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nl80211: report 4ADDR status with GET_INTERFACE

PATCH New Antonio Quartulli 1 participant 1 message Jun 14, 2018 802.11 (including cfg80211/NL80211)

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PATCH 1/1 nl80211: report 4ADDR status with GET_INTERFACE

User space tools might be interested in knowing the current status of the 4ADDR property of an interface (when supported).

Send the status along with the other attributes when replying to a GET_INTERFACE netlink query.

Signed-off-by Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
net/wireless/nl80211.c +2 -1
index 07514ca011b2..cfed20dbaa7e 100644
@@ -2757,7 +2757,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_iface(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq, int flag
 	    nla_put(msg, NL80211_ATTR_MAC, ETH_ALEN, wdev_address(wdev)) ||
 	    nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_GENERATION,
 			rdev->devlist_generation ^
-			(cfg80211_rdev_list_generation << 2)))
+			(cfg80211_rdev_list_generation << 2)) ||
+	    nla_put_u8(msg, NL80211_ATTR_4ADDR, wdev->use_4addr))
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 
 	if (rdev->ops->get_channel) {
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