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Johannes Berg
c327d96759 mac80211: fix internal scan request
The internal scan request mac80211 uses to
scan for IBSS networks was set up to contain
no channels at all because n_channels wasn't
set after setting up the channels array. Fix
this to properly scan for networks.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-04 18:44:52 -05:00
Sujith
450aae3d7b mac80211: Fix IBSS merge
Currently, in IBSS mode, a single creator would go into
a loop trying to merge/scan. This happens because the IBSS timer is
rearmed on finishing a scan and the subsequent
timer invocation requests another scan immediately.

This patch fixes this issue by checking if we have just completed
a scan run trying to merge with other IBSS networks.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-04 18:44:52 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5ed176e1c4 mac80211: make ieee80211_find_sta per virtual interface
Since we have a TODO item to make all station
management dependent on virtual interfaces, I
figured I'd start with pushing such a change
to drivers before more drivers start using the
ieee80211_find_sta() API with a hw pointer and
cause us grief later on.

For now continue exporting the old API in form
of ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw(), but discourage
its use strongly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-04 18:44:48 -05:00
Johannes Berg
584991dccf cfg80211: validate scan channels
Currently it is possible to request a scan on only
disabled channels, which could be problematic for
some drivers. Reject such scans, and also ignore
disabled channels that are given. This resuls in
the scan begin/end event only including channels
that are actually used.

This makes the mac80211 check for disabled channels
superfluous. At the same time, remove the no-IBSS
check from mac80211 -- nothing says that we should
not find any networks on channels that cannot be
used for an IBSS, even when operating in IBSS mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:43:29 -05:00
Johannes Berg
6d3560d4fc mac80211: fix scan abort sanity checks
Since sometimes mac80211 queues up a scan request
to only act on it later, it must be allowed to
(internally) cancel a not-yet-running scan, e.g.
when the interface is taken down. This condition
was missing since we always checked only the
local->scanning variable which isn't yet set in
that situation.

Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:39:49 -05:00
Johannes Berg
9aa4aee30f mac80211: make CALL_TXH a statement
The multi-line code in this macro wasn't wrapped
in do {} while (0) so we cannot use it in an if()
branch safely in the future -- fix that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:39:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg
c1f9a764cf mac80211: check interface is down before type change
For some strange reason the netif_running() check
ended up after the actual type change instead of
before, potentially causing all kinds of problems
if the interface is up while changing the type;
one of the problems manifests itself as a warning:

WARNING: at net/mac80211/iface.c:651 ieee80211_teardown_sdata+0xda/0x1a0 [mac80211]()
Hardware name: Aspire one
Pid: 2596, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G        W  2.6.31-10-generic #32-Ubuntu
Call Trace:
 [] warn_slowpath_common+0x6d/0xa0
 [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
 [] ieee80211_teardown_sdata+0xda/0x1a0 [mac80211]
 [] ieee80211_if_change_type+0x4a/0xc0 [mac80211]
 [] ieee80211_change_iface+0x61/0xa0 [mac80211]
 [] cfg80211_wext_siwmode+0xc7/0x120 [cfg80211]
 [] ioctl_standard_call+0x58/0xf0

(http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=ieee80211_teardown_sdata)

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:14:07 -05:00
Johannes Berg
e6e898cfea mac80211: remove bogus code
It's not right to do something here when returning an
error, and hostapd should never have relied on it as
it only fixes up a small part of the problem anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:40 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ff9458d3ec mac80211: remove sent_ps_buffered
This variable is set once, and tested once.
However, the code path that can set it is
mutually exclusive with the code path that
tests it, so the test is always true. Thus
we also don't need to set it either and can
just remove the variable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:40 -04:00
Johannes Berg
22403def13 mac80211: also drop qos-nullfunc frames silently
We drop nullfunc frames, but not qos-nullfunc frames,
even though those could be used for PS state control
as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
62b517cb3e mac80211: unconditionally set IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM
When mac80211 is asked to buffer multicast frames
in AP mode, it will not set the flag indicating
that the frames should be sent after the DTIM
beacon for those frames buffered in software. Fix
this little inconsistency by always setting that
flag in the buffering code path.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
c27f2fded5 mac80211: deprecate qual value
This value is unused by mac80211, because it was only
be used by wireless extensions, and turned out to not
be useful there because the quality value needs to be
comparable between scan results and the current value
which is impossible when the qual value is calculated
taking into account noise, for example.

