From f4830bed661f4adff51f50a0d37c64ceb748e780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:10:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: Try running without mgmt frame subscription (driver AP SME) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit One of supported code paths already allows this scenario. It is used if driver doesn't report NL80211_ATTR_DEVICE_AP_SME and doesn't support monitor interface. In such situation: 1) We don't quit if subscribing for WLAN_FC_STYPE_PROBE_REQ fails 2) We don't try subscribing for WLAN_FC_STYPE_ACTION 3) We fallback to AP SME mode after failing to create monitor interface 4) We don't quit if subscribing for WLAN_FC_STYPE_PROBE_REQ fails Above scenario is used, e.g., with brcmfmac. As you can see - thanks to events provided by cfg80211 - it's not really required to receive Probe Request or action frames. However, the previous implementation did not allow using hostapd with drivers that: 1) Report NL80211_ATTR_DEVICE_AP_SME 2) Don't support subscribing for PROBE_REQ and/or ACTION frames In case of using such a driver hostapd will cancel setup after failing to subscribe for WLAN_FC_STYPE_ACTION. I noticed it after setting flag WIPHY_FLAG_HAVE_AP_SME in brcmfmac driver for my experiments. This patch allows working with such drivers with just a small warning printed as debug message. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki --- src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c +++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c @@ -4108,7 +4108,8 @@ static int nl80211_setup_ap(struct i802_ if (drv->device_ap_sme && !drv->use_monitor) if (nl80211_mgmt_subscribe_ap_dev_sme(bss)) - return -1; + wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG, + "nl80211: Failed to subscribe for mgmt frames from SME driver - trying to run without it"); if (!drv->device_ap_sme && drv->use_monitor && nl80211_create_monitor_interface(drv) &&