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2009-08-14cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan requestJohannes Berg
The memory layout for scan requests was rather wrong, we put the scan SSIDs before the channels which could lead to the channel pointers being unaligned in memory. It turns out that using a pointer to the channel array isn't necessary anyway since we can embed a zero-length array into the struct. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14mac80211: allow DMA optimisationJohannes Berg
If we have a lot of frames to transmit at once, for instance with fragmentation, it can be an optimisation to only tell the DMA engine about them on the last fragment/frame to avoid banging the IO too much. This patch allows implementation such an optimisation by telling the driver when more frames can be expected. Currently, this is used by mac80211 only on fragmented frames, but could also be used in the future on other frames when the queue was full and there are multiple frames pending. Note that drivers need to be careful when using this flag, they need to kick their DMA engines not just when this flag is clear, but also when the queue gets full so that progress can be made. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14nl80211: add generation number to all dumpsJohannes Berg
In order for userspace to be able to figure out whether it obtained a consistent snapshot of data or not when using netlink dumps, we need to have a generation number in each dump message that indicates whether the list has changed or not -- its value is arbitrary. This patch adds such a number to all dumps, this needs some mac80211 involvement to keep track of a generation number to start with when adding/removing mesh paths or stations. The wiphy and netdev lists can be fully handled within cfg80211, of course, but generation numbers need to be stored there as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14mac80211: stay authenticated after disassocJohannes Berg
After being disassociated by the AP, mac80211 currently reports this to cfg80211, and then goes to delete the association. That's fine, but cfg80211 assumes that it's still authenticated, however, mac80211 throws away all state. This fixes mac80211 to keep track of the authentication in that case so that cfg80211 can request a deauth or new association properly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14mac80211: fix compilation of mesh (although its disabled)Luis R. Rodriguez
Mesh is currently disabled on mac80211, its marked as broken. This patch gets it to compile though, to account for the mac80211 workqueue changes. There was a simple typo in the patches for mesh for the workqueue migration, but we never compile tested it as we couldn't even select mesh as its broken. Lets at least let it compile for those interested in getting it fixed. Reported-by: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04mac80211: FIF_PSPOLL filter flagIgor Perminov
When an interface is configured in the AP mode, the mac80211 implementation doesn't inform the driver to receive PS Poll frames. It leads to inability to communicate with power-saving stations reliably. The FIF_CONTROL flag isn't passed by mac80211 to ieee80211_ops.configure_filter when an interface is in the AP mode. And it's ok, because we don't want to receive ACK frames and other control ones, but only PS Poll ones. This patch introduces the FIF_PSPOLL filter flag in addition to FIF_CONTROL, which means for the driver "pass PS Poll frames". This flag is passed to the driver: A) When an interface is configured in the AP mode. B) In all cases, when the FIF_CONTROL flag was passed earlier (in addition to it). Signed-off-by: Igor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04mac80211: Increase timeouts for station pollingMaxim Levitsky
Do a probe request every 30 seconds, and wait for probe response, half a second This should lower the traffic that card sends, thus save power Wainting longer for response makes probe more robust against 'slow' access points Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04mac80211: Retry probe request few timesMaxim Levitsky
Retry 5 times (chosen arbitary ), before assuming that station is out of range. Fixes frequent disassociations while connected to weak, and sometimes even strong access points. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04cfg80211: enable country IE support to all cfg80211 driversLuis R. Rodriguez
Since the bss is always set now once we are connected, if the bss has its own information element we refer to it and pass that instead of relying on mac80211's parsing. Now all cfg80211 drivers get country IE support, automatically and we reduce the call overhead that we had on mac80211 which called this upon every beacon and instead now call this only upon a successfull connection by a STA on cfg80211. 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>
2009-08-04mac80211: fix powersaveJohannes Berg
Some of the recent MLME rework I did broke powersave because the ps_sdata isn't assigned at the right time, and the work item wasn't removed from the list before calling ieee80211_recalc_ps(). To be more specific, this broke the case where you'd enabled PS before associating, either automatically or with iwconfig. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueueLuis R. Rodriguez
The mac80211 workqueue exists to enable mac80211 and drivers to queue their own work on a single threaded workqueue. mac80211 takes care to flush the workqueue during suspend but we never really had requirements on drivers for how they should use the workqueue in consideration for suspend. We extend mac80211 to document how the mac80211 workqueue should be used, how it should not be used and finally move raw access to the workqueue to mac80211 only. Drivers and mac80211 use helpers to queue work onto the mac80211 workqueue: * ieee80211_queue_work() * ieee80211_queue_delayed_work() These helpers will now warn if mac80211 already completed its suspend cycle and someone is trying to queue work. mac80211 flushes the mac80211 workqueue prior to suspend a few times, but we haven't taken the care to ensure drivers won't add more work after suspend. To help with this we add a warning when someone tries to add work and mac80211 already completed the suspend cycle. Drivers should ensure they cancel any work or delayed work in the mac80211 stop() callback. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04mac80211: fix sparse warnings/errorsJohannes Berg
