Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] mac80211: Switch to new AEAD interface

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:42:41 +0200

On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 15:21 +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:

> Just a short question on ieee80211_aes_ccm_encrypt, ieee80211_aes_ccm_decrypt, 
> ieee80211_aes_gcm_encrypt, ieee80211_aes_gcm_decrypt, ieee80211_aes_gmac: can 
> the aad parameter of these functions be zero?

What do you mean by "zero"? The pointer itself can clearly never be
NULL.

The contents, now, that's a more interesting question. I believe it can
never be all zeroes, since association request frames are not
encrypted/protected and thus at least one byte in here must be non-zero.
The MAC addresses are also very likely non-zero, but technically
00:00:00:00:00:00 is a valid MAC address I believe.

johannes