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Johannes Berg
77a121c3a8 mac80211: pull mgmt frame rx into rx handler
Some code is duplicated between ibss, mesh and
managed mode regarding the queueing of management
frames. Since all modes now use a common skb
queue and a common work function, we can pull
the queueing code into the rx handler directly
and remove the duplicated length checks etc.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:39:26 -04:00
Johannes Berg
36b3a628a4 mac80211: common work skb freeing
All the management processing functions free the
skb after they are done, so this can be done in
the new common code instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:39:26 -04:00
Johannes Berg
1fa57d0173 mac80211: use common work function
Even with the previous patch, IBSS, managed
and mesh modes all attach their own work
function to the shared work struct, which
means some duplicated code. Change that to
only have a frame processing function and a
further work function for each of them and
share some common code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:38:17 -04:00
Johannes Berg
64592c8fc0 mac80211: use common work struct
IBSS, managed and mesh modes all have their
own work struct, and in the future we want
to also use it in other modes to process
frames from the now common skb queue.

This also makes the skb queue and work safe
to use from other interface types.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:38:17 -04:00
Johannes Berg
35f20c14a1 mac80211: use common skb queue
IBSS, managed and mesh modes all have an
skb queue, and in the future we want to
also use it in other modes, so make them
all use a common skb queue already.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:38:17 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2a419056c1 mac80211: simplify station/aggregation code
A number of places use RCU locking for accessing
the station list, even though they do not need
to. Use mutex locking instead to prepare for the
locking changes I want to make. The mlme code is
also using a WLAN_STA_DISASSOC flag that has the
same meaning as WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA, so use that.

While doing so, combine places where we loop
over stations twice, and optimise away some of
the loops by checking if the hardware supports
aggregation at all first.

Also fix a more theoretical race condition: right
now we could resume, set up an aggregation session,
and right after tear it down again due to the code
that is needed for hardware reconfiguration here.
Also mark add a comment to that code marking it as
a workaround.

Finally, remove a pointless aggregation disabling
loop when an interface is stopped, directly after
that we remove all stations from it which will also
disable all aggregation sessions that may still be
active, and does so in a race-free way unlike the
current loop that doesn't block new sessions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:38:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9d38d85de0 cfg80211/mac80211: allow action frame TX/RX in IBSS
When in IBSS mode, currently action frame TX and RX
cannot be used. Allow using it to talk to any peer,
or for public action frames. Also, while at it,
restructure the code in mac80211 to make it easier
to add this for other interface types in the future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:38:16 -04:00
Juuso Oikarinen
90b726097b mac80211: Add netif state checking to ieee80211_ifa_changed
There's a window for ieee80211_ifa_changed() to get called whilst the
managed mode mutex has not been initialized when opening and stopping the
interface. Currently this causes a kernel BUG like the following:

[  132.460013] kernel BUG at /home/wifi/iwlwifi-2.6/net/mac80211/main.c:380!
[  132.460013] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

The mutex is initialized during open(), hence once netif_running() is true,
the mutex should be valid. Fix by adding a netif_running() check to the
function.

Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-08 09:31:21 -04:00
John W. Linville
9d88477c41 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
2010-06-07 15:13:46 -04:00
John W. Linville
11b7c60988 mac80211: fix lock leak w/ ARP filtering and w/o CONFIG_INET
"mac80211: make ARP filtering depend on CONFIG_INET" introduced this
potential locking leak.

Reported-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-07 15:09:16 -04:00
Holger Schurig
35dd0509b2 mac80211: fix function pointer check
This makes "iw wlan0 dump survey" work again with
mac80211-based drivers that support it, e.g. ath5k.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-07 14:44:40 -04:00
Johannes Berg
8b9a4e6e44 mac80211: process station blockack action frames from work
Processing an association response could take a bit
of time while we set up the hardware etc. During that
time, the AP might already send a blockack request.
If this happens very quickly on a fairly slow machine,
we can end up processing the blockack request before
the association processing has finished. Since the
blockack processing cannot sleep right now, we also
cannot make it wait in the driver.

