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| author | PÁLI Gábor János <pali.gabor@gmail.com> | 2023-07-27 11:05:17 +0200 |
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| committer | PÁLI Gábor János <pali.gabor@gmail.com> | 2023-07-27 11:05:17 +0200 |
| commit | 084335e136581edc28137b152cc559778224570e (patch) | |
| tree | 269c2e37b0abd971aeccdc1291bc1c3ca9c96aed /aports/wpa_supplicant/0001-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch | |
| parent | 1f7bcc1ae14273fce0b5d3dded52d599aa035433 (diff) | |
| download | freebsd-wifibox-alpine-084335e136581edc28137b152cc559778224570e.zip | |
Make Broadcom wireless cards work
- Import Arch Linux patches for the `broadcom-wl` driver and WPA Supplicant
- Implement support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) to allow the card
to be used with PCI pass-through
References:
- https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/broadcom-wl-dkms/
- https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/wpa_supplicant/
Tested by: venoom27 <venoom27@fromgithub>
Diffstat (limited to 'aports/wpa_supplicant/0001-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | aports/wpa_supplicant/0001-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch | 69 |
1 files changed, 69 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/aports/wpa_supplicant/0001-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch b/aports/wpa_supplicant/0001-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a395d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/aports/wpa_supplicant/0001-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +From: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net> +Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:22:00 +0100 +Subject: nl80211: add extra-ies only if allowed by driver + +Upgrading wpa_supplicant from 2.9 to 2.10 breaks broadcom-wl +based adapters. The reason for it is hostapd tries to install additional +IEs for scanning while the driver does not support this. + +The kernel indicates the maximum number of bytes for additional scan IEs +using the NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_IE_LEN attribute. Save this value and +only add additional scan IEs in case the driver can accommodate these +additional IEs. + +Reported-by: Étienne Morice <neon.emorice@mail.com> +Tested-by: Étienne Morice <neon.emorice@mail.com> +Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net> + +Bug: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2022-January/040178.html +Bug-ArchLinux: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73495 +Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1004524 +Origin: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2022-January/040185.html +--- + src/drivers/driver.h | 3 +++ + src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c | 4 ++++ + src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c | 2 +- + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) + +diff --git a/src/drivers/driver.h b/src/drivers/driver.h +index d3312a3..b5b6264 100644 +--- a/src/drivers/driver.h ++++ b/src/drivers/driver.h +@@ -2052,6 +2052,9 @@ struct wpa_driver_capa { + /** Maximum number of iterations in a single scan plan */ + u32 max_sched_scan_plan_iterations; + ++ /** Maximum number of extra IE bytes for scans */ ++ u16 max_scan_ie_len; ++ + /** Whether sched_scan (offloaded scanning) is supported */ + int sched_scan_supported; + +diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c +index 83868b7..b33b6ba 100644 +--- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c ++++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_capa.c +@@ -885,6 +885,10 @@ static int wiphy_info_handler(struct nl_msg *msg, void *arg) + nla_get_u32(tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_PLAN_ITERATIONS]); + } + ++ if (tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_IE_LEN]) ++ capa->max_scan_ie_len = ++ nla_get_u16(tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_IE_LEN]); ++ + if (tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_MATCH_SETS]) + capa->max_match_sets = + nla_get_u8(tb[NL80211_ATTR_MAX_MATCH_SETS]); +diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c +index 1316084..b0f0951 100644 +--- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c ++++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211_scan.c +@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ nl80211_scan_common(struct i802_bss *bss, u8 cmd, + wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG, "nl80211: Passive scan requested"); + } + +- if (params->extra_ies) { ++ if (params->extra_ies && drv->capa.max_scan_ie_len >= params->extra_ies_len) { + wpa_hexdump(MSG_MSGDUMP, "nl80211: Scan extra IEs", + params->extra_ies, params->extra_ies_len); + if (nla_put(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IE, params->extra_ies_len, |