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2011-01-06wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leakJohannes Berg
commit df6d02300f7c2fbd0fbe626d819c8e5237d72c62 upstream. When a driver doesn't fill the entire buffer, old heap contents may remain, and if it also doesn't update the length properly, this old heap content will be copied back to userspace. It is very unlikely that this happens in any of the drivers using private ioctls since it would show up as junk being reported by iwpriv, but it seems better to be safe here, so use kzalloc. Reported-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-01-06wireless extensions: fix kernel heap content leakJohannes Berg
commit 42da2f948d949efd0111309f5827bf0298bcc9a4 upstream. Wireless extensions have an unfortunate, undocumented requirement which requires drivers to always fill iwp->length when returning a successful status. When a driver doesn't do this, it leads to a kernel heap content leak when userspace offers a larger buffer than would have been necessary. Arguably, this is a driver bug, as it should, if it returns 0, fill iwp->length, even if it separately indicated that the buffer contents was not valid. However, we can also at least avoid the memory content leak if the driver doesn't do this by setting the iwp length to max_tokens, which then reflects how big the buffer is that the driver may fill, regardless of how big the userspace buffer is. To illustrate the point, this patch also fixes a corresponding cfg80211 bug (since this requirement isn't documented nor was ever pointed out by anyone during code review, I don't trust all drivers nor all cfg80211 handlers to implement it correctly). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2010-08-26cfg80211: fix locking in action frame TXJohannes Berg
commit fe100acddf438591ecf3582cb57241e560da70b7 upstream. Accesses to "wdev->current_bss" must be locked with the wdev lock, which action frame transmission is missing. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-10cfg80211: don't get expired BSSesJohannes Berg
commit ccb6c1360f8dd43303c659db718e7e0b24175db5 upstream. When kernel-internal users use cfg80211_get_bss() to get a reference to a BSS struct, they may end up getting one that would have been removed from the list if there had been any userspace access to the list. This leads to inconsistencies and problems. Fix it by making cfg80211_get_bss() ignore BSSes that cfg80211_bss_expire() would remove. Fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2180 Reported-by: Jiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com> Tested-by: Jiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-10cfg80211: ignore spurious deauthJohannes Berg
commit 643f82e32f14faf0d0944c804203a6681b6b0a1e upstream. Ever since mac80211/drivers are no longer fully in charge of keeping track of the auth status, trying to make them do so will fail. Instead of warning and reporting the deauthentication to userspace, cfg80211 must simply ignore it so that spurious deauthentications, e.g. before starting authentication, aren't seen by userspace as actual deauthentications. Reported-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-04-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits) smc91c92_cs: fix the problem of "Unable to find hardware address" r8169: clean up my printk uglyness net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions netlabel: Fix several rcu_dereference() calls used without RCU read locks bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit() net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2) stmmac: add documentation for the driver. stmmac: fix kconfig for crc32 build error be2net: fix bug in vlan rx path for big endian architecture be2net: fix flashing on big endian architectures be2net: fix a bug in flashing the redboot section bonding: bond_xmit_roundrobin() fix drivers/net: Add missing unlock net: gianfar - align BD ring size console messages net: gianfar - initialize per-queue statistics ...
