This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: nl80211: expose can-monitor channel property
to the 6.10-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-nl80211-expose-can-monitor-channel-property.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8a56d50cdfed19c3cd24e5d6b078ec90408fec0b
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 23 12:09:42 2024 +0200
wifi: nl80211: expose can-monitor channel property
[ Upstream commit f3269b7912f75b6e34926334377ede45656a8950 ]
It may be possible to monitor on disabled channels per the
can-monitor flag, but evidently I forgot to expose that out
to userspace. Fix that.
Fixes: a110a3b79177 ("wifi: cfg80211: optionally support monitor on disabled channels")
Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240523120945.9a2c19a51e53.I50fa1b1a18b70f63a5095131ac23dc2e71f3d426@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 72c7bf5585816..0fd075238fc74 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1208,6 +1208,9 @@ static int nl80211_msg_put_channel(struct sk_buff *msg, struct wiphy *wiphy,
if ((chan->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_6GHZ_AFC_CLIENT) &&
nla_put_flag(msg, NL80211_FREQUENCY_ATTR_NO_6GHZ_AFC_CLIENT))
goto nla_put_failure;
+ if ((chan->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_CAN_MONITOR) &&
+ nla_put_flag(msg, NL80211_FREQUENCY_ATTR_CAN_MONITOR))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
}
if (nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_FREQUENCY_ATTR_MAX_TX_POWER,
