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Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 765bd41b1623..3df85a751a85 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = { .len = FILS_MAX_KEK_LEN }, [NL80211_ATTR_FILS_NONCES] = { .len = 2 * FILS_NONCE_LEN }, [NL80211_ATTR_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST_ENABLED] = { .type = NLA_FLAG, }, + [NL80211_ATTR_BSSID] = { .len = ETH_ALEN }, }; /* policy for the key attributes */ @@ -6703,7 +6704,20 @@ static int nl80211_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) request->no_cck = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]); - if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC]) + /* Initial implementation used NL80211_ATTR_MAC to set the specific + * BSSID to scan for. This was problematic because that same attribute + * was already used for another purpose (local random MAC address). The + * NL80211_ATTR_BSSID attribute was added to fix this. For backwards + * compatibility with older userspace components, also use the + * NL80211_ATTR_MAC value here if it can be determined to be used for + * the specific BSSID use case instead of the random MAC address + * (NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS is used to enable random MAC address use). + */ + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_BSSID]) + memcpy(request->bssid, + nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_BSSID]), ETH_ALEN); + else if (!(request->flags & NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR) && + info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC]) memcpy(request->bssid, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC]), ETH_ALEN); else |