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2009-12-28cfg80211: fix error path in cfg80211_wext_siwscanJohannes Berg
If there's an invalid channel or SSID, the code leaks the scan request. Always free the scan request, unless it was successfully given to the driver. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-04Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-11-29net: Move && and || to end of previous lineJoe Perches
Not including net/atm/ Compiled tested x86 allyesconfig only Added a > 80 column line or two, which I ignored. Existing checkpatch plaints willfully, cheerfully ignored. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-28wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211.Alban Browaeys
This patch moves the works cleanup, scan and events to a cfg80211 dedicated workqueue. Platform driver like eeepc-laptop ought to use works to rfkill (as new rfkill does lock in rfkill_unregister and the platform driver is called from rfkill_switch_all which also lock the same mutex). This raise a new issue in itself that the work scheduled by the platform driver to the global worqueue calls wiphy_unregister which flush_work scan and event works (which thus flush works on the global workqueue inside a work on the global workqueue) and also put on hold the wdev_cleanup_work (which prevents the dev_put on netdev thus indefinite Usage count error on wifi device). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18mac80211: update cfg80211 scan result code for the updated mesh conf IERui Paulo
Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18mac80211: use a structure to hold the mesh config information elementRui Paulo
Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02cfg80211: validate scan channelsJohannes Berg
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>
2009-10-07wext: refactorJohannes Berg
Refactor wext to * split out iwpriv handling * split out iwspy handling * split out procfs support * allow cfg80211 to have wireless extensions compat code w/o CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT After this, drivers need to - select WIRELESS_EXT - for wext support - select WEXT_PRIV - for iwpriv support - select WEXT_SPY - for iwspy support except cfg80211 -- which gets new hooks in wext-core.c and can then get wext handlers without CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT. Wireless extensions procfs support is auto-selected based on PROC_FS and anything that requires the wext core (i.e. WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-14cfg80211: minimal error handling for wext-compat freq scanningHolger Schurig
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-14cfg80211: use cfg80211_wext_freq() for freq conversionHolger Schurig
WEXT's "struct iw_freq" can also be used to handle a channel. This patch now uses cfg80211_wext_freq() instead of hand-converting the frequency. That allows user-space to specify channels as well, like with SIOCSIWFREQ. Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-09cfg80211: allow scanning on specified frequencies when using wext-compatibilityHolger Schurig
Handles the case when SIOCSIWSCAN specified iw_scan_req.num_channels and iw_scan_req.channels[]. Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-02cfg80211: fix looping soft lockup in find_ie()Bob Copeland
The find_ie() function uses a size_t for the len parameter, and directly uses len as a loop variable. If any received packets are malformed, it is possible for the decrease of len to overflow, and since the result is unsigned, the loop will not terminate. Change it to a signed int so the loop conditional works for negative values. This fixes the following soft lockup: [38573.102007] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [phy0:2230] [38573.102007] Modules linked in: aes_i586 aes_generic fuse af_packet ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables acpi_cpufreq binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod kvm_intel kvm uinput i915 arc4 ecb drm snd_hda_codec_idt ath5k snd_hda_intel hid_apple mac80211 usbhid appletouch snd_hda_codec snd_pcm ath cfg80211 snd_timer i2c_algo_bit ohci1394 video snd processor ieee1394 rfkill ehci_hcd sg sky2 backlight snd_page_alloc uhci_hcd joydev output ac thermal button battery sr_mod applesmc cdrom input_polldev evdev unix [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] [38573.102007] irq event stamp: 2547724535 [38573.102007] hardirqs last enabled at (2547724534): [<c1002ffc>] restore_all_notrace+0x0/0x18 [38573.102007] hardirqs last disabled at (2547724535): [<c10038f4>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x34 [38573.102007] softirqs last enabled at (92950144): [<c103ab48>] __do_softirq+0x108/0x210 [38573.102007] softirqs last disabled at (92950274): [<c1348e74>] _spin_lock_bh+0x14/0x80 [38573.102007] [38573.102007] Pid: 2230, comm: phy0 Tainted: G W (2.6.31-rc7-wl #8) MacBook1,1 [38573.102007] EIP: 0060:[<f8ea2d50>] EFLAGS: 00010292 CPU: 0 [38573.102007] EIP is at cmp_ies+0x30/0x180 [cfg80211] [38573.102007] EAX: 00000082 EBX: 00000000 ECX: ffffffc1 EDX: d8efd014 [38573.102007] ESI: ffffff7c