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2012-04-09nl80211: ensure interface is up in various APIsJohannes Berg
The nl80211 handling code should ensure as much as it can that the interface is in a valid state, it can certainly ensure the interface is running. Not doing so can cause calls through mac80211 into the driver that result in warnings and unspecified behaviour in the driver. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-26cfg80211: allow CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_UNSPEC in station_infoJohn W. Linville
The station_info struct had demanded dBm signal values, but the cfg80211 wireless extensions implementation was also accepting "unspecified" (i.e. RSSI) unit values while the nl80211 code was completely unaware of them. Resolve this by formally allowing the "unspecified" units while making nl80211 ignore them. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2012-03-12cfg80211: Add background scan period attribute.Bala Shanmugam
Receive background scan period as part of connect command and pass the same to the driver. Signed-off-by: Bala Shanmugam <bkamatch@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-06cfg80211/mac80211: report signal strength for mgmt framesJohannes Berg
Add the signal strength (in dBm only for now) to frames that are received via nl80211's various frame APIs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-05cfg80211: Add an attribute to set inactivity timeout in AP modeVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
This patch adds an attribute, NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT, to set the inactivity timeout which can be used to remove the station in AP mode. This can be passed in NL80211_CMD_START_AP and used by the drivers which have AP MLME in firmware but don't support get_station() properly. To disable inactivity timer in userspace, wpa_s for example, there is a new flag, NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER, in nl80211_feature_flags through which drivers can register their capability to use the inactivity timeout to free the stations. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-05{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Implement RSSI threshold for mesh peeringAshok Nagarajan
Mesh peer links are established only if average rssi of the peer candidate satisfies the threshold. This is not in 802.11s specification but was requested by David Fulgham, an open80211s user. This is a way to avoid marginal peer links with stations that are barely within range. This patch adds a new mesh configuration parameter, mesh_rssi_threshold. This feature is supported only for hardwares that report signal in dBm. Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-22cfg80211: restructure AP/GO mode APIJohannes Berg
The AP/GO mode API isn't very clearly defined, it has "set beacon" and "new beacon" etc. Modify the API to the following: * start AP -- all settings * change beacon -- new beacon data * stop AP -- stop AP mode operation This also reflects in the nl80211 API, rename the commands there correspondingly (but keep the old names for compatibility.) Overall, this makes it much clearer what's going on in the API. Kalle developed the ath6kl changes, I created the rest of the patch. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06mac80211: off by one in mcs mask handlingDan Carpenter
"ridx" is used as an index into the mcs_mask[] array which has IEEE80211_HT_MCS_MASK_LEN elements. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06cfg80211/mac80211: userspace peer authorization in IBSSAntonio Quartulli
If the IBSS network is RSN-protected, let userspace authorize the stations instead of adding them as AUTHORIZED by default. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06cfg80211: stop tracking authenticated stateJohannes Berg
To track authenticated state seems to have been a design mistake in cfg80211. It is possible to have out of band authentication (FT), tracking multiple authentications caused more problems than it ever helped, and the implementation in mac80211 is too complex. Remove all this complexity, and let userspace do whatever it wants to, mac80211 can deal with that just fine. Association is still tracked of course, but authentication no longer is. Local auth state changes are thus no longer of value, so ignore them completely. This will also help implement SAE -- asking the driver to do an authentication is now almost equivalent to sending an authentication frame, with the exception of shared key authentication which is still handled completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-30nl80211: add support for mcs masksSimon Wunderlich
Allow to set mcs masks through nl80211. We also allow to set MCS rates but no legacy rates (and vice versa). Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-27{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Add support of setting non-forwarding entity in MeshChun-Yeow Yeoh
A mesh node that joins the mesh network is by default a forwarding entity. This patch allows the mesh node to set as non-forwarding entity. Whenever dot11MeshForwarding is set to 0, the mesh node can prevent itself from forwarding the traffic which is not destined to him. Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-27cfg80211: fix a few -Wshadow warningsJohannes Berg
It seems that -Wshadow is no longer default in sparse runs, but let's fix the warnings anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-11nl80211: fix old station flags compatibilityJohannes Berg
