[PATCH] nl80211: Fix compatibility with older version of libnl

Jonathan Bither jonbither
Wed Oct 1 06:18:14 PDT 2014


Thanks Ilan,

your patch does indeed fix the issue for me.

On 10/01/2014 02:01 AM, Ilan Peer wrote:
> Commit "nl80211: Remove bridge FDB entry upon sta_remove()" used
> nl_sock and nl_socket_* functions which are not compatible with older
> versions of libnl. Fix this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer at intel.com>
> ---
>   src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c |    6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> index 5c922a0..e9e44c0 100644
> --- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> +++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ struct wpa_driver_nl80211_data {
>
>   	int eapol_sock; /* socket for EAPOL frames */
>
> -	struct nl_sock *rtnl_sk; /* nl_sock for NETLINK_ROUTE */
> +	struct nl_handle *rtnl_sk; /* nl_sock for NETLINK_ROUTE */
>
>   	int default_if_indices[16];
>   	int *if_indices;
> @@ -4938,7 +4938,7 @@ static void wpa_driver_nl80211_deinit(struct i802_bss *bss)
>   				   "interface %s from bridge %s: %s",
>   				   bss->ifname, bss->brname, strerror(errno));
>   		if (drv->rtnl_sk)
> -			nl_socket_free(drv->rtnl_sk);
> +			nl80211_handle_destroy(drv->rtnl_sk);
>   	}
>   	if (bss->added_bridge) {
>   		if (linux_br_del(drv->global->ioctl_sock, bss->brname) < 0)
> @@ -10104,7 +10104,7 @@ static void *i802_init(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
>
>   #ifdef CONFIG_LIBNL3_ROUTE
>   	if (bss->added_if_into_bridge) {
> -		drv->rtnl_sk = nl_socket_alloc();
> +		drv->rtnl_sk = nl80211_handle_alloc();
>   		if (drv->rtnl_sk == NULL) {
>   			wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, "nl80211: Failed to allocate nl_sock");
>   			goto failed;
>



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