[MAC80211]: ignore key index on pairwise key (WEP only)

Work-around for broken APs that use a non-zero key index for WEP
pairwise keys. With this patch, WEP encryption only is exempt from
providing a zero key index.

Signed-off-by: Volker Braun <volker.braun@physik.hu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
index e1c4502..51dca21 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
@@ -73,17 +73,23 @@ static int ieee80211_set_encryption(struct net_device *dev, u8 *sta_addr,
 
        sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
 
+       if (idx < 0 || idx >= NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS) {
+               printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: set_encrypt - invalid idx=%d\n",
+                      dev->name, idx);
+               return -EINVAL;
+       }
+
        if (is_broadcast_ether_addr(sta_addr)) {
                sta = NULL;
-               if (idx >= NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS) {
-                       printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: set_encrypt - invalid idx=%d\n",
-                              dev->name, idx);
-                       return -EINVAL;
-               }
                key = sdata->keys[idx];
        } else {
                set_tx_key = 0;
-               if (idx != 0) {
+               /*
+                * According to the standard, the key index of a pairwise
+                * key must be zero. However, some AP are broken when it
+                * comes to WEP key indices, so we work around this.
+                */
+               if (idx != 0 && alg != ALG_WEP) {
                        printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: set_encrypt - non-zero idx for "
                               "individual key\n", dev->name);
                        return -EINVAL;