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| author | Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> | 2018-03-26 12:52:41 -0500 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2018-03-29 13:44:04 +0200 |
| commit | 6a671a50f8199b3e1fe49fa8afff0fc8335da79c (patch) | |
| tree | 2c363b4dadd770bd6cac7d6e37a0ec4d688c873f /include/net | |
| parent | 4d191c75365a0067a9d5b8c8746b1bd9310c5a70 (diff) | |
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/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 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 |