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[PATCH] mac80211: improved 802.11g CTS protection

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Currently, CTS protection is partially implemented twice:
 1. via prism2 ioctls, only used by hostapd
 2. via STA beacon parsing, recorded in sta.use_protection but never used
    (other than printed in debugfs)

Protection control should be implemented on a per-subif basis. For example,
a single physical device may be running a soft AP on one channel, and a STA
on another. The AP interface should use protection based on what hostapd told
it, and the STA interface should use protection based on beacon parsing.
These should operate independantly: one subif using protection should not
influence the other.

To implement this, I moved the use_protection flag into ieee80211_sub_if_data
and removed the device-global cts_protect_erp_frames flag.

I also made the PRISM2_PARAM_CTS_PROTECT_ERP_FRAMES write operation only
available for AP interfaces, to avoid any possibility of the user messing with
the behaviour of a STA.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Daniel Drake
2007-07-10 19:32:11 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 5628221caf
commit 63fc33ceb0
5 changed files with 13 additions and 12 deletions
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net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
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@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *tx)
if (!tx->u.tx.rate)
return TXRX_DROP;
if (tx->u.tx.mode->mode == MODE_IEEE80211G &&
tx->local->cts_protect_erp_frames && tx->fragmented &&
tx->sdata->use_protection && tx->fragmented &&
extra.nonerp) {
tx->u.tx.last_frag_rate = tx->u.tx.rate;
tx->u.tx.probe_last_frag = extra.probe ? 1 : 0;
@ -868,8 +868,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_misc(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *tx)
* for the frame. */
if (mode->mode == MODE_IEEE80211G &&
(tx->u.tx.rate->flags & IEEE80211_RATE_ERP) &&
tx->u.tx.unicast &&
tx->local->cts_protect_erp_frames &&
tx->u.tx.unicast && tx->sdata->use_protection &&
!(control->flags & IEEE80211_TXCTL_USE_RTS_CTS))
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_USE_CTS_PROTECT;