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Recently we started to send the WEP keys to the firmware so
that we could use hardware Tx encryption also on newer
devices that require the keys to be installed in the firmware
for encryption (as opposed to older devices that can get
the key in the Tx command for each Tx).
When we implemented that, we forgot to remove the key when
we remove a station leading to a situation where a station
that connects and disconnects a lot of times exhausts the
key database inside the firmware.
A fix was made for that, but we always removed the same
key: mvmvif->ap_wep_key which means that we removed the
same key entry in the firmware. This can make sense since
in WEP, the key is the same for all the stations, but the
internal implementation of iwl_mvm_set_sta_key and
iwl_mvm_remove_sta_key assumes that each station uses a
different key in the firmware's key database.
So now we got to the situation where we have a single
ieee80211_key_conf instance that means, a single
ieee80211_key_conf.hw_key_idx index for several stations
and hence for several keys.
ieee80211_key_conf.hw_key_idx is set to 0 when the first
station associates, and then it is overwritten to 1 when
the second station associates which is a buggy of course.
This led to the following message upon the removal of the
second station:
iwlwifi 0000:00:03.0: offset 1 not used in fw key table.
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 27883 at net/mac80211/sta_info.c:1122 __sta_info_destroy_part2+0x16b/0x180 [mac80211]
RIP: 0010:__sta_info_destroy_part2+0x16b/0x180 [mac80211]
Call Trace:
__sta_info_destroy+0x2a/0x40 [mac80211]
sta_info_destroy_addr_bss+0x38/0x60 [mac80211]
ieee80211_del_station+0x1d/0x30 [mac80211]
nl80211_del_station+0xe0/0x1f0 [cfg80211]
Fix this by copying the ieee80211_key_conf structure for
each and every station. This is the easiest way to properly
remove the keys with the right index. Another solution
would have been to allow several stations to use the same
key offset in the firmware. That would require to change
the way we track keys in iwlmvm and not really worth it.
Also, maintain correctly fw_key_table when we add a key
for the multicast station.
Remove the key when we remove the multicast station.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
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