[PATCH] mac80211: improved 802.11g CTS protection

Currently, CTS protection is partially implemented twice:
 1. via prism2 ioctls, only used by hostapd
 2. via STA beacon parsing, recorded in sta.use_protection but never used
    (other than printed in debugfs)

Protection control should be implemented on a per-subif basis. For example,
a single physical device may be running a soft AP on one channel, and a STA
on another. The AP interface should use protection based on what hostapd told
it, and the STA interface should use protection based on beacon parsing.
These should operate independantly: one subif using protection should not
influence the other.

To implement this, I moved the use_protection flag into ieee80211_sub_if_data
and removed the device-global cts_protect_erp_frames flag.

I also made the PRISM2_PARAM_CTS_PROTECT_ERP_FRAMES write operation only
available for AP interfaces, to avoid any possibility of the user messing with
the behaviour of a STA.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
index 9e39646..a3e01d7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static ssize_t ieee80211_if_fmt_flags(
 			 sdata->u.sta.authenticated ? "AUTH\n" : "",
 			 sdata->u.sta.associated ? "ASSOC\n" : "",
 			 sdata->u.sta.probereq_poll ? "PROBEREQ POLL\n" : "",
-			 sdata->u.sta.use_protection ? "CTS prot\n" : "");
+			 sdata->use_protection ? "CTS prot\n" : "");
 }
 __IEEE80211_IF_FILE(flags);