Host drivers may offload authentication to the user space
through the commit ("cfg80211: Authentication offload to
user space in AP mode").
This interface can be used to implement SAE by having the
userspace do authentication/PMKID key derivation and driver
handle the association.
A step ahead, this interface can get further optimized if the
PMKID is passed to the host driver and also have it respond to
the association request by the STA on a valid PMKID.
This commit enables the userspace to pass the PMKID to the host
drivers through the set/del pmksa operations in AP mode.
Set/Del pmksa is now restricted to STA/P2P client mode only and
thus the drivers might not expect them in any other(AP) mode.
This commit also introduces a feature flag
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AP_PMKSA_CACHING (johannes: renamed) to
maintain the backward compatibility of such an expectation by
the host drivers. These operations are allowed in AP mode only
when the drivers advertize the capability through this flag.
Signed-off-by: Liangwei Dong <liangwei@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@codeaurora.org>
[rename flag to NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AP_PMKSA_CACHING]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
commit 40cbfa90218b ("cfg80211/nl80211: Optional authentication
offload to userspace")' introduced authentication offload to user
space by the host drivers in station mode. This commit extends
the same for the AP mode too.
Extend NL80211_ATTR_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPPORT to also claim the
support of external authentication from the user space in AP mode.
A new flag parameter is introduced in cfg80211_ap_settings to
intend the same while "start ap".
Host driver to use NL80211_CMD_FRAME interface to transmit and
receive the authentication frames to / from the user space.
Host driver to indicate the flag NL80211_RXMGMT_FLAG_EXTERNAL_AUTH
while sending the authentication frame to the user space. This
intends to the user space that the driver wishes it to process
the authentication frame for certain protocols, though it had
initially advertised the support for SME functionality.
User space shall accordingly do the authentication and indicate
its final status through the command NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH.
Allow the command even if userspace doesn't include the attribute
NL80211_ATTR_SSID for AP interface.
Host driver shall continue with the association sequence and
indicate the STA connection status through cfg80211_new_sta.
To facilitate the host drivers in AP mode for matching the pmkid
by the stations during the association, NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH
is also enhanced to include the pmkid to drivers after
the authentication.
This pmkid can also be used in the STA mode to include in the
association request.
Also modify nl80211_external_auth to not mandate SSID in AP mode.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@codeaurora.org>
[remove useless nla_get_flag() usage]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
There was no such capability advertisement from the driver and thus the current user space has to assume the driver to support all the AKMs. While that may be the case with some drivers (e.g., mac80211-based ones), there are cfg80211-based drivers that implement SME and have constraints on which AKMs can be supported (e.g., such drivers may need an update to support SAE AKM using NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH). Allow such drivers to advertise the exact set of supported AKMs so that user space tools can determine what network profile options should be allowed to be configured. Signed-off-by: Veerendranath Jakkam <vjakkam@codeaurora.org> [pmsr data might be big, start a new netlink message section] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Expose path change count to destination in mpath info Signed-off-by: Julan Hsu <julanhsu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Expose hop count to destination information in mpath info Signed-off-by: Julan Hsu <julanhsu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This adds TX airtime statistics to the cfg80211 station dump (to go along with the RX info already present), and adds a new parameter to set the airtime weight of each station. The latter allows userspace to implement policies for different stations by varying their weights. Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> [rmanohar@codeaurora.org: fixed checkpatch warnings] Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org> [move airtime weight != 0 check into policy] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Currently radar detection and corresponding channel switch is handled at the AP device. STA ignores these detected radar events since the radar signal can be seen mostly by the AP as well. But in scenarios where a radar signal is seen only at STA, notifying this event to the AP which can trigger a channel switch can be useful. Stations can report such radar events autonomously through Spectrum management (Measurement Report) action frame to its AP. The userspace on processing the report can notify the kernel with the use of the added NL80211_CMD_NOTIFY_RADAR to indicate the detected event and inturn adding the reported channel to NOL. Signed-off-by: Sriram R <srirrama@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The older code and current userspace assumed that this data is the content of the Measurement Report element, starting with the Measurement Token. Clarify this in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Spelling errors found by codespell Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When userspace is controlling mesh routing, it may have better knowledge about whether a mesh STA is connected to a mesh gate than the kernel mpath table. Add dot11MeshConnectedToMeshGate to the mesh config so that such applications can explicitly signal that a mesh STA is connected to a gate, which will then be advertised in the beacon. Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <bobcopeland@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>