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mac80211: Don't encrypt beacons

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mac80211 should set the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT flag in tx_control
structure to inform drivers not to encrypt the beacon. Drivers that only check
for that flag before accessing the hw_key field, will otherwise cause a NULL
pointer dereference since that field is not configured for beacons.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Ivo van Doorn 2008-05-05 20:40:35 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
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@ -1898,6 +1898,7 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_beacon_get(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_SHORT_PREAMBLE;
control->antenna_sel_tx = local->hw.conf.antenna_sel_tx;
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_NO_ACK;
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT;
control->retry_limit = 1;
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
}