As a result, sometimes on slow machines the iwlagn
driver gets totally confused, and no traffic can pass
when the aggregation setup was done before the assoc
setup completed.

I'm working on a proper fix for this, which involves
queuing all blockack category action frames from a
work struct, and also allowing the ampdu_action driver
callback to sleep, which will generally clean up the
code and make things easier.

However, this is a very involved and complex change.
To fix the problem at hand in a way that can also be
backported to stable, I've come up with this patch.
Here, I simply process all aggregation action frames
from the managed interface skb queue, which means
their processing will be serialized with processing
the association response, thereby fixing the problem.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-04 15:50:51 -04:00
Sujith
38a6cc7538 mac80211: Remove deprecated sta_notify commands
STA_NOTIFY_ADD and STA_NOTIFY_REMOVE have no users anymore,
and station addition/removal are indicated to drivers
using sta_add() and sta_remove(), which can sleep.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-04 15:32:25 -04:00
John W. Linville
26b36cfefa mac80211: make ARP filtering depend on CONFIG_INET
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-04 14:25:44 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
2826bcd844 mac80211: reduce debugfs code size
This patch reduces the binary size by around 25k (measured on MIPS,
with CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_COUNTERS enabled).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:14:41 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ad0e2b5a00 mac80211: simplify key locking
Since I recently made station management able
to sleep, I can now rework key management as
well; since it will no longer need a spinlock
and can also use a mutex instead, a bunch of
code to allow drivers' set_key to sleep while
key management is protected by a spinlock can
now be removed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:46 -04:00
Johannes Berg
fcea60070f mac80211: move plink state
For some odd reason, the plink_state enum is
declared in the middle between aggregation
related structures. Move it down to make the
file easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:45 -04:00
Johannes Berg
08daecaead mac80211: drop control frames after processing
After ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl() processing we only
want to process management (including action)
frames, so there's no point in letting control
frames continue.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:45 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e0961f112c mac80211: remove useless work starting
Ever since we use only cfg80211 for configuration,
there is no configuration that could be pending at
this point, cfg80211 will have the configuration
that is pending and apply it afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:45 -04:00
Johannes Berg
761ab47036 mac80211: move WEP weak IV check
I suspect the compiler will do this optimisation
anyway, but it seems cleaner to move this into
the WEP switch case.

Also make rx_h_decrypt use a local variable for
the frame_control so that we don't need to reload
the hdr variable for this after linearizing.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:45 -04:00
Johannes Berg
6a8579d0e6 mac80211: clean up ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session
There's no sense in letting anything but internal
mac80211 functions set the initiator to anything
but WLAN_BACK_INITIATOR, since WLAN_BACK_RECIPIENT
is only valid when we have received a frame from
the peer, which we react to directly in mac80211.

The debugfs code I recently added got this wrong
as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:45 -04:00
Juuso Oikarinen
2b2c009ecf mac80211: Add support for hardware ARP query filtering
Some hardware allow extended filtering of ARP frames not intended for
the host. To perform such filtering, the hardware needs to know the current
IP address(es) of the host, bound to its interface.

Add support for ARP filtering to mac80211 by adding a new op to the driver
interface, allowing to configure the current IP addresses. This op is called
upon association with the currently configured address(es), and when
associated whenever the IP address(es) change.

This patch adds configuration of IPv4 addresses only, as IPv6 addresses don't
need ARP filtering.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:45 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3a4d4aa2d3 mac80211: remove bogus mod_timer() call
The IBSS code has a bogus mod_timer(..., 0) call,
we shouldn't ever pass a constant value to the
function since any constant value could be in the
future or the past.

However, invoking the timer here is not necessary
at all, since we just finished scanning and just
need to have the IBSS code run again from the
workqueue later, so factor out the work starting
and use that instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03 14:10:44 -04:00
Johannes Berg
252aa631f8 cfg80211: make action channel type optional
When sending action frames, we want to verify
that we do that on the correct channel. However,
checking the channel type in addition can get in
the way, since the channel type could change on
the fly during an association, and it's not
useful to have the channel type anyway since it
has no effect on the transmission. Therefore,
make it optional to specify so that if wanted,
it can still be checked, but is not required.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:27 -04:00
Walter Goldens
77c2061d10 wireless: fix several minor description typos
Signed-off-by: Walter Goldens <goldenstranger@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:18 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
ec8aa669b8 mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithm
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:12:59 -04:00
Johannes Berg
51a0d38de2 mac80211: fix dialog token allocator
The dialog token allocator has apparently been broken
since b83f4e15 ("mac80211: fix deadlock in sta->lock")
because it got moved out under the spinlock. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-01 14:33:02 -04:00
Johannes Berg
8ae5977ff9 mac80211: fix blockack-req processing
Daniel reported that the paged RX changes had
broken blockack request frame processing due
to using data that wasn't really part of the
skb data.

Fix this using skb_copy_bits() for the needed
data. As a side effect, this adds a check on
processing too short frames, which previously
this code could do.

Reported-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-01 14:33:02 -04:00
Johannes Berg
368a07d26a mac80211: make a function static
sparse correctly complains that
__ieee80211_get_channel_mode is not static.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-28 13:41:27 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
a0c9101c05 wireless: fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings
Fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings:

Warning(net/mac80211/sta_info.h:164): No description found for parameter 'tid_active_rx[STA_TID_NUM]'
Warning(net/mac80211/sta_info.h:164): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'tid_state_rx' description in 'sta_ampdu_mlme'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-24 15:07:43 -04:00
John W. Linville
3dc3fc52ea Revert "ath9k: Group Key fix for VAPs"
This reverts commit 03ceedea97.

This patch was reported to cause a regression in which connectivity is
lost and cannot be reestablished after a suspend/resume cycle.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-24 14:59:27 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
f8965467f3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1674 commits)
  qlcnic: adding co maintainer
  ixgbe: add support for active DA cables
  ixgbe: dcb, do not tag tc_prio_control frames
  ixgbe: fix ixgbe_tx_is_paused logic
  ixgbe: always enable vlan strip/insert when DCB is enabled
  ixgbe: remove some redundant code in setting FCoE FIP filter
  ixgbe: fix wrong offset to fc_frame_header in ixgbe_fcoe_ddp
  ixgbe: fix header len when unsplit packet overflows to data buffer
  ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address
  ipv6: Use POSTDAD state
  ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state
  ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state
  cxgb4: notify upper drivers if the device is already up when they load
  cxgb4: keep interrupts available when the ports are brought down
  cxgb4: fix initial addition of MAC address
  cnic: Return SPQ credit to bnx2x after ring setup and shutdown.
  cnic: Convert cnic_local_flags to atomic ops.
  can: Fix SJA1000 command register writes on SMP systems
  bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled
  ARCNET: Limit com20020 PCI ID matches for SOHARD cards
  ...

Fix up various conflicts with pcmcia tree drivers/net/
{pcmcia/3c589_cs.c, wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.c and
wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.c} and feature removal
(Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt).

Also fix a non-content conflict due to pm_qos_requirement getting
renamed in the PM tree (now pm_qos_request) in net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
46ee964509 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM: PM QOS update fix
  Freezer / cgroup freezer: Update stale locking comments
  PM / platform_bus: Allow runtime PM by default
  i2c: Fix bus-level power management callbacks
  PM QOS update
  PM / Hibernate: Fix block_io.c printk warning
  PM / Hibernate: Group swap ops
  PM / Hibernate: Move the first_sector out of swsusp_write
  PM / Hibernate: Separate block_io
  PM / Hibernate: Snapshot cleanup
  FS / libfs: Implement simple_write_to_buffer
  PM / Hibernate: document open(/dev/snapshot) side effects
  PM / Runtime: Add sysfs debug files
  PM: Improve device power management document
  PM: Update device power management document
  PM: Allow runtime_suspend methods to call pm_schedule_suspend()
  PM: pm_wakeup - switch to using bool
2010-05-20 09:03:55 -07:00
Joe Perches
3fa21e07e6 net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s
This patch removes from net/ (but not any netfilter files)
all the unnecessary return; statements that precede the
last closing brace of void functions.

It does not remove the returns that are immediately
preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that.

Done via:
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \
  xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }'

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
John W. Linville
6fe70aae0d Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-05-17 13:57:43 -04:00
John W. Linville
0c348d7c14 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-05-17 13:31:05 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
058897a4e9 mac80211: fix paged defragmentation
Paged RX skb patch broke the defragmentation. We need to read hdr again
after linearization.

It fixes following bug
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2194

Signed-off-by: Zhu, Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-12 16:39:07 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
9feaddc77b mac80211: check channel switch mode for future frames transmit
Check the mode in channel switch ie for either 0 or 1 on transmission.
A channel switch mode set to 1 means that the STA in a BSS to which the
frame containing the element is addressed shall transmit no further
frames 	within the BSS until the scheduled channel switch.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-12 16:39:05 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5ce6e438d5 mac80211: add offload channel switch support
This adds support for offloading the channel switch
operation to devices that support such, typically
by having specific firmware API for it. The reasons
for this could be that the firmware provides better
timing or that regulatory enforcement done by the
device requires special handling of CSAs.

In order to allow drivers to specify the timing to
the device, the new channel_switch callback will
pass through the received frame's mactime, where
available.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-12 16:39:05 -04:00
Johannes Berg
b8d92c9c14 mac80211: don't process work item with wrong frame
When we process a frame, we currently just match it
to the work struct by the MAC addresses, and not by
the work type. This means that we can end up doing
the work for an association request item when (for
whatever reason) we receive another frame type, for
example a probe response. Processing the wrong type
of frame will lead to completely invalid data being
processed, and will lead to various problems like
thinking the association was successful even if the
AP never sent an assocation response.

Fix this by making each processing function check
that it is invoked for the right work struct type
only and continue processing otherwise (and drop
frames that we didn't expect).

This bug was uncovered during the debugging for
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15862
but doesn't seem to be the cause for any of the
various problems reported there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-12 16:28:52 -04:00
David S. Miller
278554bd65 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c
	drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
	net/ipv4/ipmr.c
2010-05-12 00:05:35 -07:00
John W. Linville
cc755896a4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
2010-05-11 14:24:55 -04:00
David S. Miller
de02d72bb3 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-05-10 22:53:41 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
a15707d80e Merge branch 'wireless-2.6' into wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
2010-05-10 15:08:11 -07:00
Mark Gross
ed77134bfc PM QOS update
This patch changes the string based list management to a handle base
implementation to help with the hot path use of pm-qos, it also renames
much of the API to use "request" as opposed to "requirement" that was
used in the initial implementation.  I did this because request more
accurately represents what it actually does.

Also, I added a string based ABI for users wanting to use a string
interface.  So if the user writes 0xDDDDDDDD formatted hex it will be
accepted by the interface.  (someone asked me for it and I don't think
it hurts anything.)

This patch updates some documentation input I got from Randy.

Signed-off-by: markgross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-05-10 23:08:19 +02:00
John W. Linville
a472e71b3c mac80211: set IEEE80211_TX_CTL_FIRST_FRAGMENT for beacons
Also simplify the flags assignment into a single statement at the
end of ieee80211_beacon_get_tim.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-07 14:55:55 -04:00
Johannes Berg
0aaffa9b96 mac80211: improve HT channel handling
Currently, when one interface switches HT mode,
all others will follow along. This is clearly
undesirable, since the new one might switch to
no-HT while another one is operating in HT.

Address this issue by keeping track of the HT
mode per interface, and allowing only changes
that are compatible, i.e. switching into HT40+
is not possible when another interface is in
HT40-, in that case the second one needs to
fall back to HT20.

Also, to allow drivers to know what's going on,
store the per-interface HT mode (channel type)
in the virtual interface's bss_conf.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-07 14:55:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg
f444de05d2 cfg80211/mac80211: better channel handling
Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
then adding another virtual interface and making
that associate on another channel -- this will make
the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
the necessary IEs data update.

