mac80211: fix virtual interfaces vs. injection

Currently, virtual interface pointers passed to drivers might be
from monitor interfaces and as such completely uninitialised
because we do not tell the driver about monitor interfaces when
those are created. Instead of passing them, we should therefore
indicate to the driver that there is no information; do that by
passing a NULL value and adjust drivers to cope with it.

As a result, some mac80211 API functions also need to cope with
a NULL vif pointer so drivers can still call them unconditionally.

Also, when injecting frames we really don't want to pass NULL all
the time, if we know we are the source address of a frame and have
a local interface for that address, we can to use that interface.
This also helps with processing the frame correctly for that
interface which will help the 802.11w implementation. It's not
entirely correct for VLANs or WDS interfaces because there the MAC
address isn't unique, but it's already a lot better than what we
do now.

Finally, when injecting without a matching local interface, don't
assign sequence numbers at all.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index d6669fd3ffa8..003e4a03874e 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_info {
 
 	union {
 		struct {
+			/* NB: vif can be NULL for injected frames */
 			struct ieee80211_vif *vif;
 			struct ieee80211_key_conf *hw_key;
 			struct ieee80211_sta *sta;