2010-03-30wireless: convert reg_regdb_search_lock to mutexJohn W. Linville
Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while holding this spinlock. The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-02-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
2010-02-19nl80211: add power save commandsKalle Valo
The most needed command from nl80211, which Wireless Extensions had, is support for power save mode. Add a simple command to make it possible to enable and disable power save via nl80211. I was also planning about extending the interface, for example adding the timeout value, but after thinking more about this I decided not to do it. Basically there were three reasons: Firstly, the parameters for power save are very much hardware dependent. Trying to find a unified interface which would work with all hardware, and still make sense to users, will be very difficult. Secondly, IEEE 802.11 power save implementation in Linux is still in state of flux. We have a long way to still to go and there is no way to predict what kind of implementation we will have after few years. And because we need to support nl80211 interface a long time, practically forever, adding now parameters to nl80211 might create maintenance problems later on. Third issue are the users. Power save parameters are mostly used for debugging, so debugfs is better, more flexible, interface for this. For example, wpa_supplicant currently doesn't configure anything related to power save mode. It's better to strive that kernel can automatically optimise the power save parameters, like with help of pm qos network and other traffic parameters. Later on, when we have better understanding of power save, we can extend this command with more features, if there's a need for that. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-18const: struct nla_policyAlexey Dobriyan
Make remaining netlink policies as const. Fixup coding style where needed. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-15cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action framesJouni Malinen
This implements a new command to register for action frames that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but the socket can be closed for that. Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the cfg80211 API helps implementing that. Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be used either to exchange action frames on the current operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public Action frames with the remain-on-channel command. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-15nl80211: does not allow NEW_STATION and DEL_STATION for meshThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
As discussed in linux-wireless mailing list, adding and removing stations for mesh topologies is not necessary. Since doing it triggers bugs, the sugestion was to simply disable it. Tested using a custom iw command "station new". Works only after using hostapd. "station del" command also works. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Simon Raffeiner <sturmflut@lieberbiber.de> Cc: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Cc: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2010-02-08wireless: update radiotap parserJohannes Berg
Upstream radiotap has adopted the namespace proposal David Young made and I then took care of, for which I had adapted the radiotap parser as a library outside the kernel. This brings the in-kernel parser up to speed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-04Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2010-02-02lib80211: Introduce TKIP_HDR_LEN define for code clarityAndriy Tkachuk
Introduce TKIP_HDR_LEN define for code clarity (in the same way as CCMP_HDR_LEN). Also odd len variable (not used) dropped from lib80211_tkip_hdr(). Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-02lib80211: Cosmetics - make room for MIC/CRC near the actual calculationAndriy Tkachuk
Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01cfg80211: add regulatory hint disconnect supportLuis R. Rodriguez
This adds a new regulatory hint to be used when we know all devices have been disconnected and idle. This can happen when we suspend, for instance. When we disconnect we can no longer assume the same regulatory rules learned from a country IE or beacon hints are applicable so restore regulatory settings to an initial state. Since driver hints are cached on the wiphy that called the hint, those hints are not reproduced onto cfg80211 as the wiphy will respect its own wiphy->regd regardless. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01cfg80211: avoid flushing the global workqueue for core reg hintsLuis R. Rodriguez
When cfg80211 starts it will send a core regulatory hint. This is sent to the global workqueue but we force processing of it by flushing the global workqueue. The flushing was done since cfg80211 needs last_request to always be populated. Avoid flushing the global workqueue by processing the work required immediately instead of putting it into a linked list and processing it after the flush. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-27cfg80211: fix wext-compat for setting rate to 'auto'John W. Linville
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-26cfg80211: export cfg80211_find_ieJohannes Berg
This new function (previously a static function called just "find_ie" can be used to find a specific IE in a buffer of IEs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-23Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2010-01-22mac80211: Account HT Control field in Data frame hdrlen according to ↵Andriy Tkachuk