My patch to validate station flags broke compatibility with the old station flags setting where all flags are always set at once since it always set the mask as all possible flags which ended up being rejected later in the station add/modify code. Fix by parsing only the current flags in the old flags attribute -- new applications and new flags should use (and will now require) the new flags attribute where the mask is given by the application. Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Hilber <ath9k-dev@toh.cx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-19cfg80211: Return beacon loss count in stationPaul Stewart
If station info contains a beacon loss count, return it to userspace. Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15cfg80211: validate nl80211 station handling betterJohannes Berg
The nl80211 station handling code is a bit messy and doesn't do a lot of validation. It seems like this could be an issue for drivers that don't use mac80211 to validate everything. As cfg80211 doesn't keep station state, move the validation of allowing supported_rates to change for TDLS only in station mode to mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15nl80211: add TDLS peer flag to policyJohannes Berg
This was evidently missed in the TDLS patch (07ba55d7). Cc: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-14nl80211: accept testmode dump with netdevJohannes Berg
All nl80211 commands that need only the wiphy still allow identifying it by giving an interface index, except, as Kenny pointed out, the testmode dump support. Fix this by looking up the wiphy via the ifidx in this case as well. Tested-by: Kenny Hsu <kenny.hsu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-06nl80211: Parse channel type attribute in an ibss join requestAlexander Simon
Prepare cfg80211 for IBSS HT: * extend cfg80211 ibss struct with channel_type * Check if extension channel can be used * Export can_beacon_sec_chan for use in mac80211 (will be called from ibss.c later). Signed-off-by: Alexander Simon <an.alexsimon@googlemail.com> [siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de: Updates] * fix cfg80211_can_beacon_ext_chan comment * remove implicit channel_type enum assumptions * remove radar channel flags check * add HT IBSS feature flag * reword commit message Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-02Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
2011-11-28{nl,cfg,mac}80211: implement dot11MeshHWMPperrMinIntervalThomas Pedersen
As per 802.11mb 13.9.11.3 Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Allow Setting Multicast Rate in MeshChun-Yeow Yeoh
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28wireless: Add NoAck per tid supportSimon Wunderlich
This patch contains the configuration changes in nl80211/cfg80211. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28nl80211: fix MAC address validationEliad Peller
MAC addresses have a fixed length. The current policy allows passing < ETH_ALEN bytes, which might result in reading beyond the buffer. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides.Ben Greear
This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40, and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for drivers that support it. The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask. Attemping to disable features that are not supported will take no affect, but will not return errors. This is to aid backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask. This patch only enables the infrastructure. An additional patch will enable the feature in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21nl80211: make get_vlan logic more commonJohannes Berg
get_vlan() sets the output parameter even if it returns an error, which is a bit odd. Instead, convert it to use ERR_PTR. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21cfg80211: add flags for off-channel capabilitiesJohannes Berg
Currently mac80211 implements these for all devices, but given restrictions of some devices that isn't really true, so prepare for being able to remove the capability for some mac80211 devices. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21nl80211: add testmode to the list of supported commandsKalle Valo
User space might want to test if driver supports testmode. Adding testmode to the list of supported commands makes this easier. I omitted testmode_dump() in purpose. I assume all drivers implementing testmode_dump() will also implement testmode_cmd(). Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21cfg80211: process regulatory DFS region for countriesLuis R. Rodriguez
The wireless-regdb now has support for mapping a country to one DFS region. CRDA sends this to us now so process it so we can provide that hint to drivers. This will later be used by code for processing DFS in a way that meets the criteria for the DFS region the country belongs to. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11nl80211: Pass probe response data to driversArik Nemtsov
Pass probe-response data from usermode via beacon parameters. Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11nl80211: Add probe response offload attributeArik Nemtsov
Notify user-space about probe-response offloading support in the driver. A wiphy flag is used to indicate support and a bitmap of protocols determines which protocols are supported. Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11nl80211: fix compiler warningJohannes Berg