EDI: 0000004d EBP: eee2dc50 ESP: eee2dc3c [38573.102007] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [38573.102007] CR0: 8005003b CR2: d8efd014 CR3: 01694000 CR4: 000026d0 [38573.102007] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [38573.102007] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 [38573.102007] Call Trace: [38573.102007] [<f8ea2f8d>] cmp_bss+0xed/0x100 [cfg80211] [38573.102007] [<f8ea33e4>] cfg80211_bss_update+0x84/0x410 [cfg80211] [38573.102007] [<f8ea3884>] cfg80211_inform_bss_frame+0x114/0x180 [cfg80211] [38573.102007] [<f97255ff>] ieee80211_bss_info_update+0x4f/0x180 [mac80211] [38573.102007] [<f972b118>] ieee80211_rx_bss_info+0x88/0xf0 [mac80211] [38573.102007] [<f9739297>] ? ieee802_11_parse_elems+0x27/0x30 [mac80211] [38573.102007] [<f972b224>] ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp+0xa4/0x1c0 [mac80211] [38573.102007] [<f972bc59>] ieee80211_sta_rx_queued_mgmt+0x919/0xc50 [mac80211] [38573.102007] [<c1009707>] ? sched_clock+0x27/0xa0 [38573.102007] [<c1009707>] ? sched_clock+0x27/0xa0 [38573.102007] [<c105ffd0>] ? mark_held_locks+0x60/0x80 [38573.102007] [<c1348be5>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x55/0x70 [38573.102007] [<c134baa5>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x85/0xc0 [38573.102007] [<c1348bce>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3e/0x70 [38573.102007] [<c12c1c0f>] ? skb_dequeue+0x4f/0x70 [38573.102007] [<f972c021>] ieee80211_sta_work+0x91/0xb80 [mac80211] [38573.102007] [<c1009707>] ? sched_clock+0x27/0xa0 [38573.102007] [<c134baa5>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x85/0xc0 [38573.102007] [<c10479af>] worker_thread+0x18f/0x320 [38573.102007] [<c104794e>] ? worker_thread+0x12e/0x320 [38573.102007] [<c1348be5>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x55/0x70 [38573.102007] [<f972bf90>] ? ieee80211_sta_work+0x0/0xb80 [mac80211] [38573.102007] [<c104cbb0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50 [38573.102007] [<c1047820>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x320 [38573.102007] [<c104c854>] kthread+0x84/0x90 [38573.102007] [<c104c7d0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x90 [38573.102007] [<c1003ab7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28cfg80211: check lost scans later, fix bugJohannes Berg
When we lose a scan, cfg80211 tries to clean up after the driver. However, it currently does this too early, it does this in GOING_DOWN already instead of DOWN, so it may happen with mac80211. Besides fixing this, also make it more robust by leaking the scan request so if the driver later actually finishes the scan, it won't crash. Also check in ___cfg80211_scan_done whether a scan request is still pending and exit if not. Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14cfg80211: check for and abort dangling scan requestsJohannes Berg
If you trigger a scan request on an interface and then take it down, or rmmod the module or unplug the device the driver might "forget" to cancel the scan request. That is a bug in the driver, but the current behaviour is that we just hang endlessly waiting for the netdev refcount to become 0 which it never will. To improve robustness, check for this situation in cfg80211, warn about it and clean up behind the driver. I don't just clean up silently because it's likely that the driver also has some internal state it has now leaked. Additionally, this fixes a locking bug, clearing the scan_req pointer should be done under the rdev lock. Finally, we also need to _wait_ for the scan work and not just abort it since it might be pending and wanting to do a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
2009-08-14nl80211: 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>
2009-08-12Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
2009-08-03cfg80211: add two missing NULL pointer checksJohannes Berg
These pointers can be NULL, the is_mesh() case isn't ever hit in the current kernel, but cmp_ies() can be hit under certain conditions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29, 2.6.30] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
2009-07-27cfg80211: increase scan result expire timeHelmut Schaa
Using background scanning in mac80211 the time a scan needs to finish can exceed 10 seconds. Hence, increase the scan results expire time to 15 seconds which should be sufficient. 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>
2009-07-27cfg80211: 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>
2009-07-23Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c net/wireless/scan.c
2009-07-21cfg80211: double free in __cfg80211_scan_doneChristian Lamparter
