From 4ca69027691a0039279b64cfa0aa511d9c9fde59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:51:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: wireless: deny wireless extensions on MLO-capable
devices
These are WiFi 7 devices that will be introduced into the market
in 2023, with new drivers. Wireless extensions haven't been in
real development since 2006. Since wireless has evolved a lot,
and continues to evolve significantly with Multi-Link Operation,
there's really no good way to still support wireless extensions
for devices that do MLO.
Stop supporting wireless extensions for new devices. We don't
consider this a regression since no such devices (apart from
hwsim) exist yet.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118105152.45f85078a1e0.Ib9eabc2ec5bf6b0244e4d973e93baaa3d8c91bd8@changeid
---
net/wireless/wext-core.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index 6e5f5ea92ddb3..13a72b17248e5 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -662,6 +662,8 @@ 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)
+ return NULL;
return dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats(dev);
}
#endif
@@ -702,6 +704,8 @@ 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)
+ return NULL;
handlers = dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext;
}
#endif
--
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