cfg80211/nl80211: Notify connection request failure in AP mode

In AP mode, when a station requests connection to an AP and if the
request is failed for particular reason, userspace is notified about the
failure through NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED command. Reason for the failure
is sent through the attribute NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON.

Signed-off-by: Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu <c_ppitch@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 458416279347..7df9b500c804 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -573,6 +573,11 @@
  * @NL80211_CMD_STOP_P2P_DEVICE: Stop the given P2P Device, identified by
  *	its %NL80211_ATTR_WDEV identifier.
  *
+ * @NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED: connection request to an AP failed; used to
+ *	notify userspace that AP has rejected the connection request from a
+ *	station, due to particular reason. %NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON
+ *	is used for this.
+ *
  * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number
  * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use
  */
@@ -719,6 +724,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
 	NL80211_CMD_START_P2P_DEVICE,
 	NL80211_CMD_STOP_P2P_DEVICE,
 
+	NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED,
+
 	/* add new commands above here */
 
 	/* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */
@@ -1262,6 +1269,10 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  *	was used to provide the hint. For the different types of
  *	allowed user regulatory hints see nl80211_user_reg_hint_type.
  *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON: The reason for which AP has rejected
+ *	the connection request from a station. nl80211_connect_failed_reason
+ *	enum has different reasons of connection failure.
+ *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
  * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
  */
@@ -1517,6 +1528,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
 
 	NL80211_ATTR_USER_REG_HINT_TYPE,
 
+	NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON,
+
 	/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
 
 	__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -3045,4 +3058,15 @@ enum nl80211_probe_resp_offload_support_attr {
 	NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_80211U =	1<<3,
 };
 
+/**
+ * enum nl80211_connect_failed_reason - connection request failed reasons
+ * @NL80211_CONN_FAIL_MAX_CLIENTS: Maximum number of clients that can be
+ *	handled by the AP is reached.
+ * @NL80211_CONN_FAIL_BLOCKED_CLIENT: Client's MAC is in the AP's blocklist.
+ */
+enum nl80211_connect_failed_reason {
+	NL80211_CONN_FAIL_MAX_CLIENTS,
+	NL80211_CONN_FAIL_BLOCKED_CLIENT,
+};
+
 #endif /* __LINUX_NL80211_H */