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-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h7
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c16
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 259c9c77fdc1..6b76e3b0c18e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
* @NL80211_CMD_GET_SCAN: get scan results
* @NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN: trigger a new scan with the given parameters
* %NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE is used to decide whether to send the
- * probe requests at CCK rate or not. %NL80211_ATTR_MAC can be used to
+ * probe requests at CCK rate or not. %NL80211_ATTR_BSSID can be used to
* specify a BSSID to scan for; if not included, the wildcard BSSID will
* be used.
* @NL80211_CMD_NEW_SCAN_RESULTS: scan notification (as a reply to
@@ -1977,6 +1977,9 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* @NL80211_ATTR_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST_ENABLED: Indicates whether or not multicast
* packets should be send out as unicast to all stations (flag attribute).
*
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_BSSID: The BSSID of the AP. Note that %NL80211_ATTR_MAC is also
+ * used in various commands/events for specifying the BSSID.
+ *
* @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
* @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
@@ -2381,6 +2384,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST_ENABLED,
+ NL80211_ATTR_BSSID,
+
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 765bd41b1623..3df85a751a85 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
.len = FILS_MAX_KEK_LEN },
[NL80211_ATTR_FILS_NONCES] = { .len = 2 * FILS_NONCE_LEN },
[NL80211_ATTR_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST_ENABLED] = { .type = NLA_FLAG, },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_BSSID] = { .len = ETH_ALEN },
};
/* policy for the key attributes */
@@ -6703,7 +6704,20 @@ static int nl80211_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
request->no_cck =
nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]);
- if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC])
+ /* Initial implementation used NL80211_ATTR_MAC to set the specific
+ * BSSID to scan for. This was problematic because that same attribute
+ * was already used for another purpose (local random MAC address). The
+ * NL80211_ATTR_BSSID attribute was added to fix this. For backwards
+ * compatibility with older userspace components, also use the
+ * NL80211_ATTR_MAC value here if it can be determined to be used for
+ * the specific BSSID use case instead of the random MAC address
+ * (NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS is used to enable random MAC address use).
+ */
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_BSSID])
+ memcpy(request->bssid,
+ nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_BSSID]), ETH_ALEN);
+ else if (!(request->flags & NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR) &&
+ info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC])
memcpy(request->bssid, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC]),
ETH_ALEN);
else