sparse complains about a shadowed variable, which we can just rename, and lots of stuff if the API tracer is enabled, so kick out the tracer code in a sparse run -- the macros just confuse it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04mac80211: disable beacons before removing the associated interfaceBob Copeland
When downing interfaces, it's a good idea to tell the driver to stop sending beacons; that way the driver doesn't need special code in ops->remove_interface() when it should already handle the case in bss_info_changed(). This fixes a potential crash with at least ath5k since the vif pointer will be nullified while beacon interrupts are still active. Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04mac80211: disable software retry for nowJohannes Berg
Pavel Roskin reported a problem that seems to be due to software retry of already transmitted frames. It turns out that we've never done that correctly, but due to some recent changes it now crashes in the TX code. I've added a comment in the patch that explains the problem better and also points to possible solutions -- which I can't implement right now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-30Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-07-30Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.h drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-07-29cfg80211: self-contained wext handling where possibleJohannes Berg
Finally! This is what you've all been waiting for! This patch makes cfg80211 take care of wext emulation _completely_ by itself, drivers that don't need things cfg80211 doesn't do yet don't even need to be aware of wireless extensions. This means we can also clean up mac80211's and iwm's Kconfig and make it possible to build them w/o wext now! RIP wext. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29cfg80211: combine IWESSID handlersJohannes Berg
Since we now have handlers IWESSID for all modes, we can combine them into one. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29cfg80211: combine IWAP handlersJohannes Berg
Since we now have IWAP handlers for all modes, we can combine them into one. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29cfg80211: combine iwfreq implementationsJohannes Berg
Until now we implemented iwfreq for managed mode, we needed to keep the implementations separate, but now that we have all versions implemented we can combine them and export just one handler. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29mac80211: verify info->control.vif is not NULLJohannes Berg
When enqueuing packets on the internal packet queue, we need to ensure that we have a valid vif pointer since that is required since the net namespace work. Add some assertions to verify this, but also don't crash is for some reason we don't end up with a vif pointer -- warn and drop the packet in all these cases. Since this code touches a number of hotpaths, it is intended to be temporary, or maybe configurable in the future, at least the bit that is in the path that gets hit for every packet, ieee80211_tx_pending(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29mac80211: fix an oops in ieee80211_scan_state_set_channelHelmut Schaa
Fix an oops in ieee80211_scan_state_set_channel which was triggered if the last scanned channel was skipped (for example due to regulatory restrictions) by returning to the decision state after each skipped channel. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29mac80211: fix receiving deauthJohannes Berg
Marcel reported a warning, which quite obviously comes from an oversight in the code handling deauth frames, and which resulted in multiple follow-up warnings due to this missing handling. This patch adds the missing deauth handling (telling cfg80211 about it) and also removes the follow-up warnings since they could happen due to races even if nothing is wrong. I've explained the races in the comments. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29mac80211: fix suspendJohannes Berg
Jan reported that his b43-based laptop hangs during suspend. The problem turned out to be mac80211 asking the driver to stop the hardware before removing interfaces, and interface removal caused b43 to touch the hardware (while down, which causes the hang). This patch fixes mac80211 to do reorder these operations to have them in the correct order -- first remove interfaces and then stop the hardware. Some more code is necessary to be able to do so in a race-free manner, in particular it is necessary to not process frames received during quiescing. Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13337. Reported-by: Jan Scholz <scholz@fias.uni-frankfurt.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: fix oops due to missing private dataLuis R. Rodriguez
This was caused by patch: "mac80211: cooperate more with network namespaces" The version of the patch applied doesn't match Johannes' latest: http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/NNN-mac80211-netns.patch The skb->cb virtual interface data wasn't being reset for reuse so ath9k pooped out when trying to dereference the private rate control info from the skb. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0258173>] ath_tx_rc_status+0x33/0x150 [ath9k] <-- snip etc --> Reported-by: Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: fix PS-poll response, raceJohannes Berg
When a station queries us for a PS-poll response, we wrongly queue the frame on the virtual interface's queue rather than the pending queue. Additionally, fix a race condition where we could potentially send multiple frames to the sleeping station due to using a station flag rather than a packet flag. When converting to a packet flag, we can also convert p54 and remove the filter clearing we added for it. (Also remove a now dead function) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reported-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Tested-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: fix MLME issuing of probe requests while scanningLuis R. Rodriguez
