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Johannes Berg
af81858172 mac80211: async station powersave handling
Some devices require that all frames to a station
are flushed when that station goes into powersave
mode before being able to send frames to that
station again when it wakes up or polls -- all in
order to avoid reordering and too many or too few
frames being sent to the station when it polls.

Normally, this is the case unless the station
goes to sleep and wakes up very quickly again.
But in that case, frames for it may be pending
on the hardware queues, and thus races could
happen in the case of multiple hardware queues
used for QoS/WMM. Normally this isn't a problem,
but with the iwlwifi mechanism we need to make
sure the race doesn't happen.

This makes mac80211 able to cope with the race
with driver help by a new WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER
per-station flag that can be controlled by the
driver and tells mac80211 whether it can transmit
frames or not. This flag must be set according to
very specific rules outlined in the documentation
for the function that controls it.

When we buffer new frames for the station, we
normally set the TIM bit right away, but while
the driver has blocked transmission to that sta
we need to avoid that as well since we cannot
respond to the station if it wakes up due to the
TIM bit. Once the driver unblocks, we can set
the TIM bit.

Similarly, when the station just wakes up, we
need to wait until all other frames are flushed
before we can transmit frames to that station,
so the same applies here, we need to wait for
the driver to give the OK.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-06 16:49:10 -05:00
Johannes Berg
9aa4aee30f mac80211: make CALL_TXH a statement
The multi-line code in this macro wasn't wrapped
in do {} while (0) so we cannot use it in an if()
branch safely in the future -- fix that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:39:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg
62b517cb3e mac80211: unconditionally set IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM
When mac80211 is asked to buffer multicast frames
in AP mode, it will not set the flag indicating
that the frames should be sent after the DTIM
beacon for those frames buffered in software. Fix
this little inconsistency by always setting that
flag in the buffering code path.

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

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:39 -04:00
Kalle Valo
a9685338ab mac80211: fix dynamic power save for devices with nullfunc support in hw
In TX path it was assumed that dynamic power save works only if
IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is set. But is not the case, there are
devices which have nullfunc support in hardware but need mac80211
to handle dynamic power save timers, TI's wl1251 is one of them.

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

Tested with wl1251.

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

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:49:18 -04:00
Björn Smedman
9b1ce526eb mac80211: fix for incorrect sequence number on hostapd injected frames
When hostapd injects a frame, e.g. an authentication or association
response, mac80211 looks for a suitable access point virtual interface
to associate the frame with based on its source address. This makes it
possible e.g. to correctly assign sequence numbers to the frames.

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

Signed-off-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:29:48 -04:00
Johannes Berg
fbc44bf717 mac80211: fix vlan and optimise RX
When receiving data frames, we can send them only to
the interface they belong to based on transmitting
station (this doesn't work for probe requests). Also,
don't try to handle other frames for AP_VLAN at all
since those interface should only receive data.

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

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

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:49 -04:00
Igor Perminov
1f08e84ff6 mac80211: Fix [re]association power saving issue on AP side
Consider the following step-by step:
1. A STA authenticates and associates with the AP and exchanges
traffic.
2. The STA reports to the AP that it is going to PS state.
3. Some time later the STA device goes to the stand-by mode (not only
its wi-fi card, but the device itself) and drops the association state
without sending a disassociation frame.
4. The STA device wakes up and begins authentication with an
Auth frame as it hasn't been authenticated/associated previously.

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Igor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-29 17:25:15 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
d0cf9c0dad wireless: convert drivers to netdev_tx_t
Mostly just simple conversions:
  * ray_cs had bogus return of NET_TX_LOCKED but driver
    was not using NETIF_F_LLTX
  * hostap and ipw2x00 had some code that returned value
    from a called function that also had to change to return netdev_tx_t

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:14:04 -07:00
Javier Cardona
cca89496a8 mac80211: Fix unresolved mesh frames queued without valid control.vif
Mesh frames that could not be immediately resolved were queued with a NULL
info->control.vif.  This patch moves the call to mesh_nexthop_lookup closer to
the point where it is handed over to ieee80211_tx().  This ensures that the
unresolved frames are ready to be sent once the path is resolved.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:14:03 -04:00
Javier Cardona
3c5772a527 mac80211: Use 3-address format for mesh broadcast frames.
The 11s task group recently changed the frame mesh multicast/broadcast frame
format to use 3-address.  This was done to avoid interactions with widely
deployed lazy-WDS access points.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ad5351db89 mac80211: allow DMA optimisation
If we have a lot of frames to transmit at once, for
instance with fragmentation, it can be an optimisation
to only tell the DMA engine about them on the last
fragment/frame to avoid banging the IO too much. This
patch allows implementation such an optimisation by
telling the driver when more frames can be expected.