John reported the following warning: net/wireless/nl80211.c: In function ‘nl80211_tx_mgmt’: net/wireless/nl80211.c:5286:8: warning: ‘hdr’ may be used uninitialized in this function Evidently, his version of gcc isn't able to see that when "msg" is initialized, "hdr" must also be. My gcc, 4.6.1, can actually see that and doesn't warn. Simply initialize the variable to NULL. That means if the compiler was ever right we'll crash though so isn't really optimal since it may hide warnings from the compiler when somebody modifies this code in the future. Reported-by: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09nl80211: advertise socket TX status capabilityJohannes Berg
The new wifi socket TX capability should be supported by wifi drivers, let them advertise whether they do or not. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACKJohannes Berg
For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag. Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a few lines of code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09cfg80211: add event for unexpected 4addr framesJohannes Berg
The frames are used by AP/STA WDS mode, and hostapd needs to know when such a frame was received to set up the VLAN appropriately to allow using it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09cfg80211: allow registering to beaconsJohannes Berg
Add the ability to register to received beacon frames to allow implementing OLBC logic in userspace. The registration is per wiphy since there's no point in receiving the same frame multiple times. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09nl80211: add API to probe a clientJohannes Berg
When the AP SME in hostapd is used it wants to probe the clients when they have been idle for some time. Add explicit API to support this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09nl80211: advertise device AP SMEJohannes Berg
Add the ability to advertise that the device contains the AP SME and what features it can support. There are currently no features in the bitmap -- probe response offload will be advertised by a few patches Arik is working on now (who took over from Guy Eilam) and a device with AP SME will typically implement and require response offload. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09nl80211: allow subscribing to unexpected class3 framesJohannes Berg
To implement AP mode without monitor interfaces we need to be able to send a deauth to stations that send frames without being associated. Enable this by adding a new nl80211 event for such frames that an application can subscribe to. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09nl80211: Increase maximum NL80211_ATTR_KEY_SEQ length to 16Jouni Malinen
WPI-SMS4 uses 16-octet PN field, so we need to allow longer key sequence values to be configured. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
2011-11-08nl80211: clean up genlmsg_end usesJohannes Berg
genlmsg_end() cannot fail, it just returns the length of the message. Thus, error handling for it is useless. While removing it, I also noticed a useless variable and removed this it as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07cfg80211: allow setting TXQ parameters only in AP modeJohannes Berg
In other modes the parameters should not be set. Right now, mac80211 will set them, even if the user asked for setting them on VLANs which the driver doesn't know about, causing all kinds of trouble. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07nl80211: fix HT capability attribute validationJohannes Berg
Since the NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY attribute is used as a struct, it needs a minimum, not maximum length. Enforce that properly. Not doing so could potentially lead to reading after the buffer. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14nl80211: Add sta_flags to the station infoHelmut Schaa
Reuse the already existing struct nl80211_sta_flag_update to specify both, a flag mask and the flag set itself. This means nl80211_sta_flag_update is now used for setting station flags and also for getting station flags. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30nl80211/mac80211: allow adding TDLS peers as stationsArik Nemtsov
When adding a TDLS peer STA, mark it with a new flag in both nl80211 and mac80211. Before adding a peer, make sure the wiphy supports TDLS and our operating mode is appropriate (managed). In addition, make sure all peers are removed on disassociation. A TDLS peer is first added just before link setup is initiated. In later setup stages we have more info about peer supported rates, capabilities, etc. This info is reported via nl80211_set_station(). Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30nl80211: support sending TDLS commands/framesArik Nemtsov
Add support for sending high-level TDLS commands and TDLS frames via NL80211_CMD_TDLS_OPER and NL80211_CMD_TDLS_MGMT, respectively. Add appropriate cfg80211 callbacks for lower level drivers. Add wiphy capability flags for TDLS support and advertise them via nl80211. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30cfg80211/mac80211: apply station uAPSD parameters selectivelyJohannes Berg
Currently, when hostapd sets the station as authorized we also overwrite its uAPSD parameter. This obviously leads to buggy behaviour (later, with my patches that actually add uAPSD support). To fix this, only apply those parameters if they were actually set in nl80211, and to achieve that add a bitmap of things to apply. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-28Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/wirelessJohn W. Linville
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c net/wireless/nl80211.c
2011-09-27mac80211: treat the WME sta flag as a bitArik Nemtsov
Correct flag usage - use it as a bit index instead of a bit value. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>