cfg80211: Store IEs from both Beacon and Probe Response frames

Store information elements from Beacon and Probe Response frames in
separate buffers to allow both sets to be made available through
nl80211. This allows user space applications to get access to IEs from
Beacon frames even if we have received Probe Response frames from the
BSS. Previously, the IEs from Probe Response frames would have
overridden the IEs from Beacon frames.

This feature is of somewhat limited use since most protocols include
the same (or extended) information in Probe Response frames. However,
there are couple of exceptions where the IEs from Beacon frames could
be of some use: TIM IE is only included in Beacon frames (and it would
be needed to figure out the DTIM period used in the BSS) and at least
some implementations of Wireless Provisioning Services seem to include
the full IE only in Beacon frames).

The new BSS attribute for scan results is added to allow both the IE
sets to be delivered. This is done in a way that maintains the
previously used behavior for applications that are not aware of the
new NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES attribute.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 7a1c8c145b2..127a7301576 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1378,13 +1378,20 @@ enum nl80211_channel_type {
  * @NL80211_BSS_BEACON_INTERVAL: beacon interval of the (I)BSS (u16)
  * @NL80211_BSS_CAPABILITY: capability field (CPU order, u16)
  * @NL80211_BSS_INFORMATION_ELEMENTS: binary attribute containing the
- *	raw information elements from the probe response/beacon (bin)
+ *	raw information elements from the probe response/beacon (bin);
+ *	if the %NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES attribute is present, the IEs here are
+ *	from a Probe Response frame; otherwise they are from a Beacon frame.
+ *	However, if the driver does not indicate the source of the IEs, these
+ *	IEs may be from either frame subtype.
  * @NL80211_BSS_SIGNAL_MBM: signal strength of probe response/beacon
  *	in mBm (100 * dBm) (s32)
  * @NL80211_BSS_SIGNAL_UNSPEC: signal strength of the probe response/beacon
  *	in unspecified units, scaled to 0..100 (u8)
  * @NL80211_BSS_STATUS: status, if this BSS is "used"
  * @NL80211_BSS_SEEN_MS_AGO: age of this BSS entry in ms
+ * @NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES: binary attribute containing the raw information
+ *	elements from a Beacon frame (bin); not present if no Beacon frame has
+ *	yet been received
  * @__NL80211_BSS_AFTER_LAST: internal
  * @NL80211_BSS_MAX: highest BSS attribute
  */
@@ -1400,6 +1407,7 @@ enum nl80211_bss {
 	NL80211_BSS_SIGNAL_UNSPEC,
 	NL80211_BSS_STATUS,
 	NL80211_BSS_SEEN_MS_AGO,
+	NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES,
 
 	/* keep last */
 	__NL80211_BSS_AFTER_LAST,
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 0d734413b5f..2af52704e67 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -626,8 +626,14 @@ enum cfg80211_signal_type {
  * @beacon_interval: the beacon interval as from the frame
  * @capability: the capability field in host byte order
  * @information_elements: the information elements (Note that there
- *	is no guarantee that these are well-formed!)
+ *	is no guarantee that these are well-formed!); this is a pointer to
+ *	either the beacon_ies or proberesp_ies depending on whether Probe
+ *	Response frame has been received
  * @len_information_elements: total length of the information elements
+ * @beacon_ies: the information elements from the last Beacon frame
+ * @len_beacon_ies: total length of the beacon_ies
+ * @proberesp_ies: the information elements from the last Probe Response frame
+ * @len_proberesp_ies: total length of the proberesp_ies
  * @signal: signal strength value (type depends on the wiphy's signal_type)
  * @free_priv: function pointer to free private data
  * @priv: private area for driver use, has at least wiphy->bss_priv_size bytes
@@ -641,6 +647,10 @@ struct cfg80211_bss {
 	u16 capability;
 	u8 *information_elements;
 	size_t len_information_elements;
+	u8 *beacon_ies;
+	size_t len_beacon_ies;
+	u8 *proberesp_ies;
+	size_t len_proberesp_ies;
 
 	s32 signal;