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2009-06-10mac80211: disable PS while probing APJohannes Berg
When associated, but probing the AP because we detected beacon loss, we need to disable powersave to be able to receive the probe response. Change the code to do that by checking whether we're trying to probe when determining the possibility of going into PS, and recalculate the PS ability at the necessary spots. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10mac80211: disable moving between PS modes during scanLuis R. Rodriguez
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>
2009-06-10mac80211: don't use master netdev nameJohannes Berg
Always use the wiphy name instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-22mac80211: correct probe wait timeJohannes Berg
My first patch submission used 200ms, which I then somehow managed to revert back to the earlier 50ms I had used for some tests in the second patch submission -- but that was wrong, I should have used 200ms here. Correct that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-22mac80211: fix probe response wait timingJohannes Berg
In "mac80211: split out and decrease probe wait time" I tried to reduce the time waiting for a probe response, but failed to take into account the case where we are detecting beacon loss in software -- in that case we still wait the monitoring time rather than the probe wait time. Fix this by refactoring the mod_timer() calls in ieee80211_associated(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20mac80211: fix managed mode BSSID handlingJohannes Berg
Currently, we will ask the driver to configure right away when somebody changes the desired BSSID. That's totally strange because then we will configure the driver without even knowing whether the BSS exists. Change this to only configure the BSSID when associated, and configure a zero BSSID when not associated. As a side effect, this fixes an issue with the iwlwifi driver which doesn't implement sta_notify properly and uses the BSSID instead and gets very confused if the BSSID is cleared before we disassociate, which results in the warning Marcel posted [1] and iwlwifi bug 1995 [2]. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/32598 [2] http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1995 Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20mac80211: don't try to do anything on unchanged genIEJohannes Berg
When the genIE hasn't changed there's no reason to kick the state machine since it won't be able to do anything new -- doing this decreases the useless work we do for reassociating because if we do kick the state machine it will try to find a usable BSS but there might not be one because wpa_supplicant will only change the BSSID a little later. In a sense this is a workaround for userspace behaviour, but on the other hand userspace cannot really keep track of what the kernel currently has for genIE since any process could have changed that while wpa_supplicant wasn't looking. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20mac80211: PS processing for every Beacon with our AID in TIMJouni Malinen
If the AP includes our AID in the TIM IE, we need to process the Beacon frame as far as PS is concerned (send PS-Poll or nullfunc data with PM=0). The previous code skipped this in cases where the CRC value did not change and it would not change if the AP continues including our AID in the TIM.. There is no need to count the crc32 value for directed_tim with this change, so we can remove that part. In order not to change the order of operations (i.e., update WMM parameters prior to sending PS-Poll), the CRC match is checked twice as only after the PS processing step, the rest of the function is skipped if nothing changed in the Beacon. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20mac80211: cancel/restart all timers across suspend/resumeJohannes Berg
We forgot to cancel all timers in mac80211 when suspending. In particular we forgot to deal with some things that can cause hardware reconfiguration -- while it is down. While at it we go ahead and add a warning in ieee80211_sta_work() if its run while the suspend->resume cycle is in effect. This should not happen and if it does it would indicate there is a bug lurking in either mac80211 or mac80211 drivers. With this now wpa_supplicant doesn't blink when I go to suspend and resume where as before there where issues with some timers running during the suspend->resume cycle. This caused a lot of incorrect assumptions and would at times bring back the device in an incoherent, but mostly recoverable, state. 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>
2009-05-20mac80211: move channel switch codeJohannes Berg
The channel switch code is currently in the spectrum management file, where arguably it belongs. However, it is for managed mode only and uses the structures for that mode only so having it in a more generic file can be confusing. Additionally, my next patch gets simpler with the code here. When/if we ever implement this for IBSS or mesh then we will need to rework the structures it uses anyway at which point we could move the code back. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20mac80211: Cancel pending probereq poll on beacon RXJouni Malinen
While the probe request poll is expected to work, it looks like it does not always result in getting a response. The exact reason for this is unclear, but anyway, if we do receive a Beacon frame from our AP, there is no need to disconnect based on the probereq poll. This seems to help keep the connection bit more stable in cases where beacon loss is occurring semi-frequently. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20mac80211: check if HT40+/- is allowed before sending assocLuis R. Rodriguez
We weren't checking this at all. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20wireless: rename IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_FAT_* to HT40-/+Luis R. Rodriguez
This is more consistent with our nl80211 naming convention for HT40-/+. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-13mac80211: split out and decrease probe wait timeJohannes Berg
The time we wait for a probe response after probing an AP due to beacon loss is currently the same as the monitoring interval, 2s. This is far too long, APs should respond to probes within a fraction of that time. To be able to adjust both values, add a new constant IEEE80211_PROBE_WAIT, use it for checking the probe response, and adjust it down to 200ms instead of 2 seconds. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-13mac80211: respond to beacon loss report only onceJohannes Berg
The driver might keep reporting beacon loss until we disassociate -- catch that and don't respond to any subsequent events until the probe is either successful or we disassociate. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-13nl80211: Add IEEE 802.1X PAE control for station modeJouni Malinen
Add a new NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT flag for NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE to allow user space to indicate that it will control the IEEE 802.1X port in station mode. Previously, mac80211 was always marking the port authorized in station mode. This was enough when drop_unencrypted flag was set. However, drop_unencrypted can currently be controlled only with WEXT and the current nl80211 design does not allow fully secure configuration. Fix this by providing a mechanism for user space to control the IEEE 802.1X port in station mode (i.e., do the same that we are already doing in AP mode). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-11mac80211: properly track HT operation_modeJohannes Berg
When we disassociate, we set the channel to non-HT which obviously invalidates any ht_operation_mode setting. But when we then associate with the next AP again, we might still have the ht_operation_mode from the previous AP cached and fail to configure the hardware with the new (but unchanged) operation mode. This patch fixes it by separately tracking whether our cache is valid. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-11mac80211: move HT operation mode BSS infoJohannes Berg
There really is no need to have a separate struct for a single variable. The fact that it exists is due to the code legacy, but we can remove that now. Very simple. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-11mac80211: set default QoS values according to specJohannes Berg
We've never really cared about the default QoS (WMM) values, but we really should if the AP doesn't send any. This patch makes mac80211 use the default values according to 802.11-2007, and additionally syncs the default values when we disassociate so whatever the last AP said gets "unconfigured". Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: Fix sparse warning for ssid_len on ieee80211_sta_config_auth()Luis R. Rodriguez
net/mac80211/mlme.c:2079:28: warning: symbol 'ssid_len' shadows an earlier one net/mac80211/mlme.c:2022:12: originally declared here ssid_len is already being declared and checked above so there is no need for it again. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: tell driver when idleJohannes Berg
When we aren't doing anything in mac80211, we can turn off much of the hardware, depending on the driver/hw. Not doing anything, aka being idle, means: * no monitor interfaces * no AP/mesh/wds interfaces * any station interfaces are in DISABLED state * any IBSS interfaces aren't trying to be in a network * we aren't trying to scan By creating a new function that verifies these conditions and calling it at strategic points where the states of those conditions change, we can easily make mac80211 tell the driver when we are idle to save power. Additionally, this fixes a small quirk where a recalculated powersave state is passed to the driver even if the hardware is about to stopped completely. This patch intentionally doesn't touch radio_enabled because that is currently implemented to be a soft rfkill which is inappropriate here when we need to be able to wake up with low latency. One thing I'm not entirely sure about is this: phy0: device no longer idle - in use wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d wlan0: authenticated > phy0: device now idle > phy0: device no longer idle - in use wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:24:91:07:4d (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated Is it appropriate to go into idle state for a short time when we have just authenticated, but not associated yet? This happens only with the userspace SME, because we cannot really know how long it will wait before asking us to associate. Would going idle after a short timeout be more appropriate? We may need to revisit this, depending on what happens. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: fix probe response processingJohannes Berg
Due to the use of a _REQ_DIRECT_PROBE bit, which is unnecessary (and I wonder why it was done that way), an interesting situation can arise: 1) we try to probe an access point 2) the AP doesn't response in time 3) we tell userspace that we gave up 4) the AP suddenly responds 5) we auth/assoc with the AP I've seen 4) happen in testing with hostapd SIGSTOPped, and when SIGCONTinued it processes the probe requests that came in and send responses. But 5) is not supposed to happen after we tell everybody we've given up on the AP. To fix this, remove the _REQ_DIRECT_PROBE request bit, and process probe responses when we're in the relevant MLME state, namely IEEE80211_STA_MLME_DIRECT_PROBE. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06nl80211: Send timeout event on failed direct probeJouni Malinen
If the direct probe times out, we need to send the authentication timeout event to notify SME in the same way as we notify on timeout with authentication frames since the direct probe is run as part of the authentication attempt. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: add driver ops wrappersJohannes Berg
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>
2009-05-06mac80211: unify config_interface and bss_info_changedJohannes Berg
The config_interface method is a little strange, it contains the BSSID and beacon updates, while bss_info_changed contains most other BSS information for each interface. This patch removes config_interface and rolls all the information it previously passed to drivers into bss_info_changed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: clean up beacon interval settingsJohannes Berg
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>
2009-05-06mac80211: fix scan races and rework scanningJohannes Berg
There are some places marked /* XXX maybe racy? */ and they really are racy because there's no locking. This patch reworks much of the scan code, and introduces proper locking for the scan request as well as the internal scanning (which is necessary for IBSS/managed modes). Helper functions are added to call the scanning code whenever necessary. The scan deferring is changed to simply queue the scanning work instead of trying to start the scan in place, the scanning work will then take care of the rest. Also, currently when internal scans are requested for an interface that is trying to associate, we reject such scans. This was not intended, the mlme code has provisions to scan twice when it can't find the BSS to associate with right away; this has never worked properly. Fix this by not rejecting internal scan requests for an interface that is associating. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: rename max_sleep_interval to max_sleep_periodJohannes Berg
