linux/net/mac80211
Denis Kenzior a948f71384 nl80211/mac80211: allow non-linear skb in rx_control_port
The current implementation of cfg80211_rx_control_port assumed that the
caller could provide a contiguous region of memory for the control port
frame to be sent up to userspace.  Unfortunately, many drivers produce
non-linear skbs, especially for data frames.  This resulted in userspace
getting notified of control port frames with correct metadata (from
address, port, etc) yet garbage / nonsense contents, resulting in bad
handshakes, disconnections, etc.

mac80211 linearizes skbs containing management frames.  But it didn't
seem worthwhile to do this for control port frames.  Thus the signature
of cfg80211_rx_control_port was changed to take the skb directly.
nl80211 then takes care of obtaining control port frame data directly
from the (linear | non-linear) skb.

The caller is still responsible for freeing the skb,
cfg80211_rx_control_port does not take ownership of it.

Fixes: 6a671a50f8 ("nl80211: Add CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME API")
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
[fix some kernel-doc formatting, add fixes tag]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2018-07-06 14:34:42 +02:00
..
aead_api.c
aead_api.h
aes_ccm.h
aes_cmac.c
aes_cmac.h
aes_gcm.h
aes_gmac.c
aes_gmac.h
agg-rx.c
agg-tx.c mac80211: use timeout from the AddBA response instead of the request 2018-05-07 20:35:15 +02:00
cfg.c mac80211: allocate and fill tidstats only when needed 2018-05-18 11:40:44 +02:00
chan.c treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
debug.h
debugfs.c
debugfs.h
debugfs_key.c
debugfs_key.h
debugfs_netdev.c
debugfs_netdev.h
debugfs_sta.c
debugfs_sta.h
driver-ops.c
driver-ops.h mac80211: Support adding duration for prepare_tx() callback 2018-05-23 11:06:10 +02:00
ethtool.c mac80211: allocate and fill tidstats only when needed 2018-05-18 11:40:44 +02:00
fils_aead.c
fils_aead.h
ht.c mac80211: fix TX aggregation stop race 2018-05-18 11:14:36 +02:00
ibss.c
ieee80211_i.h mac80211: Support the new cfg80211 TXQ stats API 2018-05-08 13:25:22 +02:00
iface.c
Kconfig
key.c
key.h
led.c
led.h
main.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-06-16 07:39:34 +09:00
Makefile
mesh.c
mesh.h
mesh_hwmp.c
mesh_pathtbl.c
mesh_plink.c mac80211: mesh: fix premature update of rc stats 2018-05-18 10:02:28 +02:00
mesh_ps.c
mesh_sync.c
michael.c
michael.h
mlme.c mac80211: Support adding duration for prepare_tx() callback 2018-05-23 11:06:10 +02:00
ocb.c
offchannel.c
pm.c
rate.c
rate.h
rc80211_minstrel.c treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
rc80211_minstrel.h
rc80211_minstrel_debugfs.c
rc80211_minstrel_ht.c treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
rc80211_minstrel_ht.h
rc80211_minstrel_ht_debugfs.c
rx.c nl80211/mac80211: allow non-linear skb in rx_control_port 2018-07-06 14:34:42 +02:00
scan.c treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
spectmgmt.c
sta_info.c mac80211: allocate and fill tidstats only when needed 2018-05-18 11:40:44 +02:00
sta_info.h mac80211: allocate and fill tidstats only when needed 2018-05-18 11:40:44 +02:00
status.c mac80211: average ack rssi support for data frames 2018-05-07 21:41:16 +02:00
tdls.c
tkip.c
tkip.h
trace.c
trace.h mac80211: Support adding duration for prepare_tx() callback 2018-05-23 11:06:10 +02:00
trace_msg.h
tx.c mac80211: disable BHs/preemption in ieee80211_tx_control_port() 2018-06-29 09:39:08 +02:00
util.c mac80211: add stations tied to AP_VLANs during hw reconfig 2018-07-03 11:41:56 +02:00
vht.c
wep.c
wep.h
wme.c
wme.h
wpa.c
wpa.h