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Simon Wunderlich
16ef1fe272 nl80211/cfg80211: add channel switch command
To allow channel switch announcements within beacons, add
the channel switch command to nl80211/cfg80211. This is
implementation is intended for AP and (later) IBSS mode.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-01 18:30:28 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
bf37264572 nl80211: allow 5 and 10 MHz channels for IBSS
Whether the wiphy supports it or not is already checked, so what is left
is to enable these channel types.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:11 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich
74608aca4d cfg80211/mac80211: get mandatory rates based on scan width
Mandatory rates for 5 and 10 MHz are different from the rates used for
20 MHz in 2.4 GHz mode, as they use OFDM only.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:07 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich
dcd6eac1f3 nl80211: add scan width to bss and scan request structs
To allow scanning and working with 5 MHz and 10 MHz BSS, extend the
inform bss commands and add wrappers to take 5 and 10 MHz bss into
account.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:01 +03:00
Amitkumar Karwar
be29b99a9b cfg80211/nl80211: Add packet coalesce support
In most cases, host that receives IPv4 and IPv6 multicast/broadcast
packets does not do anything with these packets. Therefore the
reception of these unwanted packets causes unnecessary processing
and power consumption.

Packet coalesce feature helps to reduce number of received
interrupts to host by buffering these packets in firmware/hardware
for some predefined time. Received interrupt will be generated when
one of the following events occur.
a) Expiration of hardware timer whose expiration time is set to
maximum coalescing delay of matching coalesce rule.
b) Coalescing buffer in hardware reaches it's limit.
c) Packet doesn't match any of the configured coalesce rules.

This patch adds set/get configuration support for packet coalesce.
User needs to configure following parameters for creating a coalesce
rule.
a) Maximum coalescing delay
b) List of packet patterns which needs to be matched
c) Condition for coalescence. pattern 'match' or 'no match'
Multiple such rules can be created.

This feature needs to be advertised during driver initialization.
Drivers are supposed to do required firmware/hardware settings based
on user configuration.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
[fix kernel-doc, change free function, fix copy/paste error]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:00 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich
803768f54e nl80211: enable HT overrides for ibss
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:57:56 +03:00
Amitkumar Karwar
50ac660784 cfg80211/nl80211: rename packet pattern related structures and enums
Currently packet patterns and it's enum/structures are used only
for WoWLAN feature. As we intend to reuse them for new feature
packet coalesce, they are renamed in this patch.

Older names are kept for backward compatibility purpose.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:57:55 +03:00
John W. Linville
57ed5cd695 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Conflicts:
	net/wireless/nl80211.c
2013-06-28 13:18:21 -04:00
Arend van Spriel
a33d402610 cfg80211: fix compilation warning for cfg80211_leave_all()
The following compilation issue popped up moving from v3.10-rc1 to
v3.10-rc6 after merging wireless-testing.

net/wireless/sysfs.c:86:13: error: 'cfg80211_leave_all' defined
but not used [-Werror=unused-function]

The function is only called when CONFIG_PM is enabled. Moving the
function under CONFIG_PM as well.

Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-24 15:57:32 +02:00
Ben Greear
f9bef3df52 wireless: check for dangling wdev->current_bss pointer
If it *is* still set when the netdev is being deleted,
then we are about to leak a pointer.  Warn and clean up
in that case.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-24 15:55:36 +02:00
Ben Greear
0e3a39b562 wireless: add comments about bss refcounting
Should help the next person that tries to understand
the bss refcounting logic.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-24 15:54:45 +02:00
Ben Greear
6f390908e5 wireless: Make sure __cfg80211_connect_result always puts bss
Otherwise, we can leak a bss reference.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-24 15:51:22 +02:00
John W. Linville
7d2a47aab2 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Conflicts:
	net/wireless/nl80211.c
2013-06-21 15:42:30 -04:00
David S. Miller
d98cae64e4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
	drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
	net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
	net/wireless/nl80211.c

The ath9k Kconfig conflict was a change of a Kconfig option name right
next to the deletion of another option.

The xen-netback conflict was overlapping changes involving the
handling of the notify list in xen_netbk_rx_action().

Batman conflict resolution provided by Antonio Quartulli, basically
keep everything in both conflict hunks.

The nl80211 conflict is a little more involved.  In 'net' we added a
dynamic memory allocation to nl80211_dump_wiphy() to fix a race that
Linus reported.  Meanwhile in 'net-next' the handlers were converted
to use pre and post doit handlers which use a flag to determine
whether to hold the RTNL mutex around the operation.