Since it is unused anyway, this patch deprecates it
in the hope that drivers will remove their sometimes
quite expensive calculations of the value.

I'm open to actual uses of the value, but the best
way of using it seems to be what the Intel drivers do
which should probably be generalised if we have noise
values from the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
eddcbb94f7 mac80211: introduce ieee80211_beacon_get_tim()
Compared to ieee80211_beacon_get(), the new function
ieee80211_beacon_get_tim() returns information on the
location and length of the TIM IE, which some drivers
need in order to generate the TIM on the device. The
old function, ieee80211_beacon_get(), becomes a small
static inline wrapper around the new one to not break
all drivers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:39 -04:00
Zhu Yi
8ce0b58924 mac80211: make align adjustment code support paged SKB
This fixed a BUG_ON in __skb_trim() when paged rx is used in
iwlwifi driver. Yes, the whole mac80211 stack doesn't support
paged SKB yet. But let's start the work slowly from small
code snippets.

Reported-and-tested-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg
0869aea0eb mac80211: remove RX_FLAG_RADIOTAP
While there may be a case for a driver adding its
own bits of radiotap information, none currently
does. Also, drivers would have to copy the code
to generate the radiotap bits that now mac80211
generates. If some driver in the future needs to
add some driver-specific information I'd expect
that to be in a radiotap vendor namespace and we
can add a different way of passing such data up
and having mac80211 include it.

Additionally, rename IEEE80211_CONF_RADIOTAP to
IEEE80211_CONF_MONITOR since it's still used by
b43(legacy) to obtain per-frame timestamps.

The purpose of this patch is to simplify the RX
code in mac80211 to make it easier to add paged
skb support.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:49:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg
6a86b9c78e mac80211: fix radiotap header generation
In

  commit 601ae7f25a
  Author: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
  Date:   Thu May 8 19:22:43 2008 +0200

      mac80211: make rx radiotap header more flexible

code was added that tried to align the radiotap header
position in memory based on the radiotap header length.
Quite obviously, that is completely useless.

Instead of trying to do that, use unaligned accesses
to generate the radiotap header. To properly do that,
we also need to mark struct ieee80211_radiotap_header
packed, but that is fine since it's already packed
(and it should be marked packed anyway since its a
wire format).

Cc: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:49:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg
4d36ec5823 mac80211: split hardware scan by band
There's currently a very odd bug in mac80211 -- a
hardware scan that is done while the hardware is
really operating on 2.4 GHz will include CCK rates
in the probe request frame, even on 5 GHz (if the
driver uses the mac80211 IEs). Vice versa, if the
hardware is operating on 5 GHz the 2.4 GHz probe
requests will not include CCK rates even though
they should.

Fix this by splitting up cfg80211 scan requests by
band -- recalculating the IEs every time -- and
requesting only per-band scans from the driver.

Apparently this bug hasn't been a problem yet, but
it is imaginable that some older access points get
confused if confronted with such behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:49:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
b59f04cbf8 mac80211: remove outdated comment
This comment hasn't been a real TODO item for a long
time now since we fixed that quite a while ago.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:49:19 -04:00
Kalle Valo
a9685338ab mac80211: fix dynamic power save for devices with nullfunc support in hw
In TX path it was assumed that dynamic power save works only if
IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is set. But is not the case, there are
devices which have nullfunc support in hardware but need mac80211
to handle dynamic power save timers, TI's wl1251 is one of them.

The fix is to not check for IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK in
is_dynamic_ps_enabled(), instead check IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS and
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS flags and act accordingly.