Kalle points out that max_sleep_interval is somewhat confusing because the value is measured in beacon intervals, and not in TU. Rename it to max_sleep_period to be consistent with things like DTIM period that are also measured in beacon intervals. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: fix PS vs. scan raceJohannes Berg
When somebody changes the PS parameters while scanning is in progress, we enable PS -- during the scan. This is clearly not desirable, and we can just abort enabling PS when scanning since when the scan finishes it will be taken care of. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22nl80211: Add event for authentication/association timeoutJouni Malinen
SME needs to be notified when the authentication or association attempt times out and MLME has stopped processing in order to allow the SME to decide what to do next. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: calculate maximum sleep intervalJohannes Berg
The maximum sleep interval, for powersave purposes, is determined by the DTIM period (it may not be larger) and the required networking latency (it must be small enough to fulfil those constraints). This makes mac80211 calculate the maximum sleep interval based on those constraints, and pass it to the driver. Then the driver should instruct the device to sleep at most that long. Note that the device is responsible for aligning the maximum sleep interval between DTIMs, we make sure it's not longer but it needs to make sure it's between them. Also, group some powersave documentation together and make it more explicit that we support managed mode only, and no IBSS powersaving (yet). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: fix variable truncation on 32-bitJohannes Berg
Stephen Rothwell reported these warnings from a 32-bit build: net/mac80211/mlme.c:1771: warning: left shift count >= width of type net/mac80211/mlme.c:1772: warning: left shift count >= width of type net/mac80211/mlme.c:1773: warning: left shift count >= width of type net/mac80211/mlme.c:1774: warning: left shift count >= width of type net/mac80211/mlme.c:1775: warning: left shift count >= width of type This shows a bug in my code -- BIT(X) uses just "1 << X" which means a 32-bit integer on 32-bit platforms, but the code here needs a u64 on all platforms. Fix this by using "1ULL << X" instead of BIT(X). Thanks Stephen! Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: validate TIM IE length (redux)Johannes Berg
The TIM IE must not be shorter than 4 bytes, so verify that when parsing it and use the proper type. To ease that adjust struct ieee80211_tim_ie to have a virtual bitmap of size at least 1. Also check that the TIM IE is actually present before trying to parse it! Because other people may need the function, make it a static inline in ieee80211.h. (The original "mac80211: validate TIM IE length" was a minimal fix for 2.6.30. This purports to be the full, correct fix. -- JWL) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22cfg80211/mac80211: move wext SIWMLME into cfg80211Johannes Berg
Since we have ->deauth and ->disassoc we can support the wext SIWMLME call directly without driver wext handlers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: enable PS by defaultJohannes Berg
Enable PS by default (depending on Kconfig) -- rely on drivers to control the level using pm_qos. Due to the previous patch we turn off PS when necessary due to latency requirements. This has a Kconfig symbol so people can, if they really want, configure the default in their kernels. We may want to keep it at "default y" only in wireless-testing for a while. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: implement beacon filtering in softwareJohannes Berg
Regardless of whether the hardware implements beacon filtering, there's no need to process all beacons in software all the time throughout the stack (mac80211 does a lot, then cfg80211, then in the future possibly userspace). This patch implements the "best possible" beacon filtering in mac80211. "Best possible" means that it can look for changes in all requested information elements, and distinguish vendor IEs by their OUI. In the future, we will add nl80211 API for userspace to request information elements and vendor IE OUIs to watch -- drivers can then implement the best they can do while software implements it fully. It is unclear whether or not this actually saves CPU time, but the data is all in the cache already so it should be fairly cheap. The additional _testing_, however, has great benefit; Without this, and on hardware that doesn't implement beacon filtering, wrong assumptions about, for example, scan result updates could quickly creep into code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: disable powersave if pm_qos asks for low latencyJohannes Berg
When an application asks for a latency lower than the beacon interval there's nothing we can do -- we need to stay awake and not have the AP buffer frames for us. Add code to automatically calculate this constraint in mac80211 so drivers need not concern themselves with it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: improve powersave implementationJohannes Berg
When you have multiple virtual interfaces the current implementation requires setting them up properly from userspace, which is undesirable when we want to default to power save mode. Keep track of powersave requested from userspace per managed mode interface, and only enable powersave globally when exactly one managed mode interface is active and has powersave turned on. Second, only start the dynPS timer when PS is turned on, and properly turn it off when PS is turned off. Third, fix the scan_sdata abuse in the dynps code. Finally, also reorder the code and refactor the code that enables PS or the dynps timer instead of having it copied in two places. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: Report rejected association to user space SMEJouni Malinen
When using nl80211 association, we need to send association response with a failure code to user space SME instead of just internally trying to send out the same (re)association request again couple of times. This fixes problems in association process getting stuck on a failure when user space is not notified in any way that something actually failed. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: move ieee80211_enable_ht function to mlme.cJohannes Berg
