Re: Issue with iwd + Linux 5.8.3 + WPA Enterprise

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:58:02PM +0200, Andrew Zaborowski wrote:
>
> Running iwd's and ell's unit tests I can see that at least the
> following algorithms give EINVAL errors:
> ecb(aes)
> cbc(aes)
> ctr(aes)
> 
> The first one fails in recv() and only for some input lengths.  The
> latter two fail in send().  The relevant ell code starts at
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/ell/ell.git/tree/ell/cipher.c#n271
> 
> The tests didn't get to the point where aead is used.

Yes ell needs to set MSG_MORE after sending the control message.
Any sendmsg(2) without a MSG_MORE will be interpreted as the end
of a request.

I'll work around this in the kernel though for the case where there
is no actual data, with a WARN_ON_ONCE.

Thanks,
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