linux/include
Srinivas Dasari 40cbfa9021 cfg80211/nl80211: Optional authentication offload to userspace
This interface allows the host driver to offload the authentication to
user space. This is exclusively defined for host drivers that do not
define separate commands for authentication and association, but rely on
userspace SME (e.g., in wpa_supplicant for the ~WPA_DRIVER_FLAGS_SME
case) for the authentication to happen. This can be used to implement
SAE without full implementation in the kernel/firmware while still being
able to use NL80211_CMD_CONNECT with driver-based BSS selection.

Host driver sends NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH event to start/abort
authentication to the port on which connect is triggered and status
of authentication is further indicated by user space to host
driver through the same command response interface.

User space entities advertise this capability through the
NL80211_ATTR_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPP flag in the NL80211_CMD_CONNECT request.
Host drivers shall look at this capability to offload the authentication.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
[add socket connection ownership check]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2018-01-31 12:56:52 +01:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpi-ec' into acpi 2017-11-30 13:37:29 +01:00
asm-generic error-injection: Add injectable error types 2018-01-12 17:33:38 -08:00
clocksource arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-01-05 12:10:06 -08:00
drm drm: rework delayed connector cleanup in connector_iter 2017-12-13 22:59:00 +01:00
dt-bindings fixes/cleanups for rc1, non-desktop flags for VR 2017-11-23 21:04:56 -10:00
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linux net: introduce helper dev_change_tx_queue_len() 2018-01-29 12:42:15 -05:00
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media media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
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net cfg80211/nl80211: Optional authentication offload to userspace 2018-01-31 12:56:52 +01:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Updates for 4.15 kernel merge window 2017-11-15 14:54:53 -08:00
scsi scsi: libsas: align sata_device's rps_resp on a cacheline 2017-11-21 23:06:32 -05:00
soc We have two changes to the core framework this time around. The first being a 2017-11-17 20:04:24 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix yet remaining issue with vmaster 0dB initialization 2017-11-22 12:34:56 +01:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2017-11-24 19:19:20 -10:00
trace net: tracepoint: exposing sk_faimily in tracepoint inet_sock_set_state 2018-01-08 14:32:45 -05:00
uapi cfg80211/nl80211: Optional authentication offload to userspace 2018-01-31 12:56:52 +01:00
video fbdev changes for v4.15: 2017-11-20 21:50:24 -10:00
xen xen: fixes for 4.15-rc5 2017-12-22 12:30:10 -08:00