This patch fixes a double free corruption in __cfg80211_scan_done: ================================================ BUG kmalloc-512: Object already free ------------------------------------------------ INFO: Allocated in load_elf_binary+0x18b/0x19af age=6 INFO: Freed in load_elf_binary+0x104e/0x19af age=5 INFO: Slab 0xffffea0001bae4c0 objects=14 used=7 INFO: Object 0xffff88007e8a9918 @offset=6424 fp=0xffff88007e8a9488 Bytes b4 0xffff88007e8a9908: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a [...] Pid: 28705, comm: rmmod Tainted: P C 2.6.31-rc2-wl #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810da9f4>] print_trailer+0x14e/0x16e [<ffffffff810daa56>] object_err+0x42/0x61 [<ffffffff810dbcd9>] __slab_free+0x2af/0x396 [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] ? wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffff810dd5e3>] kfree+0x13c/0x17a [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] ? wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0eed163>] ieee80211_unregister_hw+0xc8/0xff [mac80211] [<ffffffffa0f3fbc8>] p54_unregister_common+0x31/0x66 [p54common] [...] FIX kmalloc-512: Object at 0xffff88007e8a9918 not freed The code path which leads to the *funny* double free: request = rdev->scan_req; dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, request->ifidx); /* * the driver was unloaded recently and * therefore dev_get_by_index will return NULL! */ if (!dev) goto out; [...] rdev->scan_req = NULL; /* not executed... */ [...] out: kfree(request); Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: fix lockingJohannes Berg
Over time, a lot of locking issues have crept into the smarts of cfg80211, so e.g. scan completion can race against a new scan, IBSS join can race against leaving an IBSS, etc. Introduce a new per-interface lock that protects most of the per-interface data that we need to keep track of, and sprinkle assertions about that lock everywhere. Some things now need to be offloaded to work structs so that we don't require being able to sleep in functions the drivers call. The exception to that are the MLME callbacks (rx_auth etc.) that currently only mac80211 calls because it was easier to do that there instead of in cfg80211, and future drivers implementing those calls will, if they ever exist, probably need to use a similar scheme like mac80211 anyway... In order to be able to handle _deauth and _disassoc properly, introduce a cookie passed to it that will determine locking requirements. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: properly name driver lockingJohannes Berg
Currently we call that cfg80211_put_dev(), but that is misleading. With the new convention of using 'rdev' for registered_device variables, also call that function cfg80211_unlock_rdev(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: keep track of BSSesJohannes Berg
In order to avoid problems with BSS structs going away while they're in use, I've long wanted to make cfg80211 keep track of them. Without the SME, that wasn't doable but now that we have the SME we can do this too. It can keep track of up to four separate authentications and one association, regardless of whether it's controlled by the cfg80211 SME or the userspace SME. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: emulate connect with auth/assocJohannes Berg
This adds code to cfg80211 so that drivers (mac80211 right now) that don't implement connect but rather auth/assoc can still be used with the nl80211 connect command. This will also be necessary for the wext compat code. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: issue netlink notification when scan startsJohannes Berg
To ease multiple apps working together smoothly, send a notification when a scan is started. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-07cfg80211: fix refcount leakJohannes Berg
The code in cfg80211's cfg80211_bss_update erroneously grabs a reference to the BSS, which means that it will never be freed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29, 2.6.30] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03nl80211: bounce scan request back to userspaceJohannes Berg
When a scan finishes only the program that asked for it knows what kind of scan it was; let's tell everybody else about the scan parameters as well so they can evaluate the result of the scan better. Also helps with debugging. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-05-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: include/net/tcp.h
2009-05-06cfg80211: Use the correct IE buffer pointerMichael Buesch
If the IE buffer was allocated, the pub.information_elements pointer was also changed to the allocated space. So we must not assume anymore that the pointer points at the "found" tail. So if it was allocated previously, take the codebranch that grows the buffer size (if necessary) and put the data into the allocated buffer. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06cfg80211: Remove unnecessary ksize() callMichael Buesch
This removes an unnecessary ksize() call. krealloc() will do this test internally and won't perform any allocation if the space is already sufficient to hold the data. So remove the redundant check. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-04cfg80211: fix truncated IEsJohannes Berg
Another bug in the "cfg80211: do not replace BSS structs" patch, a forgotten length update leads to bogus data being stored and passed to userspace, often truncated. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22cfg80211: mark all WEXT handlers _GPLJohannes Berg