Tested with wl1251.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:49:18 -04:00
Kalle Valo
ed620590de mac80211: refactor dynamic power save check
Refactor dynamic power save checks to a function of it's own for better
readibility. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:49:18 -04:00
Johannes Berg
7bcfaf2f43 cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursive
We can save a lot of code and pointers in the structs
by using debugfs_remove_recursive().

First, change cfg80211 to use debugfs_remove_recursive()
so that drivers do not need to clean up any files they
added to the per-wiphy debugfs (if and only if they are
ok to be accessed until after wiphy_unregister!).

Then also make mac80211 use debugfs_remove_recursive()
where necessary -- it need not remove per-wiphy files
as cfg80211 now removes those, but netdev etc. files
still need to be handled but can now be removed without
needing struct dentry pointers to all of them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:49:18 -04:00
Johannes Berg
372362ade2 mac80211: fix reason code output endianness
When HT debugging is enabled and we receive a DelBA
frame we print out the reason code in the wrong byte
order. Fix that so we don't get weird values printed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 15:50:25 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2171abc586 mac80211: fix addba timer
The addba timer function acquires the sta spinlock,
but at the same time we try to del_timer_sync() it
under the spinlock which can produce deadlocks.

To fix this, always del_timer_sync() the timer in
ieee80211_process_addba_resp() and add it again
after checking the conditions, if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 15:50:25 -04:00
Johannes Berg
f446d10f21 mac80211: fix BSS leak
The IBSS code leaks a BSS struct after telling
cfg80211 about a given BSS by passing a frame.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 15:50:24 -04:00
David S. Miller
0519d83d83 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-10-29 21:28:59 -07:00
Rui Paulo
6b9ac4425d mesh: use set_bit() to set MESH_WORK_HOUSEKEEPING.
This makes the mesh housekeeping timer work properly on big endian
systems.

Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:35 -04:00
Javier Cardona
43b7b314f6 mac80211: Learn about mesh portals from multicast traffic
Mesh portals proxy traffic for nodes external to the mesh.  When a
proxied frame is received by a mesh interface, it should update its mesh
portal table.  This was only happening for unicast frames.  With this
change we also learn about mesh portals from proxied multicast frames.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:22 -04:00
John W. Linville
53623f1a09 mac80211: replace netif_tx_{start,stop,wake}_all_queues
Replace netif_tx_{start,stop,wake}_all_queues with the single-queue
equivalents (i.e. netif_{start,stop,wake}_queue).  Since we are down to
a single queue, these should peform slightly better.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:18 -04:00
Holger Schurig
ce470613cd cfg80211: no cookies in cfg80211_send_XXX()
Get rid of cookies in cfg80211_send_XXX() functions.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:16 -04:00
Björn Smedman
9b1ce526eb mac80211: fix for incorrect sequence number on hostapd injected frames
When hostapd injects a frame, e.g. an authentication or association
response, mac80211 looks for a suitable access point virtual interface
to associate the frame with based on its source address. This makes it
possible e.g. to correctly assign sequence numbers to the frames.

A small typo in the ethernet address comparison statement caused a
failure to find a suitable ap interface. Sequence numbers on such
frames where therefore left unassigned causing some clients
(especially windows-based 11b/g clients) to reject them and fail to
authenticate or associate with the access point. This patch fixes the
typo in the address comparison statement.

Signed-off-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:29:48 -04:00
Andrey Yurovsky
f99288d176 mac80211: trivial: fix spelling in mesh_hwmp
Fix a typo in the description of hwmp_route_info_get(), no function
changes.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:29:47 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2ef6e44409 mac80211: keep auth state when assoc fails
When association fails, we should stay authenticated,
which in mac80211 is represented by the existence of
the mlme work struct, so we cannot free that, instead
we need to just set it to idle.

(Brought to you by the hacking session at Kernel Summit 2009 in Tokyo,
Japan. -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:29:47 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
d419b9f0fa mac80211: fix ibss joining
Recent commit "mac80211: fix logic error ibss merge bssid check" fixed
joining of ibss cell when static bssid is provided. In this case
ifibss->bssid is set before the cell is joined and comparing that address
to a bss should thus always succeed. Unfortunately this change broke the
other case of joining a ibss cell without providing a static bssid where
the value of ifibss->bssid is not set before the cell is joined.

