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author | Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> | 2015-09-28 09:00:26 +0200 |
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committer | Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> | 2015-09-30 13:16:44 +0200 |
commit | d58a2fa903c18f97aac30cd3c4c8a378a2c647c4 (patch) | |
tree | 2360d7c37869ea813208cd451a61b139fc02c323 /net/mac802154/tx.c | |
parent | nl802154: add support for security layer (diff) | |
download | linux-d58a2fa903c18f97aac30cd3c4c8a378a2c647c4.tar.xz linux-d58a2fa903c18f97aac30cd3c4c8a378a2c647c4.zip |
mac802154: add comments for llsec issues
While doing a little test with the llsec implementation I saw these
issues. We should move decryption and encruption somewhere else,
otherwise while capturing with wireshark the mac header shows secuirty
fields but the payload is plaintext.
A complete other issue is what doing with HardMAC drivers where the
payload is always plaintext. I think we need a special handling then in
userspace. We currently doesn't support any HardMAC transceivers, so we
should fix the first issue for SoftMAC transceivers.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac802154/tx.c')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac802154/tx.c b/net/mac802154/tx.c index 5ee596e00a6d..b205bbec7bdf 100644 --- a/net/mac802154/tx.c +++ b/net/mac802154/tx.c @@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ ieee802154_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) struct ieee802154_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE802154_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev); int rc; + /* TODO we should move it to wpan_dev_hard_header and dev_hard_header + * functions. The reason is wireshark will show a mac header which is + * with security fields but the payload is not encrypted. + */ rc = mac802154_llsec_encrypt(&sdata->sec, skb); if (rc) { netdev_warn(dev, "encryption failed: %i\n", rc); |