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Commit 3a374952 authored by Vivek Natarajan's avatar Vivek Natarajan Committed by John W. Linville
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ath9k: Avoid corrupt frames being forwarded to mac80211.


If bit 29 is set, MAC H/W can attempt to decrypt the received aggregate
with WEP or TKIP, eventhough the received frame may be a CRC failed
corrupted frame. If this bit is set, H/W obeys key type in keycache.
If it is not set and if the key type in keycache is neither open nor
AES, H/W forces key type to be open.  But bit 29 should be set to 1
for AsyncFIFO feature to encrypt/decrypt the aggregate with WEP or TKIP.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan.hovold@lundinova.se>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRanga Rao Ravuri <ranga.ravuri@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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