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mac80211: Robust Action frame categories for MFP
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IEEE 802.11w/D9.0 introduces a mechanism for Action field Category
values to be used to select which Action frames are Robust. Public and
Vendor-specific categories are marked as not Robust in IEEE 802.11w;
HT will be marked not Robust in IEEE 802.11n. A new Vendor-specific
Protected category is allocated for Robust vendor-specific Action
frames. Another new category, Protected Dual of Action, is introduced
for protecting some existing Public Action frames (e.g., IEEE 802.11y
protected enablement).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jouni Malinen authored and John W. Linville committed May 11, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -1068,8 +1068,12 @@ enum ieee80211_category {
WLAN_CATEGORY_DLS = 2,
WLAN_CATEGORY_BACK = 3,
WLAN_CATEGORY_PUBLIC = 4,
WLAN_CATEGORY_HT = 7,
WLAN_CATEGORY_SA_QUERY = 8,
WLAN_CATEGORY_PROTECTED_DUAL_OF_ACTION = 9,
WLAN_CATEGORY_WMM = 17,
WLAN_CATEGORY_VENDOR_SPECIFIC_PROTECTED = 126,
WLAN_CATEGORY_VENDOR_SPECIFIC = 127,
};

/* SPECTRUM_MGMT action code */
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if (ieee80211_has_protected(hdr->frame_control))
return true;
category = ((u8 *) hdr) + 24;
return *category != WLAN_CATEGORY_PUBLIC;
return *category != WLAN_CATEGORY_PUBLIC &&
*category != WLAN_CATEGORY_HT &&
*category != WLAN_CATEGORY_VENDOR_SPECIFIC;
}

return false;
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