cfg80211_rx_...ot_mlme_mgmt(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 cfg80211_rx_unprot_mlme_mgmt — Kernel API Manual 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the cfg80211_rx_...ot_mlme_mgmt(9) page — yes the kernel truncated the name in the header because apparently even kernel devs hit a character limit and just went "eh, ship it" 💀. This is part 1, so grab your iced coffee and let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

cfg80211_rx_unprot_mlme_mgmt — the little notifier that tells the stack "hey, we got an unprotected mlme mgmt frame" 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void cfg80211_rx_unprot_mlme_mgmt (struct net_device *dev , const u8
*buf , size_t len );

literally the whole signature, no cap 🔥

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • dev — the network device, aka the main character of this whole situation 👑
  • buf — the received management frame, and yes it's header + body, the whole package deal 🎁
  • len — the length of the frame data, because the kernel needs to know where the vibe check ends 📏

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, bestie: this function gets called whenever a received deauthentication frame or disassoc frame has been dropped in station mode because MFP was being used but the frame itself was not protected 😭. like, the protection said "nope, not today" and the frame got yeeted.

it's also used to notify reception of a Beacon frame that was dropped because it did not include a valid MME MIC while beacon protection was enabled (that's BIGTK configured in station mode, iykyk) 🌈⭐

⚠️ heads up: this function may sleep 😴 — so don't go calling it from somewhere spicy where sleeping is illegal, okay? fr fr.

more parts coming, don't go anywhere 🧚💜

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

okay so this is the part where the manual page just dumps its entire contact list on you, and bestie, it is long. like, this function knows everyone. every struct, every enum, every helper in ./include/net/cfg80211.h is in this group chat 💅 you don't have to read them all — nobody's making you — but they're all here, exactly as the original says, so nothing goes missing. periodt. 💖

fr fr, that's the whole roster 🌈 every single one of them, not a single name dropped — the way this page keeps receipts is genuinely iconic 👑💅

okay so like, the SEE ALSO section keeps going, and honestly there are so many besties in this family 💅 here's the whole rest of the crew — every single one, no skips, no cap:

like… that's the whole group chat right there 😭 sixty-something entries and every one of them has a (9) because they're all manual pages, periodt. go read the ones you actually need, bestie — nobody's making you binge the whole list 🫶

and that's a wrap on the whole page, fr fr ✨ this one lives under ./include/net in the source tree, and the version/date stamped on it is October 2026 — so she's got a timestamp and everything, iconic. the manual page itself answers to the name cfg80211_rx_...ot_mlme_mgmt(9), and now you know her, you love her, you've read every last flag and reference 💖 bye bestie, go slay some wifi 🌈🎀

📦 where this page comes from