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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-08-12 20:34:30 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-08-26 11:16:01 +0200
commit0e227084aee36b3ba27b4fc9cd9e425be6ce2ab8 (patch)
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cfg80211: clarify BSS probe response vs. beacon data
There are a few possible cases of where BSS data came from: 1) only a beacon has been received 2) only a probe response has been received 3) the driver didn't report what it received (this happens when using cfg80211_inform_bss[_width]()) 4) both probe response and beacon data has been received Unfortunately, in the userspace API, a few things weren't there: a) there was no way to differentiate cases 1) and 4) above without comparing the data of the IEs b) the TSF was always from the last frame, instead of being exposed for beacon/probe response separately like IEs Fix this by i) exporting a new flag attribute that indicates whether or not probe response data has been received - this addresses (a) ii) exporting a BEACON_TSF attribute that holds the beacon's TSF if a beacon has been received iii) not exporting the beacon attributes in case (3) above as that would just lead userspace into thinking the data actually came from a beacon when that isn't clear To implement this, track inside the IEs struct whether or not it (definitely) came from a beacon. Reported-by: William Seto Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c16
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/scan.c6
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index df7b1332a1ec..3011401f52c0 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -6033,7 +6033,6 @@ static int nl80211_send_bss(struct sk_buff *msg, struct netlink_callback *cb,
const struct cfg80211_bss_ies *ies;
void *hdr;
struct nlattr *bss;
- bool tsf = false;
ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev);
@@ -6060,18 +6059,27 @@ static int nl80211_send_bss(struct sk_buff *msg, struct netlink_callback *cb,
goto nla_put_failure;
rcu_read_lock();
+ /* indicate whether we have probe response data or not */
+ if (rcu_access_pointer(res->proberesp_ies) &&
+ nla_put_flag(msg, NL80211_BSS_PRESP_DATA))
+ goto fail_unlock_rcu;
+
+ /* this pointer prefers to be pointed to probe response data
+ * but is always valid
+ */
ies = rcu_dereference(res->ies);
if (ies) {
if (nla_put_u64(msg, NL80211_BSS_TSF, ies->tsf))
goto fail_unlock_rcu;
- tsf = true;
if (ies->len && nla_put(msg, NL80211_BSS_INFORMATION_ELEMENTS,
ies->len, ies->data))
goto fail_unlock_rcu;
}
+
+ /* and this pointer is always (unless driver didn't know) beacon data */
ies = rcu_dereference(res->beacon_ies);
- if (ies) {
- if (!tsf && nla_put_u64(msg, NL80211_BSS_TSF, ies->tsf))
+ if (ies && ies->from_beacon) {
+ if (nla_put_u64(msg, NL80211_BSS_BEACON_TSF, ies->tsf))
goto fail_unlock_rcu;
if (ies->len && nla_put(msg, NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES,
ies->len, ies->data))
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index 0798c62e6085..ad1a1a2808d3 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -918,11 +918,12 @@ cfg80211_inform_bss_width(struct wiphy *wiphy,
* override the IEs pointer should we have received an earlier
* indication of Probe Response data.
*/
- ies = kmalloc(sizeof(*ies) + ielen, gfp);
+ ies = kzalloc(sizeof(*ies) + ielen, gfp);
if (!ies)
return NULL;
ies->len = ielen;
ies->tsf = tsf;
+ ies->from_beacon = false;
memcpy(ies->data, ie, ielen);
rcu_assign_pointer(tmp.pub.beacon_ies, ies);
@@ -982,11 +983,12 @@ cfg80211_inform_bss_width_frame(struct wiphy *wiphy,
if (!channel)
return NULL;
- ies = kmalloc(sizeof(*ies) + ielen, gfp);
+ ies = kzalloc(sizeof(*ies) + ielen, gfp);
if (!ies)
return NULL;
ies->len = ielen;
ies->tsf = le64_to_cpu(mgmt->u.probe_resp.timestamp);
+ ies->from_beacon = ieee80211_is_beacon(mgmt->frame_control);
memcpy(ies->data, mgmt->u.probe_resp.variable, ielen);
if (ieee80211_is_probe_resp(mgmt->frame_control))