However, the dump handlers to not use this logic.  Instead they have
to explicitly do the locking.  There were apparent bugs in the
conversion of nl80211_dump_wiphy() in that we were not dropping the
RTNL mutex in all the return paths, and it seems we very much should
be doing so.  So I fixed that whilst handling the overlapping changes.

To simplify the initial returns, I take the RTNL mutex after we try
to allocate 'tb'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-19 16:49:39 -07:00
Johannes Berg
f1940c5730 cfg80211: hold BSS over association process
This fixes the potential issue that the BSS struct that we use
and later assign to wdev->current_bss is removed from the scan
list while associating.

Also warn when we don't have a BSS struct in connect_result
unless it's from a driver that only has the connect() API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-19 18:55:39 +02:00
Johannes Berg
959867fa55 cfg80211: require passing BSS struct back to cfg80211_assoc_timeout
Doing so will allow us to hold the BSS (not just ref it) over the
association process, thus ensuring that it doesn't time out and
gets invisible to the user (e.g. in 'iw wlan0 link'.)

This also fixes a leak in mac80211 where it doesn't always release
the BSS struct properly in all cases where calling this function.
This leak was reported by Ben Greear.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-19 18:55:39 +02:00
Johannes Berg
86e8cf98de nl80211: use small state buffer for wiphy_dump
Avoid parsing the original dump message again and again by
allocating a small state struct that is used by the functions
involved in the dump, storing this struct in cb->args[0].
This reduces the memory allocation size as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-19 18:55:38 +02:00
Johannes Berg
f93beba705 Merge remote-tracking branch 'mac80211/master' into HEAD
Merge mac80211 to avoid conflicts with the nl80211 attrbuf
changes.

Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/iface.c
	net/wireless/nl80211.c

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-19 18:55:12 +02:00
Johannes Berg
3a5a423bb9 nl80211: fix attrbuf access race by allocating a separate one
Since my commit 3713b4e364 ("nl80211: allow splitting wiphy
information in dumps"), nl80211_dump_wiphy() uses the global
nl80211_fam.attrbuf for parsing the incoming data. This wouldn't
be a problem if it only did so on the first dump iteration which
is locked against other commands in generic netlink, but due to
space constraints in cb->args (the needed state doesn't fit) I
decided to always parse the original message. That's racy though
since nl80211_fam.attrbuf could be used by some other parsing in
generic netlink concurrently.

For now, fix this by allocating a separate parse buffer (it's a
bit too big for the stack, currently 1448 bytes on 64-bit). For
-next, I'll change the code to parse into the global buffer in
the first round only and then allocate a smaller buffer to keep
the data in cb->args.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-19 18:31:20 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
2f301ab29e nl80211/cfg80211: add 5 and 10 MHz defines and wiphy flag
Add defines for 5 and 10 MHz channel width and fix channel
handling functions accordingly.

Also check for and report the WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_5_10_MHZ
capability.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
[fix spelling in comment]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-18 16:06:50 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
a1193be83b nl80211: use attributes to parse beacons
only the attributes are required and not the whole netlink info, as the
function accesses the attributes only anyway. This makes it easier to
parse nested beacon IEs later.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-18 15:55:19 +02:00
John W. Linville
3899ba90a4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c
	net/mac80211/iface.c
2013-06-11 14:48:32 -04:00
Johannes Berg
940d0ac9db cfg80211: fix rtnl leak in wiphy dump error cases
In two wiphy dump error cases, most often when the dump allocation
must be increased, the RTNL is leaked. This quickly results in a
complete system lockup. Release the RTNL correctly.

Reported-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-11 16:52:39 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
ea141b75ae nl80211: allow sending CMD_FRAME without specifying any frequency
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 <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-11 15:01:36 +02:00
Jouni Malinen
3d124ea27a cfg80211: fix VHT TDLS peer AID verification
I (Johannes) accidentally applied the first version of the patch
("Allow TDLS peer AID to be configured for VHT"). Now apply just
the changes between v1 and v2 to get the AID verification and
prefer the new attribute over the old one.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-11 14:36:43 +02:00
Ashok Nagarajan
ffb3cf3000 {nl,mac,cfg}80211: Allow user to configure basic rates for mesh
Currently mesh uses mandatory rates as the default basic rates. Allow basic
rates to be configured during mesh join. Basic rates are applied only if
channel is also provided with mesh join command.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
[some whitespace fixes, refuse basic rates w/o channel]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-11 14:24:36 +02:00
Colleen Twitty
8e7c053853 {nl,cfg}80211: make peer link expiration time configurable
If a STA has a peer that it hasn't seen any tx activity
from for a certain length of time, the peer link is
expired. This means the inactive STA is removed from the
list of peers and that STA is not considered a peer again
unless it re-peers.  Previously, this inactivity time was
always 30 minutes.  Now, add it to the mesh configuration
and allow it to be configured.  Retain 30 minutes as a
default value.

