On Sunday 10 September 2006 19:36, David Kimdon wrote:
> The ICV is transmitted on the network as a 4 byte little endian
> quantity.  WEP encryption needs to swap the bytes before transmission
> and decryption needs to swap bytes before ICV verification.

Holy shit, this fixes the bug I am hunting for hours at the moment!
I tested this patch and it works. Thanks very much, you saved me hours. ;)

John (Jiri), please apply this one.

Acked-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Index: wireless-dev/net/d80211/wep.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-dev.orig/net/d80211/wep.c        2006-09-10 14:50:52.073583400 
> +0000
> +++ wireless-dev/net/d80211/wep.c     2006-09-10 14:51:10.146835848 +0000
> @@ -121,9 +121,11 @@
>  {
>       struct scatterlist sg;
>       u32 *icv;
> +     u32 crc;
>  
>       icv = (u32 *)(data + data_len);
> -     *icv = ~crc32_le(~0, data, data_len);
> +     crc = ~crc32_le(~0, data, data_len);
> +     *icv = cpu_to_le32(crc);
>  
>       crypto_cipher_setkey(tfm, rc4key, klen);
>       sg.page = virt_to_page(data);
> @@ -196,6 +198,7 @@
>       crypto_cipher_decrypt(tfm, &sg, &sg, sg.length);
>  
>       crc = ~crc32_le(~0, data, data_len);
> +     crc = cpu_to_le32(crc);
>       if (memcmp(&crc, data + data_len, WEP_ICV_LEN) != 0)
>               /* ICV mismatch */
>               return -1;
> 
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Greetings Michael.
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