From: David Bauer Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:22:00 +0100 Subject: nl80211: add extra-ies only if allowed by driver Upgrading wpa_supplicant from 2.9 to 2.10 breaks broadcom-wl based adapters. The reason for it is hostapd tries to install additional IEs for scanning while the driver does not support this. The kernel indicates the maximum number of bytes for additional scan IEs using the NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_IE_LEN attribute. Save this value and only add additional scan IEs in case the driver can accommodate these additional IEs. Reported-by: Étienne Morice Tested-by: Étienne Morice Signed-off-by: David Bauer Bug: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2022-January/040178.html Bug-ArchLinux: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73495 Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1004524 Origin: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2022-January/040185.html --- src/drivers/driver.h | 3 +++ src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c | 4 ++++ src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/drivers/driver.h b/src/drivers/driver.h index d3312a3..b5b6264 100644 --- a/src/drivers/driver.h +++ b/src/drivers/driver.h @@ -2052,6 +2052,9 @@ struct wpa_driver_capa { /** Maximum number of iterations in a single scan plan */ u32 max_sched_scan_plan_iterations; + /** Maximum number of extra IE bytes for scans */ + u16 max_scan_ie_len; + /** Whether sched_scan (offloaded scanning) is supported */ int sched_scan_supported; diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c index 83868b7..b33b6ba 100644 --- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c +++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c @@ -885,6 +885,10 @@ static int wiphy_info_handler(struct nl_msg *msg, void *arg) nla_get_u32(tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_PLAN_ITERATIONS]); } + if (tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_IE_LEN]) + capa->max_scan_ie_len = + nla_get_u16(tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_IE_LEN]); + if (tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_MATCH_SETS]) capa->max_match_sets = nla_get_u8(tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_MATCH_SETS]); diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c index 1316084..b0f0951 100644 --- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c +++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ nl80211_scan_common(struct i802_bss *bss, u8 cmd, wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG, "nl80211: Passive scan requested"); } - if (params->extra_ies) { + if (params->extra_ies && drv->capa.max_scan_ie_len >= params->extra_ies_len) { wpa_hexdump(MSG_MSGDUMP, "nl80211: Scan extra IEs", params->extra_ies, params->extra_ies_len); if (nla_put(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IE, params->extra_ies_len,