The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).
Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.
Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Clear IEEE80211_STA_NULLFUNC_ACKED flag on disabling power
save. Without this fix, there is a chance of setting CONF_PS
before sending nullfunc frame.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"ap" is the address of sdata->u.ap so it can never be NULL here. Also
we dereferenced it on the previous line. I removed the check.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using skb_header_cloned to check if it's safe to write to the skb is not
enough - mac80211 also touches the tailroom of the skb.
Initially this check was only used to increase a counter, however this
commit changed the code to also skip skb data reallocation if no extra
head/tailroom was needed:
commit 4cd06a344d
mac80211: skip unnecessary pskb_expand_head calls
It added a regression at least with iwl3945, which is fixed by this patch.
Reported-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tested-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This should decrease un-necessary flushes, on/off channel work,
and channel changes in cases where the only scanned channel is
the current operating channel.
* Removes SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL flag, uses SDATA_STATE_OFFCHANNEL
and is-scanning flags instead.
* Add helper method to determine if we are currently configured
for the operating channel.
* Do no blindly go off/on channel in work.c Instead, only call
appropriate on/off code when we really need to change channels.
Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting work,
and disable it when we are done.
* Consolidate ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station and
ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing, call it
ieee80211_offchannel_stop_vifs instead.
* Accept non-beacon frames when scanning on operating channel.
* Scan state machine optimized to minimize on/off channel
transitions. Also, when going on-channel, go ahead and
re-enable beaconing. We're going to be there for 200ms,
so seems like some useful beaconing could happen.
Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting software
scan, and disable it when we are done.
* Grab local->mtx earlier in __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish
so that we are protected when calling hw_config(), etc.
* Pass probe-responses up the stack if scanning on local
channel, so that mlme can take a look.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On review of 'zd1211rw: implement beacon fetching and handling
ieee80211_get_buffered_bc()', Christian Lamparter noted that [1]:
Since zd_beacon_done also uploads the next beacon so long in advance,
there could be an equally long race between the outdated state of the
next beacon's DTIM broadcast traffic indicator (802.11-2007 7.3.2.6)
which -in your case- was uploaded almost a beacon interval ago and
the xmit of ieee80211_get_buffered_bc *now*.
The dtim bc/mc bit might be not set, when a mc/bc arrived after the
beacon was uploaded, but before the "beacon done event" from the
hardware. So, dozing stations don't expect the broadcast traffic
and of course, they might miss it completely.
It's probably better to fix this in mac80211 (see the attached hack).
[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=129435041117256&w=2
CC: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When rate-control is performed in HW, we cannot calculate frame
duration as we do not have the skb transmission rate in SW.
ieee80211_tx_h_calculate_duration() should only be called when
ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl() has been called before to initialize data
in skb->cb. This doesn't happen for drivers with HW rate-control.
Fixes the following warning when operating in AP-mode
in a driver with HW rate-control.
WARNING: at net/mac80211/tx.c:57 ieee80211_duration+0x54/0x1d8 [mac80211]()
Modules linked in: wl1271_sdio wl1271 firmware_class crc7 mac80211 cfg80211
[<c0046090>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x124) from [<c0064c10>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x64)
[<c0064c10>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x64) from [<c0064c40>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x1c)
[<c0064c40>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x1c) from [<bf040e34>] (ieee80211_duration+0x54/0x1d8 [mac80211])
[<bf040e34>] (ieee80211_duration+0x54/0x1d8 [mac80211]) from [<bf04200c>] (invoke_tx_handlers+0xfa0/0x1088 [mac80211])
[<bf04200c>] (invoke_tx_handlers+0xfa0/0x1088 [mac80211]) from [<bf042178>] (ieee80211_tx+0x84/0x248 [mac80211])
[<bf042178>] (ieee80211_tx+0x84/0x248 [mac80211]) from [<bf042f44>] (ieee80211_tx_pending+0x12c/0x278 [mac80211])
[<bf042f44>] (ieee80211_tx_pending+0x12c/0x278 [mac80211]) from [<c0069a9c>] (tasklet_action+0x68/0xbc)
[<c0069a9c>] (tasklet_action+0x68/0xbc) from [<c006a044>] (__do_softirq+0x84/0x114)
[<c006a044>] (__do_softirq+0x84/0x114) from [<c006a1b8>] (do_softirq+0x48/0x54)
[<c006a1b8>] (do_softirq+0x48/0x54) from [<c006a4f8>] (local_bh_enable+0x98/0xcc)
[<c006a4f8>] (local_bh_enable+0x98/0xcc) from [<bf074e60>] (wl1271_rx+0x2e8/0x3a4 [wl1271])
[<bf074e60>] (wl1271_rx+0x2e8/0x3a4 [wl1271]) from [<bf071ae4>] (wl1271_irq_work+0x230/0x310 [wl1271])
[<bf071ae4>] (wl1271_irq_work+0x230/0x310 [wl1271]) from [<c0076864>] (process_one_work+0x208/0x350)
[<c0076864>] (process_one_work+0x208/0x350) from [<c0076e14>] (worker_thread+0x1cc/0x300)
[<c0076e14>] (worker_thread+0x1cc/0x300) from [<c007bb88>] (kthread+0x84/0x8c)
[<c007bb88>] (kthread+0x84/0x8c) from [<c0041494>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some drivers (e.g. ath9k) do not always disable beacons when they're
supposed to. When an interface is changed using the change_interface op,
the mode specific sdata part is in an undefined state and trying to
get a beacon at this point can produce weird crashes.
