linux/net
Jouni Malinen d5cdfacb35 cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc
cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association
commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements,
user space applications may need to clear authentication or
association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with
deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication
or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to
allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other
deauth/disassoc operations being completed.

Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in
the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange
in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an
authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without
sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication
command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to
indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This
enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
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9p 9p: fix p9_client_destroy unconditional calling v9fs_put_trans 2010-02-08 18:18:34 -06:00
802 sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code 2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00
8021q percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net 2010-02-16 23:05:38 -08:00
appletalk net: appletalk: use seq_hlist_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 11:12:09 -08:00
atm net: atm: use seq_list_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 12:31:10 -08:00
ax25 net: ax25: use seq_hlist_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 11:12:09 -08:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
bridge bridge: Fix build error when IGMP_SNOOPING is not enabled 2010-03-02 03:05:04 -08:00
can can: deny filterlist access on non-CAN interfaces 2010-02-02 07:21:34 -08:00
core Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
dcb const: struct nla_policy 2010-02-18 14:30:18 -08:00
dccp percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net 2010-02-16 23:05:38 -08:00
decnet net: Add checking to rcu_dereference() primitives 2010-02-25 09:41:03 +01:00
dsa netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_t 2009-09-01 01:13:07 -07:00
econet net: use net_eq to compare nets 2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
ethernet llc: use dev_hard_header 2009-12-26 20:38:23 -08:00
ieee802154 net: use net_eq to compare nets 2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
ipv4 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
ipv6 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2010-02-26 09:31:09 -08:00
ipx net: ipx: use seq_list_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 12:31:10 -08:00
irda const: struct nla_policy 2010-02-18 14:30:18 -08:00
iucv const: constify remaining dev_pm_ops 2009-12-15 08:53:25 -08:00
key xfrm: SP lookups signature with mark 2010-02-22 16:21:12 -08:00
lapb net: remove NET_RX_BAD and NET_RX_CN* defines 2009-07-05 19:15:35 -07:00
llc llc: fix SAP reference counting w.r.t. socket handling 2009-12-26 20:47:23 -08:00
mac80211 cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc 2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
netfilter Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2010-02-26 09:31:09 -08:00
netlabel net: remove INIT_RCU_HEAD() usage 2010-02-17 00:03:27 -08:00
netlink netlink: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink 2010-02-28 01:29:49 -08:00
netrom net: netrom: use seq_hlist_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 11:12:08 -08:00
packet Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
phonet net: spread __net_init, __net_exit 2010-01-17 19:16:02 -08:00
rds net/rds: remove uses of NIPQUAD, use %pI4 2010-02-03 20:16:48 -08:00
rfkill rename new rfkill sysfs knobs 2010-03-19 15:48:25 -04:00
rose net: rose: use seq_hlist_foo() helpers 2010-02-10 11:12:08 -08:00
rxrpc net: use net_eq to compare nets 2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
sched Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-09 11:44:44 -08:00
sctp net: remove INIT_RCU_HEAD() usage 2010-02-17 00:03:27 -08:00
sunrpc net: Fix first line of kernel-doc for a few functions 2010-02-14 22:35:47 -08:00
tipc tipc: Clean up configuration file 2010-01-19 14:23:57 -08:00
unix AF_UNIX: update locking comment 2010-02-18 14:12:06 -08:00
wanrouter headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
wimax const: struct nla_policy 2010-02-18 14:30:18 -08:00
wireless cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc 2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
x25 X25: Dont let x25_bind use addresses containing characters 2010-02-15 21:49:52 -08:00
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
compat.c net: use compat helper functions in compat_sys_recvmmsg 2009-12-11 15:07:57 -08:00
Kconfig net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks 2009-07-15 08:53:39 -07:00
Makefile net: remove redundant sched/ in net/Makefile 2009-07-12 20:11:14 -07:00
nonet.c
socket.c fs: no games with DCACHE_UNHASHED 2009-12-17 10:51:40 -05:00
sysctl_net.c net: spread __net_init, __net_exit 2010-01-17 19:16:02 -08:00
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