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mac80211: allow drivers to report (non-)monitor frames

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Some drivers offload some frames internally (e.g.
AddBa). Reporting such frames to mac80211 would
only confuse MLME. However it would be useful to
be able to pass such frames to monitor interfaces
for sniffing purposes, e.g. when running AP +
monitor.

To do that allow drivers to tell mac80211 whether
a given frame should be:
 - processed but not delivered to any monitor vif
 - not processed but delievered to monitor vifs
   only

Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Bajorski <grzegorz.bajorski@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Grzegorz Bajorski
2015-12-11 14:39:46 +01:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent 412a6d800c
commit 178830481e
2 changed files with 14 additions and 2 deletions
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net/mac80211/rx.c
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@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ static inline bool should_drop_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, int present_fcs_len,
hdr = (void *)(skb->data + rtap_vendor_space);
if (status->flag & (RX_FLAG_FAILED_FCS_CRC |
RX_FLAG_FAILED_PLCP_CRC))
RX_FLAG_FAILED_PLCP_CRC |
RX_FLAG_ONLY_MONITOR))
return true;
if (unlikely(skb->len < 16 + present_fcs_len + rtap_vendor_space))
@@ -507,7 +508,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_monitor(struct ieee80211_local *local, struct sk_buff *origskb,
return NULL;
}
if (!local->monitors) {
if (!local->monitors || (status->flag & RX_FLAG_SKIP_MONITOR)) {
if (should_drop_frame(origskb, present_fcs_len,
rtap_vendor_space)) {
dev_kfree_skb(origskb);