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authorDenis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>2018-03-26 20:52:41 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2018-03-29 14:44:04 +0300
commit6a671a50f8199b3e1fe49fa8afff0fc8335da79c (patch)
tree2c363b4dadd770bd6cac7d6e37a0ec4d688c873f /include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
parent4d191c75365a0067a9d5b8c8746b1bd9310c5a70 (diff)
downloadlinux-6a671a50f8199b3e1fe49fa8afff0fc8335da79c.tar.xz
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/uapi/linux/nl80211.h')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
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 */