The fact that these are exported is a technical detail of the conversion period -- we don't want anybody to start relying on these. Ultimately we want things to use cfg80211 only, and once everything that is in wext is converted to cfg80211 drivers will not need to touch wext _at all_. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22cfg80211: add cfg80211_inform_bssJussi Kivilinna
Added cfg80211_inform_bss() for full-mac devices to use. Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-17cfg80211: do not replace BSS structsJohannes Berg
Instead, allocate extra IE memory if necessary. Normally, this isn't even necessary since there's enough space. This is a better way of correcting the "held BSS can disappear" issue, but also a lot more code. It is also necessary for proper auth/assoc BSS handling in the future. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-17cfg80211: copy hold when replacing BSSJohannes Berg
When we receive a probe response frame we can replace the BSS struct in our list -- but if that struct is held then we need to hold the new one as well. We really should fix this completely and not replace the struct, but this is a bandaid for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27cfg80211: add feature to hold bssKalle Valo
In beacon filtering there needs to be a way to not expire the BSS even when no beacons are received. Add an interface to cfg80211 to hold BSS and make sure that it's not expired. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27cfg80211: Add AP beacon regulatory hintsLuis R. Rodriguez
When devices are world roaming they cannot beacon or do active scan on 5 GHz or on channels 12, 13 and 14 on the 2 GHz band. Although we have a good regulatory API some cards may _always_ world roam, this is also true when a system does not have CRDA present. Devices doing world roaming can still passive scan, if they find a beacon from an AP on one of the world roaming frequencies we make the assumption we can do the same and we also remove the passive scan requirement. This adds support for providing beacon regulatory hints based on scans. This works for devices that do either hardware or software scanning. If a channel has not yet been marked as having had a beacon present on it we queue the beacon hint processing into the workqueue. All wireless devices will benefit from beacon regulatory hints from any wireless device on a system including new devices connected to the system at a later time. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27cfg80211: clean up signal typeJohannes Berg
It wasn't a good idea to make the signal type a per-BSS option, although then it is closer to the actual value. Move it to be a per-wiphy setting, update mac80211 to match. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27cfg80211/mac80211: fill qual.qual value/adjust max_qual.qualJohannes Berg
Due to various bugs in the software stack we end up having to fill qual.qual; level should be used, but wpa_supplicant doesn't properly ignore qual.qual, NM should use qual.level regardless of that because qual.qual is 0 but doesn't handle IW_QUAL_DBM right now. So fill qual.qual with the qual.level value clamped to -110..-40 dBm or just the regular 'unspecified' signal level. This requires a mac80211 change to properly announce the max_qual.qual and avg_qual.qual values. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27cfg80211: age scan results on resumeDan Williams
Scanned BSS entries are timestamped with jiffies, which doesn't increment across suspend and hibernate. On resume, every BSS in the scan list looks like it was scanned within the last 10 seconds, irregardless of how long the machine was actually asleep. Age scan results on resume with the time spent during sleep so userspace has a clue how old they really are. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13cfg80211: add more flexible BSS lookupJohannes Berg
Add a more flexible BSS lookup function so that mac80211 or other drivers can actually use this for getting the BSS to connect to. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13cfg80211: allow users to request removing a BSSJohannes Berg
This patch introduces cfg80211_unlink_bss, a function to allow a driver to remove a BSS from the internal list and make it not show up in scan results any more -- this is to be used when the driver detects that the BSS is no longer available. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13cfg80211: free_priv for BSS infoJohannes Berg
When cfg80211 users have their own allocated data in the per-BSS private data, they will need to free this when the BSS struct is destroyed. Add a free_priv method and fix one place where the BSS was kfree'd rather than released properly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13cfg80211/nl80211: scanning (and mac80211 update to use it)Johannes Berg
This patch adds basic scan capability to cfg80211/nl80211 and changes mac80211 to use it. The BSS list that cfg80211 maintains is made driver-accessible with a private area in each BSS struct, but mac80211 doesn't yet use it. That's another large project. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>