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2008-11-25mac80211 : Fix setting ad-hoc mode and non-ibss channelAbhijeet Kolekar
Patch fixes the kernel trace when user tries to set ad-hoc mode on non IBSS channel. e.g iwconfig wlan0 chan 36 mode ad-hoc Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-18mac80211: remove ieee80211_notify_macJohannes Berg
Before ieee80211_notify_mac() was added, it was presented with the use case of using it to tell mac80211 that the association may have been lost because the firmware crashed/reset. Since then, it has also been used by iwlwifi to (slightly) speed up re-association after resume, a workaround around the fact that mac80211 has no suspend/resume handling yet. It is also not used by any other drivers, so clearly it cannot be necessary for "good enough" suspend/resume. Unfortunately, the callback suffers from a severe problem: It only works for station mode. If suspend/resume happens while in IBSS or any other mode (but station), then the callback is pointless. Recently, it has created a number of locking issues, first because it required rtnl locking rather than RCU due to calling sleeping functions within the critical section, and now because it's called by iwlwifi from the mac80211 workqueue that may not use the rtnl because it is flushed under rtnl. (cf. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12046) I think, therefore, that we should take a step back, remove it entirely for now and add the small feature it provided properly. For suspend and resume we will need to introduce new hooks, and for the case where the firmware was reset the driver will probably simply just pretend it has done a suspend/resume cycle to get mac80211 to reprogram the hardware completely, not just try to connect to the current AP again in station mode. When doing so, we will need to take into account locking issues and possibly defer to schedule_work from within mac80211 for the resume operation, while the suspend operation must be done directly. Proper suspend/resume should also not necessarily try to reconnect to the current AP, the time spent in suspend may have been short enough to not be disconnected from the AP, mac80211 will detect that the AP went out of range quickly if it did, and if the association is lost then the AP will disassoc as soon as a data frame is sent. We might also take into account WWOL then, and have mac80211 program the hardware into such a mode where it is available and requested. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-12mac80211: fix notify_mac functionJohannes Berg
The ieee80211_notify_mac() function uses ieee80211_sta_req_auth() which in turn calls ieee80211_set_disassoc() which calls a few functions that need to be able to sleep, so ieee80211_notify_mac() cannot use RCU locking for the interface list and must use rtnl locking instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10mac80211: fix a buffer overrun in station debug codeJianjun Kong
net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c The trailing zero was written to state[4], it's out of bounds. Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27mac80211: correct warnings in minstrel rate control algorithmJohn W. Linville
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-14ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspaceJohannes Berg
As I've reported, ath9k currently fails utterly when fragmentation is enabled. This makes ath9k "support" hardware fragmentation by not supporting fragmentation at all to avoid the double-free issue. The patch also changes mac80211 to report errors from the driver operation to userspace. That hack in ath9k should be removed once the rate control algorithm it has is fixed, and we can at that time consider removing the hw fragmentation support entirely since it's not used by any driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-14mac80211: Fix scan RX processing oopsJouni Malinen
ieee80211_bss_info_update() can return NULL. Verify that this is not the case before calling ieee802111_rx_bss_put() which would trigger an oops in interrupt context in atomic_dec_and_lock(). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-14mac80211: fix debugfs netdev renameJohannes Berg
If, for some reason, a netdev has no debugfs dir, we shouldn't try to rename that dir. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-14mac80211: fix HT information element parsingJohannes Berg
There's no checking that the HT IEs are of the right length which can be used by an attacker to cause an out-of-bounds access by sending a too short HT information/capability IE. Fix it by simply pretending those IEs didn't exist when too short. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-14mac80211: fix debugfs lockupJohannes Berg
When debugfs_create_dir fails, sta_info_debugfs_add_work will not terminate because it will find the same station again and again. This is possible whenever debugfs fails for whatever reason; one reason is a race condition in mac80211, unfortunately we cannot do much about it, so just document it, it just means some station may be missing from debugfs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-12net/mac80211/rx.c: fix build errorIngo Molnar
older versions of gcc do not recognize that ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding() is unused when CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is disabled: net/built-in.o: In function `ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding': rx.c:(.text+0xd89af): undefined reference to `mpp_path_lookup' rx.c:(.text+0xd89c6): undefined reference to `mpp_path_add' as this code construct: if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif)) CALL_RXH(ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding); still causes ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding() to be linked in. Protect these places with an #ifdef. commit b0dee578 ("Fix modpost failure when rx handlers are not inlined.") solved part of this problem - this patch is still needed. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-06mac80211: avoid "Wireless Event too big" message for assoc responseJohn W. Linville
