[PATCH 1/8] nl80211 driver: receive EAPOL Frames on the data interface

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Mon Dec 24 20:04:22 EST 2007


On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 12:14:32PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> With recent kernel changes, EAPOL frames are no longer visible on the
> (deprecated) management interface but are shown on the data interfaces
> instead.
> 
> This patch makes the nl80211 driver register an EAPOL socket and keep track
> of all data interfaces so that it can receive EAPOL frames for the
> supplicant.

Thanks! Applied with some minor cleanup and couple of bug fixes
(if_indices needs to be freed in i802_deinit() if it was (re)allocated,
add_ifidx() should not be used with invalid ifidx).

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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