nl80211: Add notification for dropped Deauth/Disassoc

Add a new notification to indicate that a received, unprotected
Deauthentication or Disassociation frame was dropped due to
management frame protection being in use. This notification is
needed to allow user space (e.g., wpa_supplicant) to implement
SA Query procedure to recover from association state mismatch
between an AP and STA.

This is needed to avoid getting stuck in non-working state when MFP
(IEEE 802.11w) is used and a protected Deauthentication or
Disassociation frame is dropped for any reason. After that, the
station would silently discard any unprotected Deauthentication or
Disassociation frame that could be indicating that the AP does not
have association for the STA (when the Reason Code would be 6 or 7).
IEEE Std 802.11w-2009, 11.13 describes this recovery mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/mlme.c b/net/wireless/mlme.c
index d7680f2a4c5..aa5df8865ff 100644
--- a/net/wireless/mlme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/mlme.c
@@ -263,6 +263,28 @@ void cfg80211_send_disassoc(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *buf, size_t len)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_send_disassoc);
 
+void cfg80211_send_unprot_deauth(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *buf,
+                                 size_t len)
+{
+        struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
+        struct wiphy *wiphy = wdev->wiphy;
+        struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy);
+
+        nl80211_send_unprot_deauth(rdev, dev, buf, len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_send_unprot_deauth);
+
+void cfg80211_send_unprot_disassoc(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *buf,
+                                   size_t len)
+{
+        struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
+        struct wiphy *wiphy = wdev->wiphy;
+        struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy);
+
+        nl80211_send_unprot_disassoc(rdev, dev, buf, len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_send_unprot_disassoc);
+
 static void __cfg80211_auth_remove(struct wireless_dev *wdev, const u8 *addr)
 {
         int i;