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| author | Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> | 2018-07-03 15:05:48 -0500 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2018-07-06 14:34:42 +0200 |
| commit | a948f713842ad5c23f125efc61dee6951893219c (patch) | |
| tree | e00954fd546b1415958c866e374861a0bfd90496 /include/net | |
| parent | 19103a4bfb42f320395daa5616ece3e89e759d63 (diff) | |
nl80211/mac80211: allow non-linear skb in rx_control_port
The current implementation of cfg80211_rx_control_port assumed that the
caller could provide a contiguous region of memory for the control port
frame to be sent up to userspace. Unfortunately, many drivers produce
non-linear skbs, especially for data frames. This resulted in userspace
getting notified of control port frames with correct metadata (from
address, port, etc) yet garbage / nonsense contents, resulting in bad
handshakes, disconnections, etc.
mac80211 linearizes skbs containing management frames. But it didn't
seem worthwhile to do this for control port frames. Thus the signature
of cfg80211_rx_control_port was changed to take the skb directly.
nl80211 then takes care of obtaining control port frame data directly
from the (linear | non-linear) skb.
The caller is still responsible for freeing the skb,
cfg80211_rx_control_port does not take ownership of it.
Fixes: 6a671a50f819 ("nl80211: Add CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME API")
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
[fix some kernel-doc formatting, add fixes tag]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 5fbfe61f41c6..1beb3ead0385 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -5835,10 +5835,11 @@ void cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(struct wireless_dev *wdev, u64 cookie, /** * cfg80211_rx_control_port - notification about a received control port frame * @dev: The device the frame matched to - * @buf: control port frame - * @len: length of the frame data - * @addr: The peer from which the frame was received - * @proto: frame protocol, typically PAE or Pre-authentication + * @skb: The skbuf with the control port frame. It is assumed that the skbuf + * is 802.3 formatted (with 802.3 header). The skb can be non-linear. + * This function does not take ownership of the skb, so the caller is + * responsible for any cleanup. The caller must also ensure that + * skb->protocol is set appropriately. * @unencrypted: Whether the frame was received unencrypted * * This function is used to inform userspace about a received control port @@ -5851,8 +5852,7 @@ void cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(struct wireless_dev *wdev, u64 cookie, * Return: %true if the frame was passed to userspace */ bool cfg80211_rx_control_port(struct net_device *dev, - const u8 *buf, size_t len, - const u8 *addr, u16 proto, bool unencrypted); + struct sk_buff *skb, bool unencrypted); /** * cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify - connection quality monitoring rssi event |