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Thomas Pedersen
95e48addba mac80211: stringify mesh peering events
Convert mesh peering events into strings and make the
debug output a little easier to read. Also stop printing
the llid and plid since these don't change across peering
states and are random numbers anyway so they just amount
to noise.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-18 15:31:23 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
52ac8c4887 mac80211: clean up mesh HT operation
ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() will clean up the
ht_supported flag and station bandwidth field for us
if the peer beacon doesn't have an HT capability element
(is operating as non-HT).

Also, we don't really need a special station ch_width
member to track the station operating mode any more so use
sta.bandwidth instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-18 15:31:23 +01:00
Johannes Berg
bf7cd94dcc mac80211: clean up mesh code
There's various code with strange indentation,
questionable loop and locking constructs, etc.

The bigger change is moving the "sdata" argument
to the first argument of all functions, like all
other mac80211 functions that have one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 15:46:37 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
2b5e196775 mac80211: cache mesh beacon
Previously, the entire mesh beacon would be generated each
time the beacon timer fired. Instead generate a beacon
head and tail (so the TIM can easily be inserted when mesh
power save is on) when starting a mesh or the MBSS
parameters change.

Also add a mutex for protecting beacon updates and
preventing leaks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:40 +01:00
Johannes Berg
e1a0c6b3a4 mac80211: stop toggling IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40
For VHT, many more bandwidth changes are possible. As a first
step, stop toggling the IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40 flag
in the HT capabilities and instead introduce a bandwidth field
indicating the currently usable bandwidth to transmit to the
station. Of course, make all drivers use it.

To achieve this, make ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() get
the station as an argument, rather than the new capabilities,
so it can set up the new bandwidth field.

If the station is a VHT station and VHT bandwidth is in use,
also set the bandwidth accordingly.

Doing this allows us to get rid of the supports_40mhz flag as
the HT capabilities now reflect the true capability instead of
the current setting.

While at it, also fix ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() to not
ignore HT cap overrides when MCS TX isn't supported (not that it
really happens...)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:30 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
39886b618a mac80211: consolidate MBSS change notification
A few mesh utility functions will call
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(), and then the caller
might notify the driver of the same change again. Avoid
this redundancy by propagating the BSS changes and
generally calling bss_info_change_notify() once per
change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:09 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
45b5028e86 mac80211: fix mesh sta teardown
The patch "mac80211: clean up mesh sta allocation warning"
moved some mesh initialization into a path which is only
called when the kernel handles peering. This causes a hang
when mac80211 tries to clean up a userspace-allocated
station entry and delete a timer which has never been
initialized.

To avoid this, only do any mesh sta peering teardown if
the kernel is actually handling it.

The same is true when quiescing before suspend.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:54 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
aa5a1b8e68 mac80211: stop plink timer only on mesh interfaces
Since mesh_plink_quiesce() would unconditionally delete
the plink timer, and the timer initialization was recently
moved into the mesh code path, suspending with a non-mesh
interface now causes a crash. Fix this by only deleting
the plink timer for mesh interfaces.

Reported-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Tested-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-05 11:00:09 +01:00
Marco Porsch
3f52b7e328 mac80211: mesh power save basics
Add routines to
- maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode
- indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames
- track neighbor STAs power modes
- buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode
- add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons
- release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods

Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power
mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer
link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh
config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor
changes.
Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the
non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated
mesh peering is currently not working when either node is
configured to be in power save mode.

Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS
Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions.
For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame
flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA
pointer is already available.

Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific
power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to
represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations.
Track power modes based on received frames.

Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS
neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer).

Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame
buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer
and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons.

Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or
deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE
similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received
Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames.

Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use
the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status.
Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end
the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and
show large delay spikes and frame losses.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy <ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:47 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
3b144658bc mac80211: dynamic short slot time for MBSSs
The standard mandates mesh STAs to set the ERP Short Slot
Time capability info bit in beacons to 0. Even though this
is their way of disallowing short slot time for mesh STAs,
there should be no harm in enabling it if we determine all
STAs in the current MBSS support ERP rates.

