commit e057d3c31bdf87616b415c4b2cbf7310f54b9219
author Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Tue May 28 13:01:52 2013 +0200
committer Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Wed May 29 09:11:44 2013 +0200
tree ae87f09df131d03baf389b3179083a06bac039fe
parent 6abb9cb99f33b20c2f32f18a3ae9cc7543e46edb

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>

include/net/cfg80211.h

diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index b3b076a..13b247d 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -961,6 +961,7 @@
  * @MONITOR_FLAG_CONTROL: pass control frames
  * @MONITOR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS: disable BSSID filtering
  * @MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES: report frames after processing
+ * @MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE: active monitor, ACKs frames on its MAC address
  */
 enum monitor_flags {
 	MONITOR_FLAG_FCSFAIL		= 1<<NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_FCSFAIL,
@@ -968,6 +969,7 @@
 	MONITOR_FLAG_CONTROL		= 1<<NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_CONTROL,
 	MONITOR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS		= 1<<NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS,
 	MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES	= 1<<NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES,
+	MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE		= 1<<NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE,
 };
 
 /**

include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 32b060e..5920715 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -2428,6 +2428,8 @@
  * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS: disable BSSID filtering
  * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES: report frames after processing.
  *	overrides all other flags.
+ * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE: use the configured MAC address
+ *	and ACK incoming unicast packets.
  *
  * @__NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_AFTER_LAST: internal use
  * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_MAX: highest possible monitor flag
@@ -2439,6 +2441,7 @@
 	NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_CONTROL,
 	NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS,
 	NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES,
+	NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE,
 
 	/* keep last */
 	__NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -3595,6 +3598,7 @@
 	NL80211_FEATURE_ADVERTISE_CHAN_LIMITS		= 1 << 14,
 	NL80211_FEATURE_FULL_AP_CLIENT_STATE		= 1 << 15,
 	NL80211_FEATURE_USERSPACE_MPM			= 1 << 16,
+	NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR			= 1 << 17,
 };
 
 /**

net/wireless/nl80211.c

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index fb6abcb..31d265f 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -2227,6 +2227,7 @@
 	[NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_CONTROL] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
 	[NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
 	[NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
+	[NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
 };
 
 static int parse_monitor_flags(struct nlattr *nla, u32 *mntrflags)
@@ -2338,6 +2339,10 @@
 		change = true;
 	}
 
+	if (flags && (*flags & NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE) &&
+	    !(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR))
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	if (change)
 		err = cfg80211_change_iface(rdev, dev, ntype, flags, &params);
 	else
@@ -2395,6 +2400,11 @@
 	err = parse_monitor_flags(type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ?
 				  info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] : NULL,
 				  &flags);
+
+	if (!err && (flags & NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE) &&
+	    !(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR))
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	wdev = rdev_add_virtual_intf(rdev,
 				nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME]),
 				type, err ? NULL : &flags, &params);