Since ifibss->bssid may be set before or after joining the cell we do not
learn anything by comparing it to a known bss. Remove this check.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:29:46 -04:00
David S. Miller
421355de87 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-10-13 12:55:20 -07:00
Johannes Berg
d20ef63d32 mac80211: document ieee80211_rx() context requirement
ieee80211_rx() must be called with softirqs disabled
since the networking stack requires this for netif_rx()
and some code in mac80211 can assume that it can not
be processing its own tasklet and this call at the same
time.

It may be possible to remove this requirement after a
careful audit of mac80211 and doing any needed locking
improvements in it along with disabling softirqs around
netif_rx(). An alternative might be to push all packet
processing to process context in mac80211, instead of
to the tasklet, and add other synchronisation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:53 -04:00
Johannes Berg
51f98f1313 mac80211: fix ibss race
When a scan completes, we call ieee80211_sta_find_ibss(),
which is also called from other places. When the scan was
done in software, there's no problem as both run from the
single-threaded mac80211 workqueue and are thus serialised
against each other, but with hardware scan the completion
can be in a different context and race against callers of
this function from the workqueue (e.g. due to beacon RX).
So instead of calling ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() directly,
just arm the timer and have it fire, scheduling the work,
which will invoke ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() (if that is
appropriate in the current state).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:52 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
5e4708bcb5 mac80211: fix logic error ibss merge bssid check
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:52 -04:00
David S. Miller
7fe13c5733 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-10-11 23:15:47 -07:00
John W. Linville
0adc23f58e mac80211: support ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:48 -04:00
Roel Kluin
0819663d16 mac80211: use kfree_skb() to free struct sk_buff pointers
kfree_skb() should be used to free struct sk_buff pointers.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg
fbc44bf717 mac80211: fix vlan and optimise RX
When receiving data frames, we can send them only to
the interface they belong to based on transmitting
station (this doesn't work for probe requests). Also,
don't try to handle other frames for AP_VLAN at all
since those interface should only receive data.

Additionally, the transmit side must check that the
station we're sending a frame to is actually on the
interface we're transmitting on, and not transmit
packets to functions that live on other interfaces,
so validate that as well.

Another bug fix is needed in sta_info.c where in the
VLAN case when adding/removing stations we overwrite
the sdata variable we still need.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:49 -04:00
Marcel Holtmann
053a93dd12 cfg80211: assign device type in netdev notifier callback
Instead of having to modify every non-mac80211 for device type assignment,
do this inside the netdev notifier callback of cfg80211. So all drivers
that integrate with cfg80211 will export a proper device type.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-05 00:43:34 -07:00
Igor Perminov
1f08e84ff6 mac80211: Fix [re]association power saving issue on AP side
Consider the following step-by step:
1. A STA authenticates and associates with the AP and exchanges
traffic.
2. The STA reports to the AP that it is going to PS state.
3. Some time later the STA device goes to the stand-by mode (not only
its wi-fi card, but the device itself) and drops the association state
without sending a disassociation frame.
4. The STA device wakes up and begins authentication with an
Auth frame as it hasn't been authenticated/associated previously.

At the step 4 the AP "remembers" the STA and considers it is still in
the PS state, so the AP buffers frames, which it has to send to the STA.
But the STA isn't actually in the PS state and so it neither checks
TIM bits nor reports to the AP that it isn't power saving.
Because of that authentication/[re]association fails.

To fix authentication/[re]association stage of this issue, Auth, Assoc
Resp and Reassoc Resp frames are transmitted disregarding of STA's power
saving state.

N.B. This patch doesn't fix further data frame exchange after
authentication/[re]association. A patch in hostapd is required to fix
that.

