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| author | Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> | 2025-08-17 22:04:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2025-09-04 12:19:02 +0300 |
| commit | 4f652a390db4246c5d3c51bf25d03ed0e4178fdc (patch) | |
| tree | 0a340359d4b84c2fe99e86b390eea49ab0679b15 /include/uapi | |
| parent | 18abf7a05f1e171a290d8abc3078189ca0fe2db0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4f652a390db4246c5d3c51bf25d03ed0e4178fdc.tar.xz | |
wifi: nl80211: strict checking attributes for NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS
Assure user-space only modifies attributes for NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS
that are supported by the driver. This stricter checking is only done
when user-space commits to it by including NL80211_ATTR_BSS_PARAM.
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250817190435.1495094-4-arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index 6c07100fc01f..aed0b4c5d5e8 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -2931,7 +2931,10 @@ enum nl80211_commands { * @enum nl80211_s1g_short_beacon_attrs for the attribute definitions. * * @NL80211_ATTR_BSS_PARAM: nested attribute used with %NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY - * which indicates which BSS parameters can be modified. + * which indicates which BSS parameters can be modified. The attribute can + * also be used as flag attribute by user-space in %NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS to + * indicate that it wants strict checking on the BSS parameters to be + * modified. * * @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined |