kernel/linux.git/net/wireless/core.c, branch v7.2-rc1

wifi: cfg80211: remove 5/10 MHz channel support

2026-06-03T12:07:05+00:00

Remove WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_5_10_MHZ and 5/10 MHz channel width support. We contemplated this back in early 2023 and didn't do it yet, but nobody stepped up to maintain it. It's already _mostly_ dead code since it can really only be used for AP and maybe IBSS and monitor, but not on a client since there's no way to scan (and hasn't been in a very long time, if ever), so the only thing that ever could really happen with it was run syzbot and trip over assumptions in the code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Lachlan Hodges Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529084502.080c5885f0b7.I77cc94485b523c3c006005b9233db13cd4e077b3@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: don't allow NAN DATA on multi radio devices

2026-05-06T09:41:01+00:00

The support for NAN DATA was added for single radio devices only. For example, checking the interface combinations is done for a single radio. Prevent registration with NAN DATA interface type for multi radio devices. Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505194607.ff87e6fcff56.If201aa58119d2a6b08223ecb63bc2869f63ff5a1@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: add start/stop proximity detection commands

2026-05-05T11:36:30+00:00

Currently, the proximity detection (PD) interface type has no start/stop commands defined, preventing user space from controlling PD operations through the nl80211 interface. Add NL80211_CMD_START_PD and NL80211_CMD_STOP_PD commands to allow user space to start and stop a PD interface. Add the corresponding start_pd and stop_pd operations to cfg80211_ops and ieee80211_ops, along with nl80211 command handlers, rdev wrappers, and tracing support. Validate that drivers advertising PD interface support implement the required operations. Handle PD interface teardown during device unregistration and when the interface leaves the network. Signed-off-by: Peddolla Harshavardhan Reddy Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420090856.2152905-5-peddolla.reddy@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Add NL80211_IFTYPE_PD for PD PASN and PMSR operations

2026-05-05T11:28:57+00:00

Add a new wdev-only interface type NL80211_IFTYPE_PD to support Proximity Detection (PD) operations such as PASN and peer measurement operations. This interface type operates without a netdev, similar to P2P_DEVICE and NAN interfaces. Implement support across cfg80211 and mac80211 layers with PD-specific checks gated by the NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_SECURE_RTT feature flag, management frame registration and transmission capabilities, and proper channel context handling where PD interfaces are excluded from bandwidth calculations. Update mac80211 to recognize the new interface type in the relevant paths for this management-only interface. PD discovery can be performed on any available interface, such as NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION. If PD/PMSR uses the MAC address of an existing interface type, such as NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION, then pairing and measurement shall use that same interface. If PD/PMSR uses a different MAC address, such as a random MAC address, then pairing and measurement can be performed on a new NL80211_IFTYPE_PD interface created with that random MAC address. Signed-off-by: Peddolla Harshavardhan Reddy Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420090856.2152905-4-peddolla.reddy@oss.qualcomm.com [fix comment style] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: reject duplicate wiphy cipher suite entries

2026-04-28T07:26:39+00:00

Duplicate entries in wiphy->cipher_suites do not describe any additional capability, but cfg80211 currently accepts them and leaves individual consumers to deal with them. One such consumer is the WEXT compatibility code, which appends a WEP key length for each WEP cipher entry it sees. Repeated WEP entries can therefore overflow the fixed iw_range::encoding_size array returned by SIOCGIWRANGE. Reject duplicate cipher suite entries in wiphy_register() instead. This keeps the cipher suite invariant in one place and makes malformed wiphy descriptions fail early with -EINVAL, rather than relying on a single cfg80211 user to handle duplicates correctly. Reported-by: Yifan Wu Reported-by: Juefei Pu Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan Suggested-by: Xin Liu Signed-off-by: Yuqi Xu Signed-off-by: Ren Wei Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260413123000.1480661-1-n05ec@lzu.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: separately store HT, VHT and HE capabilities for NAN

2026-03-25T19:56:54+00:00

In NAN, unlike in other modes, there is only one set of (HT, VHT, HE) capabilities that is used for all channels (and bands) used in the NAN data path. This set of capabilities will have to be a special one, for example - have the minimum of (HT-for-5 GHz, HT-for-2.4 GHz), careful handling of the bits that have a different meaning for each band, etc. While we could use the exiting sband/iftype capabilities, and require identical capabilities for all bands (makes no sense since this means that we will have VHT capabilities in the 2.4 GHz slot), or require that only one of the sbands will be set, or have logic to extract the minimum and handle the conflicting bits - it seems simpler to add a dedicated set of capabilities which is special for NAN, and is band agnostic, to be populated by the driver. That way we also let the driver decide how it wants to handle the conflicting bits. Add this special set of these capabilities to wiphy:nan_capabilities, to be populated by the driver. Send it to user space. Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219114327.4b6f3e4a81b4.I45422adc0df3ad4101d857a92e83f0de5cf241e1@changeid Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318123926.206536-5-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: add support for NAN data interface