The association response IEs are sent to userland with an IWEVCUSTOM event, which unfortunately is limited to a little more than 100 bytes of IE information with the encoding used. Many APs send so much IE information that this message overflows. When the IWEVCUSTOM event is too large, the kernel doesn't send it to userland anyway -- better just not to send it. An attempt was made by Jouni Malinen to correct this issue by converting to use IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE messages instead ("mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM"). Unfortunately, that caused a problem due to 32-/64-bit interactions on some systems and was reverted after the 'userland ABI' rule was invoked. That leaves us with this option instead of a proper fix, at least until we move to a cfg80211-based solution. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06mac80211: add the 'minstrel' rate control algorithmFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06mac80211: add multi-rate retry supportFelix Fietkau
This patch adjusts the rate control API to allow multi-rate retry if supported by the driver. The ieee80211_hw struct specifies how many alternate rate selections the driver supports. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06mac80211: free up 2 bytes in skb->cbFelix Fietkau
Free up 2 bytes in skb->cb to be used for multi-rate retry later. Move iv_len and icv_len initialization into key alloc. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06mac80211: remove redundant check in ieee80211_master_start_xmit ↵Rami Rosen
(net/mac80211/tx.c) - This patch (against the linux-wireless-next git tree) removes a redundant check in ieee80211_master_start_xmit (net/mac80211/tx.c) and adjust indentation in this method accordingly. In this method, there is no need to call again the ieee80211_is_data() method; this is checked immediately before, in the "if" command (we will not enter this block unless ieee80211_is_data() is true, so that the "and" (&&) condition in that "if" command will be fullfilled ). Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06mac80211: remove shadowed variables in ieee80211_master_start_xmitTomas Winkler
This patch removes doubly defined variables in ieee80211_master_start_xmit Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06wireless: restore revert lost to merge damageLinus Torvalds
Restore revert "mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM", originally reverted in commit bf7394ccc13fe291d9258f01113b4c61214ddeae. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-30Fix modpost failure when rx handlers are not inlined.Davide Pesavento
When CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH=n and CONFIG_MAC80211_NOINLINE=y, gcc doesn't optimize out a call to ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding, even if the previous comparison is always false in this case. This leads to the following errors during modpost: ERROR: "mpp_path_lookup" [net/mac80211/mac80211.ko] undefined! ERROR: "mpp_path_add" [net/mac80211/mac80211.ko] undefined! Fix by removing the possibility of uninlining ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding rx handler. Signed-off-by: Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-30mac80211: remove wme_tx_queue and wme_rx_queue from net/mac80211/sta_info.hRami Rosen
This patch removes wme_tx_queue and wme_rx_queue from struct sta_info and from the debugfs sub-structure of struct sta_info in net/mac80211/sta_info.h, as they are useless and not used. Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-30mac80211: fixups for "make master iface not wireless"Johannes Berg
In "mac80211: make master iface not wireless" I accidentally forgot to include these changes ... leading to the expected BUG_ON errors. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: fix led behavior in IBSSEmmanuel Grumbach
This patch fixes the led behavior in IBSS. After we joined an IBSS cell we need to inform the led that we got associated. Although there is no 802.11 association in IBSS mode, the semantic of "There is a link" is relevant. This allows the led to blink in IBSS mode (at least this solves a bug for iwlwifi). Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: probe with correct SSIDJohannes Berg
While associated, we should probe with the SSID we're associated to, not the scan SSID. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: clean up rate control APIJohannes Berg
Long awaited, hard work. This patch totally cleans up the rate control API to remove the requirement to include internal headers outside of net/mac80211/. There's one internal use in the PID algorithm left for mesh networking, we'll have to figure out a way to clean that one up and decide how to do the peer link evaluation, possibly independent of the rate control algorithm or via new API. Additionally, ath9k is left using the cross-inclusion hack for now, we will add new API where necessary to make this work properly, but right now I'm not expert enough to do it. It's still off better than before. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: fix mesh action frame handlingJohannes Berg
When I split off the action frame handling I made the code drop all action frames we don't want to handle. This is wrong since some action frames are actually handled via rx_h_mgmt through being queued to the sta/mesh implementations. Thanks to Li YanBo for noticing the problem. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Li YanBo <dreamfly281@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: mesh portal functionality supportYanBo
Currently the mesh code doesn't support bridging mesh point interfaces with wired ethernet or AP to construct an MPP or MAP. This patch adds code to support the "6 address frame format packet" functionality to mesh point interfaces. Now the mesh network can be used as backhaul for end to end communication. Signed-off-by: Li YanBo <dreamfly281@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: allow interface settings changes only when downJohannes Berg
We currently allow monitor flags changes and mesh ID changes when the interface is up, which can lead to trouble. Change it to only allow when down. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24cfg80211: show interface typeJohannes Berg
This patch makes cfg80211 show the interface in the nl80211 information about a specific interface. API users are required to keep the type updated (everything else is fairly complicated) but you will get a warning if you fail to keep it updated. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: make master iface not wirelessJohannes Berg
There's no need to register the master netdev with cfg80211, in fact, this is quite dangerous and lead to having to add checks for the master interface all over the config handlers. This patch removes the "ieee80211_ptr" from the master iface in favour of having a small netdev_priv() associated with the master interface that stores the ieee80211_local pointer. Because of this, a lot of code in the configuration handlers can go away. To make this patch easier to verify I have also removed a number of wiphy_priv() calls in favour of getting the sdata first and then the local pointer from that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-20net: Use hton[sl]() instead of __constant_hton[sl]() where applicableArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-15mac80211 : Fix mode change hard_start_xmit functionAbhijeet Kolekar
