cfg80211: Store IEs from both Beacon and Probe Response frames

Store information elements from Beacon and Probe Response frames in
separate buffers to allow both sets to be made available through
nl80211. This allows user space applications to get access to IEs from
Beacon frames even if we have received Probe Response frames from the
BSS. Previously, the IEs from Probe Response frames would have
overridden the IEs from Beacon frames.

This feature is of somewhat limited use since most protocols include
the same (or extended) information in Probe Response frames. However,
there are couple of exceptions where the IEs from Beacon frames could
be of some use: TIM IE is only included in Beacon frames (and it would
be needed to figure out the DTIM period used in the BSS) and at least
some implementations of Wireless Provisioning Services seem to include
the full IE only in Beacon frames).

The new BSS attribute for scan results is added to allow both the IE
sets to be delivered. This is done in a way that maintains the
previously used behavior for applications that are not aware of the
new NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES attribute.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/core.h b/net/wireless/core.h
index 30ec95f05b52..2d6a6b9c0c43 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.h
+++ b/net/wireless/core.h
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ struct cfg80211_internal_bss {
 	unsigned long ts;
 	struct kref ref;
 	atomic_t hold;
-	bool ies_allocated;
+	bool beacon_ies_allocated;
+	bool proberesp_ies_allocated;
 
 	/* must be last because of priv member */
 	struct cfg80211_bss pub;