mac80211: Encrypt "Group addressed privacy" action frames

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Previously, the action frames to group address was not encrypted. But
[1] "Table 8-38 Category values" indicates "Mesh" and "Multihop" category
action frames should be encrypted (Group addressed privacy == yes). And the
encyption key should be MGTK ([1] 10.13 Group addressed robust management frame
procedures). So this patch modifies the code to make it suitable for spec.

[1] IEEE Std 802.11-2012

Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

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Masashi Honma 2016-06-22 19:55:20 +09:00 • committed by Johannes Berg

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include/linux/ieee80211.h

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net/mac80211/rx.c

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net/mac80211/tx.c

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