When monitor mode is changed to BSS or IBSS, data trasnfer can not happen because proper transmit function is not assigend for BSS ,IBSS mode. This patch fixes this problem by assigning the ieee80211_subif_start_xmit to device's hard_start_xmit function. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: remove debug frame dumpingJohannes Berg
You can just pull up a monitor interface to get much more detailed information, or, when debugging a driver, insert dump code into the driver (which usually you will have to do anyway to dump the driver-specific information). Hence this option is useless. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: remove beacon countersJohannes Berg
The beacon counters mac80211 keeps are only used for debugfs, unfortunately, they are incorrect for many hardware designs, namely any design that has a beacon template. Hence, remove the counters so we don't create the impression they are usable. This also allows removing the beacon MESH #ifdef again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: fix sta_info kernel-doc warningJohannes Berg
Sorry, forgot to run kernel-doc and just got the output from the nightly run by email, this fixes a warning which I introduced when doing the first RC API cleanups. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: fix virtual interfaces vs. injectionJohannes Berg
Currently, virtual interface pointers passed to drivers might be from monitor interfaces and as such completely uninitialised because we do not tell the driver about monitor interfaces when those are created. Instead of passing them, we should therefore indicate to the driver that there is no information; do that by passing a NULL value and adjust drivers to cope with it. As a result, some mac80211 API functions also need to cope with a NULL vif pointer so drivers can still call them unconditionally. Also, when injecting frames we really don't want to pass NULL all the time, if we know we are the source address of a frame and have a local interface for that address, we can to use that interface. This also helps with processing the frame correctly for that interface which will help the 802.11w implementation. It's not entirely correct for VLANs or WDS interfaces because there the MAC address isn't unique, but it's already a lot better than what we do now. Finally, when injecting without a matching local interface, don't assign sequence numbers at all. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: pass AP vif pointer for VLANsJohannes Berg
We cannot pass a VLAN vif pointer to the driver since those are entirely virtual and we never tell the driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: share sta_info->ht_infoJohannes Berg
Rate control algorithms may need access to a station's HT capabilities, so share the ht_info struct in the public station API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: move txrate_idx into RC algorithmsJohannes Berg
The sta_info->txrate_idx member isn't used by all RC algorithms in the way it was intended to be used, move it into those that require it (only PID) and keep track in the core code of which rate was last used for reporting to userspace and the mesh MLME. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: share sta->supp_ratesJohannes Berg
As more preparation for a saner rate control algorithm API, share the supported rates bitmap in the public API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: move last_txrate_idx into RC algorithmsJohannes Berg
This variable in sta_info is only used in a meaningful way by the Intel RC algorithms, so move it into those. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: small rate control changesJohannes Berg
This patch fixes mac80211 to not rely on the rate control algorithm to update sta->tx_retry_failed and sta->tx_retry_count (even if we don't currently use them), removes a number of completely unused values we don't even show in debugfs and changes the code in ieee80211_tx_status() to not look up the sta_info repeatedly. The only behaviour change here would be not calling the rate control function rate_control_tx_status() when no sta_info is found, but all rate control algorithms ignore such calls anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: share STA information with driverJohannes Berg
This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when they get around to updating, and might also help with implementing rate control algorithms without internals. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: warn on some invalid vlan operationsJohannes Berg
These should never happen, but better warn about them than crashing a driver, the fact that they never happen is rather subtle throughout mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: move regular interface handlingJohannes Berg
Move the code to handle regular interfaces out of main.c and into iface.c, keep only the master interface stuff in main.c. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: use nl80211 interface typesJohannes Berg
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need to translate them any more now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: inform driver of basic ratesetJohannes Berg
Drivers need to know the basic rateset to be able to configure the ACK/CTS programming in hardware correctly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: clean up some commentsJohannes Berg
Some comments refer to 80211.o or similar; also remove a comment about implementing fragments better, we really have better things to do. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: clean up scan namespaceJohannes Berg
Most of the scan functions are called ieee80211_sta_scan_* or similar, make clean it up so they are all just called ieee80211_scan_*. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: make bridge_packets a virtual interface optionJohannes Berg
The bridge_packets configuration really should be per virtual interface (theoretically per AP/VLAN, but this is much easier); there currently is no way to set it yet though. Also invert the option to "NO_BRIDGE_PACKETS" so the default is to bridge. While at it, also document the flags properly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: move ieee80211_set_freq to utilsJohannes Berg
It really doesn't belong into the wireless extensions code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>