It really belongs into that file since it is only relevant for managed mode. Move 1:1, not even whitespace changes, but make it static and remove from header file. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22nl80211: Generate deauth/disassoc event for locally generated framesJouni Malinen
Previously, nl80211 mlme events were generated only for received deauthentication and disassociation frames. We need to do the same for locally generated ones in order to let applications know that we disconnected (e.g., when AP does not reply to a probe). Rename the nl80211 and cfg80211 functions (s/rx_//) to make it clearer that they are used for both received and locally generated frames. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-20mac80211: fix basic rate bitmap calculationJohannes Berg
"mac80211: fix basic rates setting from association response" introduced a copy/paste error. Unfortunately, this not just leads to wrong data being passed to the driver but is remotely exploitable for some hardware or driver combinations. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-20mac80211: fix beacon loss detection after scanKalle Valo
Currently beacon loss detection triggers after a scan. A probe request is sent and a message like this is printed to the log: wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:12:17:e7:98:de - sending probe request But in fact there is no beacon loss, the beacons are just not received because of the ongoing scan. Fix it by updating last_beacon after the scan has finished. Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-17mac80211: validate TIM IE lengthJohannes Berg
The TIM IE must not be shorter than 4 bytes, so verify that when parsing it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-17mac80211: avoid crashing when no scan sdataJohannes Berg
Using the scan_sdata variable here is terribly wrong, if there has never been a scan then we fail. However, we need a bandaid... Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-16mac80211: quiet beacon loss messagesMichael Buesch
On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:29:38 Michael Buesch wrote: > On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:23:59 Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > With latest linus tree I am getting, .config file attached: > > > > [ 22.895051] r8169: eth0: link down > > [ 22.897564] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready > > [ 22.928047] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > > [ 22.982292] libvirtd used greatest stack depth: 4200 bytes left > > [ 63.709879] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 > > [ 63.712096] wlan0: authenticated > > [ 63.712127] wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 > > [ 63.726831] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1) > > [ 63.726855] wlan0: associated > > [ 63.730093] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready > > [ 74.296087] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present > > [ 79.349044] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 119.358200] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 179.354292] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 259.366044] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 359.348292] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 361.953459] packagekitd used greatest stack depth: 4160 bytes left > > [ 478.824258] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 598.813343] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 718.817292] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 838.824567] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 958.815402] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1078.848434] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1198.822913] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1318.824931] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1438.814157] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1558.827336] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1678.823011] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1798.830589] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1918.828044] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 2038.827224] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 2116.517152] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 2158.840243] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 2278.827427] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > > I think this message should only show if CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG is set. > It's kind of expected that we lose a beacon once in a while, so we shouldn't print > verbose messages to the kernel log (even if they are KERN_DEBUG). > > And besides that, I think one can easily remotely trigger this message and flood the logs. > So it should probably _also_ be ratelimited. Something like this: Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
2009-03-27mac80211: add beacon filtering supportKalle Valo
Add IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING flag so that driver inform that it supports beacon filtering. Drivers need to call the new function ieee80211_beacon_loss() to notify about beacon loss. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: track beacons separately from the rx path activityKalle Valo
Separate beacon and rx path tracking in preparation for the beacon filtering support. At the same time change ieee80211_associated() to look a bit simpler. Probe requests are now sent only after IEEE80211_PROBE_IDLE_TIME, which is now set to 60 seconds. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timerKalle Valo
Currently the timer is triggering every two seconds (IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL). Decrease the timer to only trigger during data idle periods to avoid waking up CPU unnecessary. The timer will still trigger during idle periods, that needs to be fixed later. There's also a functional change that probe requests are sent only when the data path is idle, earlier they were sent also while there was activity on the data path. This is also preparation for the beacon filtering support. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the idea. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: remove mixed-cell and userspace MLME codeJohannes Berg
Neither can currently be set from userspace, so there's no regression potential, and neither will be supported from userspace since the new userspace APIs allow the SME, which is in userspace, to control all we need. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>