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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2024-03-14 11:09:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-04-03 15:11:48 +0200 |
| commit | f1c91159c7e572f8a7ec275014fe0b471ac50d73 (patch) | |
| tree | 0296a98c95d7ccc32bf1cc8368c53d9279a3df2f | |
| parent | 2884a50f52313a7a911de3afcad065ddbb3d78fc (diff) | |
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wifi: cfg80211: add a flag to disable wireless extensions
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@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://msgid.link/20240314110951.b50f1dc4ec21.I656ddd8178eedb49dc5c6c0e70f8ce5807afb54f@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/wext-core.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 8f2c48761833..e90596e21cfc 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -4914,6 +4914,7 @@ struct cfg80211_ops { * NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER. * @WIPHY_FLAG_CHANNEL_CHANGE_ON_BEACON: reg_call_notifier() is called if driver * set this flag to update channels on beacon hints. + * @WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT: disable wireless extensions for this device */ enum wiphy_flags { WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_EXT_KEK_KCK = BIT(0), @@ -4925,6 +4926,7 @@ 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), /* use hole at 12 */ diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c index a161c64d1765..838ad6541a17 100644 --- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c +++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ * Authors : Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - <jt@hpl.hp.com> * Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Jean Tourrilhes, All Rights Reserved. * Copyright 2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> + * 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(struct net_device *dev) 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_device *dev, unsigned int cmd) #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; } |