From: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sometimes, userspace is able to detect that a peer silently lost its
state (like, if the peer reboots). wpa_supplicant does this for IBSS-RSN
by registering for auth/deauth frames, but when it detects this, it is
only able to remove the encryption keys of the peer and close its port.
However, the kernel also hold other state about the station, such as BA
sessions, probe response parameters and the like. They also need to be
resetted correctly.
This patch adds the NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DEL_IBSS_STA feature flag
indicating the driver accepts deleting stations in IBSS mode, which
should send a deauth and reset the state of the station, just like in
mesh point mode.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: rebased on wireless-testing and reworded commit
v2: Use a nl80211 feature flag instead of patching every driver.
---
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 4 ++++
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index b002ef2060fa..872db33034a3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -5642,6 +5642,9 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
* @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_BEACON_PROTECTION: The driver supports Beacon protection
* and can receive key configuration for BIGTK using key indexes 6 and 7.
*
+ * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DEL_IBSS_STA: The driver supports removing stations
+ * in IBSS mode, essentially by dropping their state.
+ *
* @NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: number of extended features.
* @MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: highest extended feature index.
*/
@@ -5690,6 +5693,7 @@ enum nl80211_ext_feature_index {
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_VLAN_OFFLOAD,
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AQL,
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_BEACON_PROTECTION,
+ NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DEL_IBSS_STA,
/* add new features before the definition below */
NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES,
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 15000275b32d..35c57bcff871 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -6269,8 +6269,13 @@ static int nl80211_del_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP &&
dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN &&
dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT &&
- dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO)
+ dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO &&
+ dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC &&
+ !wiphy_ext_feature_isset(&rdev->wiphy,
+ NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DEL_IBSS_STA))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (!rdev->ops->del_station)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
--
2.25.1
