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Kees Cook
48f6edceb0 net/mac80211: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.

CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-11 11:40:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a2013a13e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
John W. Linville
f9c4d420c1 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2012-12-11 16:24:55 -05:00
John W. Linville
c66cfd5325 Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.sipsolutions.net/mac80211-next 2012-12-11 16:04:03 -05:00
Abhijit Pawar
a71258d79e net: remove obsolete simple_strto<foo>
This patch removes the redundant occurences of simple_strto<foo>

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Pawar <abhi.c.pawar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-11 12:49:53 -05:00
Johannes Berg
8acbcddb5f minstrel: update stats after processing status
Instead of updating stats before sending a packet,
update them after processing the packet's status.
This makes minstrel in line with minstrel_ht.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-10 22:51:50 +01:00
Johannes Berg
8e3c1b7743 mac80211: a few whitespace fixes
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-10 21:24:02 +01:00
Abhijit Pawar
4b5511ebc7 net: remove obsolete simple_strto<foo>
This patch replace the obsolete simple_strto<foo> with kstrto<foo>

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Pawar <abhi.c.pawar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-10 14:09:00 -05:00
Chaitanya
50c16e2251 mac80211: warn only once if ampdu_action isn't assigned
New drivers that might not support ampdu_action yet while in
development cause a lot of warnings, use WARN_ON_ONCE instead.

Signed-off-by: T Krushna Chaitanya <chaitanyatk@posedge.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-07 09:12:50 +01:00
John W. Linville
403e16731f Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2012-12-06 14:58:41 -05:00
John W. Linville
55cb0797fa This is an NFC LLCP fix for 3.7 and contains only one patch.
It fixes a potential crash when receiving an LLCP HDLC frame acking a frame
 that is not the last sent one. In that case we may dereference an already
 freed pointer.
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Merge tag 'nfc-fixes-3.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/nfc-3.0

This is an NFC LLCP fix for 3.7 and contains only one patch.

It fixes a potential crash when receiving an LLCP HDLC frame acking a frame
that is not the last sent one. In that case we may dereference an already
freed pointer.
2012-12-06 14:55:57 -05:00
Johannes Berg
0b7dff4fae mac80211: cancel work instead of waiting for it to do nothing
If the sdata work is pending while the interface is stopped,
we currently flush it. If it's not running this means waiting
for it to run, which could take a while if the workqueue is
backlogged. However, the work exits right away if it starts
to run while the interface is already stopping. There's no
point in waiting for that, so use cancel_work_sync() instead.

Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-06 14:05:05 +01:00
Marco Porsch
815b8092bd mac80211: don't drop mesh peering frames from unknown STA
Previously, mesh peering frames from a STA without a station
entry were being dropped.

Mesh Peering Open and other frames (WLAN_CATEGORY_SELF_PROTECTED)
are valid mesh peering frames even if received from a yet unknown
station; the STA entry will be created in mesh_peer_init later.

The problem didn't occur previously since both STAs receive each
other's beacons which created the STA entry. However, this causes
an unnecessary delay and beacons might not be received if either
node is in PS mode.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
[reword commit log a bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-06 13:58:43 +01:00
Helmut Schaa
751413eadc mac80211: skip radiotap space calculation if no monitor exists
The radiotap header length "needed_headroom" is only required if we're
sending the skb to a monitor interface. Hence, move the calculation a
bit later so the calculation can be skipped if no monitor interface is
present.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-05 16:54:59 +01:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
5b632fe85e mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL
Commit f0425beda4 "mac80211: retry sending
failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr" caused regression
on rt2x00 hardware (connection hangs). This regression was fixed by
commit be03d4a45c "rt2x00: Don't let
mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails". But the latter
commit caused yet another problem reported in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42828#c22

After long discussion in this thread:
http://mid.gmane.org/20121018075615.GA18212@redhat.com
and testing various alternative solutions, which failed on one or other
setup, we have no other good fix for the issues like just revert both
mentioned earlier commits.

To do not affect other hardware which benefit from commit
f0425beda4, instead of reverting it,
introduce flag that when used will restore mac80211 behaviour before
the commit.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
[replaced link with mid.gmane.org that has message-id]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-05 09:53:31 +01:00
Saravana
b98ea05861 mac80211: add debug file for mic failure
The mic failure count provides the number of mic failures that
have happened on a given key (without a countermeasure being
started, since that would remove the key).

Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
[fix NULL pointer issues]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-05 09:44:41 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
2f91a96799 mac80211: adapt slot time in IBSS mode
In 5GHz/802.11a, we are allowed to use short slot times. Doing this
may increases performance by 20% for legacy connections (54 MBit/s).
I can confirm this in my tests (27% more throughput using iperf), and
also have a small positive effect (5% more throughput) for HT rates,
tested on 1 stream.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-04 15:54:43 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
246dc3fddf mac80211: return if CSA is not handle
If channel contexts are enabled, the CSA should not be processed
further. A return is missing here.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-03 11:21:40 +01:00
Johannes Berg
a544ab7f9c mac80211: simplify loop in minstrel_ht
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:45:38 +01:00
Johannes Berg
9caf036402 cfg80211: fix BSS struct IE access races
When a BSS struct is updated, the IEs are currently
overwritten or freed. This can lead to races if some
other CPU is accessing the BSS struct and using the
IEs concurrently.

Fix this by always allocating the IEs in a new struct
that holds the data and length and protecting access
to this new struct with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:42:20 +01:00
Johannes Berg
b9a9ada14a mac80211: remove probe response temporary buffer allocation
Instead of allocating a temporary buffer to build IEs
build them right into the SKB.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:27 +01:00
Johannes Berg
c604b9f219 mac80211: make ieee80211_build_preq_ies safer
Instead of assuming 200 bytes are always enough for
all the IEs we add, give the length of the buffer
to the function and warn instead of overrunning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:26 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
41e31b8b90 mac80211: allow userspace registration for probe requests in IBSS
This change allows userspace to register for probe request
frames on an IBSS interface. Userspace then has to handle
them and send replies.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:39:05 +01:00
Marco Porsch
372039031c mac80211: fix for mesh sync to indicate TBTT adjustment
Currently the mesh sync code checks, whether peers indicate TBTT adjustment,
but it never sets the corresponding flag itself.

By setting ifmsh->tbtt_adjusting to true, it will set the corresponding field
in the mesh configuration IE of own beacons.
This indication will be set in the current beacon. The TBTT adjustment will be
performed afterwards, affecting the next beacon. Thus, the first beacon with
stable TBTT will not indicate adjustment anymore and peers will continue
tracking the new offset.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 12:41:46 +01:00
Saravana
1f2e651c9a mac80211: add debugfs file for last rx rate
Add a debugfs file showing the rate at which
the last packet is received.

Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
[fix whitespace]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-29 15:33:06 +01:00
Saravana
003e676af5 mac80211: re-organize the rx rate calculation logic
Currently the logic to fill a struct rate_info with
a STA's last RX rate is accessible only in the cfg.c.
As the RX rate calculation might be needed elsewhere,
split this out into a separate function.

Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
[fix various whitespace issues, reword commit log]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-29 15:33:05 +01:00
Saravana
91b8c050b2 mac80211: add debugfs file for current tx rate
Add a debugfs file showing the current tx rate.
The information available in the rc_stats file
doesn't evidently provides us the current tx rate.
This patch adds the support for the same.

Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-29 15:32:58 +01:00
Saravana
db94357dbd mac80211: add debugfs file for last ack signal
Add a debugfs file showing the signal strength
of the ack frame that is received for the
currently sent tx packet

Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-29 13:36:43 +01:00
Helmut Schaa
59cf1d65f7 mac80211: don't reinit rate control when mesh sta exists
This fixes some unintended resets of the rate control statistics
when minstrel_ht is used resulting in non-optimal throughput on mesh
links.

Tested-by: Emanuel Taube <emanuel.taube@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-28 14:03:18 +01:00
Helmut Schaa
478622e81c mac80211: reject setting masked mac addresses
If a driver registers an address mask we should ensure that no
interface gets an address assigned that isn't covered by the
registered address mask. This prevents invalid configurations
from reaching the device and causing problems.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
[change function flow to reduce indentation, fix locking]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-28 13:52:43 +01:00
Dan Carpenter
0624760c96 mac80211: fix potential NULL dereference
Smatch complains that we could dereference skb later in the function.
It's probably unlikely, but we may as well return here and avoid it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
[change summary]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-28 13:46:22 +01:00
Johannes Berg
339afbf481 mac80211: support P2P GO powersave configuration
If the low-level driver wants to support P2P GO
powersave configuration, it must set the cfg80211
flags and mac80211 will pass the parameters to it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-27 11:56:19 +01:00
Johannes Berg
5164892184 mac80211: support (partial) VHT radiotap information
Add some information that we have about VHT to radiotap.
This at least lets one see the MCS and NSS information.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-27 11:56:18 +01:00
Johannes Berg
f2d9d270c1 mac80211: support VHT association
Determine the VHT channel from the AP's VHT operation IE
(if present) and configure the hardware to that channel
if it is supported. If channel contexts cause a channel
to not be usable, try a smaller bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-27 11:56:07 +01:00
John W. Linville
62c8003ecb Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2012-11-26 14:46:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg
6bdd253f63 mac80211: fix remain-on-channel (non-)cancelling
Felix Liao reported that when an interface is set DOWN
while another interface is executing a ROC, the warning
in ieee80211_start_next_roc() (about the first item on
the list having started already) triggers.

This is because ieee80211_roc_purge() calls it even if
it never actually changed the list of ROC items. To fix
this, simply remove the function call. If it is needed
then it will be done by the ieee80211_sw_roc_work()
function when the ROC item that is being removed while
active is cleaned up.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Felix Liao <Felix.Liao@watchguard.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-11-26 14:41:40 -05:00
Johannes Berg
8bc83c2463 mac80211: support VHT rates in TX info
To achieve this, limit the number of retries to
31 (instead of 255) and use the three bits that
are then free for VHT flags.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:43:00 +01:00
Johannes Berg
5614618ec4 mac80211: support drivers reporting VHT RX
Add support to mac80211 for having drivers report
received VHT MCS information.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg
4bf88530be mac80211: convert to channel definition struct
Convert mac80211 (and where necessary, some drivers a
little bit) to the new channel definition struct.