802.11n-2009 ieee80211_hdrlen() should account account new HT Control field in 802.11 data frame header introduced by IEEE 802.11n standard. According to 802.11n-2009 HT Control field is present in data frames when both of following are met: 1. It is QoS data frame. 2. Order bit is set in Frame Control field. The change might be totally compatible with legacy non-11n aware frames, because 802.11-2007 standard states that "all QoS STAs set this subfield to 0". Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net> Acked-by : Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22cfg80211: export multiple MAC addresses in sysfsJohannes Berg
If a device has multiple MAC addresses, userspace will need to know about that. Similarly, if it allows the MAC addresses to vary by a bitmask. If a driver exports multiple addresses, it is assumed that it will be able to deal with that many different addresses, which need not necessarily match the ones programmed into the device; if a mask is set then the device should deal addresses within that mask based on an arbitrary "base address". To test it all and show how it is used, add support to hwsim even though it can't actually deal with addresses different from the default. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19nl80211: Allow association to change channels during reassociationJouni Malinen
nl80211_associate() was rejecting (re)association attempts with EBUSY in some cases where we are currently associated with an AP that uses different channel from the destination AP. Fix this by passing the current wdev to rdev_fixed_channel() in the same way that was already done for join-IBSS and connect commands. This allows the fixedchan check to skipped for the current wdev and allows the reassociation to proceed. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19cfg80211: rcu-ify rdev and wdevJohannes Berg
Future code will need to look up rdev and wdev within atomic sections, but currently we need to lock a mutex for such lookups. Change the list handling for both to be RCU-safe so that we can look them up in rcu sections instead in the future. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
2010-01-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
2010-01-17net: spread __net_init, __net_exitAlexey Dobriyan
__net_init/__net_exit are apparently not going away, so use them to full extent. In some cases __net_init was removed, because it was called from __net_exit code. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15cfg80211: make regulatory_hint_11d() band specificLuis R. Rodriguez
In practice APs do not send country IE channel triplets for channels the AP is not operating on and if they were to do so they would have to use the regulatory extension which we currently do not process. No AP has been seen in practice that does this though so just drop those country IEs. Additionally it has been noted the first series of country IE channels triplets are specific to the band the AP sends. Propagate the band on which the country IE was found on reject the country IE then if the triplets are ever oustide of the band. Although we now won't process country IE information with multiple band information we leave the intersection work as is as it is technically possible for someone to want to eventually process these type of country IEs with regulatory extensions. Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14cfg80211: Ingore country IEs with a zero set of number of channelsLuis R. Rodriguez
Previous to this and the last patch, titled, "cfg80211: Fix 2 GHz subband calculation for country IEs" we would end up treating these IEs as single channel units. These are in fact just bogus IE triplets so ignore the entire IE if these are found. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14cfg80211: fix 2 GHz subband calculation for country IEsLuis R. Rodriguez
Country IEs triplets are getting an extra channel with the current count. This does not affect regulatory because we always took the intersection between what the AP gave and what CRDA believed is correct. This however does fix processing some Country IEs with multiple sequential 2 GHz triplets. Since our parser and the spec mandates all channels be monitonically increasing we would drop the IE after noticing the second triplet begins on a channel already processed. APs that send these type of country IEs seems rare though. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14cfg80211: fix channel setting for wextAbhijeet Kolekar
Patch fixes the bug at http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2139 Currently we cannot set the channel using wext extension if we have already associated and disconnected. As cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwfreq will not switch the channel if ssid is set. This fixes it by clearing the ssid. Following is the sequence which it tries to fix. modprobe iwlagn iwconfig wlan0 essid "" ifconfig wlan0 down iwconfig wlan0 chan X wext is marked as deprecate.If we use nl80211 we can easily play with setting the channel. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12cfg80211: Fix country IE parsing for single channel tripletsLuis R. Rodriguez
This enhances the way we parse country IEs to minimize the number of regulatory rules that we create. It also fixes our current implementation which treated country IE triplets with only one channel as one independed regulatory rule even though adjecent rules were also being provided. Without this patch APs which send country IE information with a channel triplet for each individual channel will force cfg80211 to deny HT40 operation as a regulatory rule would have been created independently for each channel and as such configured only for 20 MHz operation. Although 802.11n APs which send country IEs triplets in this fassion are likely rare Benoit reports this against the Ubiquity NanoStation M5, with Country "FR" and HT40 enabled. Since we now have a helper which parses the triplets in intermediate steps we now take care extra care to process padding. Reported-by: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12cfg80211: process the max power on a country IELuis R. Rodriguez
