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rt2500usb: disallow to set WEP key with non zero index
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On our hardware (050d:7050 Belkin Components F5D7050 Wireless G Adapter),
setting any WEP key with non zero index, cause rx frames corruption.

Note: perhaps (I did not check) this can be fixed differently - by using
hw_key_idx the same as true MAC key index. But according to the comment in
rt2x00mac_set_key():

"the hardware requires keys to be assigned in correct order (When key 1
is provided but key 0 is not, then the key is not found by the hardware
during RX)"

this will be quite problematic. Since WEP should not be used, disabling
hardware crypto offload for it will not hurt much. Beside static
one key WEP will still be offloaded.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored and John W. Linville committed Jul 27, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -350,6 +350,14 @@ static int rt2500usb_config_key(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
enum cipher curr_cipher;

if (crypto->cmd == SET_KEY) {
/*
* Disallow to set WEP key other than with index 0,
* it is known that not work at least on some hardware.
* SW crypto will be used in that case.
*/
if (key->alg == ALG_WEP && key->keyidx != 0)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

/*
* Pairwise key will always be entry 0, but this
* could collide with a shared key on the same
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