cfg80211: Add support for randomizing TA of Public Action frames
authorvamsi krishna <vamsin@qti.qualcomm.com>
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:12:19 +0000 (01:12 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:39:47 +0000 (09:39 +0100)
commitab5bb2d51ba8da4add4612b529968446cdb504b1
tree550119418c0a062918b552d76a24ad95fbbe0a8b
parent10b2eb6949ece992a1dd58edb28e01f05e5bf004
cfg80211: Add support for randomizing TA of Public Action frames

Add support to use a random local address (Address 2 = TA in transmit
and the same address in receive functionality) for Public Action frames
in order to improve privacy of WLAN clients. Applications fill the
random transmit address in the frame buffer in the NL80211_CMD_FRAME
command. This can be used only with the drivers that indicate support
for random local address by setting the new
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MGMT_TX_RANDOM_TA and/or
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MGMT_TX_RANDOM_TA_CONNECTED in ext_features.

The driver needs to configure receive behavior to accept frames to the
specified random address during the time the frame exchange is pending
and such frames need to be acknowledged similarly to frames sent to the
local permanent address when this random address functionality is not
used.

Signed-off-by: vamsi krishna <vamsin@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
net/wireless/mlme.c