Commit 19085ef3 authored by Rameshkumar Sundaram's avatar Rameshkumar Sundaram Committed by Johannes Berg
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wifi: cfg80211: Allow action frames to be transmitted with link BSS in MLD 



Currently action frames TX only with ML address as A3(BSSID) are
allowed in an ML AP, but TX for a non-ML Station can happen in any
link of an ML BSS with link BSS address as A3.
In case of an MLD, if User-space has provided a valid link_id in
action frame TX request, allow transmission of the frame in that link.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230201061602.3918-1-quic_ramess@quicinc.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 2cc25e4b

net/wireless/mlme.c

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@@ -742,7 +742,10 @@ int cfg80211_mlme_mgmt_tx(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, 
		case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:

		case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO:

		case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN:

			if (!ether_addr_equal(mgmt->bssid, wdev_address(wdev)))

			if (!ether_addr_equal(mgmt->bssid, wdev_address(wdev)) &&

			    (params->link_id < 0 ||

			     !ether_addr_equal(mgmt->bssid,

					       wdev->links[params->link_id].addr)))

				err = -EINVAL;

			break;

		case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT: