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2010-03-10mac80211: Fix (dynamic) power save entryJuuso Oikarinen
Currently hardware with !IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK and IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS will never enter PSM due to the conditions in the power save entry functions. Fix those conditions. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-03mac80211: Fix HT rate control configurationSujith
Handling HT configuration changes involved setting the channel with the new HT parameters and then issuing a rate_update() notification to the driver. This behavior changed after the off-channel changes. Now, the channel is not updated with the new HT params in enable_ht() - instead, it is now done when the scan work terminates. This results in the driver depending on stale information, defaulting to non-HT mode always. Fix this by passing the new channel type to the driver. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-02mac80211: Fix reassociation processing (within ESS roaming)Jouni Malinen
Commit e1dd33f60ced091114e4aacf141e0d03b88d3e13 changed cfg80211 to allow association commands while in associated state to enable support for roaming within an ESS. However, this was not enough to resolve all cases with mac80211 which needs some additional handling of the reassociation case to clear internal state with the BSS that was in use previously. This patch makes ieee80211_mgd_assoc() accept a valid reassociation command and clean the association state with the previous BSS. This fixes roaming between BSSes in an ESS when using wpa_supplicant with -Dnl80211. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-15cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action framesJouni Malinen
This implements a new command to register for action frames that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but the socket can be closed for that. Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the cfg80211 API helps implementing that. Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be used either to exchange action frames on the current operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public Action frames with the remain-on-channel command. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-10mac80211: Deny TX BA session requests during disassociationSujith
In associated state, when bringing an interface down, existing BA sessions are torn down. When this is in progress, nothing prevents mac80211 from accepting another BA session start request. Use a new station flag to fix this. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-09mac80211: Retry null data frame for power save.Vivek Natarajan
Even if the null data frame is not acked by the AP, mac80211 goes into power save. This might lead to loss of frames from the AP. Prevent this by restarting dynamic_ps_timer when ack is not received for null data frames. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08mac80211: fix deauth raceJohannes Berg
When userspace requests a deauth while the authentication work is pending in the auth (not probe) state, we do not properly abort the work and then things get confused. Fix that and also improve the checks here to include the correct virtual interface, just in case two virtual interfaces would ever try to connect to the same BSS. Also fix a bug -- need to use list_del_rcu instead of just list_del to free a work item. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleepJohannes Berg
Many drivers would like to sleep during station addition and removal, and currently have a high complexity there from not being able to. This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to fail. The reason we didn't do this previously is that the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep. This patch will keep the station allocation in that path, but moves adding the station to the driver out of line. Since the addition can now fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver rejected -- in that case we still talk to the station but never tell the driver about it in the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be a driver that has a low limit on the number of stations and that cannot talk to any stations that are not known to it, we need to do come up with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs, maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08mac80211: don't probe if we have probe responseJohannes Berg
We can now easily determine whether we already have probe response information for the BSS we are asked to connect to, in which case there's little point in probing the BSS again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-26mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersaveJohannes Berg
Because DTIM information is required for powersave but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon before enabling powersave, and change the way the information is conveyed to the driver accordingly. mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but requires the DTIM period in a different way; after talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do the parsing itself in the finalize_join work. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
2010-01-15mac80211: force use_short_slot=true for 5GHzFelix Fietkau
Normally 5GHz does not have a concept of long vs short slot time, however the slot time that it ends up using is the same as for 2.4 GHZ and use_short_slot == true Because of that, it makes more sense to force use_short_slot = true whenever 5 GHz is being used, so that this particular check does not have to be in every single driver that uses this flag. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12mac80211: add debugfs interface for U-APSD queue configurationKalle Valo
Because it's not yet decided how to configure which queues are U-APSD enabled, add a debugfs interface for testing purposes. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12mac80211: add U-APSD client supportKalle Valo
Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it possible to save even more power. Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported. Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running various test traffic with ping. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12net/mac80211/mlme.c: Remove unnecessary semicolonsJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12mac80211: fix return from ieee80211_assoc_successJohannes Berg
sparse pointed out that I made a mistake converting the return value of ieee80211_assoc_success to bool, this place should return false instead of one of the enum values (which would be true). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12mac80211: use nullfunc frames for 4-addr sta detectionFelix Fietkau
To detect incoming 4-addr stations, hostapd needs to receive a 4-addr data frame from the remote station, so that it can create the AP VLAN for it. With this patch, the mlme code emits a 4-addr nullfunc frame immediately after assoc. On the AP side it also drops 4-addr nullfunc frames to the cooked monitor mode interface, if the interface hasn't been fully set up to receive 4-addr data frames yet. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12mac80211: use PS Poll and Nullfunc templates when sending such framesKalle Valo
To avoid duplicate code, use ieee80211_[pspoll|nullfunc]_get() to get templates for PS Poll and Nullfunc frames in mlme.c. Compile-tested only. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-08mac80211: add missing sanity checks for action framesFelix Fietkau
Various missing sanity checks caused rejected action frames to be interpreted as channel switch announcements, which can cause a client mode interface to switch away from its operating channel, thereby losing connectivity. This patch ensures that only spectrum management action frames are processed by the CSA handling function and prevents rejected action frames from getting processed by the MLME code. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
Conflicts: net/mac80211/scan.c net/mac80211/wme.c
2010-01-06Revert "mac80211: replace netif_tx_{start,stop,wake}_all_queues"John W. Linville
This reverts commit 53623f1a09c7a7d23b74f0f7d93dba0ebde1006b. This was inadvertantly missed in "mac80211: fix skb buffering issue", and is required with that patch to restore proper queue operation. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: make off-channel work genericJohannes Berg
This changes mac80211 to allow being off-channel for any type of work, not just the 'remain-on-channel' work. This also helps fast transition to a BSS on a different channel. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: support remain-on-channel commandJohannes Berg
This implements the new remain-on-channel cfg80211 command in mac80211, extending the work interface. Also change the work purge code to be able to clean up events properly (pretending they timed out.) Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: proper bss private data handlingJohannes Berg
cfg80211 offers private data for each BSS struct, which mac80211 uses. However, mac80211 uses internal and external (cfg80211) BSS pointers interchangeably and has a hack to put the cfg80211 bss struct into the private struct. Remove this hack, properly converting between the pointers wherever necessary. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: refactor associationJohannes Berg
Refactor the code to reserve an skb of the right size (instead of hoping 200 bytes are enough forever), and also put HT IE generation into an own function. Additionally, put the HT IE before the vendor-specific WMM IE. This still leaves things not quite ordered correctly, due to user-specified IEs, add a note about that for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: generalise work handlingJohannes Berg
In order to use auth/assoc for different purposes other than MLME, it needs to be split up. For other purposes, a generic work handling (potentially on another channel) will be useful. To achieve that, this patch moves much of the MLME work handling out of mlme into a new work API. The API can currently handle probing a specific AP, authentication and association. The MLME previously handled probe/authentication as one step and will continue to do so, but they are separate in the new work handling. Work items are RCU-managed to be able to check for existence of an item for a specific frame in the RX path, but they can be re-used which the MLME right now will do for its combined probe/auth step. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: generalise management work a bitJohannes Berg
As a first step of generalising management work, this renames a few things and puts more information directly into the struct so that auth/assoc need not access the BSS pointer as often -- in fact it can be removed from auth completely. Also since the previous patch made sure a new work item is used for association, we can make the different data a union. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: let cfg80211 manage auth stateJohannes Berg
mac80211 currently hangs on to the auth state by keeping it on the work list. That can lead to confusing behaviour like rejecting scans while authenticated to any AP (but not yet associated.) It also means that it needs to keep track of the work struct while associated for when it gets disassociated (or disassociates.) Change this to free the work struct after the authentication completed successfully and allocate a new one for associating, thereby letting cfg80211 manage the auth state. Another change necessary for this is to tell cfg80211 about all unicast deauth frames sent to mac80211 since now it can no longer check the auth state, but that check was racy anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: add ieee80211_sdata_runningJohannes Berg
