[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 01/15] wifi: cfg80211: remove links only on AP

Sasha Levin
2023-08-29T13:35:20Z

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

[ Upstream commit 34d4e3eb67fed9c19719bedb748e5a8b6ccc97a5 ]

Since links are only controlled by userspace via cfg80211
in AP mode, also only remove them from the driver in that
case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230608163202.ed65b94916fa.I2458c46888284cc5ce30715fe642bc5fc4340c8f@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/wireless/util.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/util.c b/net/wireless/util.c
index 39680e7bad45a..f433f3fdd9e94 100644
--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
* Copyright 2007-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
* Copyright 2013-2014 Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
* Copyright 2017 Intel Deutschland GmbH
- * Copyright (C) 2018-2022 Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright (C) 2018-2023 Intel Corporation
*/
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
@@ -2479,6 +2479,13 @@ void cfg80211_remove_links(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
{
unsigned int link_id;

+ /*
+ * links are controlled by upper layers (userspace/cfg)
+ * only for AP mode, so only remove them here for AP
+ */
+ if (wdev->iftype != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
+ return;
+
wdev_lock(wdev);
if (wdev->valid_links) {
for_each_valid_link(wdev, link_id)
--
2.40.1