Signed-off-by: Igor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-29 17:25:15 -04:00
Johannes Berg
0ff716136a mac80211: improve/fix mlme messages
It's useful to know the MAC address when being
disassociated; fix a typo (missing colon) and
move some messages so we get them only when they
are actually taking effect.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-28 16:55:05 -04:00
Johannes Berg
6a211bf1fc mac80211: fix DTIM setting
When the DTIM setting is read from beacons, mac80211 will
assume it is 1 if the TIM IE is not present or the value
is 0. This sounds fine, but the same function processes
probe responses as well, which don't have a TIM IE. This
leads to overwriting any values previously parsed out of
beacon frames.

Thus, instead of checking for the presence of the TIM IE
when setting the default, simply check whether the DTIM
period value is valid already. If the TIM IE is not there
then the value cannot be valid (it is initialised to 0)
and probe responses received after beacons will not lead
to overwriting an already valid value.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:53 -04:00
Pavel Roskin
909a203566 rc80211_minstrel: fix contention window calculation
The contention window is supposed to be a power of two minus one, i.e.
15, 31, 63, 127...  minstrel_rate_init() forgets to subtract 1, so the
sequence becomes 15, 32, 66, 134...

Bug reported by Dan Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:42 -04:00
Marcel Holtmann
384912ed19 net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most
prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace
application it is important to classify these devices correctly and
not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit
or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification
in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not
good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel
does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid.

To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and
then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available
within udev.

  # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
  DEVTYPE=wlan
  INTERFACE=wlan0
  IFINDEX=5

This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish
between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc.

The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual
device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the
same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
David S. Miller
3f968de276 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-09-02 14:18:09 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
abd8ea22c2 wireless: remove mac80211 rate selection extra menu
We can just display this upon enabling mac80211 with an
'if MAC80211 != n' check.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-02 15:29:03 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
5ca1b998d3 net: file_operations should be const
All instances of file_operations should be const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-02 01:03:53 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
d0cf9c0dad wireless: convert drivers to netdev_tx_t
Mostly just simple conversions:
  * ray_cs had bogus return of NET_TX_LOCKED but driver
    was not using NETIF_F_LLTX
  * hostap and ipw2x00 had some code that returned value
    from a called function that also had to change to return netdev_tx_t

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:14:04 -07:00
Jouni Malinen
5bf6fcc2bb mac80211: Check pending scan request after having processed mgd work
When the queued management work items are processed in
ieee80211_sta_work() an item could be removed. This could change the
anybusy from true to false, so we better check whether we can start a
new scan only after having processed the pending work first.

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>
2009-08-28 14:40:46 -04:00
Johannes Berg
15db0b7fd8 mac80211: fix scan cancel on ifdown
When an interface is taken down while a scan is
pending -- i.e. a scan request was accepted but
not yet acted upon due to other work being in
progress -- we currently do not properly cancel
that scan and end up getting stuck. Fix this by
doing better checks when an interface is taken
down.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:45 -04:00
Arnd Hannemann
eadac6bf95 mac80211: Fix output of minstrels rc_stats
An integer overflow in the minstrel debug code prevented the
throughput to be displayed correctly. This patch fixes that,
by permutating operations like proposed by Pavel Roskin.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:43 -04:00
Johannes Berg
77a980dc6c mac80211: fix RX skb leaks
In mac80211's RX path some of the warnings that
warn about drivers passing invalid status values
leak the skb, fix that by refactoring the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:41 -04:00
Arnd Hannemann
1c4e9ab3f1 mac80211: Remove unnused throughput field from minstrel_rate.
I noticed that the throughput field of the minstrel_rate struct is never used,
so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:34 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ea77f12f2c mac80211: remove tasklet enable/disable
Due to the way the tasklets work in mac80211 there's
no need to ever disable them.

However, we need to clear the pending packets when
taking down the last interface because otherwise
the tx_pending_tasklet might be queued if the
driver mucks with the queues (which it shouldn't).

