From 34a6eddbabd704b3c7dae9362234552267573be2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jouni Malinen Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:19:24 +0200 Subject: cfg80211: Store IEs from both Beacon and Probe Response frames Store information elements from Beacon and Probe Response frames in separate buffers to allow both sets to be made available through nl80211. This allows user space applications to get access to IEs from Beacon frames even if we have received Probe Response frames from the BSS. Previously, the IEs from Probe Response frames would have overridden the IEs from Beacon frames. This feature is of somewhat limited use since most protocols include the same (or extended) information in Probe Response frames. However, there are couple of exceptions where the IEs from Beacon frames could be of some use: TIM IE is only included in Beacon frames (and it would be needed to figure out the DTIM period used in the BSS) and at least some implementations of Wireless Provisioning Services seem to include the full IE only in Beacon frames). The new BSS attribute for scan results is added to allow both the IE sets to be delivered. This is done in a way that maintains the previously used behavior for applications that are not aware of the new NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES attribute. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.c') diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index b804062e017..4af7991a9ec 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -3163,6 +3163,10 @@ static int nl80211_send_bss(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid, u32 seq, int flags, NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_BSS_INFORMATION_ELEMENTS, res->len_information_elements, res->information_elements); + if (res->beacon_ies && res->len_beacon_ies && + res->beacon_ies != res->information_elements) + NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES, + res->len_beacon_ies, res->beacon_ies); if (res->tsf) NLA_PUT_U64(msg, NL80211_BSS_TSF, res->tsf); if (res->beacon_interval) -- cgit v1.2.3