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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2014-03-24 17:57:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2014-04-09 10:55:28 +0200 |
| commit | 78f22b6a3a9254460d23060530b48ae02a9394e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0770800533747eac02405fc01007cf719e0406f3 /include/uapi/linux | |
| parent | 6e1ee5d2e9e411892b5d84e3ea93e3fc88ac786c (diff) | |
cfg80211: allow userspace to take ownership of interfaces
When dynamically creating interfaces from userspace, e.g. for P2P usage,
such interfaces are usually owned by the process that created them, i.e.
wpa_supplicant. Should wpa_supplicant crash, such interfaces will often
cease operating properly and cause problems on restarting the process.
To avoid this problem, introduce an ownership concept for interfaces. If
an interface is owned by a netlink socket, then it will be destroyed if
the netlink socket is closed for any reason, including if the process it
belongs to crashed. This gives us a race-free way to get rid of any such
interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index 1ba9d626aa83..5e405fd55a71 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -1579,6 +1579,10 @@ enum nl80211_commands { * @NL80211_ATTR_TDLS_PEER_CAPABILITY: flags for TDLS peer capabilities, u32. * As specified in the &enum nl80211_tdls_peer_capability. * + * @NL80211_ATTR_IFACE_SOCKET_OWNER: flag attribute, if set during interface + * creation then the new interface will be owned by the netlink socket + * that created it and will be destroyed when the socket is closed + * * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -1914,6 +1918,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { NL80211_ATTR_TDLS_PEER_CAPABILITY, + NL80211_ATTR_IFACE_SOCKET_OWNER, + /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST, |