netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND wpan 00/15] net: ieee802154: forbid sec params for monitors

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Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2021 22:29:37 +0200
From:   Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
To:     Alexander Aring <aahringo@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND wpan 00/15] net: ieee802154: forbid sec params for
 monitors

Hello.

On 05.04.21 02:30, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patch series contains fixes to forbid various security parameters
> settings for monitor types. Monitor types doesn't use the llsec security
> currently and we don't support it. With this patch series the user will
> be notified with a EOPNOTSUPP error that for monitor interfaces security
> is not supported yet. However there might be a possibility in future
> that the kernel will decrypt frames with llsec information for sniffing
> frames and deliver plaintext to userspace, but this isn't supported yet.
> 
> - Alex
> 
> Alexander Aring (15):
>    net: ieee802154: nl-mac: fix check on panid
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for set llsec params
>    net: ieee802154: stop dump llsec keys for monitors
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for add llsec key
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for del llsec key
>    net: ieee802154: stop dump llsec devs for monitors
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for add llsec dev
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for del llsec dev
>    net: ieee802154: stop dump llsec devkeys for monitors
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for add llsec devkey
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for del llsec devkey
>    net: ieee802154: stop dump llsec seclevels for monitors
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for add llsec seclevel
>    net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for del llsec seclevel
>    net: ieee802154: stop dump llsec params for monitors
> 
>   net/ieee802154/nl-mac.c   |  7 +++---
>   net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

This series has been applied to the wpan tree and will be
part of the next pull request to net. Thanks!

regards
Stefan Schmidt