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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-01-07 23:28:08 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-01-10 20:12:58 +0100
commitc5ac08548b53c3292aa3cbd02de6ae99ca7271e6 (patch)
tree6cf308093b7e7405d04e5e179dd61e53502f63b5 /drivers/net/wireless
parent85ca8fc74671def6041fb12c0a7d3423da56ffd3 (diff)
mac80211_hwsim: register netlink even with multi-channel
Reject wmediumd registrations when any devices have multi-channel capability, but register the generic netlink family unconditionally to make it possible to add new commands that shouldn't depend on the number of (default) channels. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c24
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
index 4ee88a9b095d..5bad3d4ccdba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -2243,6 +2243,22 @@ out:
static int hwsim_register_received_nl(struct sk_buff *skb_2,
struct genl_info *info)
{
+ struct mac80211_hwsim_data *data;
+ int chans = 1;
+
+ spin_lock_bh(&hwsim_radio_lock);
+ list_for_each_entry(data, &hwsim_radios, list)
+ chans = max(chans, data->channels);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&hwsim_radio_lock);
+
+ /* In the future we should revise the userspace API and allow it
+ * to set a flag that it does support multi-channel, then we can
+ * let this pass conditionally on the flag.
+ * For current userspace, prohibit it since it won't work right.
+ */
+ if (chans > 1)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
if (wmediumd_portid)
return -EBUSY;
@@ -2300,10 +2316,6 @@ static int hwsim_init_netlink(void)
{
int rc;
- /* userspace test API hasn't been adjusted for multi-channel */
- if (channels > 1)
- return 0;
-
printk(KERN_INFO "mac80211_hwsim: initializing netlink\n");
rc = genl_register_family_with_ops(&hwsim_genl_family, hwsim_ops);
@@ -2323,10 +2335,6 @@ failure:
static void hwsim_exit_netlink(void)
{
- /* userspace test API hasn't been adjusted for multi-channel */
- if (channels > 1)
- return;
-
/* unregister the notifier */
netlink_unregister_notifier(&hwsim_netlink_notifier);
/* unregister the family */