Increases throughput about 20% for legacy rates when
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-29 20:45:31 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
3b4797bce0 mac80211: fix mesh_sta_info_get() reshuffle damage
Before "mac80211: clean up mesh sta allocation warning"
was applied, mesh_sta_info_get() was reshuffled to please
sparse. As a result we neglect to initialize newly created
STAs. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-28 13:15:34 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
f68d776a04 mac80211: support mesh rate updates
An existing mesh station entry may change its rate
capabilities, so call rate_control_rate_update() to notify
the rate control.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
[fix compilation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-24 16:03:52 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen
296fcba3ba mac80211: clean up mesh sta allocation warning
This refactoring fixes a "scheduling while atomic" warning
when allocating a mesh station entry while holding the RCU
read lock. Fix this by creating a new function
mesh_sta_info_get(), which correctly handles the locking
and returns under RCU.

Also move some unnecessarily #ifdefed mesh station init
code from sta_info_alloc() to __mesh_sta_info_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
[change code flow to make sparse happy]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-24 16:03:34 +01:00
Marco Porsch
1617bab8db mac80211: update mesh peer link counter during userspace peering
The established peer link count is indicated in mesh beacons and
used for other internal tasks. Previously it was not updated when
authenticated peering is performed in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-16 22:40:56 +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
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
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
Ashok Nagarajan
1258d97616 mac80211: move out the non-statistics variable estab_plinks from mesh_stat
estab_plinks is not a statistics member. Hence move estab_plinks from
struct mesh_stat to struct ieee80211_if_mesh

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:13 +02:00
Johannes Berg
55de908ab2 mac80211: use channel contexts
Instead of operating on a single channel only,
use the new channel context infrastructure in
all mac80211 code.

This enables drivers that want to use the new
channel context infrastructure to use multiple
channels, while nothing should change for all
the other drivers that don't support it.

Right now this disables both TX power settings
and spatial multiplexing powersave. Both need
to be re-enabled on a channel context basis.

Additionally, when channel contexts are used
drop the connection when channel switch is
received rather than trying to handle it. This
will have to be improved later.

[With fixes from Eliad and Emmanuel incorporated]
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:09 +02:00
Chun-Yeow Yeoh
9385d04f28 mac80211: allow re-open the blocked peer link in mesh
Peer link which is blocked using the "iw mesh0 station
set <MAC addr> plink_action block" is previously not able
to re-open using "iw mesh0 station set <MAC addr>
plink_action open". This patch is intended to solve this.

If the station plink state remains at OPN_SNT once open,
try block and open again should solve this problem.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-14 14:25:16 +02:00
John W. Linville
01e17dacd4 Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
2012-08-21 16:00:21 -04:00
Johannes Berg
466f310d10 mac80211: mesh: don't use global channel type
Using local->_oper_channel_type in the mesh code is
completely wrong as this value is the combination
of the various interface channel types and can be
a different value from the mesh interface in case
there are multiple virtual interfaces.

Use sdata->vif.bss_conf.channel_type instead as it
tracks the per-vif channel type.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-20 14:13:38 +02:00
Marco Porsch
df32381896 mac80211: fix unnecessary beacon update after peering status change
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify is called everytime a peer link is established
or closed, because the accepting_plinks flag in the meshconf IE *might* have changed.

With this patch the corresponding functions return the BSS_CHANGED_BEACON flag when a beacon update is necessary.

Also it makes mesh_accept_plinks_update the common place to update the accepting_plinks flag.
mesh_accept_plinks_update is called upon plink change and also periodically from ieee80211_mesh_housekeeping.
Thus, it also picks up changes of local->num_sta.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-13 15:28:34 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen
f609a43dca mac80211: skb leak in mesh_plink_frame_tx()
Although adding an IE is almost guaranteed to succeed since we already
accounted for its length while allocating the skb, we should still free
the skb in case of failure.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-03 21:34:29 +02:00
Thomas Pedersen
e7570dfb63 mac80211: don't request ack for peering close
It doesn't make a lot of sense to wait for an ack in response to a
peering close frame since either peer in this exchange could be going
down.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-03 21:34:25 +02:00
Johannes Berg
6b77863b71 mac80211: fix current vs. operating channel in preq/beacon
When sending probe requests, e.g. during software scanning,
these will go out on the *current* channel, so their IEs
need to be built from the current channel. At other times,
e.g. for beacons or probe request templates, the IEs will
be used on the *operating* channel and using the current
channel instead might result in errors.