The max power from each country IE triplet was being ignored. This fix isn't critical as CRDA was always being used for the lower limit, but we should process it in case the AP still wants to decrease power output even more for whatever reason. Reported-by: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12cfg80211: add debug print when we drop a bogus country IELuis R. Rodriguez
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12cfg80211: Store IEs from both Beacon and Probe Response framesJouni Malinen
Store information elements from Beacon and Probe Response frames in separate buffers to allow both sets to be made available through nl80211. This allows user space applications to get access to IEs from Beacon frames even if we have received Probe Response frames from the BSS. Previously, the IEs from Probe Response frames would have overridden the IEs from Beacon frames. This feature is of somewhat limited use since most protocols include the same (or extended) information in Probe Response frames. However, there are couple of exceptions where the IEs from Beacon frames could be of some use: TIM IE is only included in Beacon frames (and it would be needed to figure out the DTIM period used in the BSS) and at least some implementations of Wireless Provisioning Services seem to include the full IE only in Beacon frames). The new BSS attribute for scan results is added to allow both the IE sets to be delivered. This is done in a way that maintains the previously used behavior for applications that are not aware of the new NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES attribute. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12nl80211: New command for setting TX rate mask for rate controlJouni Malinen
Add a new NL80211_CMD_SET_TX_BITRATE_MASK command and related attributes to provide support for setting TX rate mask for rate control. This uses the existing cfg80211 set_bitrate_mask operation that was previously used only with WEXT compat code (SIOCSIWRATE). The nl80211 command allows more generic configuration of allowed rates as a mask instead of fixed/max rate. 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>
2010-01-12cfg80211/mac80211: Use more generic bitrate mask for rate controlJouni Malinen
Extend struct cfg80211_bitrate_mask to actually use a bitfield mask instead of just a single fixed or maximum rate index. This change itself does not modify the behavior (except for debugfs files), but it prepares cfg80211 and mac80211 for a new nl80211 command for setting which rates can be used in TX rate control. Since frames are now going through the rate control algorithm unconditionally, the internal IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RCALGO flag can now be removed. The RC implementations can use the rate_idx_mask value to optimize their behavior if only a single rate is enabled. The old max_rate_idx in struct ieee80211_tx_rate_control is maintained (but commented as deprecated) for backwards compatibility with existing RC implementations. Once these implementations have been updated to use the more generic rate_idx_mask, the max_rate_idx value can be removed. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12nl80211: Add new WIPHY attribute COVERAGE_CLASSLukáš Turek
The new attribute NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS sets IEEE 802.11 Coverage Class, which depends on maximum distance of nodes in a wireless network. It's required for long distance links (more than a few hundred meters). The attribute is now ignored by two non-mac80211 drivers, rndis and iwmc3200wifi, together with WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_SHORT and WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_LONG. If it turns out to be a problem, we could split set_wiphy_params callback or add new capability bits. Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-11cfg80211: fix refcount imbalance when wext is disabledJohannes Berg
When CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set, there is a refcount imbalance with rdev->opencount, fix that by moving it out of the ifdef. Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-05wireless: fix build breakage when CONFIG_CFG80211_REG_DEBUG not setJohn W. Linville
Bad macro definition in "cfg80211: add a regulatory debug print"... Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
Conflicts: net/mac80211/iface.c
2010-01-05cfg80211: add a regulatory debug printLuis R. Rodriguez
Instead of sprinkling code with ifdef's define REG_DBG_PRINT() instead. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-04cfg80211: fix syntax error on user regulatory hintsLuis R. Rodriguez
This fixes a syntax error when setting up the user regulatory hint. This change yields the same exact binary object though so it ends up just being a syntax typo fix, fortunately. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-30Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-12-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
2009-12-28mac80211/cfg80211: add station eventsJohannes Berg
When, for instance, a new IBSS peer is found, userspace wants to be notified. Add events for all new stations that mac80211 learns about. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28cfg80211: add remain-on-channel commandJouni Malinen
Add new commands for requesting the driver to remain awake on a specified channel for the specified amount of time (and another command to cancel such an operation). This can be used to implement userspace-controlled off-channel operations, like Public Action frame exchange on another channel than the operation channel. The off-channel operation should behave similarly to scan, i.e. the local station (if associated) moves into power save mode to request the AP to buffer frames for it and then moves to the other channel to allow the off-channel operation to be completed. The duration parameter can be used to request enough time to receive a response from the target station. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>