BACKPORT: cfg80211: allow userspace to take ownership of interfaces

(cherry pick from commit 78f22b6a3a9254460d23060530b48ae02a9394e3)

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>
Bug: 25561044
Change-Id: I5a9c8883c5c204ac5d2917ab8492b44daf4b71e7

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