On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 20:55 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> * @mac: MAC address of the station to remove or NULL to remove all stations
> + * @subtype: Management frame subtype to use for indicating removal
> + * (0 = no guidance on whether to indicate the removal to the station is
> + * provided, 10 = Disassociation, 12 = Deauthentication)
> + * @reason_code: Reason code for the Disassociation/Deauthentication frame
> */
> struct station_del_parameters {
> const u8 *mac;
> + u8 subtype;
> + u16 reason_code;
the reason_code could end up being zero right now, if userspace doesn't
specify the attribute.
> + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MGMT_SUBTYPE]) {
> + params.subtype =
> + nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MGMT_SUBTYPE]);
> + if (params.subtype != IEEE80211_STYPE_DISASSOC >> 4 &&
> + params.subtype != IEEE80211_STYPE_DEAUTH >> 4)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_REASON_CODE]) {
> + params.reason_code =
> + nla_get_u16(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_REASON_CODE]);
> + if (params.reason_code == 0)
> + return -EINVAL; /* 0 is reserved */
> + }
I think you should probably force a reason code to be given when
specifying the subtype. And I'm thinking that defaulting to deauth/3
would be better than leaving it up to the driver(s)?
johannes
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