Instead of always using netif_running(sdata->dev) use ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata) now which is just an inline containing netif_running() for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
2009-12-22mac80211: dont try to use existing sta for APJohannes Berg
Clean out some cruft that could use an already existing sta_info struct -- that case cannot happen. Also, there's a bug there -- if allocation/insertion fails then it is possible that we are left in a lingering state where mac80211 waits for the AP, cfg80211 waits for mac80211, but the AP has already replied. Since there's no way to indicate an internal error, pretend there was a timeout, i.e. that the AP never responded. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: allow disabling 40MHz on 2.4GHzJohannes Berg
In some situations it is required that a system be configured with no support for 40 MHz channels in the 2.4 GHz band. Rather than imposing any such restrictions on everybody, allow configuration a system like that with a module parameter. It is writable at runtime but only takes effect at the time of the next association. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: enable spatial multiplexing powersaveJohannes Berg
Enable spatial multiplexing in mac80211 by telling the driver what to do and, where necessary, sending action frames to the AP to update the requested SMPS mode. Also includes a trivial implementation for hwsim that just logs the requested mode. For now, the userspace interface is in debugfs only, and let you toggle the requested mode at any time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg
For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: make station management completely depend on vifJohannes Berg
The station management currently uses the virtual interface, but you cannot add the same station to multiple virtual interfaces if you're communicating with it in multiple ways. This restriction should be lifted so that in the future we can, for instance, support bluetooth 3 with an access point that mac80211 is already associated to. We can do that by requiring all sta_info_get users to provide the virtual interface and making the RX code aware that an address may match more than one station struct. Thanks to the previous patches this one isn't all that large and except for the RX and TX status paths changes has low complexity. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: fix WMM AP settings applicationJohannes Berg
My commit 77fdaa12cea26c204cc12c312fe40bc0f3dcdfd8 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Date: Tue Jul 7 03:45:17 2009 +0200 mac80211: rework MLME for multiple authentications inadvertedly broke WMM because it removed, along with a bunch of other now useless initialisations, the line initialising sdata->u.mgd.wmm_last_param_set to -1 which would make it adopt any WMM parameter set. If, as is usually the case, the AP uses WMM parameter set sequence number zero, we'd never update it until the AP changes the sequence number. Add the missing initialisation back to get the WMM settings from the AP applied locally. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.31+] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-07mac80211: recalculate idle later in MLMEJohannes Berg
hwsim testing has revealed that when the MLME recalculates the idle state of the device, it sometimes does so before sending the final deauthentication or disassociation frame. This patch changes the place where the idle state is recalculated, but of course driver transmit is typically asynchronous while configuration is expected to be synchronous, so it doesn't fix all possible cases yet. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19mac80211: avoid spurious deauth frames/messagesJohannes Berg
With WEXT, it happens frequently that the SME requests an authentication but then deauthenticates right away because some new parameters came along. Every time this happens we print a deauth message and send a deauth frame, but both of that is rather confusing. Avoid it by aborting the authentication process silently, and telling cfg80211 about that. The patch looks larger than it really is: __cfg80211_auth_remove() is split out from cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(), there's no new code except __cfg80211_auth_canceled() (a one-liner) and the mac80211 bits (7 new lines of code). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18mac80211: remove encrypt parameter from ieee80211_tx_skbJohannes Berg
Since the flags moved into skb->cb, there's no longer a need to have the encrypt bool passed into the function, anyone who requires it set to 0 (false) can just set the flag directly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-16mac80211: Do not queue Probe Request frames for station MLMEJouni Malinen
Cooked monitor interfaces cannot currently receive Probe Request frames when the interface is in station mode. However, we do not process Probe Request frames internally in the station MLME, so there is no point in queueing the frame here. Remove Probe Request frames from the queued frame list to allow cooked monitor interfaces to receive these frames. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-29Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2009-10-27mac80211: replace netif_tx_{start,stop,wake}_all_queuesJohn W. Linville
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>
2009-10-27cfg80211: no cookies in cfg80211_send_XXX()Holger Schurig
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>
2009-10-27mac80211: keep auth state when assoc failsJohannes Berg
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>
2009-09-28mac80211: improve/fix mlme messagesJohannes Berg
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>
2009-08-28mac80211: Check pending scan request after having processed mgd workJouni Malinen
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>
2009-08-14mac80211: 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>
2009-08-04mac80211: 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>