Currently, this is used by mac80211 only on fragmented
frames, but could also be used in the future on other
frames when the queue was full and there are multiple
frames pending.

Note that drivers need to be careful when using this
flag, they need to kick their DMA engines not just
when this flag is clear, but also when the queue gets
full so that progress can be made.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:44 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
42935ecaf4 mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueue
The mac80211 workqueue exists to enable mac80211 and drivers
to queue their own work on a single threaded workqueue. mac80211
takes care to flush the workqueue during suspend but we never
really had requirements on drivers for how they should use
the workqueue in consideration for suspend.

We extend mac80211 to document how the mac80211 workqueue should
be used, how it should not be used and finally move raw access to
the workqueue to mac80211 only. Drivers and mac80211 use helpers
to queue work onto the mac80211 workqueue:

  * ieee80211_queue_work()
  * ieee80211_queue_delayed_work()

These helpers will now warn if mac80211 already completed its
suspend cycle and someone is trying to queue work. mac80211
flushes the mac80211 workqueue prior to suspend a few times,
but we haven't taken the care to ensure drivers won't add more
work after suspend. To help with this we add a warning when
someone tries to add work and mac80211 already completed the
suspend cycle.

Drivers should ensure they cancel any work or delayed work
in the mac80211 stop() callback.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04 16:44:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a7bc376c85 mac80211: verify info->control.vif is not NULL
When enqueuing packets on the internal packet queue, we
need to ensure that we have a valid vif pointer since
that is required since the net namespace work. Add some
assertions to verify this, but also don't crash is for
some reason we don't end up with a vif pointer -- warn
and drop the packet in all these cases.

Since this code touches a number of hotpaths, it is
intended to be temporary, or maybe configurable in the
future, at least the bit that is in the path that gets
hit for every packet, ieee80211_tx_pending().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-29 15:46:13 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
21f5fc75de mac80211: fix oops due to missing private data
This was caused by patch:

"mac80211: cooperate more with network namespaces"

The version of the patch applied doesn't match Johannes' latest:

http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/NNN-mac80211-netns.patch

The skb->cb virtual interface data wasn't being reset for
reuse so ath9k pooped out when trying to dereference the
private rate control info from the skb.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0258173>] ath_tx_rc_status+0x33/0x150 [ath9k]
<-- snip etc -->

Reported-by: Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3fa52056f3 mac80211: fix PS-poll response, race
When a station queries us for a PS-poll response, we wrongly
queue the frame on the virtual interface's queue rather than
the pending queue.

Additionally, fix a race condition where we could potentially
send multiple frames to the sleeping station due to using a
station flag rather than a packet flag. When converting to a
packet flag, we can also convert p54 and remove the filter
clearing we added for it.

(Also remove a now dead function)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Tested-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:19 -04:00
Helmut Schaa
142b9f5074 mac80211: implement basic background scanning
Introduce a new scan flag "SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL" which basically tells us
that we are currently on a different channel for scanning and cannot
RX/TX. "SCAN_SW_SCANNING" tells us that we are currently running a
software scan but we might as well be on the operating channel to RX/TX.
While "SCAN_SW_SCANNING" is set during the whole scan "SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL"
is set when leaving the operating channel and unset when coming back.

Introduce two new scan states "SCAN_LEAVE_OPER_CHANNEL" and
"SCAN_ENTER_OPER_CHANNEL" which basically implement the functionality we
need to leave the operating channel (send a nullfunc to the AP and stop
the queues) and enter it again (send a nullfunc to the AP and start the
queues again).

Enhance the scan state "SCAN_DECISION" to switch back to the operating
channel after each scanned channel. In the future it sould be simple
to enhance the decision state to scan as much channels in a row as the
qos latency allows us.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:17 -04:00
Helmut Schaa
fbe9c429f1 mac80211: Replace {sw, hw}_scanning variables with a bitfield
Use a bitfield to store the current scan mode instead of two boolean
variables {sw,hw}_scanning. This patch does not introduce functional
changes but allows us to enhance the scan flags later (for example
for background scanning).

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5061b0c2b9 mac80211: cooperate more with network namespaces
There are still two places in mac80211 that hardcode
the initial net namespace (init_net). One of them is
mandated by cfg80211 and will be removed by a separate
patch, the other one is used for finding the network
device of a pending packet via its ifindex.

Remove the latter use by keeping track of the device
pointer itself, via the vif pointer, and avoid it
going stale by dropping pending frames for a given
interface when the interface is removed.

To keep track of the vif pointer for the correct
interface, change the info->control.vif pointer's
internal use to always be the correct vif, and only
move it to the vif the driver expects (or NULL for
monitor interfaces and injected packets) right before
giving the packet to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:06 -04:00
Javier Cardona
249b405cf8 mac80211: Fix regression in mesh forwarding path.
The removal of the master netdev broke the mesh forwarding path.  This patch
fixes it by using the new internal 'pending' queue.

