cfg80211/nl80211: Optional authentication offload to userspace

This interface allows the host driver to offload the authentication to
user space. This is exclusively defined for host drivers that do not
define separate commands for authentication and association, but rely on
userspace SME (e.g., in wpa_supplicant for the ~WPA_DRIVER_FLAGS_SME
case) for the authentication to happen. This can be used to implement
SAE without full implementation in the kernel/firmware while still being
able to use NL80211_CMD_CONNECT with driver-based BSS selection.

Host driver sends NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH event to start/abort
authentication to the port on which connect is triggered and status
of authentication is further indicated by user space to host
driver through the same command response interface.

User space entities advertise this capability through the
NL80211_ATTR_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPP flag in the NL80211_CMD_CONNECT request.
Host drivers shall look at this capability to offload the authentication.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
[add socket connection ownership check]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Git-commit: 40cbfa90218bc570a7959b436b9d48a18c361041
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
CRs-Fixed: 2182553
Change-Id: Id925dd82d9a9c719b32aac2de75b6ad001f1a958
[dasaris@codeaurora.org: merging with msm-specific changes]
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiachao Wu <jiacwu@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Min Liu <minliu@codeaurora.org>

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 8c0f37fe5df9..8f968375ac46 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -1817,11 +1817,16 @@ struct cfg80211_auth_request {
  * @ASSOC_REQ_DISABLE_HT:  Disable HT (802.11n)
  * @ASSOC_REQ_DISABLE_VHT:  Disable VHT
  * @ASSOC_REQ_USE_RRM: Declare RRM capability in this association
+ * @CONNECT_REQ_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPPORT: User space indicates external
+ *	authentication capability. Drivers can offload authentication to
+ *	userspace if this flag is set. Only applicable for cfg80211_connect()
+ *	request (connect callback).
  */
 enum cfg80211_assoc_req_flags {
-	ASSOC_REQ_DISABLE_HT		= BIT(0),
-	ASSOC_REQ_DISABLE_VHT		= BIT(1),
-	ASSOC_REQ_USE_RRM		= BIT(2),
+	ASSOC_REQ_DISABLE_HT			= BIT(0),
+	ASSOC_REQ_DISABLE_VHT			= BIT(1),
+	ASSOC_REQ_USE_RRM			= BIT(2),
+	CONNECT_REQ_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPPORT	= BIT(3),
 };
 
 /**
@@ -2391,6 +2396,33 @@ struct cfg80211_qos_map {
 };
 
 /**
+ * struct cfg80211_external_auth_params - Trigger External authentication.
+ *
+ * Commonly used across the external auth request and event interfaces.
+ *
+ * @action: action type / trigger for external authentication. Only significant
+ *	for the authentication request event interface (driver to user space).
+ * @bssid: BSSID of the peer with which the authentication has
+ *	to happen. Used by both the authentication request event and
+ *	authentication response command interface.
+ * @ssid: SSID of the AP.  Used by both the authentication request event and
+ *	authentication response command interface.
+ * @key_mgmt_suite: AKM suite of the respective authentication. Used by the
+ *	authentication request event interface.
+ * @status: status code, %WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS for successful authentication,
+ *	use %WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE if user space cannot give you
+ *	the real status code for failures. Used only for the authentication
+ *	response command interface (user space to driver).
+ */
+struct cfg80211_external_auth_params {
+	enum nl80211_external_auth_action action;
+	u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2);
+	struct cfg80211_ssid ssid;
+	unsigned int key_mgmt_suite;
+	u16 status;
+};
+
+/**
  * struct cfg80211_ops - backend description for wireless configuration
  *
  * This struct is registered by fullmac card drivers and/or wireless stacks
@@ -2685,6 +2717,9 @@ struct cfg80211_qos_map {
  *	and returning to the base channel for communication with the AP.
  * @tdls_cancel_channel_switch: Stop channel-switching with a TDLS peer. Both
  *	peers must be on the base channel when the call completes.
+ *
+ * @external_auth: indicates result of offloaded authentication processing from
+ *     user space
  */
 struct cfg80211_ops {
 	int	(*suspend)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct cfg80211_wowlan *wow);
@@ -2954,6 +2989,8 @@ struct cfg80211_ops {
 	void	(*tdls_cancel_channel_switch)(struct wiphy *wiphy,
 					      struct net_device *dev,
 					      const u8 *addr);
+	int     (*external_auth)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
+				 struct cfg80211_external_auth_params *params);
 };
 
 /*
@@ -5781,6 +5818,17 @@ void cfg80211_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_drvinfo *info);
  */
 void cfg80211_ap_stopped(struct net_device *netdev, gfp_t gfp);
 
+/**
+ * cfg80211_external_auth_request - userspace request for authentication
+ * @netdev: network device
+ * @params: External authentication parameters
+ * @gfp: allocation flags
+ * Returns: 0 on success, < 0 on error
+ */
+int cfg80211_external_auth_request(struct net_device *netdev,
+				   struct cfg80211_external_auth_params *params,
+				   gfp_t gfp);
+
 /* Logging, debugging and troubleshooting/diagnostic helpers. */
 
 /* wiphy_printk helpers, similar to dev_printk */