Signed-off-by: Colleen Twitty <colleen@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-11 14:16:29 +02:00
David S. Miller
6bc19fb82d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Merge 'net' bug fixes into 'net-next' as we have patches
that will build on top of them.

This merge commit includes a change from Emil Goode
(emilgoode@gmail.com) that fixes a warning that would
have been introduced by this merge.  Specifically it
fixes the pingv6_ops method ipv6_chk_addr() to add a
"const" to the "struct net_device *dev" argument and
likewise update the dummy_ipv6_chk_addr() declaration.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-05 16:37:30 -07:00
Johannes Berg
9b881963c1 cfg80211: make wiphy index start at 0 again
The change to use atomic_inc_return() for assigning the wiphy
index made the first wiphy index 1 instead of 0. This is fine,
but we all habitually type "phy0" when we're testing, so make
it go back to 0 instead of 1 by subtracting 1 from the index.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-04 22:28:23 +02:00
Johannes Berg
256c90dedf cfg80211: fix potential deadlock regression
My big locking cleanups caused a problem by registering the
rfkill instance with the RTNL held, while the callback also
acquires the RTNL. This potentially causes a deadlock since
the two locks used (rfkill mutex and RTNL) can be acquired
in two different orders. Fix this by (un)registering rfkill
without holding the RTNL. This needs to be done after the
device struct is registered, but that can also be done w/o
holding the RTNL.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-04 22:22:41 +02:00
Johannes Berg
3430140ad9 regulatory: use proper enum return value
get_reg_request_treatment() returns 0 in one case but is
defined to return an enum, use the proper value REG_REQ_OK.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-04 14:35:07 +02:00
Johannes Berg
ceca7b7121 cfg80211: separate internal SME implementation
The current internal SME implementation in cfg80211 is
very mixed up with the MLME handling, which has been
causing issues for a long time. There are three things
that the implementation has to provide:
 * a basic SME implementation for nl80211's connect()
   call (for drivers implementing auth/assoc, which is
   really just mac80211) and wireless extensions
 * MLME events for the userspace SME
 * SME events (connected, disconnected etc.) for all
   different SME implementation possibilities (driver,
   cfg80211 and userspace)

To achieve these goals it isn't necessary to track the
software SME's connection status outside of it's state
(which is the part that caused many issues.) Instead,
track it only in the SME data (wdev->conn) and in the
general case only track whether the wdev is connected
or not (via wdev->current_bss.)

Also separate the internal implementation to not have
callbacks from the SME events, but rather call it from
the API functions that the driver (or rather mac80211)
calls. This separates the code better.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-04 13:03:11 +02:00
Johannes Berg
6ff57cf888 cfg80211/mac80211: clean up cfg80211 SME APIs
Do some cleanups in the cfg80211 SME APIs, which are
only used by mac80211.

Most of these functions get a frame passed, and there
isn't really any reason to export multiple functions
as cfg80211 can check the frame type instead, do that.

Additionally, the API functions have confusing names
like cfg80211_send_...() which was meant to indicate
that it sends an event to userspace, but gets a bit
confusing when there's both TX and RX and they're not
all clearly labeled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-04 13:03:10 +02:00
Johannes Berg
9c90a9f64c nl80211: remove bogus genlmsg_end() error checking
genlmsg_end() can't return an error since it returns the
skb length so remove checks treating the return value as
an error code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-04 12:47:08 +02:00
Johannes Berg
964dc9e2c3 cfg80211: take WoWLAN support information out of wiphy struct
There's no need to take up the space for devices that don't
support WoWLAN, and most drivers can even make the support
data static const (except where it's modified at runtime.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-03 18:43:34 +02:00
Felix Fietkau
e057d3c31b cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag
An active monitor interface is one that is used for communication (via
injection). It is expected to ACK incoming unicast packets. This is
useful for running various 802.11 testing utilities that associate to an
AP via injection and manage the state in user space.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-29 09:11:44 +02:00
Jiri Pirko
351638e7de net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier
So far, only net_device * could be passed along with netdevice notifier
event. This patch provides a possibility to pass custom structure
able to provide info that event listener needs to know.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>

