.

Even with the new boundary in place aggregation sessions with the
reorder buffer are problematic:
RX aggregation session started prior and completed after the rekey could
still dump frames received with the old key at mac80211 after it
switched over to the new key. This is side stepped by stopping all (RX
and TX) aggregation sessions when replacing a PTK key and hardware key
offloading.
Stopping TX aggregation sessions avoids the need to get
the PNs (IVs) updated in frames prepared for the old key and
(re)transmitted after the switch to the new key. As a bonus it improves
the compatibility when the remote STA is not handling rekeys as it
should.

When using software crypto aggregation sessions are not stopped.
Mac80211 won't be able to decode the dangerous frames and discard them
without special handling.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel &lt;alexander@wetzel-home.de&gt;
[trim overly long rekey warning]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Rekeying PTK keys without "Extended Key ID for Individually Addressed
Frames" did use a procedure not suitable to replace in-use keys and
could caused the following issues:

 1) Freeze caused by incoming frames:
    If the local STA installed the key prior to the remote STA we still
    had the old key active in the hardware when mac80211 switched over
    to the new key.
    Therefore there was a window where the card could hand over frames
    decoded with the old key to mac80211 and bump the new PN (IV) value
    to an incorrect high number. When it happened the local replay
    detection silently started to drop all frames sent with the new key.

 2) Freeze caused by outgoing frames:
    If mac80211 was providing the PN (IV) and handed over a clear text
    frame for encryption to the hardware prior to a key change the
    driver/card could have processed the queued frame after switching
    to the new key. This bumped the PN value on the remote STA to an
    incorrect high number, tricking the remote STA to discard all frames
    we sent later.

 3) Freeze caused by RX aggregation reorder buffer:
    An aggregation session started with the old key and ending after the
    switch to the new key also bumped the PN to an incorrect high number,
    freezing the connection quite similar to 1).

 4) Freeze caused by repeating lost frames in an aggregation session:
    A driver could repeat a lost frame and encrypt it with the new key
    while in a TX aggregation session without updating the PN for the
    new key. This also could freeze connections similar to 2).

 5) Clear text leak:
    Removing encryption offload from the card cleared the encryption
    offload flag only after the card had deleted the key and we did not
    stop TX during the rekey. The driver/card could therefore get
    unencrypted frames from mac80211 while no longer be instructed to
    encrypt them.

To prevent those issues the key install logic has been changed:
 - Mac80211 divers known to be able to rekey PTK0 keys have to set
   @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0,
 - mac80211 stops queuing frames depending on the key during the replace
 - the key is first replaced in the hardware and after that in mac80211
 - and mac80211 stops/blocks new aggregation sessions during the rekey.

For drivers not setting
@NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0 the user space must avoid PTK
rekeys if "Extended Key ID for Individually Addressed Frames" is not
being used. Rekeys for mac80211 drivers without this flag will generate a
warning and use an extra call to ieee80211_flush_queues() to both
highlight and try to prevent the issues with not updated drivers.

The core of the fix changes the key install procedure from:
 - atomic switch over to the new key in mac80211
 - remove the old key in the hardware (stops encryption offloading, fall
   back to software encryption with a potential clear text packet leak
   in between)
 - delete the inactive old key in mac80211
 - enable hardware encryption offloading for the new key
to:
 - if it's a PTK mark the old key as tainted to drop TX frames with the
   outgoing key
 - replace the key in hardware with the new one
 - atomic switch over to the new (not marked as tainted) key in
   mac80211 (which also resumes TX)
 - delete the inactive old key in mac80211

With the new sequence the hardware will be unable to decrypt frames
encrypted with the old key prior to switching to the new key in mac80211
and thus prevent PNs from packets decrypted with the old key to be
accounted against the new key.

For that to work the drivers have to provide a clear boundary.
Mac80211 drivers setting @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0 confirm
to provide it and mac80211 will then be able to correctly rekey in-use
PTK keys with those drivers.

The mac80211 requirements for drivers to set the flag have been added to
the "Hardware crypto acceleration" documentation section. It drills down
to:
The drivers must not hand over frames decrypted with the old key to
mac80211 once the call to set_key() with %DISABLE_KEY has been
completed. It's allowed to either drop or continue to use the old key
for any outgoing frames which are already in the queues, but it must not
send out any of them unencrypted or encrypted with the new key.

Even with the new boundary in place aggregation sessions with the
reorder buffer are problematic:
RX aggregation session started prior and completed after the rekey could
still dump frames received with the old key at mac80211 after it
switched over to the new key. This is side stepped by stopping all (RX
and TX) aggregation sessions when replacing a PTK key and hardware key
offloading.
Stopping TX aggregation sessions avoids the need to get
the PNs (IVs) updated in frames prepared for the old key and
(re)transmitted after the switch to the new key. As a bonus it improves
the compatibility when the remote STA is not handling rekeys as it
should.

