Commit 42925040 authored Apr 18, 2015 by Chun-Yeow Yeoh Committed by Johannes Berg Apr 24, 2015

cfg80211: allow the plink state blocking for user managed mesh



wpa_supplicant or authsae handles the mesh peering in user
space, but the plink state is still managed in kernel space.
Currently, there is no implementation by wpa_supplicant or
authsae to block the plink state after it is set to ESTAB.

By applying this patch, we can use the "iw mesh0 station set
<MAC address> plink_action block" to block the peer mesh STA.
This is useful for experimenting purposes.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent 5a490510

net/wireless/nl80211.c

+2 −1

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		@@ -4061,7 +4061,8 @@ int cfg80211_check_station_change(struct wiphy *wiphy,
		return -EINVAL;
		break;
		case CFG80211_STA_MESH_PEER_USER:
		if (params->plink_action != NL80211_PLINK_ACTION_NO_ACTION)
		if (params->plink_action != NL80211_PLINK_ACTION_NO_ACTION &&
		params->plink_action != NL80211_PLINK_ACTION_BLOCK)
		return -EINVAL;
		break;
		}