v2->v3: fix typo on simeth
	shortened dev_getter
	shortened notifier_info struct name
v1->v2: fix notifier_call parameter in call_netdevice_notifier()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-28 13:11:01 -07:00
Johannes Berg
6abb9cb99f cfg80211: make WoWLAN configuration available to drivers
Make the current WoWLAN configuration available to drivers
at runtime. This isn't really useful for the normal WoWLAN
behaviour and accessing it can also be racy, but drivers
may use it for testing the WoWLAN device behaviour while
the host stays up & running to observe the device.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-27 15:10:58 +02:00
Johannes Berg
83739b03de cfg80211: remove some locked wrappers from sme API
By making all the API functions require wdev locking we
can clean up the API a bit, getting rid of the locking
version of each function. This also decreases the size
of cfg80211 by a small amount.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:22 +02:00
Johannes Berg
91bf9b26fc cfg80211: remove some locked wrappers from mlme API
By making all the API functions require wdev locking we
can clean up the API a bit, getting rid of the locking
version of each function. This also decreases the size
of cfg80211 by a small amount.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:20 +02:00
Johannes Berg
38fd2143fa regulatory: remove reg_mutex
The reg_mutex is similar to the ones I just removed in
cfg80211 but even less useful since it protects global
data, and we hold the RTNL in all places (except module
unload) already.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:19 +02:00
Johannes Berg
db2424c58e regulatory: use RCU in regulatory_hint_11d()
Since it just does a quick check of the last regulatory
request, the function doesn't have to hold the reg mutex
but can use RCU instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:18 +02:00
Johannes Berg
1cdd59ce8d cfg80211: simplify and correct P2P-Device scan check
If the driver for some reason successfully finishes
scanning while in p2p_stop_device(), cfg80211 will
still set it to aborted. Simplify this code using the
new 'notified' value and only mark it aborted in case
the driver didn't notify cfg80211 at all (in which
case we also leak the request to not crash, this is
a driver bug.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:17 +02:00
Johannes Berg
8d61ffa5e0 cfg80211/mac80211: use cfg80211 wdev mutex in mac80211
Using separate locks in cfg80211 and mac80211 has always
caused issues, for example having to unlock in places in
mac80211 to call cfg80211, which even needed a framework
to make cfg80211 calls after some functions returned etc.

Additionally, I suspect some issues people have reported
with the cfg80211 state getting confused could be due to
such issues, when cfg80211 is asking mac80211 to change
state but mac80211 is in the process of telling cfg80211
that the state changed (in another way.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:16 +02:00
Johannes Berg
5fe231e873 cfg80211: vastly simplify locking
Virtually all code paths in cfg80211 already (need to) hold
the RTNL. As such, there's little point in having another
four mutexes for various parts of the code, they just cause
lock ordering issues (and much of the time, the RTNL and a
few of the others need thus be held.)

Simplify all this by getting rid of the extra four mutexes
and just use the RTNL throughout. Only a few code changes
were needed to do this and we can get rid of a work struct
for bonus points.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:15 +02:00
Johannes Berg
73810b77de cfg80211: use atomic_t for wiphy counter
There's no need to lock, we can just use an atomic_t.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:13 +02:00
Johannes Berg
9f419f3851 cfg80211: move cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex under wext
The function is only used and needed by the wext code
for scanning, so move it there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:13 +02:00
Johannes Berg
dde7dc759b Merge remote-tracking branch 'mac80211/master' into mac80211-next 2013-05-25 00:01:30 +02:00
Ashok Nagarajan
b422c6cd7e {cfg,mac}80211: move mandatory rates calculation to cfg80211
Move mandatory rates calculation to cfg80211, shared with non mac80211 drivers.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
[extend documentation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-24 23:54:43 +02:00
Jouni Malinen
5e4b6f5698 cfg80211: Allow TDLS peer AID to be configured for VHT
VHT uses peer AID in the PARTIAL_AID field in TDLS frames. The current
design for TDLS is to first add a dummy STA entry before completing TDLS
Setup and then update information on this STA entry based on what was
received from the peer during the setup exchange.

In theory, this could use NL80211_ATTR_STA_AID to set the peer AID just
like this is used in AP mode to set the AID of an association station.
However, existing cfg80211 validation rules prevent this attribute from
being used with set_station operation. To avoid interoperability issues
between different kernel and user space version combinations, introduce
a new nl80211 attribute for the purpose of setting TDLS peer AID. This
attribute can be used in both the new_station and set_station
operations. It is not supposed to be allowed to change the AID value
during the lifetime of the STA entry, but that validation is left for
drivers to do in the change_station callback.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-24 22:36:28 +02:00