cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space

Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.

There can be only on critical protocol session started per
registered cfg80211 device.

The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
.crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
alter coexistence schemes.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/rdev-ops.h b/net/wireless/rdev-ops.h
index d77e1c1..9f15f0a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/rdev-ops.h
+++ b/net/wireless/rdev-ops.h
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ static inline void rdev_stop_p2p_device(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 	trace_rdev_stop_p2p_device(&rdev->wiphy, wdev);
 	rdev->ops->stop_p2p_device(&rdev->wiphy, wdev);
 	trace_rdev_return_void(&rdev->wiphy);
-}					
+}
 
 static inline int rdev_set_mac_acl(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 				   struct net_device *dev,
@@ -901,4 +901,26 @@ static inline int rdev_update_ft_ies(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static inline int rdev_crit_proto_start(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
+					struct wireless_dev *wdev,
+					enum nl80211_crit_proto_id protocol,
+					u16 duration)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	trace_rdev_crit_proto_start(&rdev->wiphy, wdev, protocol, duration);
+	ret = rdev->ops->crit_proto_start(&rdev->wiphy, wdev,
+					  protocol, duration);
+	trace_rdev_return_int(&rdev->wiphy, ret);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static inline void rdev_crit_proto_stop(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
+				       struct wireless_dev *wdev)
+{
+	trace_rdev_crit_proto_stop(&rdev->wiphy, wdev);
+	rdev->ops->crit_proto_stop(&rdev->wiphy, wdev);
+	trace_rdev_return_void(&rdev->wiphy);
+}
+
 #endif /* __CFG80211_RDEV_OPS */