mac80211: make ieee80211_vif_to_wdev work when the vif isn't in the driver

This will allow the low level driver to get the wdev during
the add_interface flow.
In order to do that, remove a few checks from there and do
not return NULL for vifs that were not yet added to the
driver. Note that all the current callers of this helper
function assume that the vif already exists:
 - The callers from the drivers already have a vif pointer.
 Before this change, ieee80211_vif_to_wdev would return NULL
 in some cases, but those callers don't even check they
 get a non-NULL pointer from ieee80211_vif_to_wdev.
 - The callers from net/mac80211/cfg.c assume the vif is
 already added to the driver as well.

So, this change has no impact on existing callers of this
helper function.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20210409123755.6078d3517095.I1907a45f267a62dab052bcc44428aa7a2005ffc9@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index c21a0e27b35e..445b66c6eb7e 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1768,10 +1768,7 @@ struct ieee80211_vif *wdev_to_ieee80211_vif(struct wireless_dev *wdev);
  *
  * This can be used by mac80211 drivers with direct cfg80211 APIs
  * (like the vendor commands) that needs to get the wdev for a vif.
- *
- * Note that this function may return %NULL if the given wdev isn't
- * associated with a vif that the driver knows about (e.g. monitor
- * or AP_VLAN interfaces.)
+ * This can also be useful to get the netdev associated to a vif.
  */
 struct wireless_dev *ieee80211_vif_to_wdev(struct ieee80211_vif *vif);