Commit 896ff063 authored by Denis Kenzior's avatar Denis Kenzior Committed by Johannes Berg
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cfg80211: always notify userspace of new wireless netdevs 



This change alters the semantics of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE events
by always sending this event whenever a new net_device object
associated with a wdev is registered.  Prior to this change, this event
was only sent as a result of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE command sent
from userspace.  This allows userspace to reliably detect new wireless
interfaces (e.g. due to hardware hot-plug events, etc).

For wdevs created without an associated net_device object (e.g.
NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE), the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE event is
still generated inside the relevant nl80211 command handler.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDenis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent eae4430e

net/wireless/core.c

+2 −0
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@@ -1079,6 +1079,8 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, 
		     wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT ||

		     wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) && !wdev->use_4addr)

			dev->priv_flags |= IFF_DONT_BRIDGE;



		nl80211_notify_iface(rdev, wdev, NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE);

		break;

	case NETDEV_GOING_DOWN:

		cfg80211_leave(rdev, wdev);

net/wireless/nl80211.c

+32 −14
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@@ -2751,7 +2751,7 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) 
	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = info->user_ptr[0];

	struct vif_params params;

	struct wireless_dev *wdev;

	struct sk_buff *msg, *event;

	struct sk_buff *msg;

	int err;

	enum nl80211_iftype type = NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED;

	u32 flags;
@@ -2855,20 +2855,15 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) 
		return -ENOBUFS;

	}



	event = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

	if (event) {

		if (nl80211_send_iface(event, 0, 0, 0,

				       rdev, wdev, false) < 0) {

			nlmsg_free(event);

			goto out;

		}



		genlmsg_multicast_netns(&nl80211_fam, wiphy_net(&rdev->wiphy),

					event, 0, NL80211_MCGRP_CONFIG,

					GFP_KERNEL);

	}

	/*

	 * For wdevs which have no associated netdev object (e.g. of type

	 * NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE), emit the NEW_INTERFACE event here.

	 * For all other types, the event will be generated from the

	 * netdev notifier

	 */

	if (!wdev->netdev)

		nl80211_notify_iface(rdev, wdev, NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE);



out:

	return genlmsg_reply(msg, info);

}
@@ -11847,6 +11842,29 @@ void nl80211_notify_wiphy(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, 
				NL80211_MCGRP_CONFIG, GFP_KERNEL);

}



void nl80211_notify_iface(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,

				struct wireless_dev *wdev,

				enum nl80211_commands cmd)

{

	struct sk_buff *msg;



	WARN_ON(cmd != NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE &&

		cmd != NL80211_CMD_DEL_INTERFACE);



	msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

	if (!msg)

		return;



	if (nl80211_send_iface(msg, 0, 0, 0, rdev, wdev,

			       cmd == NL80211_CMD_DEL_INTERFACE) < 0) {

		nlmsg_free(msg);

		return;

	}



	genlmsg_multicast_netns(&nl80211_fam, wiphy_net(&rdev->wiphy), msg, 0,

				NL80211_MCGRP_CONFIG, GFP_KERNEL);

}



static int nl80211_add_scan_req(struct sk_buff *msg,

				struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev)

{

net/wireless/nl80211.h

+3 −0
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@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ int nl80211_init(void); 
void nl80211_exit(void);

void nl80211_notify_wiphy(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,

			  enum nl80211_commands cmd);

void nl80211_notify_iface(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,

			  struct wireless_dev *wdev,

			  enum nl80211_commands cmd);

void nl80211_send_scan_start(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,

			     struct wireless_dev *wdev);

struct sk_buff *nl80211_build_scan_msg(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,

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