ieee80211: populate management BSSID and Capability Information

[mgonzalezlopezudc]

Summary

STA-originated management frames omitted Address3/BSSID, and generated infrastructure Beacons and Probe Responses advertised zero Capability Information. Carry the procedure’s BSSID through an explicit request tag and populate ESS and modeled QoS capability bits according to frame role.

Scope

STA management, MAC encapsulation, AP management, a WLAN BSSID request tag and capability constants. Read the BSSID commit first, then the Capability Information commit.

Standards references: IEEE 802.11-2024 §§9.3.3.1 and 9.4.1.4.

Dependencies and merge order

No prerequisite within this audit series. Merge this PR before the Action No Ack, Open System authentication and scan-completion PRs; they currently carry its BSSID prerequisite.

Validation

Pinned test base: 7287f347aaca36e557c708d6930a6f5a450b2833.

Verified revised commits:

• 5d5286c372: target BSSID in STA management headers, including 30 intermediate fingerprint updates.
• 05570e9c3e: generated management capabilities, including 30 final fingerprint updates.

Both revised commits built in debug mode and passed all 30 affected fingerprint cases with tplx, ~tNl, and ~tND, using run 0 and the existing CSV time limits. The base passed all 30 original expectations. All 30 final ~tND values reproduce the reported CI results exactly; tplx and ~tNl remain unchanged at both commits. Additional individual opp_repl checks passed all three ingredients for OneNetwork at both revised commits.

Fingerprint command, from tests/fingerprint after sourcing setenv -q:

./fingerprinttest -d -m '.' -f tplx -f '~tNl' -f '~tND' -t 4 /tmp/inet-pr1199-fingerprints/bssid-verified.csv
./fingerprinttest -d -m '.' -f tplx -f '~tNl' -f '~tND' -t 4 /tmp/inet-pr1199-fingerprints/head-verified.csv

Each explicit CSV contains only the 30 configurations listed below, with the corresponding commit's tracked expectations.

Focused module checks, from the repository root:

inet_run_module_tests -m debug -f 'Ieee80211StaMgmtBssid_1\.test'
inet_run_module_tests -m debug -f 'Ieee80211(StaMgmtBssid|MgmtCapabilities|AssociationCapabilities)_1\.test'

The BSSID test passed at the first source revision. A fresh debug build and all three focused module tests passed on the exact combined head 05570e9c3e4ca1cd717b807bb3545d75c9d1b16e. All 30 fingerprint cases also passed on this head. The follow-up adds only test coverage; production code and fingerprint baselines are unchanged.

The new association capability test enters all four production association/reassociation request and response generators with seeded authenticated peers. It checks object fields and serialized bytes for QoS enabled and disabled, including clear ESS/IBSS bits. Removing each of the four capability assignments independently makes this test fail at the expected assertion. This is generator coverage, not a complete over-the-air reassociation handshake.

A matched OneNetwork/run 0 packet capture over the first second isolates the byte changes: the BSSID commit changes Address3 and FCS, and the capability commit changes Capability Information and FCS. All 25 captured frames retain matching times, subtypes and lengths across revisions. The first BSSID change is a Probe Request at 0.263510953s, from an all-zero to broadcast BSSID. The first capability change is a Beacon at 0.084206354s, from 0x0000 to 0x0001 (ESS).

Commit-message, classification and whitespace checks pass. Validation used debug builds with assertions enabled (-O0 -Wall -g0); no release-build result is claimed.

Fingerprint baselines

Each of these 30 configurations changes at both commits: the intermediate BSSID values belong to the first commit, and the final capability values belong to the second. Only ~tND entries change, in tests/fingerprint/examples.csv (13), showcases.csv (13), and tutorials.csv (4).

Directory	Configurations (run 0)
examples/dhcp	WirelessDHCP, Wireless2DHCP
examples/ipv6/mipv6	Handover, RouteOptimizationTwoCNs
examples/ipv6/mipv6roaming	Roaming
examples/ipv6/pmipv6	General
examples/wireless/handover	General
examples/wireless/qos	MacQosWithoutAggregation, MacQosWithRtsCts, MacQosWithBlockAck, MacNonQos, MacQos
examples/wireless/wiredandwirelesshostswithap	General
showcases/visualizer/canvas/ieee80211	VisualizingHandover, SignalLevels, OneNetwork, MultipleNetworks
showcases/visualizer/canvas/interfacetable	AdvancedFeatures
showcases/visualizer/canvas/networkpathactivity	ChangingPaths
showcases/visualizer/canvas/packetdrop	QueueOverflow
showcases/visualizer/canvas/physicallinkactivity	Filtering
showcases/visualizer/canvas/styling	Annotation
showcases/wireless/handover	General
showcases/wireless/multiradio	General
showcases/wireless/qos	NonQos, Qos
tutorials/configurator	Step8B, Step9, Step8A, Step12

Limits and review status

ESS/IBSS remain reserved in association frames. Tests cover Beacon, Probe Response, and all four association/reassociation request and response generators. Complete reassociation handshakes and independent receiver/BSSID combinations remain outside this coverage.

Draft pending final independent review and reconciliation with current upstream. Live PR overlap has not been reverified against the pinned test base.