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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>2013-05-28 13:01:52 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-05-29 09:11:44 +0200
commite057d3c31bdf87616b415c4b2cbf7310f54b9219 (patch)
treeae87f09df131d03baf389b3179083a06bac039fe /net/wireless
parent6abb9cb99f33b20c2f32f18a3ae9cc7543e46edb (diff)
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cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag
An active monitor interface is one that is used for communication (via injection). It is expected to ACK incoming unicast packets. This is useful for running various 802.11 testing utilities that associate to an AP via injection and manage the state in user space. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index fb6abcb..31d265f 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -2227,6 +2227,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy mntr_flags_policy[NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_MAX + 1] = {
[NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_CONTROL] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
[NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
[NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
+ [NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
};
static int parse_monitor_flags(struct nlattr *nla, u32 *mntrflags)
@@ -2338,6 +2339,10 @@ static int nl80211_set_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
change = true;
}
+ if (flags && (*flags & NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE) &&
+ !(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
if (change)
err = cfg80211_change_iface(rdev, dev, ntype, flags, &params);
else
@@ -2395,6 +2400,11 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
err = parse_monitor_flags(type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ?
info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] : NULL,
&flags);
+
+ if (!err && (flags & NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE) &&
+ !(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
wdev = rdev_add_virtual_intf(rdev,
nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME]),
type, err ? NULL : &flags, &params);
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