Add the appropriate parameters to respect the difference.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-31 16:18:56 +02:00
Chun-Yeow Yeoh
bae35d92b6 mac80211: don't re-init rate control when receiving mesh beacon
Rate control is re-initialized whenever a beacon from a mesh
peer received, breaking the algorithms and resulting in low
performance. Return early from mesh_peer_init if we already
established a link with this peer to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
[clarify commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-31 16:10:55 +02:00
John W. Linville
38a0084063 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2012-07-12 13:44:50 -04:00
Ben Hutchings
2c53040f01 net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section
breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
Johannes Berg
fc8a7321d3 mac80211: don't expose ieee80211_add_srates_ie()
This and ieee80211_add_ext_srates_ie() aren't
exported, so can't be used by drivers anyway,
but there's also no reason that they should be
so make them private to mac80211 and use sdata
instead of vif arguments.

Acked-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-28 10:35:50 +02:00
Johannes Berg
bdcbd8e0e3 mac80211: clean up debugging
There are a few things that make the logging and
debugging in mac80211 less useful than it should
be right now:
 * a lot of messages should be pr_info, not pr_debug
 * wholesale use of pr_debug makes it require *both*
   Kconfig and dynamic configuration
 * there are still a lot of ifdefs
 * the style is very inconsistent, sometimes the
   sdata->name is printed in front

Clean up everything, introducing new macros and
separating out the station MLME debugging into
a new Kconfig symbol.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-24 11:32:29 +02:00
Joe Perches
f0d232080f net: mac80211: Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug
Standardize the debugging to be able to use dynamic_debug.

Coalesce formats, align arguments.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-05 15:27:16 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan
cbf9322eb1 mac80211: Modify mesh_set_ht_prot_mode() to have less identation
Determining types of peers is modified to have less indentation. This change is
suggested by Johannes. This patch also corrects the reference in comment to
IEEE 802.11-2012 version.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-16 13:24:25 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen
f5c5681424 mac80211: send peer candidate event for new sta only
Only send a cfg80211 new peer candidate notification if userspace has
yet to allocate this station entry.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-15 17:27:54 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan
70c33eaae7 {nl,cfg,mac}80211: Allow user to see/configure HT protection mode
This patch introduces a new mesh configuration parameter "ht_opmode" and will
allow user to check the current HT protection mode selected. Users could
configure the protection mode by the command "iw mesh_iface set mesh_param
mesh_ht_protection_mode=2". The default protection mode of mesh is set to
non-HT mixed mode.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-08 21:53:59 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan
57aac7c51c mac80211: Implement HT mixed protection mode
Section 9.23.3.5 of IEEE 80211s standard describes the protection rules for
HT mesh STA in a MBSS. Three HT protection modes are supported for now:

non-HT mixed mode - is selected if any non-HT peers are present in our MBSS.
20MHz-protection mode - is selected if all peers in our 20/40MHz MBSS support
			HT and atleast one HT20 peer is present.
no-protection mode - is selected otherwise.

This is a limited implementation of 9.23.3.5, which only considers mesh peers
when determining the HT protection mode. Station's channel_type needs to be
maintained.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-08 21:53:57 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen
c7d258288f mac80211: don't transmit 40MHz frames to 20MHz peer
If a mesh peer indicates it is operating as 20MHz-only in its HT
operation IE, have the rate control algorithm respect this by disabling
the equivalent bit in the ieee80211_sta HT capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-08 21:53:42 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen
e87278e730 mac80211: insert mesh peer after init
Drivers need the station rate info when inserting a new sta_info. The
patch "mac80211: refactor mesh peer initialization" wrongly assumed the
rate info could be applied after insertion. After further review, this
is clearly not the case.