I've had a situation occasionally with ar9170 in
which ksoftirq was using 100% CPU time because
a disabled tasklet was scheduled, and I think that
was due to ar9170 receiving a packet while the
tasklet was disabled. That's strange and it really
should not do that for other reasons, but there's
no need to waste that much CPU time over it, it
should just warn instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:34 -04:00
John W. Linville
103bf9f7d3 mac80211: remove ieee80211_rx namespace hack
With the libipw naming scheme change, it is no longer necessary for
mac80211 to avoid the ieee80211_rx name clash.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:29 -04:00
Johannes Berg
84f6a01ce0 mac80211: fix configure_filter invocation after stop
Since configure_filter can sleep now, any multicast
configuration needed to be postponed to a work struct.
This, however, lead to a problem that we could queue
the work, stop the device and then afterwards invoke
configure_filter which may lead to driver hangs and is
a bug. To fix this, we can just cancel the filter work
since it's unnecessary to do after stopping the hw.

Since there are various places that call drv_stop, and
two of them do very similar things, the code for them
can be put into a shared function at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Tested-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:25 -04:00
Javier Cardona
9e03fdfd05 mac80211: Update mesh config IE to 11s draft 3.02
The mesh config information element has changed significantly since draft 1.08
This patch brings it up to date.

Thanks to Sam Leffler and Rui Paulo for identifying this.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:24 -04:00
Johannes Berg
11ba964d4f mac80211: fix register_hw error path
"cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan request"
introduced a bug into the error path, because now
we allocate the entire scan request and not just
the channel list (the channel list is allocated
together with the scan request) -- on errors we
thus also need to free the entire scan request.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:07 -04:00
Daniel Walker
c8a61a7d33 mac80211: New stat counters for multicast and unicast forwarded frames
This expands on the current fwded_frames stat counter which should be equal to
the total of these two new counters.  The new counters are called "fwded_mcast"
and "fwded_unicast".

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:04 -04:00
John W. Linville
29508d122a rc80211_pid_algo.c: remove unused variable declaration
CC [M]  net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.o
net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c: In function ‘rate_control_pid_rate_init’:
net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c:304: warning: unused variable ‘si’

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:03 -04:00
Javier Cardona
bfc32e6a95 mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.
Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric.  This used to
be done inside the rate control module.  This patch breaks the dependency
between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm.  Mesh will now work
independently of the chosen rate control algorithm.

The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for
each mesh peer station.  If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the
peer link is marked as broken.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:02 -04:00
Johannes Berg
f424afa178 mac80211: remove deprecated API
All but two drivers have now stopped using the two
deprecated members radio_enabled and beacon_int,
so it's about time to remove them for good.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:35:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3ac64beecd mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleep
Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up
with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter
operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify
things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add
a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that
need the multicast address list implement. This new
callback must be atomic, but most drivers either
don't care or just calculate a hash which can be
done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware
non-atomically.

A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170,
mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00,
wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this
new capability.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:35:58 -04:00
David S. Miller
cf99111661 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-08-14 16:07:21 -07:00
David Woo
70bdb6b275 mac80211: Fix invalid length passed to IE parser for PLINK CONFIRM frames
The length of the fixed portion of plink confirm frames is 4 bytes longer than
the other plink_action frames.  This path corrects an error in the length
adjustment done for these type of frames.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:06 -04:00
David Woo
57ef5ddb45 mac80211: Mark a destination sequence number as valid when a PREQ is received.
If a PREQ frame is received giving us a fresher DSN than what we have, record
the new dsn and mark it as valid.  This patch fixes a bug in the setting of the
MESH_PATH_DSN_VALID flag.

Also, minor fix to coding style on that file.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:06 -04:00
Javier Cardona
cca89496a8 mac80211: Fix unresolved mesh frames queued without valid control.vif
Mesh frames that could not be immediately resolved were queued with a NULL
info->control.vif.  This patch moves the call to mesh_nexthop_lookup closer to
the point where it is handed over to ieee80211_tx().  This ensures that the
unresolved frames are ready to be sent once the path is resolved.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:03 -04:00
Javier Cardona
18889231e4 mac80211: Move mpath and mpp growth to mesh workqueue.
This prevents calling rcu_synchronize from within the tx path by moving the
table growth code to the mesh workqueue.

