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Work around AP misbehavior on EAPOL-Key descriptor version

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It looks like some APs are incorrectly selecting descriptor version 3
(AES-128-CMAC) for EAPOL-Key frames when version 2 (HMAC-SHA1) was
expected to be used. This is likely triggered by an attempt to negotiate
PMF with SHA1-based AKM.

Since AES-128-CMAC is considered stronger than HMAC-SHA1, allow the
incorrect, but stronger, option to be used in these cases to avoid
interoperability issues with deployed APs.

This issue shows up with "WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor
version (3) is not 2" in debug log. With the new workaround, this issue
is ignored and "WPA: Interoperability workaround: allow incorrect
(should have been HMAC-SHA1), but stronger (is AES-128-CMAC), descriptor
version to be used" is written to the log.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
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Jouni Malinen 2014-11-14 20:57:05 +02:00 committed by Jouni Malinen
parent 9128f520c3
commit 9f6a7cddc4
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src/rsn_supp/wpa.c
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@ -1756,6 +1756,9 @@ int wpa_sm_rx_eapol(struct wpa_sm *sm, const u8 *src_addr,
wpa_msg(sm->ctx->msg_ctx, MSG_INFO,
"WPA: Backwards compatibility: allow invalid "
"version for non-CCMP group keys");
} else if (ver == WPA_KEY_INFO_TYPE_AES_128_CMAC) {
wpa_msg(sm->ctx->msg_ctx, MSG_INFO,
"WPA: Interoperability workaround: allow incorrect (should have been HMAC-SHA1), but stronger (is AES-128-CMAC), descriptor version to be used");
} else
goto out;
} else if (sm->pairwise_cipher == WPA_CIPHER_GCMP &&