nl80211: allow sending CMD_FRAME without specifying any frequency

Users may want to send a frame on the current channel
without specifying it.

This is particularly useful for the correct implementation
of the IBSS/RSN support in wpa_supplicant which requires to
receive and send AUTH frames.

Make mgmt_tx pass a NULL channel to the driver if none has
been specified by the user.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 7183410..398ce2c 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -7147,6 +7147,9 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
        switch (wdev->iftype) {
+       case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE:
+               if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ])
+                       return -EINVAL;
        case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
        case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
        case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT:
@@ -7154,7 +7157,6 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
        case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN:
        case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT:
        case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO:
-       case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE:
                break;
        default:
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -7182,9 +7184,18 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
        no_cck = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]);
 
-       err = nl80211_parse_chandef(rdev, info, &chandef);
-       if (err)
-               return err;
+       /* get the channel if any has been specified, otherwise pass NULL to
+        * the driver. The latter will use the current one
+        */
+       chandef.chan = NULL;
+       if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ]) {
+               err = nl80211_parse_chandef(rdev, info, &chandef);
+               if (err)
+                       return err;
+       }
+
+       if (!chandef.chan && offchan)
+               return -EINVAL;
 
        if (!dont_wait_for_ack) {
                msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);