Return-path: Received: from diserzione.investici.org ([82.221.99.153]:51119 "EHLO diserzione.investici.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755720Ab3FEPLw (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:11:52 -0400 From: Antonio Quartulli To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Antonio Quartulli Subject: [PATCHv4 4/4] nl80211: allow sending CMD_FRAME without specifying any frequency Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:09:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1370444989-2095-4-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> (sfid-20130605_171156_346187_50752627) In-Reply-To: <1370444989-2095-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> References: <1370444989-2095-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Antonio Quartulli Users may want to send a frame on the current channel without specifying it. This is particularly useful for the correct implementation of the IBSS/RSN support in wpa_supplicant which requires to receive and send AUTH frames. Make mgmt_tx pass a NULL channel to the driver if none has been specified by the user. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli --- v3: - moved from 1/4 to 4/4 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 88e820b..06af395 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -7139,6 +7139,9 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) return -EOPNOTSUPP; switch (wdev->iftype) { + case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE: + if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ]) + return -EINVAL; case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION: case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT: @@ -7146,7 +7149,6 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN: case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT: case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO: - case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE: break; default: return -EOPNOTSUPP; @@ -7174,9 +7176,15 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) no_cck = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]); - err = nl80211_parse_chandef(rdev, info, &chandef); - if (err) - return err; + /* get the channel if any has been specified, otherwise pass NULL to + * the driver. The latter will use the current one + */ + chandef.chan = NULL; + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ]) { + err = nl80211_parse_chandef(rdev, info, &chandef); + if (err) + return err; + } if (!dont_wait_for_ack) { msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); -- 1.8.1.5