To fix this, add a check for ieee80211_sdata_running before using
anything from the sdata.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When mesh is disabled, mac80211 was returning
beacons with an empty mesh ID. That isn't
desirable, even if drivers shouldn't be trying
to get beacons to start with.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mppath is mesh related parameter and maybe unused
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rewrote code for checking if the destination is proxied by a mesh portal, to facilitate better
understanding of the functionality.
Signed-off-by: Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixed a bug where if a mesh interface has a different MAC address from its bridge
interface, then it would not be able to send data traffic to any other mesh node.
This also adds support for communication between mesh nodes and external bridged
nodes by using a 6 address format if the source is a node within the mesh and the
destination is an external node proxied by a mesh portal.
Signed-off-by: Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwlwifi and other drivers like to blink their LED
based on throughput. Implement this generically in
mac80211, based on a throughput table the driver
specifies. That way, drivers can set the blink
frequencies depending on their desired behaviour
and max throughput.
All the drivers need to do is provide an LED class
device, best with blink hardware offload.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When an skb is shared, it needs to be duplicated, along with its data buffer.
If the skb does not have enough headroom, using skb_copy might cause the data
buffer to be copied twice (once by skb_copy and once by pskb_expand_head).
Fix this by using skb_clone initially and letting ieee80211_skb_resize sort
out the rest.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the skb is not cloned and we don't need any extra headroom, there
is no point in reallocating the skb head.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The change 'mac80211: Fix BUG in pskb_expand_head when transmitting shared skbs'
added a check for copying the skb if it's shared, however the tx info variable
still points at the cb of the old skb
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The Mesh Control header only includes 0, 1 or 2 addresses. If there is
one address, it should be interpreted as Address 4. If there are 2,
they are interpreted as Addresses 5 and 6 (Address 4 being the 4th
address in the 802.11 header).
The address extension used to hold up to 3 addresses instead of the current 2.
I'm not sure which draft version changed this, but it is very unlikely that it
will change again given the state of the approval process of this draft. See
section 7.1.3.6.3 in current draft (8.0).
Also, note that the extra address that I'm removing was not being used, so this
change has no effect on over-the-air frame formats. But I thought I better
remove it before someone does start using it.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Userspace will now be allowed to toggle between the default path
selection algorithm (HWMP, implemented in the kernel), and a vendor
specific alternative. Also in the same patch, allow userspace to add
information elements to mesh beacons. This is accordance with the
Extensible Path Selection Framework specified in version 7.0 of the
802.11s draft.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for split default keys (unicast
and multicast) in mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The last_tx_rate field was also updated for non-data frames that are
often sent with a lower rate (for example management frames at 1 Mbps).
This is confusing when the data rate is actually much higher.
Hence, only update the last_tx_rate field with tx rate information
gathered from last data frames.
If the rate control algorithm filled in txrc.reported_rate we don't need
to verify this information.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In order for frame injection to work properly for some use cases
(e.g., finding the station entry and keys for encryption), mac80211
needs to find the correct sdata entry. This works when the main vif
is in AP mode, but commit a2c1e3dad5
broke this particular use case for station main vif. While this type of
injection is quite unusual operation, it has some uses and we should fix
it. Do this by changing the monitor vif sdata selection to allow station
vif to be selected instead of limiting it to just AP vifs. We still need
to skip some iftypes to avoid selecting unsuitable vif for injection.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The lower driver is notified when the fragmentation threshold changes
and upon a reconfig of the interface.
If the driver supports hardware TX fragmentation, don't fragment
packets in the stack.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds API to allow adding per-station GTKs,
updates mac80211 to support it, and also allows
drivers to remove a key from hwaccel again when
this may be necessary due to multiple GTKs.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Initialize the rate table for WDS interfaces, and
add cases to allow WDS packets to pass the xmit and receive
tests.
Signed-off-by: Bill Jordan <bjordan@rajant.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
hdr pointer is left dangling after call to ieee80211_skb_resize. This
can cause guards around mesh path selection to fail.
