[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH] mac80211: Move crypto IV generation to after TXQ dequeue.

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 15:16 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> writes:
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > @@ -1573,6 +1574,7 @@ struct ieee80211_key_conf {
> > >  	u8 iv_len;
> > >  	u8 hw_key_idx;
> > >  	u8 flags;
> > > +	u8 pn_offs;
> > > 
> > This is completely wrong.
> 
> Well, the ieee80211_fast_tx struct is not available in
> ieee80211_tx_dequeue, and I need the offset there. I thought about
> sticking it into ieee80211_tx_info, but that is kinda full, and since
> the ieee80211_key_conf is already available there, carrying it there
> seems to work.

For very limited testing, perhaps. But this isn't static across all
usages of the key, so this is still completely broken.

> What would be a better way to do this?
> 

Some redesign/rearchitecture, probably. Or just do it all in the driver
like iwlmvm?

johannes