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authorJouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>2010-04-04 09:37:19 +0300
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-04-07 14:37:56 -0400
commitd5cdfacb35ed886271d1ccfffbded98d3447da17 (patch)
tree8233a713949c4c8da8c98e75868efc74d5613c3d /include/linux/nl80211.h
parent7590a550b88b8c3cb025f0a8ed58e279ad62e4c1 (diff)
cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc
cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements, user space applications may need to clear authentication or association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other deauth/disassoc operations being completed. Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/nl80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/nl80211.h8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index daf6a3432b9..2ea3edeee7a 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -703,6 +703,12 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* @NL80211_ATTR_CQM: connection quality monitor configuration in a
* nested attribute with %NL80211_ATTR_CQM_* sub-attributes.
*
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_STATE_CHANGE: Flag attribute to indicate that a command
+ * is requesting a local authentication/association state change without
+ * invoking actual management frame exchange. This can be used with
+ * NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE, NL80211_CMD_DEAUTHENTICATE,
+ * NL80211_CMD_DISASSOCIATE.
+ *
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
* @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
*/
@@ -856,6 +862,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_CQM,
+ NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_STATE_CHANGE,
+
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,