2026-03-25T19:56:53+00:00

This new interface type represents a NAN data interface (NDI). It is used for data communication with NAN peers. Note that the existing NL80211_IFTYPE_NAN interface, which is the NAN Management Interface (NMI), is used for management communication. An NDI interface is started when a new NAN data path is about to be established, and is stopped after the NAN data path is terminated. - An NDI interface can only be started if the NMI is running, and NAN is started. - Before the NMI is stopped, the NDI interfaces will be stopped. Add the new interface type, handle add/remove operations for it, and makes sure of the conditions above. Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219114327.0d681335c2e2.I92973483e927820ae2297853c141842fdb262747@changeid Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318123926.206536-4-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: Add an API to configure local NAN schedule

2026-03-25T19:56:05+00:00

Add an nl80211 API to allow user space to configure the local NAN schedule. The local schedule consists of a list of channel definitions and a schedule map, in which each element covers a time slot and indicates on what channel the device should be in that time slot. Channels can be added to schedule even without being scheduled, for reservation purposes. A schedule can be configured either immedietally or be deferred, in case there are already connected peers. When the deferred flag is set, the command is a request from the device to perform an announced schedule update: send the updated NAN Availability - as set in this command - to the peers, and do the actual switch to the new schedule on the right time (i.e. at the end of the slot after the slot in which the update was sent to the peers). In addition, a notification will be sent to indicate a deferred update completion. Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219114327.ecca178a2de0.Ic977ab08b4ed5cf9b849e55d3a59b01ad3fbd08e@changeid Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318123926.206536-2-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: remove unneeded call to cfg80211_leave

2026-03-02T08:22:58+00:00

In cfg80211_destroy_ifaces, we first close all netdev wdevs, which will trigger a NETDEV_GOING_DOWN event that will call cfg80211_leave, and for non-netdev wdevs, we call cfg80211_remove_virtual_intf which calles cfg80211_unregister_wdev, which handles the "leaving" for those interfaces (i.e. stop_nan and stop_p2p_device) Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219114327.c43709c9d3af.I3179a28f237ea3b8ec368af720fbf77455a7763f@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-02-26T16:00:13+00:00

Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni: "Including fixes from IPsec, Bluetooth and netfilter Current release - regressions: - wifi: fix dev_alloc_name() return value check - rds: fix recursive lock in rds_tcp_conn_slots_available Current release - new code bugs: - vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once Previous releases - regressions: - core: - do not pass flow_id to set_rps_cpu() - consume xmit errors of GSO frames - netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated - netfilter: h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() - tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 - udplite: fix null-ptr-deref in __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb(). - wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential kernel oops when probe fails - phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid AB-BA deadlock - eth: - bnxt_en: fix deleting of Ntuple filters - wan: farsync: fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets - xscale: check for PTP support properly Previous releases - always broken: - tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() - kcm: fix zero-frag skb in frag_list on partial sendmsg error - xfrm: - fix race condition in espintcp_close() - always flush state and policy upon NETDEV_UNREGISTER event - bluetooth: - purge error queues in socket destructors - fix response to L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_REQ - eth: - mlx5: - fix circular locking dependency in dump - fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query - gve: fix incorrect buffer cleanup for QPL - team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave - usb: validate USB endpoints" * tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (72 commits) netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() dpaa2-switch: validate num_ifs to prevent out-of-bounds write net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctl vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once selftests/vsock: change tests to respect write-once child ns mode net/mlx5e: Fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query net/mlx5: Fix missing devlink lock in SRIOV enable error path net/mlx5: E-switch, Clear legacy flag when moving to switchdev net/mlx5: LAG, disable MPESW in lag_disable_change() net/mlx5: DR, Fix circular locking dependency in dump selftests: team: Add a reference count leak test team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave net: mana: Fix double destroy_workqueue on service rescan PCI path MAINTAINERS: Update maintainer entry for QUALCOMM ETHQOS ETHERNET DRIVER dpll: zl3073x: Remove redundant cleanup in devm_dpll_init() selftests/net: packetdrill: Verify acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 vsock: Use container_of() to get net namespace in sysctl handlers net: usb: kaweth: validate USB endpoints ...