Re: [PATCH 0/7] nl80211: rx path for control port frames (enabled only for wpa_supplicant)
Markus Theil <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.hostap |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 1/23/20 9:42 AM, Markus Theil wrote: > On 1/13/20 3:58 PM, Markus Theil wrote: >> This patch series adds rx control port support over nl80211. Control >> port >> over nl80211 delivers all EAPOL and PREAUTH frames to userspace. This >> conflicts >> with the current hostapd handling of pre-auth frames. Therefore, this >> feature >> gets disabled for hostapd. Furthermore a pending kernel patch is >> necessary to >> forward pre-auth frames from userspace (otherwise handled by Linux >> bridge code). >> >> The corresponding Linux patches for pre-auth support for hostapd are: >> - nl80211: add src and dst mac attributes >> - nl80211: use src and dst addr attribute for control port tx/rx > These patches are now squashed into one patch and are still pending, > but they are not needed > for the current patch series to work, as hostapd support for rx over > control port is still disabled > in this patch series. >> Furthermore another kernel patch is needed, in order to avoid a >> deadlock: >> - cfg80211: fix deadlocks in autodisconnect work > > Please note, that the patch above is now included in the relevant > stable and lts kernels 4.9.98 and 5.4.14 as well as 5.5-rc7. > Therefore, no deadlock should happen when running a recent kernel and > the hwsim tests. The deadlock happened in the > ap_bss_add_reuse_existing test. > * not 4.9.98 but 4.19.98 >> This patch enables wpa_supplicant to use control port rx over nl80211 >> for both >> EAPOL and PREAUTH frames. wpa_supplicant connects noticeably faster >> in my tests >> with this patch series applied. >> >> Markus Theil (7): >> nl80211: rename nl_connect to nl_connect_and_ctrl >> nl80211: tie connect_or_ctrl handle to bss init/destroy >> nl80211: add method for sending messages with connection owner >> attributes set >> nl80211: add helper method for control port usage >> nl80211: use and/or set socker owner where necessary >> nl80211: disable control port for AP mode >> nl80211: correctly handle deauth from scan with ctrl port rx >> >> src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- >> src/drivers/driver_nl80211.h | 3 +- >> src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c | 2 +- >> 3 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) >> > > _______________________________________________ > Hostap mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap