mac802154: add comments for llsec issues
While doing a little test with the llsec implementation I saw these
issues. We should move decryption and encruption somewhere else,
otherwise while capturing with wireshark the mac header shows secuirty
fields but the payload is plaintext.
A complete other issue is what doing with HardMAC drivers where the
payload is always plaintext. I think we need a special handling then in
userspace. We currently doesn't support any HardMAC transceivers, so we
should fix the first issue for SoftMAC transceivers.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
diff --git a/net/mac802154/rx.c b/net/mac802154/rx.c
index d1c33c1..42e9672 100644
--- a/net/mac802154/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/rx.c
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@
skb->dev = sdata->dev;
+ /* TODO this should be moved after netif_receive_skb call, otherwise
+ * wireshark will show a mac header with security fields and the
+ * payload is already decrypted.
+ */
rc = mac802154_llsec_decrypt(&sdata->sec, skb);
if (rc) {
pr_debug("decryption failed: %i\n", rc);