When using software crypto aggregation sessions are not stopped.
Mac80211 won't be able to decode the dangerous frames and discard them
without special handling.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel &lt;alexander@wetzel-home.de&gt;
[trim overly long rekey warning]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>mac80211: restrict delayed tailroom needed decrement</title>
<updated>2018-07-24T07:21:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manikanta Pubbisetty</name>
<email>mpubbise@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-10T11:18:27+00:00</published>
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As explained in ieee80211_delayed_tailroom_dec(), during roam,
keys of the old AP will be destroyed and new keys will be
installed. Deletion of the old key causes
crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt to go from 1 to 0 and the new key
installation causes a transition from 0 to 1.

Whenever crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt transitions from 0 to 1,
we invoke synchronize_net(); the reason for doing this is to avoid
a race in the TX path as explained in increment_tailroom_need_count().
This synchronize_net() operation can be slow and can affect the station
roam time. To avoid this, decrementing the crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt
is delayed for a while so that upon installation of new key the
transition would be from 1 to 2 instead of 0 to 1 and thereby
improving the roam time.

This is all correct for a STA iftype, but deferring the tailroom_needed
decrement for other iftypes may be unnecessary.

For example, let's consider the case of a 4-addr client connecting to
an AP for which AP_VLAN interface is also created, let the initial
value for tailroom_needed on the AP be 1.

* 4-addr client connects to the AP (AP: tailroom_needed = 1)
* AP will clear old keys, delay decrement of tailroom_needed count
* AP_VLAN is created, it takes the tailroom count from master
  (AP_VLAN: tailroom_needed = 1, AP: tailroom_needed = 1)
* Install new key for the station, assume key is plumbed in the HW,
  there won't be any change in tailroom_needed count on AP iface
* Delayed decrement of tailroom_needed count on AP
  (AP: tailroom_needed = 0, AP_VLAN: tailroom_needed = 1)

Because of the delayed decrement on AP iface, tailroom_needed count goes
out of sync between AP(master iface) and AP_VLAN(slave iface) and
there would be unnecessary tailroom created for the packets going
through AP_VLAN iface.

Also, WARN_ONs were observed while trying to bring down the AP_VLAN
interface:
(warn_slowpath_common) (warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x20)
(warn_slowpath_null) (ieee80211_free_keys+0x114/0x1e4)
(ieee80211_free_keys) (ieee80211_del_virtual_monitor+0x51c/0x850)
(ieee80211_del_virtual_monitor) (ieee80211_stop+0x30/0x3c)
(ieee80211_stop) (__dev_close_many+0x94/0xb8)
(__dev_close_many) (dev_close_many+0x5c/0xc8)

Restricting delayed decrement to station interface alone fixes the problem
and it makes sense to do so because delayed decrement is done to improve
roam time which is applicable only for client devices.

Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty &lt;mpubbise@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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As explained in ieee80211_delayed_tailroom_dec(), during roam,
keys of the old AP will be destroyed and new keys will be
installed. Deletion of the old key causes
crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt to go from 1 to 0 and the new key
installation causes a transition from 0 to 1.

Whenever crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt transitions from 0 to 1,
we invoke synchronize_net(); the reason for doing this is to avoid
a race in the TX path as explained in increment_tailroom_need_count().
This synchronize_net() operation can be slow and can affect the station
roam time. To avoid this, decrementing the crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt
is delayed for a while so that upon installation of new key the
transition would be from 1 to 2 instead of 0 to 1 and thereby
improving the roam time.

This is all correct for a STA iftype, but deferring the tailroom_needed
decrement for other iftypes may be unnecessary.

For example, let's consider the case of a 4-addr client connecting to
an AP for which AP_VLAN interface is also created, let the initial
value for tailroom_needed on the AP be 1.

* 4-addr client connects to the AP (AP: tailroom_needed = 1)
* AP will clear old keys, delay decrement of tailroom_needed count
* AP_VLAN is created, it takes the tailroom count from master
  (AP_VLAN: tailroom_needed = 1, AP: tailroom_needed = 1)
* Install new key for the station, assume key is plumbed in the HW,
  there won't be any change in tailroom_needed count on AP iface
* Delayed decrement of tailroom_needed count on AP
  (AP: tailroom_needed = 0, AP_VLAN: tailroom_needed = 1)

Because of the delayed decrement on AP iface, tailroom_needed count goes
out of sync between AP(master iface) and AP_VLAN(slave iface) and
there would be unnecessary tailroom created for the packets going
through AP_VLAN iface.

Also, WARN_ONs were observed while trying to bring down the AP_VLAN
interface:
(warn_slowpath_common) (warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x20)
(warn_slowpath_null) (ieee80211_free_keys+0x114/0x1e4)
(ieee80211_free_keys) (ieee80211_del_virtual_monitor+0x51c/0x850)
(ieee80211_del_virtual_monitor) (ieee80211_stop+0x30/0x3c)
(ieee80211_stop) (__dev_close_many+0x94/0xb8)
(__dev_close_many) (dev_close_many+0x5c/0xc8)

Restricting delayed decrement to station interface alone fixes the problem
and it makes sense to do so because delayed decrement is done to improve
roam time which is applicable only for client devices.

Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty &lt;mpubbise@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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