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nl80211: New notification to discover mesh peer candidates.

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Notify userspace when a beacon/presp is received from a suitable mesh
peer candidate for whom no sta information exists.  Userspace can then
decide to create a sta info for the candidate.  If userspace is not
ready to authenticate the peer right away, it can create the sta info
with the authenticated flag unset and set it later.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Javier Cardona
2011-04-07 15:08:34 -07:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 96b78dff03
commit c93b5e717e
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@@ -5818,6 +5818,44 @@ void nl80211_send_ibss_bssid(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
nlmsg_free(msg);
}
void nl80211_send_new_peer_candidate(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
struct net_device *netdev,
const u8 *macaddr, const u8* ie, u8 ie_len,
gfp_t gfp)
{
struct sk_buff *msg;
void *hdr;
msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, gfp);
if (!msg)
return;
hdr = nl80211hdr_put(msg, 0, 0, 0, NL80211_CMD_NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE);
if (!hdr) {
nlmsg_free(msg);
return;
}
NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY, rdev->wiphy_idx);
NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX, netdev->ifindex);
NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_ATTR_MAC, ETH_ALEN, macaddr);
if (ie_len && ie)
NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IE, ie_len , ie);
if (genlmsg_end(msg, hdr) < 0) {
nlmsg_free(msg);
return;
}
genlmsg_multicast_netns(wiphy_net(&rdev->wiphy), msg, 0,
nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, gfp);
return;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
nlmsg_free(msg);
}
void nl80211_michael_mic_failure(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
struct net_device *netdev, const u8 *addr,
enum nl80211_key_type key_type, int key_id,