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>
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 7183410..398ce2c 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -7147,6 +7147,9 @@
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
switch (wdev->iftype) {
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE:
+ if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ])
+ return -EINVAL;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT:
@@ -7154,7 +7157,6 @@
case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO:
- case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE:
break;
default:
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -7182,9 +7184,18 @@
no_cck = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]);
- err = nl80211_parse_chandef(rdev, info, &chandef);
- if (err)
- return err;
+ /* get the channel if any has been specified, otherwise pass NULL to
+ * the driver. The latter will use the current one
+ */
+ chandef.chan = NULL;
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ]) {
+ err = nl80211_parse_chandef(rdev, info, &chandef);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ if (!chandef.chan && offchan)
+ return -EINVAL;
if (!dont_wait_for_ack) {
msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);