nl80211: add src and dst addr attributes for control port tx/rx

When using control port over nl80211 in AP mode with
pre-authentication, APs need to forward frames to other
APs defined by their MAC address. Before this patch,
pre-auth frames reaching user space over nl80211 control
port  have no longer any information about the dest attached,
which can be used for forwarding to a controller or injecting
the frame back to a ethernet interface over a AF_PACKET
socket.
Analog problems exist, when forwarding pre-auth frames from
AP -> STA.

This patch therefore adds the NL80211_ATTR_DST_MAC and
NL80211_ATTR_SRC_MAC attributes to provide more context
information when forwarding.
The respective arguments are optional on tx and included on rx.
Therefore unaware existing software is not affected.

Software which wants to detect this feature, can do so
by checking against:
  NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_MAC_ADDRS

Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115125522.3755-1-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
[split into separate cfg80211/mac80211 patches]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 350ab86fe20e..158bccb4a47b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1039,11 +1039,14 @@
  *	a control port frame and as a notification that a control port frame
  *	has been received. %NL80211_ATTR_FRAME is used to specify the
  *	frame contents.  The frame is the raw EAPoL data, without ethernet or
- *	802.11 headers.
+ *	802.11 headers. An optional %NL80211_ATTR_SRC_MAC can be used to send
+ *	pre-auth frames to STAs on behalf of other APs.
  *	When used as an event indication %NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE,
  *	%NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_NO_ENCRYPT and %NL80211_ATTR_MAC are added
  *	indicating the protocol type of the received frame; whether the frame
  *	was received unencrypted and the MAC address of the peer respectively.
+ *	%NL80211_ATTR_DST_MAC can be used to forward pre-auth frames in
+ *	userspace while using AP mode.
  *
  * @NL80211_CMD_RELOAD_REGDB: Request that the regdb firmware file is reloaded.
  *
@@ -2409,6 +2412,9 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  *	%NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES are default capabilities if AKM suites not
  *	advertised for a specific interface type.
  *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_SRC_MAC: MAC address used in control port over nl80211 transmit
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_DST_MAC: MAC address used in control port over nl80211 receive
+ *
  * @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available
  * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
  * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
@@ -2877,6 +2883,9 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
 
 	NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE_AKM_SUITES,
 
+	NL80211_ATTR_SRC_MAC,
+	NL80211_ATTR_DST_MAC,
+
 	/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
 
 	__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -5539,6 +5548,10 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
  *	feature, which prevents bufferbloat by using the expected transmission
  *	time to limit the amount of data buffered in the hardware.
  *
+ * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_MAC_ADDRS: The driver
+ *	can use src and dst MAC addresses with control port over nl80211 rx
+ *	and tx operations.
+ *
  * @NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: number of extended features.
  * @MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: highest extended feature index.
  */
@@ -5586,6 +5599,7 @@ enum nl80211_ext_feature_index {
 	NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_SAE_OFFLOAD,
 	NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_VLAN_OFFLOAD,
 	NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AQL,
+	NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_MAC_ADDRS,
 
 	/* add new features before the definition below */
 	NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES,