commit 9aed3cc124343d92be6697e9af3928bdfe8eb03e
author Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Tue Jan 13 16:03:29 2009 +0200
committer John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Thu Jan 29 16:00:35 2009 -0500
tree 6a49a68422656790f944f37e3f34379b753d1dab
parent 0c1aa495961f03c964b3287cf5800217cf6f2cee

nl80211: New command for adding extra IE(s) into management frames

A new nl80211 command, NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE, can be used to
add arbitrary IE data into the end of management frames. The interface
allows extra IEs to be configured for each management frame subtype, but
only some of them (ProbeReq, ProbeResp, Auth, (Re)AssocReq, Deauth,
Disassoc) are currently accepted in mac80211 implementation.

This makes it easier to implement IEEE 802.11 extensions like WPS and
FT that add IE(s) into some management frames. In addition, this can
be useful for testing and experimentation purposes.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

net/wireless/nl80211.c

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 123d3b1..09a5d0f 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@
 
 	[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
 					 .len = NL80211_HT_CAPABILITY_LEN },
+
+	[NL80211_ATTR_MGMT_SUBTYPE] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+	[NL80211_ATTR_IE] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
+			      .len = IEEE80211_MAX_DATA_LEN },
 };
 
 /* message building helper */
@@ -2149,6 +2153,43 @@
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
+static int nl80211_set_mgmt_extra_ie(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				     struct genl_info *info)
+{
+	struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv;
+	int err;
+	struct net_device *dev;
+	struct mgmt_extra_ie_params params;
+
+	memset(&params, 0, sizeof(params));
+
+	if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MGMT_SUBTYPE])
+		return -EINVAL;
+	params.subtype = nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MGMT_SUBTYPE]);
+	if (params.subtype > 15)
+		return -EINVAL; /* FC Subtype field is 4 bits (0..15) */
+
+	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IE]) {
+		params.ies = nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IE]);
+		params.ies_len = nla_len(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IE]);
+	}
+
+	err = get_drv_dev_by_info_ifindex(info->attrs, &drv, &dev);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	if (drv->ops->set_mgmt_extra_ie) {
+		rtnl_lock();
+		err = drv->ops->set_mgmt_extra_ie(&drv->wiphy, dev, &params);
+		rtnl_unlock();
+	} else
+		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+	cfg80211_put_dev(drv);
+	dev_put(dev);
+	return err;
+}
+
 static struct genl_ops nl80211_ops[] = {
 	{
 		.cmd = NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY,
@@ -2310,6 +2351,12 @@
 		.policy = nl80211_policy,
 		.flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
 	},
+	{
+		.cmd = NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE,
+		.doit = nl80211_set_mgmt_extra_ie,
+		.policy = nl80211_policy,
+		.flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
+	},
 };
 
 /* multicast groups */