nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to disable CCK rate for management frame

Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management
frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling
CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe
request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz
without disabling 11b rates.

This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and
NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame
transmission.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index a3e26951fd8b..48c1bf1a142d 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = {
                                          .len = IEEE80211_MAX_DATA_LEN },
         [NL80211_ATTR_ROAM_SUPPORT] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
         [NL80211_ATTR_SCHED_SCAN_MATCH] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
+        [NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
 };
 
 /* policy for the key attributes */
@@ -3620,6 +3621,9 @@ 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]);
+
         request->dev = dev;
         request->wiphy = &rdev->wiphy;
 
@@ -5171,6 +5175,7 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
         struct sk_buff *msg;
         unsigned int wait = 0;
         bool offchan;
+        bool no_cck;
 
         if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_FRAME] ||
             !info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ])
@@ -5207,6 +5212,8 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
         offchan = info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_OFFCHANNEL_TX_OK];
 
+        no_cck = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]);
+
         freq = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ]);
         chan = rdev_freq_to_chan(rdev, freq, channel_type);
         if (chan == NULL)
@@ -5227,7 +5234,7 @@ static int nl80211_tx_mgmt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                                     channel_type_valid, wait,
                                     nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_FRAME]),
                                     nla_len(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_FRAME]),
-                                    &cookie);
+                                    no_cck, &cookie);
         if (err)
                 goto free_msg;