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| author | Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> | 2018-03-26 19:52:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2018-03-29 13:44:04 +0200 |
| commit | 6a671a50f8199b3e1fe49fa8afff0fc8335da79c (patch) | |
| tree | 2c363b4dadd770bd6cac7d6e37a0ec4d688c873f /include | |
| parent | mac80211: remove shadowing duplicated variable (diff) | |
| download | linux-6a671a50f8199b3e1fe49fa8afff0fc8335da79c.tar.xz linux-6a671a50f8199b3e1fe49fa8afff0fc8335da79c.zip | |
nl80211: Add CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME API
This commit also adds cfg80211_rx_control_port function. This is used
to generate a CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME event out to userspace. The
conn_owner_nlportid is used as the unicast destination. This means that
userspace must specify NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER flag if control port
over nl80211 routing is requested in NL80211_CMD_CONNECT,
NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE, NL80211_CMD_START_AP or IBSS/mesh join.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
[johannes: fix return value of cfg80211_rx_control_port()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 13 |
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index bfe174896fcf..df145f76adad 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -5722,6 +5722,28 @@ void cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(struct wireless_dev *wdev, u64 cookie, /** + * cfg80211_rx_control_port - notification about a received control port frame + * @dev: The device the frame matched to + * @buf: control port frame + * @len: length of the frame data + * @addr: The peer from which the frame was received + * @proto: frame protocol, typically PAE or Pre-authentication + * @unencrypted: Whether the frame was received unencrypted + * + * This function is used to inform userspace about a received control port + * frame. It should only be used if userspace indicated it wants to receive + * control port frames over nl80211. + * + * The frame is the data portion of the 802.3 or 802.11 data frame with all + * network layer headers removed (e.g. the raw EAPoL frame). + * + * Return: %true if the frame was passed to userspace + */ +bool cfg80211_rx_control_port(struct net_device *dev, + const u8 *buf, size_t len, + const u8 *addr, u16 proto, bool unencrypted); + +/** * cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify - connection quality monitoring rssi event * @dev: network device * @rssi_event: the triggered RSSI event diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index 9ea3d6039eca..6a3cc7a635b5 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -990,6 +990,17 @@ * &NL80211_CMD_CONNECT or &NL80211_CMD_ROAM. If the 4 way handshake failed * &NL80211_CMD_DISCONNECT should be indicated instead. * + * @NL80211_CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME: Control Port (e.g. PAE) frame TX request + * and RX notification. This command is used both as a request to transmit + * a control port frame and as a notification that a control port frame + * has been received. %NL80211_ATTR_FRAME is used to specify the + * frame contents. The frame is the raw EAPoL data, without ethernet or + * 802.11 headers. + * When used as an event indication %NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE, + * %NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_NO_ENCRYPT and %NL80211_ATTR_MAC are added + * indicating the protocol type of the received frame; whether the frame + * was received unencrypted and the MAC address of the peer respectively. + * * @NL80211_CMD_RELOAD_REGDB: Request that the regdb firmware file is reloaded. * * @NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH: This interface is exclusively defined for host @@ -1228,6 +1239,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands { NL80211_CMD_STA_OPMODE_CHANGED, + NL80211_CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME, + /* add new commands above here */ /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */ |