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authorAviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@intel.com>2016-07-05 15:23:08 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-07-06 14:46:04 +0200
commitc6e6a0c8be575c830a97b1942dabeab70f423fe0 (patch)
tree01f16a0a2cadbb579fcf48392cb1b4940db6f661 /net/wireless/nl80211.c
parentmac80211: agg-rx: refuse ADDBA Request with timeout update (diff)
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nl80211: Add API to support VHT MU-MIMO air sniffer
add API to support VHT MU-MIMO air sniffer. in MU-MIMO there are parallel frames on the air while the HW has only one RX. add the capability to sniff one of the MU-MIMO parallel frames by giving the sniffer additional information so it'll know which of the parallel frames it shall follow. Add attribute - NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA - for getting a MU-MIMO groupID in order to monitor packets from that group using VHT MU-MIMO. And add attribute -NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_ADDR - for passing MAC address to monitor mode. that option will be used by VHT MU-MIMO air sniffer to follow a station according to it's MAC address using VHT MU-MIMO. Signed-off-by: Aviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c36
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 244d552d5647..447026f8cc76 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -405,6 +405,10 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
[NL80211_ATTR_PBSS] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
[NL80211_ATTR_BSS_SELECT] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
[NL80211_ATTR_STA_SUPPORT_P2P_PS] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA] = {
+ .len = VHT_MUMIMO_GROUPS_DATA_LEN
+ },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR] = { .len = ETH_ALEN },
};
/* policy for the key attributes */
@@ -2695,6 +2699,38 @@ static int nl80211_set_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
change = true;
}
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA]) {
+ const u8 *mumimo_groups;
+ u32 cap_flag = NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MU_MIMO_AIR_SNIFFER;
+
+ if (!wiphy_ext_feature_isset(&rdev->wiphy, cap_flag))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+ mumimo_groups =
+ nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA]);
+
+ /* bits 0 and 63 are reserved and must be zero */
+ if ((mumimo_groups[0] & BIT(7)) ||
+ (mumimo_groups[VHT_MUMIMO_GROUPS_DATA_LEN - 1] & BIT(0)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ memcpy(params.vht_mumimo_groups, mumimo_groups,
+ VHT_MUMIMO_GROUPS_DATA_LEN);
+ change = true;
+ }
+
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR]) {
+ u32 cap_flag = NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MU_MIMO_AIR_SNIFFER;
+
+ if (!wiphy_ext_feature_isset(&rdev->wiphy, cap_flag))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+ nla_memcpy(params.macaddr,
+ info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR],
+ ETH_ALEN);
+ change = true;
+ }
+
if (flags && (*flags & MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE) &&
!(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;