cfg80211: NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER support for CMD_CONNECT

Disconnect or deauthenticate when the owning socket is closed if this
flag is supplied to CMD_CONNECT or CMD_ASSOCIATE.  This may be used
to ensure userspace daemon doesn't leave an unmanaged connection behind.

In some situations it would be possible to account for that, to some
degree, in the deamon restart code or in the up/down scripts without
the use of this attribute.  But there will be systems where the daemon
can go away for varying periods without a warning due to local resource
management.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index d74e10b..174f4b3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1820,6 +1820,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  *	and remove functions. NAN notifications will be sent in unicast to that
  *	socket. Without this attribute, any socket can add functions and the
  *	notifications will be sent to the %NL80211_MCGRP_NAN multicast group.
+ *	If set during %NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE or %NL80211_CMD_CONNECT the
+ *	station will deauthenticate when the socket is closed.
  *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_TDLS_INITIATOR: flag attribute indicating the current end is
  *	the TDLS link initiator.