This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: cfg80211: add a flag to disable wireless extensions
to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wifi-cfg80211-add-a-flag-to-disable-wireless-extensions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From be23b2d7c3b7c8bf57b1cf0bf890bd65df9d0186 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:09:51 +0100
Subject: wifi: cfg80211: add a flag to disable wireless extensions
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
commit be23b2d7c3b7c8bf57b1cf0bf890bd65df9d0186 upstream.
Wireless extensions are already disabled if MLO is enabled,
given that we cannot support MLO there with all the hard-
coded assumptions about BSSID etc.
However, the WiFi7 ecosystem is still stabilizing, and some
devices may need MLO disabled while that happens. In that
case, we might end up with a device that supports wext (but
not MLO) in one kernel, and then breaks wext in the future
(by enabling MLO), which is not desirable.
Add a flag to let such drivers/devices disable wext even if
MLO isn't yet enabled.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://msgid.link/20240314110951.b50f1dc4ec21.I656ddd8178eedb49dc5c6c0e70f8ce5807afb54f@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/cfg80211.h | 2 ++
net/wireless/wext-core.c | 7 +++++--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -4972,6 +4972,7 @@ struct cfg80211_ops {
* set this flag to update channels on beacon hints.
* @WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_NSTR_NONPRIMARY: support connection to non-primary link
* of an NSTR mobile AP MLD.
+ * @WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT: disable wireless extensions for this device
*/
enum wiphy_flags {
WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_EXT_KEK_KCK = BIT(0),
@@ -4983,6 +4984,7 @@ enum wiphy_flags {
WIPHY_FLAG_4ADDR_STATION = BIT(6),
WIPHY_FLAG_CONTROL_PORT_PROTOCOL = BIT(7),
WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN = BIT(8),
+ WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT = BIT(9),
WIPHY_FLAG_MESH_AUTH = BIT(10),
WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_EXT_KCK_32 = BIT(11),
WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_NSTR_NONPRIMARY = BIT(12),
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
* Authors : Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - <jt@xxxxxxxxxx>
* Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Jean Tourrilhes, All Rights Reserved.
* Copyright 2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+ * Copyright (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
*
* (As all part of the Linux kernel, this file is GPL)
*/
@@ -662,7 +663,8 @@ struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats
dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext &&
dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats) {
wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext();
- if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO)
+ if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & (WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO |
+ WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT))
return NULL;
return dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats(dev);
}
@@ -704,7 +706,8 @@ static iw_handler get_handler(struct net
#ifdef CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
if (dev->ieee80211_ptr && dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy) {
wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext();
- if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO)
+ if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & (WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO |
+ WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT))
return NULL;
handlers = dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.8/wifi-iwlwifi-mvm-handle-debugfs-names-more-carefully.patch
queue-6.8/wifi-cfg80211-add-a-flag-to-disable-wireless-extensions.patch
queue-6.8/wifi-mac80211-track-capability-opmode-nss-separately.patch
queue-6.8/wifi-iwlwifi-mvm-disable-mlo-for-the-time-being.patch
queue-6.8/debugfs-fix-wait-cancellation-handling-during-remove.patch
queue-6.8/wifi-mac80211-check-clear-fast-rx-for-non-4addr-sta-vlan-changes.patch
queue-6.8/wifi-iwlwifi-fw-don-t-always-use-fw-dump-trig.patch
