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Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/main.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index d91bcef738dc..9dd3c9e3731f 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -416,7 +416,20 @@ ieee80211_default_mgmt_stypes[NUM_NL80211_IFTYPES] = { }, [NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION] = { .tx = 0xffff, + /* + * To support Pre Association Security Negotiation (PASN) while + * already associated to one AP, allow user space to register to + * Rx authentication frames, so that the user space logic would + * be able to receive/handle authentication frames from a + * different AP as part of PASN. + * It is expected that user space would intelligently register + * for Rx authentication frames, i.e., only when PASN is used + * and configure a match filter only for PASN authentication + * algorithm, as otherwise the MLME functionality of mac80211 + * would be broken. + */ .rx = BIT(IEEE80211_STYPE_ACTION >> 4) | + BIT(IEEE80211_STYPE_AUTH >> 4) | BIT(IEEE80211_STYPE_PROBE_REQ >> 4), }, [NL80211_IFTYPE_AP] = { |