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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-06-16 00:05:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-07-12 12:10:40 +0200 |
| commit | 1c90f9d404a45a1677c1e5791f5a2a8aaee0370a (patch) | |
| tree | 4c1be9274172bc75c9a097ad7432aada73475570 /net/wireless | |
| parent | cfg80211: use wireless_dev for interface management (diff) | |
| download | linux-1c90f9d404a45a1677c1e5791f5a2a8aaee0370a.tar.xz linux-1c90f9d404a45a1677c1e5791f5a2a8aaee0370a.zip | |
nl80211: send interface after creation
After a new virtual interface is created, reply
to userspace with a message detailing it so it
knows the new wdev identifier.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 789d0c7b287e..6a9a1d7f51d1 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -1972,6 +1972,7 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = info->user_ptr[0]; struct vif_params params; struct wireless_dev *wdev; + struct sk_buff *msg; int err; enum nl80211_iftype type = NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED; u32 flags; @@ -1998,14 +1999,20 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) return err; } + msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!msg) + return -ENOMEM; + err = parse_monitor_flags(type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ? info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] : NULL, &flags); wdev = rdev->ops->add_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME]), type, err ? NULL : &flags, ¶ms); - if (IS_ERR(wdev)) + if (IS_ERR(wdev)) { + nlmsg_free(msg); return PTR_ERR(wdev); + } if (type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT && info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MESH_ID]) { @@ -2019,7 +2026,13 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) wdev_unlock(wdev); } - return 0; + if (nl80211_send_iface(msg, info->snd_pid, info->snd_seq, 0, + rdev, wdev) < 0) { + nlmsg_free(msg); + return -ENOBUFS; + } + + return genlmsg_reply(msg, info); } static int nl80211_del_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) |