linux/net/wireless/core.h, branch v3.2.18

nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to disable CCK rate for management frame

2011-09-27T18:34:10Z

Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz without disabling 11b rates. This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame transmission. Cc: Jouni Malinen Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: Validate cipher suite against supported ciphers

2011-09-27T18:29:54Z

Instead of using a hardcoded list of cipher suites in nl80211.c, use a shared function in util.c to verify that the driver advertises support for the specified cipher. This provides more accurate validation of the values and allows vendor-specific cipher suites to be added in drivers. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: hold reg_mutex when updating regulatory

2011-09-14T17:26:39Z

The function wiphy_update_regulatory() uses the static variable last_request and thus needs to be called with reg_mutex held. This is the case for all users in reg.c, but the function was exported for use by wiphy_register(), from where it is called without the lock being held. Fix this by making wiphy_update_regulatory() private and introducing regulatory_update() as a wrapper that acquires and holds the lock. Signed-off-by: Sven Neumann Cc: John W. Linville Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: Daniel Mack Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: allow userspace to control supported rates in scan

2011-07-19T20:49:58Z

Some P2P scans are not allowed to advertise 11b rates, but that is a rather special case so instead of having that, allow userspace to request the rate sets (per band) that are advertised in scan probe request frames. Since it's needed in two places now, factor out some common code parsing a rate array. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: fix deadlock with rfkill/sched_scan by adding new mutex

2011-07-05T18:42:36Z

There was a deadlock when rfkill-blocking a wireless interface, because we were locking the rdev mutex on NETDEV_GOING_DOWN to stop sched_scans that were eventually running. The rfkill block code was already holding a mutex under rdev: kernel: ======================================================= kernel: [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] kernel: 3.0.0-rc1-00049-g1fa7b6a #57 kernel: ------------------------------------------------------- kernel: kworker/0:1/4525 is trying to acquire lock: kernel: (&rdev->mtx){+.+.+.}, at: [] cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call+0x131/0x5b0 kernel: kernel: but task is already holding lock: kernel: (&rdev->devlist_mtx){+.+.+.}, at: [] cfg80211_rfkill_set_block+0x4f/0xa0 kernel: kernel: which lock already depends on the new lock. To fix this, add a new mutex specifically for sched_scan, to protect the sched_scan_req element in the rdev struct, instead of using the global rdev mutex. Reported-by: Duane Griffin Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: Use consistent BSS matching between scan and sme

2011-05-19T14:37:18Z

cfg80211 scan code adds separate BSS entries if the same BSS shows up on multiple channels. However, sme implementation does not use the frequency when fetching the BSS entry. Fix this by adding channel information to cfg80211_roamed() and include it in cfg80211_get_bss() calls. Please note that drivers using cfg80211_roamed() need to be modified to fully implement this fix. This commit includes only minimal changes to avoid compilation issues; it maintains the old (broken) behavior for most drivers. ath6kl was the only one that I could test, so I updated it to provide the operating frequency in the roamed event. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: advertise possible interface combinations

2011-05-16T18:10:40Z

Add the ability to advertise interface combinations in nl80211. This allows the driver to indicate what the combinations are that it supports. "Combinations" of just a single interface are implicit, as previously. Note that cfg80211 will enforce that the restrictions are met, but not for all drivers yet (once all drivers are updated, we can remove the flag and enforce for all). When no combinations are actually supported, an empty list will be exported so that userspace can know if the kernel exported this info or not (although it isn't clear to me what tools using the info should do if the kernel didn't export it). Since some interface types are purely virtual/software and don't fit the restrictions, those are exposed in a new list of pure SW types, not subject to restrictions. This mainly exists to handle AP-VLAN and monitor interfaces in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211/mac80211: avoid bounce back mac->cfg->mac on sched_scan_stopped

2011-05-12T18:10:55Z

When sched_scan_stopped was called by the driver, mac80211 calls cfg80211, which in turn was calling mac80211 back with a flag "driver_initiated". This flag was used so that mac80211 would do the necessary cleanup but would not call the driver. This was enough to prevent the bounce back between the driver and mac80211, but not between mac80211 and cfg80211. To fix this, we now do the cleanup in mac80211 before calling cfg80211. To help with locking issues, the workqueue was moved from cfg80211 to mac80211. Reported-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: restrict AP beacon intervals

2011-05-12T18:10:47Z

Multiple virtual AP interfaces can currently try to use different beacon intervals, but that just leads to problems since it won't actually be done that way by drivers. Return an error in this case to make sure it won't be done wrong. Also, ignore attempts to change the DTIM period or beacon interval during the lifetime of the BSS. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211/nl80211: add support for scheduled scans

2011-05-11T19:12:26Z

Implement new functionality for scheduled scan offload. With this feature we can scan automatically at certain intervals. The idea is that the hardware can perform scan automatically and filter on desired results without waking up the host unnecessarily. Add NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN commands to the nl80211 interface. When results are available they are reported by NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_RESULTS events. The userspace is informed when the scheduled scan has stopped with a NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_STOPPED event, which can be triggered either by the driver or by a call to NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN. Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho Signed-off-by: John W. Linville