Commit 98b62183 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville
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mac80211/cfg80211: add station events 



When, for instance, a new IBSS peer is found, userspace
wants to be notified. Add events for all new stations
that mac80211 learns about.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent e4da8c37

include/net/cfg80211.h

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@@ -2195,4 +2195,16 @@ void cfg80211_remain_on_channel_expired(struct net_device *dev, 
					enum nl80211_channel_type channel_type,

					gfp_t gfp);





/**

 * cfg80211_new_sta - notify userspace about station

 *

 * @dev: the netdev

 * @mac_addr: the station's address

 * @sinfo: the station information

 * @gfp: allocation flags

 */

void cfg80211_new_sta(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *mac_addr,

		      struct station_info *sinfo, gfp_t gfp);



#endif /* __NET_CFG80211_H */

net/mac80211/sta_info.c

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@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ int sta_info_insert(struct sta_info *sta) 
{

	struct ieee80211_local *local = sta->local;

	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = sta->sdata;

	struct station_info sinfo;

	unsigned long flags;

	int err = 0;
@@ -408,6 +409,10 @@ int sta_info_insert(struct sta_info *sta) 


	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->sta_lock, flags);



	sinfo.filled = 0;

	sinfo.generation = local->sta_generation;

	cfg80211_new_sta(sdata->dev, sta->sta.addr, &sinfo, GFP_ATOMIC);



#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS

	/*

	 * Debugfs entry adding might sleep, so schedule process

net/wireless/mlme.c

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@@ -707,3 +707,13 @@ void cfg80211_remain_on_channel_expired(struct net_device *dev, 
					      channel_type, gfp);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_remain_on_channel_expired);



void cfg80211_new_sta(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *mac_addr,

		      struct station_info *sinfo, gfp_t gfp)

{

	struct wiphy *wiphy = dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy;

	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy);



	nl80211_send_sta_event(rdev, dev, mac_addr, sinfo, gfp);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_new_sta);

net/wireless/nl80211.c

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@@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ static int parse_station_flags(struct genl_info *info, 


static int nl80211_send_station(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid, u32 seq,

				int flags, struct net_device *dev,

				u8 *mac_addr, struct station_info *sinfo)

				const u8 *mac_addr, struct station_info *sinfo)

{

	void *hdr;

	struct nlattr *sinfoattr, *txrate;
@@ -5350,6 +5350,25 @@ void nl80211_send_remain_on_channel_cancel( 
					  channel_type, 0, gfp);

}



void nl80211_send_sta_event(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,

			    struct net_device *dev, const u8 *mac_addr,

			    struct station_info *sinfo, gfp_t gfp)

{

	struct sk_buff *msg;



	msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, gfp);

	if (!msg)

		return;



	if (nl80211_send_station(msg, 0, 0, 0, dev, mac_addr, sinfo) < 0) {

		nlmsg_free(msg);

		return;

	}



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

				nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, gfp);

}



/* initialisation/exit functions */



int nl80211_init(void)

net/wireless/nl80211.h

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@@ -70,4 +70,8 @@ void nl80211_send_remain_on_channel_cancel( 
	u64 cookie, struct ieee80211_channel *chan,

	enum nl80211_channel_type channel_type, gfp_t gfp);



void nl80211_send_sta_event(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,

			    struct net_device *dev, const u8 *mac_addr,

			    struct station_info *sinfo, gfp_t gfp);



#endif /* __NET_WIRELESS_NL80211_H */

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