As a result of this change, mesh forwarding no longer does the inefficient
802.11 -> 802.3 -> 802.11 conversion that was done before.

[Changes since v1]
Suggested by Johannes:
 - Select queue before adding to mpath queue
 - ieee80211_add_pending_skb -> ieee80211_add_pending_skbs
 - Remove unnecessary header wme.h

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:31 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3d34deb673 mac80211: fix ieee80211_xmit call context
ieee80211_xmit() cannot be called with tasklets enabled
because it is normally called from within a tasklet.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:31 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3b8d81e020 mac80211: remove master netdev
With the internal 'pending' queue system in place, we can simply
put packets there instead of pushing them off to the master dev,
getting rid of the master interface completely.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:30 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
b770b43e95 mac80211: drop frames for sta with no valid rate
When we're associated we should be able to send data to
target sta. If we cannot we may be trying to use the incorrect
band to talk to the sta. Lets catch any such cases, warn, and
drop the frames to not invalidate assumptions being made on
rate control algorithms when they have a valid sta to
communicate with. Any such cases should be handled and fixed.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:14 -04:00
David S. Miller
74d154189d Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c
	net/wireless/scan.c
2009-07-23 19:03:51 -07:00
Pavel Roskin
8ef86c7bfa mac80211: fix injection in monitor mode
The location of the 802.11 header is calculated incorrectly due to a
wrong placement of parentheses.  Found by kmemcheck.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-21 12:07:38 -04:00
Patrick McHardy
ec634fe328 net: convert remaining non-symbolic return values in ndo_start_xmit() functions
This patch converts the remaining occurences of raw return values to their
symbolic counterparts in ndo_start_xmit() functions that were missed by the
previous automatic conversion.

Additionally code that assumed the symbolic value of NETDEV_TX_OK to be zero
is changed to explicitly use NETDEV_TX_OK.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:23:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
5b54814022 net: use symbolic values for ndo_start_xmit() return codes
Convert magic values 1 and -1 to NETDEV_TX_BUSY and NETDEV_TX_LOCKED respectively.

0 (NETDEV_TX_OK) is not changed to keep the noise down, except in very few cases
where its in direct proximity to one of the other values.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-13 01:18:50 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
43f7853180 mac80211: disable moving between PS modes during scan
We don't want to trigger moving between PS mode during scan,
because then we will sometimes end up sending nullfunc frames
during scan. We're supposed to only send one prior to scan
and after scan.

This fixes an oops which occured due to an assert in ath9k:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124277331319024

The assert was happening because the rate control algorithm
figures it should find at least one valid dual stream or
single stream rate. Since we allow mac80211 to send nullfunc
frames during scan and dynamic PS was enabled at times we ended
up trying to send nullfunc frames for the target sta on the
wrong band for which we have no valid rate to communicate with
it. This breaks the assumptions in rate control.

We determine we also need to disable moving between PS modes
when not associated so lets just add that now as well, and we
should not have a ps_sdata when that interface cannot actually
go into PS because it's not associated.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:28:40 -04:00
Johannes Berg
27004b10ce mac80211: clean up return value of __ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap
The return type has more than two values, but it can validly
only ever return TX_DROP and TX_CONTINUE, so use a bool
instead of ieee80211_tx_result.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:28:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
8f77f3849c mac80211: do not pass PS frames out of mac80211 again
In order to handle powersave frames properly we had needed
to pass these out to the device queues again, and introduce
the skb->requeue bit. This, however, also has unnecessary
overhead by needing to 'clean up' already tried frames, and
this clean-up code is also buggy when software encryption
is used.

Instead of sending the frames via the master netdev queue
again, simply put them into the pending queue. This also
fixes a problem where frames for that particular station
could be reordered when some were still on the software
queues and older ones are re-injected into the software
queue after them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:28:37 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
894df1cbc3 mac80211: removed unused variable in ieee80211_tx()
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:15 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
7e0aae4732 mac80211: Do not override AID in the duration field
When updating the duration field for TX frames, skip the update for
PS-Poll frames that use this field for other purposes (AID).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:34 -04:00
Johannes Berg
d3707d9918 mac80211: make noack test available
There's this internal wifi_wme_noack_test variable that
we use to set the QoS control if set. For one, it is
unlikely that it is set. Secondly, if set it needs to
influence the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK TX control flag,
and finally we should also be able to set it at all, so
make it available in debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-13 15:44:53 -04:00
David S. Miller
a8679be207 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-05-08 12:46:17 -07:00
David S. Miller
22f6dacdfc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	include/net/tcp.h
2009-05-08 02:48:30 -07:00
Gábor Stefanik
9955151df7 mac80211: Warn if the rate controller requests retries for a NO_ACK frame
To deter future rate scaling algorithm writers from requesting NO_ACK
packets to be retried, throw a WARN_ON_ONCE if the algorithm hands us
a try count over 1 for NO_ACK packet.

