linux/net/wireless
Jouni Malinen d5cdfacb35 cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc
cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association
commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements,
user space applications may need to clear authentication or
association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with
deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication
or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to
allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other
deauth/disassoc operations being completed.

Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in
the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange
in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an
authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without
sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication
command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to
indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This
enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
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.gitignore wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database 2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00
chan.c cfg80211: add remain-on-channel command 2009-12-28 16:55:02 -05:00
core.c nl80211: add power save commands 2010-02-19 15:52:40 -05:00
core.h cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc 2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
db.txt wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database 2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00
debugfs.c cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursive 2009-10-30 16:49:18 -04:00
debugfs.h cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursive 2009-10-30 16:49:18 -04:00
ethtool.c cfg80211: add firmware and hardware version to wiphy 2009-10-07 16:39:46 -04:00
ethtool.h net/wireless/ethtool.h: drop unnecessary include of linux/ethtool.h 2009-10-07 16:39:49 -04:00
genregdb.awk wireless: fix comments in genregdb.awk 2009-12-25 16:35:43 -08:00
ibss.c wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211. 2009-11-28 15:05:00 -05:00
Kconfig wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY 2009-12-28 16:31:37 -05:00
lib80211_crypt_ccmp.c lib80211: Cosmetics - make room for MIC/CRC near the actual calculation 2010-02-02 16:03:38 -05:00
lib80211_crypt_tkip.c lib80211: Introduce TKIP_HDR_LEN define for code clarity 2010-02-02 16:03:38 -05:00
lib80211_crypt_wep.c lib80211: absorb crypto bits from net/ieee80211 2008-11-21 11:08:17 -05:00
lib80211.c lib80211: consolidate crypt init routines 2008-11-21 11:08:17 -05:00
Makefile wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database 2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00
mlme.c cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc 2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
nl80211.c cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc 2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
nl80211.h cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211 2010-03-24 16:02:37 -04:00
radiotap.c wireless: update radiotap parser 2010-02-08 16:50:53 -05:00
reg.c wireless: remove trailing space in messages 2010-03-31 14:38:51 -04:00
reg.h cfg80211: add regulatory hint disconnect support 2010-02-01 15:40:06 -05:00
regdb.h wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database 2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00
scan.c cfg80211: export cfg80211_find_ie 2010-01-26 11:53:20 -05:00
sme.c cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc 2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
sysfs.c cfg80211: export multiple MAC addresses in sysfs 2010-01-22 16:11:16 -05:00
sysfs.h
util.c mac80211: support paged rx SKBs 2010-03-31 14:39:34 -04:00
wext-compat.c nl80211: add power save commands 2010-02-19 15:52:40 -05:00
wext-compat.h cfg80211: validate channel settings across interfaces 2009-08-14 09:13:42 -04:00
wext-core.c net/wireless/wext-core.c: Use IW_EVENT_IDX macro 2010-03-23 16:50:27 -04:00
wext-priv.c wext: refactor 2009-10-07 16:39:43 -04:00
wext-proc.c net: spread __net_init, __net_exit 2010-01-17 19:16:02 -08:00
wext-sme.c cfg80211: don't set privacy w/o key 2009-09-28 16:55:04 -04:00
wext-spy.c wext: refactor 2009-10-07 16:39:43 -04:00