We were issuing probe requests to the associated AP on the wrong band by having our beacon timer loss trigger while we are scanning. When we would scan the timer could hit and force us to send a probe request to the AP but with a chance we'd be on the wrong band. This leads to finding no usable bitrate but we should not get so far on the xmit path. We should not be trying to send these probe request frames so prevent ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap() from sending these. As it turns out all callers of ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap() need this check so we just move the scan check there. This means we can remove the recenlty added check during ieee80211_sta_monitor_work(). Additionally we now fix a race condition added by the patch "mac80211: do not monitor the connection while scanning" which had the same check in ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer(). The race happens because the timer routine *does* a valid check for scanning but after it queues work into the mac80211 workqueue the work callback can kick off with scanning enabled and cause the same issue we were trying to avoid. The more appropriate solution would be to disable the respective timers during scan and re-enable them after scan but requires more complex code and testing. Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Reported-by: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: fix mlme timeoutsJohannes Berg
When a new MLME work is created, its timeout is initialised to 0. This is wrong, it could then be thought of as having an actual timeout in the future (time_is_after_jiffies() can return true). Instead, it should be initialised to jiffies so that it will run right away as soon as the mlme work is executed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reported-by: Luciano Roth Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Reported-by: Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: rename scan_state to next_scan_stateHelmut Schaa
Rename scan_state to next_scan_state to better reflect what it is used for. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: implement basic background scanningHelmut Schaa
Introduce a new scan flag "SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL" which basically tells us that we are currently on a different channel for scanning and cannot RX/TX. "SCAN_SW_SCANNING" tells us that we are currently running a software scan but we might as well be on the operating channel to RX/TX. While "SCAN_SW_SCANNING" is set during the whole scan "SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL" is set when leaving the operating channel and unset when coming back. Introduce two new scan states "SCAN_LEAVE_OPER_CHANNEL" and "SCAN_ENTER_OPER_CHANNEL" which basically implement the functionality we need to leave the operating channel (send a nullfunc to the AP and stop the queues) and enter it again (send a nullfunc to the AP and start the queues again). Enhance the scan state "SCAN_DECISION" to switch back to the operating channel after each scanned channel. In the future it sould be simple to enhance the decision state to scan as much channels in a row as the qos latency allows us. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: Replace {sw, hw}_scanning variables with a bitfieldHelmut Schaa
Use a bitfield to store the current scan mode instead of two boolean variables {sw,hw}_scanning. This patch does not introduce functional changes but allows us to enhance the scan flags later (for example for background scanning). Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: introduce a new scan state "decision"Helmut Schaa
Introduce a new scan state "decision" which is entered after every completed scan operation and decides about the next steps. At first the decision is in any case to scan the next channel. This shouldn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: advance the state machine immediately if no delay is neededHelmut Schaa
Instead of queueing the scan work again without delay just process the next state immediately. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: refactor the scan codeHelmut Schaa
Move the processing of each scan state into its own functions for better readability. This patch does not introduce functional changes. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: allow using network namespacesJohannes Berg
This finally opens up the ability to put mac80211 devices into different network namespaces. As long as you don't have sysfs, that is. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27cfg80211: make aware of net namespacesJohannes Berg
In order to make cfg80211/nl80211 aware of network namespaces, we have to do the following things: * del_virtual_intf method takes an interface index rather than a netdev pointer - simply change this * nl80211 uses init_net a lot, it changes to use the sender's network namespace * scan requests use the interface index, hold a netdev pointer and reference instead * we want a wiphy and its associated virtual interfaces to be in one netns together, so - we need to be able to change ns for a given interface, so export dev_change_net_namespace() - for each virtual interface set the NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL flag, and clear that flag only when the wiphy changes ns, to disallow breaking this invariant * when a network namespace goes away, we need to reparent the wiphy to init_net * cfg80211 users that support creating virtual interfaces must create them in the wiphy's namespace, currently this affects only mac80211 The end result is that you can now switch an entire wiphy into a different network namespace with the new command iw phy#<idx> set netns <pid> and all virtual interfaces will follow (or the operation fails). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: cooperate more with network namespacesJohannes Berg