This will allow extending mac80211 for VHT, which is
currently restricted to channel contexts since there
are no drivers using that which makes it easier. As
I also don't care about VHT for drivers not using the
channel context API, I won't convert the previous API
to VHT support.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg
3d9d1d6656 nl80211/cfg80211: support VHT channel configuration
Change nl80211 to support specifying a VHT (or HT)
using the control channel frequency (as before) and
new attributes for the channel width and first and
second center frequency. The old channel type is of
course still supported for HT.

Also change the cfg80211 channel definition struct
to support these by adding the relevant fields to
it (and removing the _type field.)

This also adds new helper functions:
 - cfg80211_chandef_create to create a channel def
   struct given the control channel and channel type,
 - cfg80211_chandef_identical to check if two channel
   definitions are identical
 - cfg80211_chandef_compatible to check if the given
   channel definitions are compatible, and return the
   wider of the two

This isn't entirely complete, but that doesn't matter
until we have a driver using it. In particular, it's
missing
 - regulatory checks on the usable bandwidth (if that
   even makes sense)
 - regulatory TX power (database can't deal with it)
 - a proper channel compatibility calculation for the
   new channel types

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg
683b6d3b31 cfg80211: pass a channel definition struct
Instead of passing a channel pointer and channel type
to all functions and driver methods, pass a new channel
definition struct. Right now, this struct contains just
the control channel and channel type, but for VHT this
will change.

Also, add a small inline cfg80211_get_chandef_type() so
that drivers don't need to use the _type field of the
new structure all the time, which will change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg
42d97a599e cfg80211: remove remain-on-channel channel type
As mwifiex (and mac80211 in the software case) are the
only drivers actually implementing remain-on-channel
with channel type, userspace can't be relying on it.
This is the case, as it's used only for P2P operations
right now.

Rather than adding a flag to tell userspace whether or
not it can actually rely on it, simplify all the code
by removing the ability to use different channel types.
Leave only the validation of the attribute, so that if
we extend it again later (with the needed capability
flag), it can't break userspace sending invalid data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg
028e8da072 mac80211: fix managed mode channel flags handling
If ieee80211_prep_channel() decides that HT should be
disabled (because the HT IEs from the AP were invalid)
it will set the IEEE80211_STA_DISABLE_HT to not send
HT capabilities to the AP when associating. If this
happens during authentication, the flag will be lost
and we send HT frames, even if the channel config was
set up for non-HT. This can lead to issues.

Fix this by always resetting the ifmgd flags to zero
when the channel context is released so that the flag
resetting in ieee80211_mgd_assoc() isn't necessary.

To make the code a bit easier move the call to release
the channel in ieee80211_set_disassoc() to the end of
the function together with the flag resetting (which
needs to be at the end to avoid timers setting flags.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:37:38 +01:00
Marco Porsch
453e66f247 mac80211: remove mesh config macros from mesh_plink.c
Use shortcut pointer instead where it is appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 11:36:42 +01:00
Marco Porsch
40aefedc8b mac80211: refactor ieee80211_set_qos_hdr
Return early if not a QoS Data frame.
Give proper documentation.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 11:36:02 +01:00
Marco Porsch
65821635d2 mac80211: move Mesh Capability field definition to ieee80211.h
Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
[prefix with IEEE80211_]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 11:35:21 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
7bed20503f mac80211: in ADHOC print debug message for every Auth message
The debug message has to be printed also for an Auth message with
auth_sequence != 1. This helps understanding whether the two Auth
messages are exchanged correctly or not.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 11:32:42 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
e584da5e3c mac80211: in ADHOC don't update last_rx if sta is not authorized
It does not make sense to keep a station alive if it is not authorised
at all. If IBSS/RSN is used it could also be the case that something
went wrong during the keys exchange and the stations ended up in a not
recoverable state.

By not updating last_rx we are giving the station a chance to be
deleted and to start the key exchange once again from scratch.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 11:31:39 +01:00
Johannes Berg
0172bb7507 cfg80211: use DS or HT operation IEs to determine BSS channel
Currently, mac80211 checks the DS params IE if present and
uses it for the (primary) BSS channel, instead of the one
that the frame was received on. This is particularly useful
in the 2.4 GHz band since a frame is often received on one
of the adjacent channels due to overlap.

Move this code to cfg80211 so other drivers also do this.

Additionally, on 5 GHz, in particular with some (possibly)
upcoming changes in 802.11ai and duplicate transmissions
when wider channels are used, something similar happens.
So if present, also use the (primary) channel information
contained in the HT operation IE.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-23 14:23:30 +01:00
Johannes Berg
03ae834faa mac80211: disable HT advertising unless AP supports it
If the AP doesn't support HT, or more importantly if
it does but we have to disable it because its IEs are
broken, don't advertise HT support in our association
request. Otherwise, we configure our channel to be a
20 MHz non-HT channel but the AP might still think we
support HT, or even 40 MHz.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-23 08:43:27 +01:00