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wpa_supplicant: Add support for VHT BSS membership selector

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This allows wpa_supplicant to associate to an AP that has VHT BSS
membership selector set to indicate VHT support is required for the BSS.

Without the patch it was impossible to connect to, e.g., hostapd-based
AP that has require_vht=1. wpa_supplicant was complaining with:
  hardware does not support required rate 63.0 Mbps

Signed-hostap: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
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Michal Kazior 2013-07-20 17:28:42 +03:00 • committed by Jouni Malinen
parent 3f9a8137f5
commit c8ebeda406
3 changed files with 45 additions and 1 deletions
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wpa_supplicant/events.c
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@ -548,6 +548,24 @@ static int ht_supported(const struct hostapd_hw_modes *mode)
}
static int vht_supported(const struct hostapd_hw_modes *mode)
{
if (!(mode->flags & HOSTAPD_MODE_FLAG_VHT_INFO_KNOWN)) {
/*
* The driver did not indicate whether it supports VHT. Assume
* it does to avoid connection issues.
*/
return 1;
}
/*
* A VHT non-AP STA shall support MCS 0-7 for one spatial stream.
* TODO: Verify if this complies with the standard
*/
return (mode->vht_mcs_set[0] & 0x3) != 3;
}
static int rate_match(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s, struct wpa_bss *bss)
{
const struct hostapd_hw_modes *mode = NULL, *modes;
@ -613,6 +631,18 @@ static int rate_match(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s, struct wpa_bss *bss)
continue;
}
/* There's also a VHT selector for 802.11ac */
if (flagged && ((rate_ie[j] & 0x7f) ==
BSS_MEMBERSHIP_SELECTOR_VHT_PHY)) {
if (!vht_supported(mode)) {
wpa_dbg(wpa_s, MSG_DEBUG,
" hardware does not support "
"VHT PHY");
return 0;
}
continue;
}
if (!flagged)
continue;