Re: [PATCH v3 02/11] cfg80211: handle 6 GHz capability of new station

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 12:44 -0700, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> Handle 6 GHz HE capability while adding new station. It will be used
> later in mac80211 station processing.

This doesn't compile without the next patch.

> +       const struct ieee80211_he_6ghz_band_cap *he_6ghz_capa;

This we made just an __le16, any particular reason to have the struct?
It does need to be a pointer for the "no changes" case, but the struct
seems a bit overkill?

> + * @NL80211_ATTR_HE_6GHZ_CAPABILITY: HE 6 GHz Band Capability element (from
> + *	association request when used with NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION).

That we have pretty much identically.

> @@ -2998,6 +3003,7 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
>  #define NL80211_HE_MAX_CAPABILITY_LEN           54
>  #define NL80211_MAX_NR_CIPHER_SUITES		5
>  #define NL80211_MAX_NR_AKM_SUITES		2
> +#define NL80211_HE_6GHZ_CAPABILITY_LEN		2

This not, we defined it just to be a U16.

> +	[NL80211_ATTR_HE_6GHZ_CAPABILITY] = {
> +		.type = NLA_EXACT_LEN,
> +		.len = NL80211_HE_6GHZ_CAPABILITY_LEN,
> +	},

This no longer exists, but I guess I'll just take our patch for the U16
here.
 
> +	/* Ensure that HT/VHT capabilities are not set for 6 GHz HE STA */
> +	if (params.he_6ghz_capa && (params.ht_capa || params.vht_capa))
> +		return -EINVAL;

Not sure this makes much sense? We can only check what's being set at
the same time, so multiple calls here would still be possible ...
doesn't hurt much though.

We didn't have this check, and have one additional check:

@@ -6170,7 +6200,7 @@ static int nl80211_new_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                params.vht_capa = NULL;
 
                /* HE requires WME */
-               if (params.he_capa_len)
+               if (params.he_capa_len || params.he_6ghz_capa)
                        return -EINVAL;
        }
 

johannes