linux-stable/include/uapi
Johannes Berg 78f22b6a3a cfg80211: allow userspace to take ownership of interfaces
When dynamically creating interfaces from userspace, e.g. for P2P usage,
such interfaces are usually owned by the process that created them, i.e.
wpa_supplicant. Should wpa_supplicant crash, such interfaces will often
cease operating properly and cause problems on restarting the process.

To avoid this problem, introduce an ownership concept for interfaces. If
an interface is owned by a netlink socket, then it will be destroyed if
the netlink socket is closed for any reason, including if the process it
belongs to crashed. This gives us a race-free way to get rid of any such
interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-04-09 10:55:28 +02:00
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asm-generic compat: let architectures define __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_GETDENTS64 2014-03-04 09:05:33 +01:00
drm Merge tag 'vmwgfx-fixes-3.14-2014-02-18' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/linux into drm-fixes 2014-02-19 08:21:02 +10:00
linux cfg80211: allow userspace to take ownership of interfaces 2014-04-09 10:55:28 +02:00
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rdma IB/core: Re-enable create_flow/destroy_flow uverbs 2013-11-17 08:22:09 -08:00
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sound ALSA: compress: add num_sample_rates in snd_codec_desc 2014-01-07 18:33:40 +01:00
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xen xen: install xen/gntdev.h and xen/gntalloc.h 2014-02-11 10:12:36 -05:00
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