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2009-03-05mac80211: Fix quality reporting for wireless statsJohannes Berg
Since "mac80211/cfg80211: move iwrange handler to cfg80211", the results for link quality from "iwlist scan" and "iwconfig" commands have been very different. The results are now consistent. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reported- and tested-by: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-05mac80211: Notify the driver only when the beacon interval changesSujith
Currently, the driver is unconditionally notified of beacon interval. This is a problem in AP mode, because the driver has to know that the beacon interval has actualy changed to recalculate TBTT and reset the HW TSF. Fix this to make mac80211 notify the driver only when the beacon interval has been reconfigured to a new value. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: Give it some time to do the TSF syncAlina Friedrichsen
Give slow hardware some time to do the TSF sync, to not run into an IBSS merging endless loop in some rarely situations. Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: Don't merge with the same BSSIDAlina Friedrichsen
It was not a good idea to do a TSF reset on strange IBSS merges to the same BSSID. For example it will break the TSF sync of ath9k completely and it is unnecessary as all hardware I have tested do a TSF sync to a higher value automatically and IBSS merges are only done to higher TSF values. It only need a TSF reset to accept a lower value, when the IBSS network is changed manually. Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: Introduce a generic commit() to apply changesAlina Friedrichsen
This patch introduces a generic commit() function which initiate a new network joining process. It should be called after some interface config changes, so that the changes get applied more cleanly. Currently set_ssid() and set_bssid() call it. Others can be added in future patches. In version 1 the header files was forgotten, sorry. Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: Add software scan notifiersMichael Buesch
This adds optional notifier functions for software scan. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211/cfg80211: move iwrange handler to cfg80211Johannes Berg
The previous patch made cfg80211 generally aware of the signal type a given hardware will give, so now it can implement SIOCGIWRANGE itself, removing more wext stuff from mac80211. Might need to be a little more parametrized once we have more hardware using cfg80211 and new hardware capabilities. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27cfg80211: clean up signal typeJohannes Berg
It wasn't a good idea to make the signal type a per-BSS option, although then it is closer to the actual value. Move it to be a per-wiphy setting, update mac80211 to match. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: add missing kernel-docJohannes Berg
Document the new shutdown member. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27cfg80211/mac80211: fill qual.qual value/adjust max_qual.qualJohannes Berg
Due to various bugs in the software stack we end up having to fill qual.qual; level should be used, but wpa_supplicant doesn't properly ignore qual.qual, NM should use qual.level regardless of that because qual.qual is 0 but doesn't handle IW_QUAL_DBM right now. So fill qual.qual with the qual.level value clamped to -110..-40 dBm or just the regular 'unspecified' signal level. This requires a mac80211 change to properly announce the max_qual.qual and avg_qual.qual values. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27nl80211: Provide access to STA TX/RX packet countersJouni Malinen
The TX/RX packet counters are needed to fill in RADIUS Accounting attributes Acct-Output-Packets and Acct-Input-Packets. We already collect the needed information, but only the TX/RX bytes were previously exposed through nl80211. Allow applications to fetch the packet counters, too, to provide more complete support for accounting. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27nl80211: Optional IEs into scan requestJouni Malinen
This extends the NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN command to allow applications to specify a set of information element(s) to be added into Probe Request frames with NL80211_ATTR_IE. This provides support for the MLME-SCAN.request primitive parameter VendorSpecificInfo and can be used, e.g., to implement WPS scanning. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: Extend the rate control API with an update callbackSujith
The AP can switch dynamically between 20/40 Mhz channel width, in which case we switch the local operating channel, but the rate control algorithm is not notified. This patch adds a new callback to indicate such changes to the RC algorithm. Currently, HT channel width change is notified, but this callback can be used to indicate any new requirements that might come up later on. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: split IBSS/managed codeJohannes Berg
This patch splits out the ibss code and data from managed (station) mode. The reason to do this is to better separate the state machines, and have the code be contained better so it gets easier to determine what exactly a given change will affect, that in turn makes it easier to understand. This is quite some churn, especially because I split sdata->u.sta into sdata->u.mgd and sdata->u.ibss, but I think it's easier to maintain that way. I've also shuffled around some code -- null function sending is only applicable to managed interfaces so put that into that file, some other functions are needed from various places so put them into util, and also rearranged the prototypes in ieee80211_i.h accordingly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: fix aggregation for hardware with ampdu queuesJohannes Berg