There are still two places in mac80211 that hardcode the initial net namespace (init_net). One of them is mandated by cfg80211 and will be removed by a separate patch, the other one is used for finding the network device of a pending packet via its ifindex. Remove the latter use by keeping track of the device pointer itself, via the vif pointer, and avoid it going stale by dropping pending frames for a given interface when the interface is removed. To keep track of the vif pointer for the correct interface, change the info->control.vif pointer's internal use to always be the correct vif, and only move it to the vif the driver expects (or NULL for monitor interfaces and injected packets) right before giving the packet to the driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27mac80211: do not queue work after suspend in the dynamic ps timerLuis R. Rodriguez
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: Fix regression in mesh forwarding path.Javier Cardona
The removal of the master netdev broke the mesh forwarding path. This patch fixes it by using the new internal 'pending' queue. As a result of this change, mesh forwarding no longer does the inefficient 802.11 -> 802.3 -> 802.11 conversion that was done before. [Changes since v1] Suggested by Johannes: - Select queue before adding to mpath queue - ieee80211_add_pending_skb -> ieee80211_add_pending_skbs - Remove unnecessary header wme.h Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: fix ieee80211_xmit call contextJohannes Berg
ieee80211_xmit() cannot be called with tasklets enabled because it is normally called from within a tasklet. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: remove master netdevJohannes Berg
With the internal 'pending' queue system in place, we can simply put packets there instead of pushing them off to the master dev, getting rid of the master interface completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: fix spare warnings in driver-trace.hChristian Lamparter
This patch fixes the following errors: driver-trace.h:148:1: error: cannot size expression driver-trace.h:148:1: error: cannot size expression [...] driver-trace.h:222:1: error: cannot size expression driver-trace.h:71:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<) driver-trace.h:71:1: left side has type void *<noident> driver-trace.h:71:1: right side has type int driver-trace.h:99:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<) driver-trace.h:99:1: left side has type void *<noident> driver-trace.h:99:1: right side has type int driver-trace.h:148:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<) driver-trace.h:148:1: left side has type void *<noident> driver-trace.h:148:1: right side has type int driver-trace.h:222:1: error: cannot size expression driver-trace.h:248:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<) driver-trace.h:248:1: left side has type void *<noident> driver-trace.h:248:1: right side has type int driver-trace.h:446:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<) driver-trace.h:446:1: left side has type void *<noident> driver-trace.h:446:1: right side has type int Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: do not monitor the connection while scanningChristian Lamparter
mac80211 constantly monitors the connection to the associated AP in order to check if it is out of reach/dead. This is absolutely fine most of the time. Except when there is a scheduled scan for the whole neighborhood. After all this path could trigger while scanning on different channel. Or even worse: this AP probing triggers a WARN_ON in rate_lowest_index when the scan code did a band transition! ( http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=449304 ) Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decisionLuis R. Rodriguez
All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211 for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code. Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their gate_rate() mac80211 callback. Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz> Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: make minstrel/pid RC use ieee80211_is_data(fc)Luis R. Rodriguez
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz> Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: drop frames for sta with no valid rateLuis R. Rodriguez
When we're associated we should be able to send data to target sta. If we cannot we may be trying to use the incorrect band to talk to the sta. Lets catch any such cases, warn, and drop the frames to not invalidate assumptions being made on rate control algorithms when they have a valid sta to communicate with. Any such cases should be handled and fixed. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: cancel the connection monitor timers/workJohannes Berg
In "mac80211: monitor the connection" I forgot to add code to cancel the new timers & work when the interface is brought down, which isn't a problem if you just bring it down, but _is_ a problem when you destroy the interface. Correct this lapse. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: mesh: fix two small problemsJohannes Berg
1) there's a spin_lock() that needs to be spin_lock_bh() 2) action frames of size 24 might cause an out-of-bounds memory access (for the 25th byte only, so no big deal) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: monitor the connectionJohannes Berg
With the recent MLME rework I accidentally removed the connection monitoring code. In order to add it back, this patch will add new code to monitor both for beacon loss and for the connection actually working, with possibly separate triggers. When no unicast frames have been received from the AP for (currently) two seconds, we will send the AP a probe request. Also, when we don't see beacons from the AP for two seconds, we do the same (but those times need not be the same due to the way the code is now written). Additionally, clean up the parameters to the ieee80211_set_disassoc() function that I need here, those are all useless except sdata. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: fix multi-use timerJohannes Berg
We have, sometimes, multiple things that want to run but don't have their own timer. Introduce a new function to mac80211's mlme run_again() that makes sure that the timer will run again at the _first_ needed time, use that function and also properly reprogram the timer once it fired. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>