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authorAviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@intel.com>2016-07-05 15:23:08 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-07-06 14:46:04 +0200
commitc6e6a0c8be575c830a97b1942dabeab70f423fe0 (patch)
tree01f16a0a2cadbb579fcf48392cb1b4940db6f661
parentf89e07d4cf2660a2956bc350a201398dda85284e (diff)
nl80211: Add API to support VHT MU-MIMO air sniffer
add API to support VHT MU-MIMO air sniffer. in MU-MIMO there are parallel frames on the air while the HW has only one RX. add the capability to sniff one of the MU-MIMO parallel frames by giving the sniffer additional information so it'll know which of the parallel frames it shall follow. Add attribute - NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA - for getting a MU-MIMO groupID in order to monitor packets from that group using VHT MU-MIMO. And add attribute -NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_ADDR - for passing MAC address to monitor mode. that option will be used by VHT MU-MIMO air sniffer to follow a station according to it's MAC address using VHT MU-MIMO. Signed-off-by: Aviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--include/net/cfg80211.h10
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h29
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c36
3 files changed, 73 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 7bbb00d8b2cd..fa4f0f793817 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -330,6 +330,9 @@ struct ieee80211_supported_band {
* in a separate chapter.
*/
+#define VHT_MUMIMO_GROUPS_DATA_LEN (WLAN_MEMBERSHIP_LEN +\
+ WLAN_USER_POSITION_LEN)
+
/**
* struct vif_params - describes virtual interface parameters
* @use_4addr: use 4-address frames
@@ -339,10 +342,13 @@ struct ieee80211_supported_band {
* This feature is only fully supported by drivers that enable the
* %NL80211_FEATURE_MAC_ON_CREATE flag. Others may support creating
** only p2p devices with specified MAC.
+ * @vht_mumimo_groups: MU-MIMO groupID. used for monitoring only
+ * packets belonging to that MU-MIMO groupID.
*/
struct vif_params {
- int use_4addr;
- u8 macaddr[ETH_ALEN];
+ int use_4addr;
+ u8 macaddr[ETH_ALEN];
+ u8 vht_mumimo_groups[VHT_MUMIMO_GROUPS_DATA_LEN];
};
/**
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 53c8278827a0..1d7da7888dcf 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1829,6 +1829,25 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* %NL80211_ATTR_EXT_CAPA_MASK, to specify the extended capabilities per
* interface type.
*
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA: array of 24 bytes that defines a MU-MIMO
+ * groupID for monitor mode.
+ * The first 8 bytes are a mask that defines the membership in each
+ * group (there are 64 groups, group 0 and 63 are reserved),
+ * each bit represents a group and set to 1 for being a member in
+ * that group and 0 for not being a member.
+ * The remaining 16 bytes define the position in each group: 2 bits for
+ * each group.
+ * (smaller group numbers represented on most significant bits and bigger
+ * group numbers on least significant bits.)
+ * This attribute is used only if all interfaces are in monitor mode.
+ * Set this attribute in order to monitor packets using the given MU-MIMO
+ * groupID data.
+ * to turn off that feature set all the bits of the groupID to zero.
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR: mac address for the sniffer to follow
+ * when using MU-MIMO air sniffer.
+ * to turn that feature off set an invalid mac address
+ * (e.g. FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF)
+ *
* @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
* @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
@@ -2213,6 +2232,9 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE_EXT_CAPA,
+ NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA,
+ NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR,
+
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -4479,6 +4501,12 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
* %NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE and %NL80211_CMD_CONNECT requests, which will set
* the ASSOC_REQ_USE_RRM flag in the association request even if
* NL80211_FEATURE_QUIET is not advertized.
+ * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MU_MIMO_AIR_SNIFFER: This device supports MU-MIMO air
+ * sniffer which means that it can be configured to hear packets from
+ * certain groups which can be configured by the
+ * %NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA attribute,
+ * or can be configured to follow a station by configuring the
+ * %NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR attribute.
*
* @NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: number of extended features.
* @MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: highest extended feature index.
@@ -4486,6 +4514,7 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
enum nl80211_ext_feature_index {
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_VHT_IBSS,
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_RRM,
+ NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MU_MIMO_AIR_SNIFFER,
/* add new features before the definition below */
NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES,
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 244d552d5647..447026f8cc76 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -405,6 +405,10 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
[NL80211_ATTR_PBSS] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
[NL80211_ATTR_BSS_SELECT] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
[NL80211_ATTR_STA_SUPPORT_P2P_PS] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA] = {
+ .len = VHT_MUMIMO_GROUPS_DATA_LEN
+ },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR] = { .len = ETH_ALEN },
};
/* policy for the key attributes */
@@ -2695,6 +2699,38 @@ static int nl80211_set_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
change = true;
}
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA]) {
+ const u8 *mumimo_groups;
+ u32 cap_flag = NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MU_MIMO_AIR_SNIFFER;
+
+ if (!wiphy_ext_feature_isset(&rdev->wiphy, cap_flag))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+ mumimo_groups =
+ nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_GROUP_DATA]);
+
+ /* bits 0 and 63 are reserved and must be zero */
+ if ((mumimo_groups[0] & BIT(7)) ||
+ (mumimo_groups[VHT_MUMIMO_GROUPS_DATA_LEN - 1] & BIT(0)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ memcpy(params.vht_mumimo_groups, mumimo_groups,
+ VHT_MUMIMO_GROUPS_DATA_LEN);
+ change = true;
+ }
+
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR]) {
+ u32 cap_flag = NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MU_MIMO_AIR_SNIFFER;
+
+ if (!wiphy_ext_feature_isset(&rdev->wiphy, cap_flag))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+ nla_memcpy(params.macaddr,
+ info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MU_MIMO_FOLLOW_MAC_ADDR],
+ ETH_ALEN);
+ change = true;
+ }
+
if (flags && (*flags & MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE) &&
!(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;