Signed-off-by: Steve deRosier <steve@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are subqueue helpers so that we don't
need to get the TX queue and then wake/stop
it, use those helpers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some vendor specified mechanisms for 802.1X-style
functionality use a different protocol than EAP
(even if EAP is vendor-extensible). Support this
in mac80211 via the cfg80211 API for it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Allow drivers to specify their own set of cipher
suites to advertise vendor-specific ciphers. The
driver is then required to implement hardware
crypto offload for it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mesh_hdr only used when CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is defined
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Standardize logging messages from
printk(KERN_<level> "%s: " fmt , wiphy_name(foo), args);
to
wiphy_<level>(foo, fmt, args);
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, mac80211 translates the cfg80211
cipher suite selectors into ALG_* values.
That isn't all too useful, and some drivers
benefit from the distinction between WEP40
and WEP104 as well. Therefore, convert it
all to use the cipher suite selectors.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the function ieee80211_subif_start_xmit the logic related with
meshdrlen is under CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH macro, but in one place it isn't.
This is some update for this
Signed-off-by: Yuri Ershov <ext-yuri.ershov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I just had the following:
WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c:574 iwlagn_tx_skb+0x1576/0x15f0 [iwlagn]()
Call Trace:
<IRQ> [<ffffffff8105c5df>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffff8105c63a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffffa0290b46>] iwlagn_tx_skb+0x1576/0x15f0 [iwlagn]
[<ffffffffa027076c>] iwl_mac_tx+0x5c/0x260 [iwlagn]
[<ffffffffa01bdf5b>] __ieee80211_tx+0x10b/0x1a0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa01bfb86>] ieee80211_tx_pending+0x186/0x2d0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffff81062ea5>] tasklet_action+0x125/0x130
[<ffffffff810634a6>] __do_softirq+0x106/0x270
[<ffffffff8100c09c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Attempting to modify non-existing station 107
Note that 107 == 0x6b which is slab poison.
The reason is that mac80211 passed a freed station
pointer to mac80211, because as it happened iwlwifi
reset itself while mac80211 was disconnecting from
the network.
It turns out that we do take care to look up the
station pointer in ieee80211_tx_pending_skb, but
then don't use it, which obviously is a bug. Fix
this by removing the ieee80211_tx_h_sta handler
and assigning the station pointer directly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the driver or rate control requests starting
or stopping an aggregation session, that currently
causes a direct callback into the driver, which
could potentially cause locking problems. Also,
the functions need to be callable from contexts
that cannot sleep, and thus will interfere with
making the ampdu_action callback sleeping.
To address these issues, add a new work item for
each station that will process any start or stop
requests out of line.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently we allocate some memory for each TX
aggregation session and additionally keep a
state bitmap indicating the state it is in.
By using RCU to protect the pointer, moving
the state into the structure and some locking
trickery we can avoid locking when the TX agg
session is fully operational.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
Currently whenever rts thresold is set, every packet will use RTS
protection no matter its size exceeds the threshold or not. This is
due to a bug in the rts threshold check.
if (len > tx->local->hw.wiphy->rts_threshold) {
txrc.rts = rts = true;
}
Basically it is comparing an int (len) and a u32 (rts_threshold),
and the variable len is assigned as:
len = min_t(int, tx->skb->len + FCS_LEN,
tx->local->hw.wiphy->frag_threshold);
However, when frag_threshold is "-1", len is always "-1", which is
0xffffffff therefore rts is always set to true.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The sta_cleanup timer is used to periodically expire buffered frames from the
tx buf. The timer is executing periodically, regardless of the need for it.
This is wasting resources.
Fix this simply by not restarting the sta_cleanup timer if the tx buffer was
empty. Restart the timer when there is some more tx-traffic.
Cc: Janne Ylälehto <janne.ylalehto@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All other places except one in the TX path, which
has BHs disabled, and it also cannot be locked from
interrupts so disabling IRQs is not necessary.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
BIP (part of IEEE 802.11w) is only supposed to be used with
group-addressed frames. We ended up picking it as a default mechanism
for every management whenever we did not have a STA entry for the
destination (e.g., for Probe Response to a STA that is not
associated). While the extra MMIE in the end of management frames
should not break frames completed in most cases, there is no point in
doing this. Fix key selection to pick the default management key only
if the frame is sent to multicast/broadcast address and the frame is a
robust management frame.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"mac80211: fix skb buffering issue" still left a race
between enabling the hardware queues and the virtual
interface queues. In hindsight it's totally obvious
that enabling the netdev queues for a hardware queue
when the hardware queue is enabled is wrong, because
it could well possible that we can fill the hw queue
with packets we already have pending. Thus, we must
only enable the netdev queues once all the pending
packets have been processed and sent off to the device.
In testing, I haven't been able to trigger this race
condition, but it's clearly there, possibly only when
aggregation is being enabled.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We don't need "sdata" any more after:
d84f323477
mac80211: remove dev_hold/put calls
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