In order to improve this situation, first make the
configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
change and one API addition. The API change is that
now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
effect for that interface -- luckily all current
users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.

The second userland API change is the introduction
of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
to understand what's going on (it can automatically
detect a kernel with this command).

Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
are affected by this change because they only allow
a single virtual interface.

mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
channel settings are per interface now, and needs
to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
which is another important part of this patch.

One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
has a connection on another virtual interface, as
long as you specify the same channel.

Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
improvement -- not a complete fix):

 * different HT/no-HT modes

   currently you could start an HT AP and then
   connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
   which would configure the hardware for no HT;
   that can be fixed fairly easily

 * CSA

   An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
   might indicate switching channels, and in that
   case we would follow it, regardless of how many
   other interfaces are operating; this requires
   more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-07 14:55:50 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ac8dd506e4 mac80211: fix BSS info reconfiguration
When reconfiguring an interface due to a previous
hardware restart, mac80211 will currently include
the new IBSS flag on non-IBSS interfaces which may
confuse drivers.

Instead of doing the ~0 trick, simply spell out
which things are going to be reconfigured.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-07 14:55:49 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
79733a865c mac80211: remove association work when processing deauth request
In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15794 a user encountered the
following:

[18967.469098] wlan0: authenticated
[18967.472527] wlan0: associate with 00:1c:10:b8:e3:ea (try 1)
[18967.472585] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:1c:10:b8:e3:ea by local choice (reason=3)
[18967.672057] wlan0: associate with 00:1c:10:b8:e3:ea (try 2)
[18967.872357] wlan0: associate with 00:1c:10:b8:e3:ea (try 3)
[18968.072960] wlan0: association with 00:1c:10:b8:e3:ea timed out
[18968.076890] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[18968.076898] WARNING: at net/wireless/mlme.c:341 cfg80211_send_assoc_timeout+0xa8/0x140()
[18968.076900] Hardware name: GX628
[18968.076924] Pid: 1408, comm: phy0 Not tainted 2.6.34-rc4-00082-g250541f-dirty #3
[18968.076926] Call Trace:
[18968.076931]  [<ffffffff8103459e>] ?  warn_slowpath_common+0x6e/0xb0
[18968.076934]  [<ffffffff8157c2d8>] ?  cfg80211_send_assoc_timeout+0xa8/0x140
[18968.076937]  [<ffffffff8103ff8b>] ? mod_timer+0x10b/0x180
[18968.076940]  [<ffffffff8158f0fc>] ?  ieee80211_assoc_done+0xbc/0xc0
[18968.076943]  [<ffffffff81590d53>] ?  ieee80211_work_work+0x553/0x11c0
[18968.076945]  [<ffffffff8102d931>] ? finish_task_switch+0x41/0xb0
[18968.076948]  [<ffffffff81590800>] ?  ieee80211_work_work+0x0/0x11c0
[18968.076951]  [<ffffffff810476fb>] ? worker_thread+0x13b/0x210
[18968.076954]  [<ffffffff8104b6b0>] ?  autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[18968.076956]  [<ffffffff810475c0>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x210
[18968.076959]  [<ffffffff8104b21e>] ? kthread+0x8e/0xa0
[18968.076962]  [<ffffffff810031f4>] ?  kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[18968.076964]  [<ffffffff8104b190>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
[18968.076966]  [<ffffffff810031f0>] ?  kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
[18968.076968] ---[ end trace 8aa6265f4b1adfe0 ]---

As explained by Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>:

We authenticate successfully, and then userspace requests association.
Then we start that process, but the AP doesn't respond. While we're
still waiting for an AP response, userspace asks for a deauth. We do
the deauth, but don't abort the association work. Then once the
association work times out we tell cfg80211, but it no longer wants
to know since for all it is concerned we accepted the deauth that
also kills the association attempt.

Fix this by, upon receipt of deauth request, removing the association work
and continuing to send the deauth.

Unfortunately the user reporting the issue is not able to reproduce this
problem anymore and cannot verify this fix. This seems like a well understood
issue though and I thus present the patch.

Bug-identified-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-07 14:26:38 -04:00