Move mesh_table_free and mesh_table_grow from mesh.c to mesh_pathtbl.c and
declare them static.

Also, re-enable mesh in Kconfig and update the configuration description.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
Javier Cardona
5b36583425 mac80211: Assign a default mesh beaconing interval.
The mesh stack was enabling beaconing without specifying an interval.  This
patch defines a default beaconing interval of 1s.

Incidentally, this fixes mesh beaconing in mac80211_hwsim devices.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
Javier Cardona
5815814bfa mac80211: Early detection of broken mesh paths when using minstrel.
This change triggers a path discovery as soon as the link quality degrades
below a certain threshold.  This results in a faster path recovery time than
by simply relying on the periodic path refresh mechanism to detect broken
links.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
Javier Cardona
d403a1c66e mac80211: Update the station failed frames average when minstrel is used.
The fail_avg value is used to compute the mesh metric, and was only being set
by the pid rate control module. This fixes the mesh path selection mechanism
for cards that use mistrel for rate control.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:00 -04:00
Javier Cardona
3c5772a527 mac80211: Use 3-address format for mesh broadcast frames.
The 11s task group recently changed the frame mesh multicast/broadcast frame
format to use 3-address.  This was done to avoid interactions with widely
deployed lazy-WDS access points.

This patch changes the format of group addressed frames, both mesh-originated
and proxied, to use the data format defined in draft D2.08 and forward.  The
address fields used for group addressed frames is:

In 802.11 header
 ToDS:0  FromDS:1
 addr1: DA  (broadcast/multicast address)
 addr2: TA
 addr3: Mesh SA

In address extension header:
 addr4: SA  (only present if frame was proxied)

Note that this change breaks backward compatibility with earlier mesh stack
versions.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:00 -04:00
Andrey Yurovsky
a9e3091bf0 mac80211: Use correct sign for mesh active path refresh.
On locally originated traffic, we refresh active paths after a timeout.  The
decision to do this was using the wrong sign and therefore the refresh timer
was triggered for every frame.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:59 -04:00
Javier Cardona
fe58343461 mac80211: Improve dequeing from mpath frame queue.
Also, fix typo in comment.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg
62b1208e14 mac80211: small tx code cleanup
It's really easier to read if it's not indented
as much, so invert the condition and rearrange
the code so the smaller chunk is indented instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg
d0b69609dc mac80211: sequence number micro-optimisation
There's no need to mask the variable with 0xFFF0
since we ever only use it as a u16 and the lowest
four bits can't ever be non-zero. The compiler
cannot infer the latter, and therefore has to emit
code to do the masking.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg
feff1f2fea mac80211: take statistics before encryption
When encryption is used, the number of bytes
sent to the peer increases by the IV and ICV.
This is accounted if software encryption is
used, but not if the devices does hardware
encryption. To make the numbers comparable,
never account for that overhead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5ba63533bb cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan request
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>
2009-08-14 09:13:44 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ad5351db89 mac80211: allow DMA optimisation
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>
2009-08-14 09:13:44 -04:00
Johannes Berg
f5ea9120be nl80211: add generation number to all dumps
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>
2009-08-14 09:13:43 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e21546a2a3 mac80211: stay authenticated after disassoc
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>
2009-08-14 09:12:46 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
c03e20fc9a mac80211: fix compilation of mesh (although its disabled)
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>
2009-08-14 09:12:40 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
416fbdff21 mac80211: fix panic when splicing unprepared TIDs
We splice skbs from the pending queue for a TID
onto the local pending queue when tearing down a
block ack request. This is not necessary unless we
actually have received a request to start a block ack
request (rate control, for example). If we never received
that request we should not be splicing the tid pending
queue as it would be null, causing a panic.

Not sure yet how exactly we allowed through a call when the
tid state does not have at least HT_ADDBA_REQUESTED_MSK set,
that will require some further review as it is not quite
obvious.

