Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 3 authors, 2023-02-27

[PATCH 06/10] brcmfmac: cfg80211: Pass the PMK in binary instead of hex

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From: Hector Martin <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-14 09:26:51
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Subsystem: broadcom brcm80211 ieee802.11 wireless drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Arend van Spriel, Linus Torvalds

2 review trailers (1 from subsystem maintainers); landed in mainline as 89b89e52153f on 2023-02-27.

Apparently the hex passphrase mechanism does not work on newer
chips/firmware (e.g. BCM4387). It seems there was a simple way of
passing it in binary all along, so use that and avoid the hexification.

OpenBSD has been doing it like this from the beginning, so this should
work on all chips.

Also clear the structure before setting the PMK. This was leaking
uninitialized stack contents to the device.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <redacted>
---
 .../wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index f3450b4db156..18e6699d4024 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -1686,13 +1686,14 @@ static int brcmf_set_pmk(struct brcmf_if *ifp, const u8 *pmk_data, u16 pmk_len)
 {
 	struct brcmf_pub *drvr = ifp->drvr;
 	struct brcmf_wsec_pmk_le pmk;
-	int i, err;
+	int err;
+
+	memset(&pmk, 0, sizeof(pmk));
 
-	/* convert to firmware key format */
-	pmk.key_len = cpu_to_le16(pmk_len << 1);
-	pmk.flags = cpu_to_le16(BRCMF_WSEC_PASSPHRASE);
-	for (i = 0; i < pmk_len; i++)
-		snprintf(&pmk.key[2 * i], 3, "%02x", pmk_data[i]);
+	/* pass pmk directly */
+	pmk.key_len = cpu_to_le16(pmk_len);
+	pmk.flags = cpu_to_le16(0);
+	memcpy(pmk.key, pmk_data, pmk_len);
 
 	/* store psk in firmware */
 	err = brcmf_fil_cmd_data_set(ifp, BRCMF_C_SET_WSEC_PMK,
-- 
2.35.1
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