Hardware with AMPDU queues currently has broken aggregation. This patch fixes it by making all A-MPDUs go over the regular AC queues, but keeping track of the hardware queues in mac80211. As a first rough version, it actually stops the AC queue for extended periods of time, which can be removed by adding buffering internal to mac80211, but is currently not a huge problem because people rarely use multiple TIDs that are in the same AC (and iwlwifi currently doesn't operate as AP). This is a short-term fix, my current medium-term plan, which I hope to execute soon as well, but am not sure can finish before .30, looks like this: 1) rework the internal queuing layer in mac80211 that we use for fragments if the driver stopped queue in the middle of a fragmented frame to be able to queue more frames at once (rather than just a single frame with its fragments) 2) instead of stopping the entire AC queue, queue up the frames in a per-station/per-TID queue during aggregation session initiation, when the session has come up take all those frames and put them onto the queue from 1) 3) push the ampdu queue layer abstraction this patch introduces in mac80211 into the driver, and remove the virtual queue stuff from mac80211 again This plan will probably also affect ath9k in that mac80211 queues the frames instead of passing them down, even when there are no ampdu queues. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: disallow moving netnsJohannes Berg
mac80211 currently assumes init_net for all interfaces, so really will not cope well with network namespaces, at least at this time. To change this, we would have keep track of the netns in addition to the ifindex, which is not something I want to think about right now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: Make sure non-HT connection when IEEE80211_STA_TKIP_WEP_USED is setVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
It is possible that some broken AP might send HT IEs in it's assoc response even though the STA has not sent them in assoc req when WEP/TKIP is used as pairwise cipher suite. Also it is important to check this bit before enabling ht mode in beacon receive path. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-14Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-02-13mac80211: split managed/ibss code a little moreJohannes Berg
It appears that you can completely mess up mac80211 in IBSS mode by sending it a disassoc or deauth: it'll stop queues and do a lot more but not ever do anything again. Fix this by not handling all those frames in IBSS mode, Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: fix IBSS authJohannes Berg
The code beyond this point is supposed to be used for non-IBSS (managed) mode only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: calculate wstats_flags on the flyJohannes Berg
Just to make wext.c more self-contained. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: use cfg80211s BSS infrastructureJohannes Berg
Remove all the code from mac80211 to keep track of BSSes and use the cfg80211-provided code completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: dont add BSS when creating IBSSJohannes Berg
There's no need to create a BSS struct only to pass it to ieee80211_sta_join_ibss, so refactor this function into __ieee80211_sta_join_ibss which takes all the relevant paramters, and ieee80211_sta_join_ibss which takes a BSS struct (used when joining an IBSS that already has other members). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13cfg80211/nl80211: scanning (and mac80211 update to use it)Johannes Berg
This patch adds basic scan capability to cfg80211/nl80211 and changes mac80211 to use it. The BSS list that cfg80211 maintains is made driver-accessible with a private area in each BSS struct, but mac80211 doesn't yet use it. That's another large project. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: further cleanups to stopping BA sessionsJohannes Berg
Essentially consisting of passing the sta_info pointer around, instead of repeatedly doing hash lookups. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: RX aggregation: clean up stop sessionJohannes Berg
Clean up the locking by splitting it into two functions, this will also enable further cleanups of stopping all sessions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: clean up BA session teardownJohannes Berg
The sta_info pointer can very well be passed to ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions, this will later allow us to pass it through even further. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: fix aggregation timer lockupsJohannes Berg
As far as I can tell, there are possible lockups because both the RX session_timer and TX addba_resp_timer are del_timer_sync'ed under the sta spinlock which both timer functions take. Additionally, the TX agg code seems to leak memory when TX aggregation is not disabled before the sta_info is freed. Fix this by making the free code a little smarter in the RX agg case, and actually make the sta_info_destroy code free the TX agg info in the TX agg case. We won't notify the peer, but it'll notice something is wrong anyway, and normally this only happens after we've told it in some other way we will no longer talk to it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: fix race in TX aggregationJohannes Berg
When disabling TX aggregation because it was rejected or from the timer (it was not accepted), there is a window where we first set the state to operation, unlock, and then undo the whole thing. Avoid that by splitting up the stop function. Also get rid of the pointless sta_info indirection in the timer. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: document TX aggregation (and small cleanup)Johannes Berg
Add documentation and move ieee80211_start_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe to right after ieee80211_start_tx_ba_cb. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: hardware should not deny going back to legacyJohannes Berg
Doing so would be an MLME protocol violation when the peer disabled the aggregation session. Quick driver review indicates that there are error codes passed all over the drivers but cannot ever be nonzero except in error conditions that would indicate mac80211 bugs. No real changes here, since no drivers currently can return -EBUSY. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: restrict aggregation to supported interface modesJohannes Berg
We can only support aggregation on AP/STA right now. HT isn't defined for IBSS, WDS or MESH. In the WDS/MESH cases it's not clear what to put into the IBSS field, and we don't handle that in the code at all. Also fix the code to handle VLAN correctly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: restructure HT codeJohannes Berg
Create two new files, agg-tx.c and agg-rx.c to make it clearer which code is common (ht.c) and which is specific (agg-*.c). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: fix RX aggregation timeoutsJohannes Berg
