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authorJouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>2016-05-31 00:16:50 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-05-31 16:22:15 +0300
commitbf1ecd210541ef5f3a110e88e8ca5d33b4aa5c23 (patch)
treeebbfa932f41701f525ff541555c5414c541e9e18 /net/wireless/nl80211.h
parent0bb7ed426373cebf406ff3ae7b6d2344f2f4364c (diff)
downloadlinux-bf1ecd210541ef5f3a110e88e8ca5d33b4aa5c23.tar.xz
cfg80211: Allow cfg80211_connect_result() errors to be distinguished
Previously, the status parameter to cfg80211_connect_result() was documented as using WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE (1) when the real status code for the failure is not known. This value can be used by an AP (and often is) and as such, user space cannot distinguish between explicitly rejected authentication/association and not being able to even try to associate or not receiving a response from the AP. Add a new inline function, cfg80211_connect_timeout(), to be used when the driver knows that the connection attempt failed due to a reason where connection could not be attempt or no response was received from the AP. The internal functions now allow a negative status value (-1) to be used as an indication of this special case. This results in the NL80211_ATTR_TIMED_OUT to be added to the NL80211_CMD_CONNECT event to allow user space to determine this case was hit. For backwards compatibility, NL80211_STATUS_CODE with the value WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE is still indicated in the event in such a case. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> [johannes: fix cfg80211_connect_bss() prototype to use int for status, add cfg80211_connect_timeout() to docbook, fix docbook] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.h')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.h b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
index 84d4edf1d545..a63f402b10b7 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.h
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ void nl80211_send_connect_result(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
struct net_device *netdev, const u8 *bssid,
const u8 *req_ie, size_t req_ie_len,
const u8 *resp_ie, size_t resp_ie_len,
- u16 status, gfp_t gfp);
+ int status, gfp_t gfp);
void nl80211_send_roamed(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
struct net_device *netdev, const u8 *bssid,
const u8 *req_ie, size_t req_ie_len,