cfg80211: leave invalid channels on regdomain change

When the regulatory settings change, some channels might become invalid.
Disconnect interfaces acting on these channels, after giving userspace
code a grace period to leave them.

This mode is currently opt-in, and not all interface operating modes are
supported for regulatory-enforcement checks. A wiphy that wishes to use
the new enforcement code must specify an appropriate regulatory flag,
and all its supported interface modes must be supported by the checking
code.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
[fix some indentation, typos]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Arik Nemtsov
2014-11-27 09:44:55 +02:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent 336004e291
commit ad932f046f
3 changed files with 132 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -136,6 +136,17 @@ struct regulatory_request {
* otherwise initiating radiation is not allowed. This will enable the
* relaxations enabled under the CFG80211_REG_RELAX_NO_IR configuration
* option
* @REGULATORY_IGNORE_STALE_KICKOFF: the regulatory core will _not_ make sure
* all interfaces on this wiphy reside on allowed channels. If this flag
* is not set, upon a regdomain change, the interfaces are given a grace
* period (currently 60 seconds) to disconnect or move to an allowed
* channel. Interfaces on forbidden channels are forcibly disconnected.
* Currently these types of interfaces are supported for enforcement:
* NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC, NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION, NL80211_IFTYPE_AP,
* NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN, NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR,
* NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT, NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO,
* NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE. The flag will be set by default if a device
* includes any modes unsupported for enforcement checking.
*/
enum ieee80211_regulatory_flags {
REGULATORY_CUSTOM_REG = BIT(0),
@@ -144,6 +155,7 @@ enum ieee80211_regulatory_flags {
REGULATORY_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_POWER = BIT(3),
REGULATORY_COUNTRY_IE_IGNORE = BIT(4),
REGULATORY_ENABLE_RELAX_NO_IR = BIT(5),
REGULATORY_IGNORE_STALE_KICKOFF = BIT(6),
};
struct ieee80211_freq_range {