The values are in TUs (1.024ms), not ms. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: remove stray aggregation debugfs definitionJohannes Berg
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: remove bssid argument from prepare_for_handlersJohannes Berg
It's a little confusing to get the BSSID outside the function and pass it in, when it's only needed for this function, so change that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: fix beacon enable moreJohannes Berg
Hopefully the last required fix ... disable beaconing only on beaconing interfaces, and thus avoid calling ieee80211_if_config for purely virtual interfaces (those driver doesn't know about). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: reject extra IEs for probe request when hw_scanJohannes Berg
We cannot currently hand off extra IEs to hw_scan, so reject configuring extra IEs for probe request frames when hw_scan is set. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: properly validate/translate IW_AUTH_MFP valuesJohannes Berg
Make sure nobody passes in bogus values, and translate the values (although it isn't necessary). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: disable IBSS beacon before joinJohannes Berg
Before we have a probe response frame (which is used as the beacon too) there's no need to ask drivers to beacon, they will not get a beacon anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: use ps-poll when dynamic power save mode is disabledKalle Valo
When a directed tim bit is set, mac80211 currently disables power save ands sends a null frame to the AP. But if dynamic power save is disabled, mac80211 will not enable power save ever gain. Fix this by adding ps-poll functionality to mac80211. When a directed tim bit is set, mac80211 sends a ps-poll frame to the AP and checks for the more data bit in the returned data frames. Using ps-poll is slower than waking up with null frame, but it's saves more power in cases where the traffic is low. Userspace can control if either ps-poll or null wakeup method is used by enabling and disabling dynamic power save. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: remove multicast check from check_tim()Kalle Valo
Currently mac80211 checks for the multicast tim bit from beacons, disables power save and sends a null frame if the bit is set. This was added to support ath9k. But this is a bit controversial because the AP will send multicast frames immediately after the beacon and the time constraints are really high. Relying mac80211 to be fast enough here might not be reliable in all situations. And there's no need to send a null frame, AP will send the frames immediately after the dtim beacon no matter what. Also if dynamic power save is disabled (iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 0) currently mac80211 disables power save whenever the multicast bit is set but it's never enabled again after receiving the first multicast/broadcast frame. The current implementation is not usable on p54/stlc45xx and the easiest way to fix this is to remove the multicast tim bit check altogether. Handling multicast tim bit in host is rare, most of the designs do this in firmware/hardware, so it's better not to have it in mac80211. It's a lot better to do this in firmware/hardware, or if that's not possible it could be done in the driver. Also renamed the function to ieee80211_check_tim() to follow the style of the file. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: Fix the wrong WARN_ON message appearing on enabling power save.Vivek Natarajan
This issue happens only when we are associated with a 11n AP and power save is enabled. In the function 'ieee80211_master_start_xmit', ps_disable_work is queued where wake_queues is called. But before this work is executed, we check if the queues are stopped in _ieee80211_tx and return TX_AGAIN to ieee8011_tx which leads to the warning message. This patch fixes this erroneous case. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-11mac80211: Free current bss information in few places where we don't need it ↵Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
any more Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-11mac80211: restrict to AP in outgoing interface heuristicJohannes Berg
We try to find the correct outgoing interface for injected frames based on the TA, but since this is a hack for hostapd 11w, restrict the heuristic to AP mode interfaces. At some point we'll add the ability to give an interface index in radiotap or so and just remove this heuristic again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: Remove bss information of the current AP when it goes out of rangeVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
There is no point having the bss information of currently associated AP when the AP is detected to be out of range. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: do not TX injected frames when not allowedLuis R. Rodriguez
Monitor mode is able to TX by using injected frames. We should not allow injected frames to be sent unless allowed by regulatory rules. Since AP mode uses a monitor interfaces to transmit management frames we have to take care to not break AP mode as well while resolving this. We can deal with this by allowing compliant APs solutions to inform mac80211 if their monitor interface is intended to be used for an AP by setting a cfg80211 flag for the monitor interface. hostapd, for example, currently does its own checks to ensure AP mode is not used on channels which require radar detection. Once such solutions are available it can can add this flag for monitor interfaces. Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: convert master interface to netdev_opsJohannes Berg
Also call our own ieee80211_master_setup routine instead of overwriting almost all the values from ether_setup; this loses a few assignments that are pointless on the master interface anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: convert to net_device_opsJohannes Berg
Convert to new net_device_ops in 2.6.28 and later. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: remove HW_SIGNAL_DBJohannes Berg
Giving the signal in dB isn't much more useful to userspace than giving the signal in unspecified units. This removes some radiotap information for zd1211 (the only driver using this flag), but it helps a lot for getting cfg80211-based scanning which won't support dB, and zd1211 being dB is a little fishy anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>