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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2024-03-14 11:09:51 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2024-03-25 15:23:06 +0100
commitbe23b2d7c3b7c8bf57b1cf0bf890bd65df9d0186 (patch)
tree8095ee3f62d70aa739ba3ac9df0c0a0aeafde500
parent774f8841f55d7ac4044c79812691649da203584a (diff)
downloadlinux-be23b2d7c3b7c8bf57b1cf0bf890bd65df9d0186.tar.gz
wifi: cfg80211: add a flag to disable wireless extensions
Wireless extensions are already disabled if MLO is enabled, given that we cannot support MLO there with all the hard- coded assumptions about BSSID etc. However, the WiFi7 ecosystem is still stabilizing, and some devices may need MLO disabled while that happens. In that case, we might end up with a device that supports wext (but not MLO) in one kernel, and then breaks wext in the future (by enabling MLO), which is not desirable. Add a flag to let such drivers/devices disable wext even if MLO isn't yet enabled. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://msgid.link/20240314110951.b50f1dc4ec21.I656ddd8178eedb49dc5c6c0e70f8ce5807afb54f@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--include/net/cfg80211.h2
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-core.c7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 2e2be4fd2bb65..1e09329acc426 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -4991,6 +4991,7 @@ struct cfg80211_ops {
* set this flag to update channels on beacon hints.
* @WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_NSTR_NONPRIMARY: support connection to non-primary link
* of an NSTR mobile AP MLD.
+ * @WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT: disable wireless extensions for this device
*/
enum wiphy_flags {
WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_EXT_KEK_KCK = BIT(0),
@@ -5002,6 +5003,7 @@ enum wiphy_flags {
WIPHY_FLAG_4ADDR_STATION = BIT(6),
WIPHY_FLAG_CONTROL_PORT_PROTOCOL = BIT(7),
WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN = BIT(8),
+ WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT = BIT(9),
WIPHY_FLAG_MESH_AUTH = BIT(10),
WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_EXT_KCK_32 = BIT(11),
WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_NSTR_NONPRIMARY = BIT(12),
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index a161c64d1765e..838ad6541a17d 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
* Authors : Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - <jt@hpl.hp.com>
* Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Jean Tourrilhes, All Rights Reserved.
* Copyright 2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
+ * Copyright (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
*
* (As all part of the Linux kernel, this file is GPL)
*/
@@ -662,7 +663,8 @@ struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev)
dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext &&
dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats) {
wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext();
- if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO)
+ if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & (WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO |
+ WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT))
return NULL;
return dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats(dev);
}
@@ -704,7 +706,8 @@ static iw_handler get_handler(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int cmd)
#ifdef CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
if (dev->ieee80211_ptr && dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy) {
wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext();
- if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO)
+ if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & (WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO |
+ WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT))
return NULL;
handlers = dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext;
}