From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com

Wireless extensions are already disabled if MLO is enabled, given that we cannot support MLO there with all the hard- coded assumptions about BSSID etc.

However, the WiFi7 ecosystem is still stabilizing, and some devices may need MLO disabled while that happens. In that case, we might end up with a device that supports wext (but not MLO) in one kernel, and then breaks wext in the future (by enabling MLO), which is not desirable.

Add a flag to let such drivers/devices disable wext even if MLO isn't yet enabled.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com --- include/net/cfg80211.h | 2 ++ net/wireless/wext-core.c | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 2e2be4fd2bb6..1e09329acc42 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -4991,6 +4991,7 @@ struct cfg80211_ops { * set this flag to update channels on beacon hints. * @WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_NSTR_NONPRIMARY: support connection to non-primary link * of an NSTR mobile AP MLD. + * @WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT: disable wireless extensions for this device */ enum wiphy_flags { WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_EXT_KEK_KCK = BIT(0), @@ -5002,6 +5003,7 @@ enum wiphy_flags { WIPHY_FLAG_4ADDR_STATION = BIT(6), WIPHY_FLAG_CONTROL_PORT_PROTOCOL = BIT(7), WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN = BIT(8), + WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT = BIT(9), WIPHY_FLAG_MESH_AUTH = BIT(10), WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_EXT_KCK_32 = BIT(11), WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_NSTR_NONPRIMARY = BIT(12), diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c index a161c64d1765..838ad6541a17 100644 --- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c +++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ * Authors : Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - jt@hpl.hp.com * Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Jean Tourrilhes, All Rights Reserved. * Copyright 2009 Johannes Berg johannes@sipsolutions.net + * Copyright (C) 2024 Intel Corporation * * (As all part of the Linux kernel, this file is GPL) */ @@ -662,7 +663,8 @@ struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev) dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext && dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats) { wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext(); - if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO) + if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & (WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO | + WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT)) return NULL; return dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats(dev); } @@ -704,7 +706,8 @@ static iw_handler get_handler(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int cmd) #ifdef CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT if (dev->ieee80211_ptr && dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy) { wireless_warn_cfg80211_wext(); - if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO) + if (dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->flags & (WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_MLO | + WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT)) return NULL; handlers = dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext; }