This fixes a regression where HT parameters were not applied before
inserting the sta_info, causing performance degradation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-08 21:53:42 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen
e76781e48f mac80211: don't set mesh peer ht caps if ht disabled
Blindly setting ht caps on a mesh peer's station entry would result in
MCS rates being used by the rate control algorithm even if no ht had
been configured. Fix this by checking the channel type before assigning
ht capabilites.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-23 15:34:07 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen
f743ff4907 mac80211: refactor mesh peer rate handling
To avoid passing supp_rates and basic_rates around all the time, just
derive these when needed in mesh_matches_local() and mesh_peer_init().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-23 15:34:07 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen
54ab1ffb6c mac80211: refactor mesh peer initialization
This patch unifies the previous two paths toward mesh peer creation a
bit. It also fixes a bug where a peer's changing rates or HT mode
wouldn't register on leaving and then returning to the mesh with a sta
entry still present.

Also clean up locking and clear possibly stale ht cap.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-23 15:34:07 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan
fe40cb6274 mac80211: Check basic rates when peering
Section 13.2.3 of IEEE 80211s standard requires BSSBasicRateSet of mesh nodes
to be identical to establish peer link.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11 16:23:47 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan
9ebb61a23d mac80211: Modify sta_get_rates to give basic rates
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11 16:23:47 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan
657c3e0c41 mac80211: Indicate basic rates when adding rate IEs
Basic rates are added with supported rates IE and extended supported
rates IE.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11 16:23:46 -04:00
Johannes Berg
074d46d1d2 wireless: rename ht_info to ht_operation
Since some of the HT code pre-dates 802.11n-2009
some names are wrong. The one that bothers me most
is that "HT operation" is called "HT information"
in our code and that causes confusion.

Rename "HT information" to "HT operation" and also
the control_chan field to primary_chan to match
the name used in the spec.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-09 16:05:55 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan
3d4f969972 mac80211: Fix potential null pointer dereferencing
The patch "{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Implement RSSI threshold for mesh peering"
has a potential null pointer dereferencing problem. Thanks to Dan Carpenter
for pointing out. This patch will fix the issue.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-07 13:51:47 -05:00
Ashok Nagarajan
5533513784 {nl,cfg,mac}80211: Implement RSSI threshold for mesh peering
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>
2012-03-05 15:23:15 -05:00
John W. Linville
874239f51f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless 2012-02-01 10:48:50 -05:00
Johannes Berg
83d5cc0124 mac80211: station state transition error handling
In the future, when we start notifying drivers,
state transitions could potentially fail. To make
it easier to distinguish between programming bugs
and driver failures:
 * rename sta_info_move_state() to
   sta_info_pre_move_state() which can only be
   called before the station is inserted (and
   check this with a new station flag).
 * rename sta_info_move_state_checked() to just
   plain sta_info_move_state(), as it will be
   the regular function that can fail for more
   than just one reason (bad transition or an
   error from the driver)

This makes the programming model easier -- one of
the functions can only be called before insertion
and can't fail, the other can fail.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-30 15:41:25 -05:00
Javier Cardona
65e8b0ccb6 mac80211: Use the right headroom size for mesh mgmt frames
Use local->tx_headroom instad of local->hw.extra_tx_headroom.
local->tx_headroom is the max of hw.extra_tx_headroom required by the
driver and the headroom required by mac80211 for status reporting.  On
drivers where hw.extra_tx_headroom is smaller than what mac80211
requires (e.g. ath5k), we would not reserve sufficient buffer space to
report tx status.

Also, don't reserve local->tx_headroom + local->hw.extra_tx_headroom.

Reported-by: Simon Morgenthaler <s.morgenthaler@students.unibe.ch>
Reported-by: Kai Scharwies <kai@scharwies.de>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-18 14:38:06 -05:00