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:14:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2448798133 mac80211: add driver ops wrappers
In order to later add tracing or verifications to the driver
calls mac80211 makes, this patch adds static inline wrappers
for all operations.

All calls are now written as

	drv_<op>(local, ...);

instead of

	local->ops-><op>(&local->hw, ...);

Where necessary, the wrappers also do existence checking and
return default values as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:14:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
57c4d7b4c4 mac80211: clean up beacon interval settings
We currently have two beacon interval configuration knobs:
hw.conf.beacon_int and vif.bss_info.beacon_int. This is
rather confusing, even though the former is used when we
beacon ourselves and the latter when we are associated to
an AP.

This just deprecates the hw.conf.beacon_int setting in favour
of always using vif.bss_info.beacon_int. Since it touches all
the beaconing IBSS code anyway, we can also add support for
the cfg80211 IBSS beacon interval configuration easily.

NOTE: The hw.conf.beacon_int setting is retained for now due
      to drivers still using it -- I couldn't untangle all
      drivers, some are updated in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:14:33 -04:00
Johannes Berg
8ccd8f2112 mac80211: correct fragmentation threshold check
The fragmentation threshold is defined to be including the
FCS, and the code that sets the TX_FRAGMENTED flag correctly
accounts for those four bytes. The code that verifies this
doesn't though, which could lead to spurious warnings and
frames being dropped although everything is ok. Correct the
code by accounting for the FCS.

(JWL -- The problem is described here:
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/32205 )

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-04 16:22:08 -04:00
John W. Linville
d3feaf5ad1 wireless: remove some (bogus?) 'may be used uninitialized' warnings
net/mac80211/tx.c: In function ‘ieee80211_tx_h_select_key’:
net/mac80211/tx.c:448: warning: ‘key’ may be used uninitialized in this function

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c: In function ‘ath_rc_rate_getidx’:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c:815: warning: ‘nextindex’ may be used uninitialized in this function

drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c: In function ‘prism2_plx_probe’:
drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c:438: warning: ‘cor_index’ may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c:438: warning: ‘cor_offset’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-24 15:41:41 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
b9a5f8cab7 nl80211: Add set/get for frag/rts threshold and retry limits
Add new nl80211 attributes that can be used with NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY
and NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY to manage fragmentation/RTS threshold and
retry limits.

Since these values are stored in struct wiphy, remove the local copy
from mac80211 where feasible (frag & rts threshold). The retry limits
are currently needed in struct ieee80211_conf, but these could be
eventually removed since the driver should have access to the values
in struct wiphy.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:57:17 -04:00
Johannes Berg
af8cdcd828 mac80211: convert to cfg80211 IBSS API
This converts mac80211 to the new cfg80211 IBSS API, the
wext handling functions are called where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:57:17 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
fef99929cd mac80211: set CLEAR_PS for pspolled frames
This patch sets IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT for outgoing
frames for a half-wake station.

this is necessary if one wants to get ps-poll working properly with a p54 ap.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:57:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e4e72fb4de mac80211/iwlwifi: move virtual A-MDPU queue bookkeeping to iwlwifi
This patch removes all the virtual A-MPDU-queue bookkeeping from
mac80211. Curiously, iwlwifi already does its own bookkeeping, so
it doesn't require much changes except where it needs to handle
starting and stopping the queues in mac80211.

To handle the queue stop/wake properly, we rewrite the software
queue number for aggregation frames and internally to iwlwifi keep
track of the queues that map into the same AC queue, and only talk
to mac80211 about the AC queue. The implementation requires calling
two new functions, iwl_stop_queue and iwl_wake_queue instead of the
mac80211 counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Reinette Chattre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg
cd8ffc800c mac80211: fix aggregation to not require queue stop
Instead of stopping the entire AC queue when enabling aggregation
(which was only done for hardware with aggregation queues) buffer
the packets for each station, and release them to the pending skb
queue once aggregation is turned on successfully.

We get a little more code, but it becomes conceptually simpler and
we can remove the entire virtual queue mechanism from mac80211 in
a follow-up patch.

This changes how mac80211 behaves towards drivers that support
aggregation but have no hardware queues -- those drivers will now
not be handed packets while the aggregation session is being
established, but only after it has been fully established.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:22 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a220858d30 mac80211: add skb length sanity checking
We just found a bug in zd1211rw where it would reject
packets in the ->tx() method but leave them modified,
which would cause retransmit attempts with completely
bogus skbs, eventually leading to a panic due to not
having enough headroom in those.

This patch adds a sanity check to mac80211 to catch
such driver mistakes; in this case we warn and drop
the skb.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:22 -04:00