For more information see the bug report:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13922

This fixes this oops:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000030
IP: [<f8806c70>] ieee80211_agg_splice_packets+0x40/0xc0 [mac80211]
*pdpt = 0000000002d1e001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/module/aes_generic/initstate
Modules linked in: <bleh>

Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.31-rc5-wl #2) Dell DV051
EIP: 0060:[<f8806c70>] EFLAGS: 00010292 CPU: 0
EIP is at ieee80211_agg_splice_packets+0x40/0xc0 [mac80211]
EAX: 00000030 EBX: 0000004c ECX: 00000003 EDX: 00000000
ESI: c1c98000 EDI: f745a1c0 EBP: c076be58 ESP: c076be38
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c076a000 task=c0709160 task.ti=c076a000)
Stack: <bleh2>
Call Trace:
 [<f8806edb>] ? ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb+0xab/0x150 [mac80211]
 [<f8802f1e>] ? ieee80211_tasklet_handler+0xce/0x110 [mac80211]
 [<c04862ff>] ? net_rx_action+0xef/0x1d0
 [<c0149378>] ? tasklet_action+0x58/0xc0
 [<c014a0f2>] ? __do_softirq+0xc2/0x190
 [<c018eb48>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x58/0x140
 [<c01205fe>] ? ack_apic_level+0x7e/0x270
 [<c014a1fd>] ? do_softirq+0x3d/0x40
 [<c014a345>] ? irq_exit+0x65/0x90
 [<c010a6af>] ? do_IRQ+0x4f/0xc0
 [<c014a35d>] ? irq_exit+0x7d/0x90
 [<c011d547>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0x90
 [<c01094a9>] ? common_interrupt+0x29/0x30
 [<c010fd9e>] ? mwait_idle+0xbe/0x100
 [<c0107e42>] ? cpu_idle+0x52/0x90
 [<c054b1a5>] ? rest_init+0x55/0x60
 [<c077492d>] ? start_kernel+0x315/0x37d
 [<c07743ce>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1f9
 [<c0774099>] ? i386_start_kernel+0x79/0x81
Code: <bleh3>
EIP: [<f8806c70>] ieee80211_agg_splice_packets+0x40/0xc0 [mac80211] SS:ESP 0068:c076be38
CR2: 0000000000000030

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Testedy-by: Jack Lau <jackelectronics@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-13 14:47:42 -04:00
Igor Perminov
e3b90ca284 mac80211: FIF_PSPOLL filter flag
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>
2009-08-04 16:44:35 -04:00
Maxim Levitsky
d1c5091f23 mac80211: Increase timeouts for station polling
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>
2009-08-04 16:44:20 -04:00
Maxim Levitsky
a43abf2939 mac80211: Retry probe request few times
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>
2009-08-04 16:44:20 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
8b19e6ca3b cfg80211: enable country IE support to all cfg80211 drivers
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>
2009-08-04 16:44:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
056508dcb6 mac80211: fix powersave
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>
2009-08-04 16:44:18 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
42935ecaf4 mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueue
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>
2009-08-04 16:44:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
57c9fff3d0 mac80211: fix sparse warnings/errors
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>
2009-08-04 16:43:25 -04:00
Bob Copeland
97af743207 mac80211: disable beacons before removing the associated interface
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>
2009-08-04 16:43:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg
4da163ab0a mac80211: disable software retry for now
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>
2009-08-04 16:43:18 -04:00
David S. Miller
2f6d7c1b34 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-07-30 19:26:55 -07:00
David S. Miller
df597efb57 Merge branch 'master' of 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
2009-07-30 19:22:43 -07:00
Johannes Berg
a9a11622c5 cfg80211: self-contained wext handling where possible
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>
2009-07-29 15:46:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg
1f9298f960 cfg80211: combine IWESSID handlers
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>
2009-07-29 15:46:18 -04:00
Johannes Berg
562e482265 cfg80211: combine IWAP handlers
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>
2009-07-29 15:46:16 -04:00