linux/net
Sathishkumar Muruganandam 1ecef20cf1 mac80211: add missing WFA Multi-AP backhaul STA Rx requirement
The current mac80211 WDS (4-address mode) can be used to cover most of the
Multi-AP requirements for Data frames per the WFA Multi-AP Specification v1.0.
When configuring AP/STA interfaces in 4-address mode, they are able to function
as fronthaul AP/backhaul STA of Multi-AP device complying below
Tx, Rx requirements except one missing STA Rx requirement added by this patch.

Multi-AP specification section 14.1 describes the following requirements:

Transmitter requirements
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1. Fronthaul AP
        i) When DA!=RA of backhaul STA, must use 4-address format
        ii) When DA==RA of backhaul STA, shall use either 3-address
            or 4-address format with RA updated with STA MAC

            (mac80211 support 4-address format via AP/VLAN interface)

2. Backhaul STA
        i) When SA!=TA of backhaul STA, must use 4-address format
        ii) When SA==TA of backhaul STA, shall use either 3-address
            or 4-address format with RA updated with AP MAC

            (mac80211 support 4-address format via use_4addr)

Receiver requirements
---------------------
1. Fronthaul AP
        i) When SA!=TA of backhaul STA, must support receiving 4-address
           format frames
        ii) When SA==TA of backhaul STA, must support receiving both
            3-address and 4-address format frames

            (mac80211 support both 3-addr & 4-addr via AP/VLAN interface)

2. Backhaul STA
        i) When DA!=RA of backhaul STA, must support receiving 4-address
           format frames
        ii) When DA==RA of backhaul STA,  must support receiving both
            3-address and 4-address format frames

            (mac80211 support only receiving 4-address format via
             use_4addr)

This patch addresses the above Rx requirement (ii) for backhaul STA to receive
unicast (DA==RA) 3-address frames in addition to 4-address frames.

The current design doesn't accept 3-address frames when configured in 4-address
mode (use_4addr). Hence add a check to allow 3-address frames when DA==RA of
backhaul STA (adhering to Table 9-26 of IEEE Std 802.11™-2016).

This case was tested with a bridged station interface when associated with
a non-mac80211 based vendor AP implementation using 3-address frames for WDS.

STA was able to support the Multi-AP Rx requirement when DA==RA. No issues,
no loops seen when tested with mac80211 based AP as well.

Verified and confirmed all other Tx and Rx requirements of AP and STA for
Multi-AP respectively. They all work using the current mac80211-WDS design.

Signed-off-by: Sathishkumar Muruganandam <murugana@codeaurora.org>

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2018-08-29 09:25:17 +02:00
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6lowpan 6lowpan: iphc: reset mac_header after decompress to fix panic 2018-07-06 12:32:12 +02:00
9p Pull request for inclusion in 4.19, take two 2018-08-17 17:27:58 -07:00
802
8021q net: remove blank lines at end of file 2018-07-24 14:10:43 -07:00
appletalk Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
atm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
ax25 ax25: remove blank line at EOF 2018-07-24 14:10:42 -07:00
batman-adv Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux 2018-07-20 21:17:12 -07:00
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
bpf bpf/test_run: support cgroup local storage 2018-08-03 00:47:32 +02:00
bpfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
bridge net/bridge/br_multicast: remove redundant variable "err" 2018-08-06 10:33:44 -07:00
caif net: simplify sock_poll_wait 2018-07-30 09:10:25 -07:00
can Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
ceph crush: fix using plain integer as NULL warning 2018-08-13 17:55:44 +02:00
core Merge branch 'ida-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax 2018-08-26 11:48:42 -07:00
dcb net: dcb: Add priority-to-DSCP map getters 2018-07-27 13:17:50 -07:00
dccp Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-08-09 11:52:36 -07:00
decnet decnet: fix using plain integer as NULL warning 2018-08-09 14:11:24 -07:00
dns_resolver net: remove blank lines at end of file 2018-07-24 14:10:43 -07:00
dsa net_sched: remove list_head from tc_action 2018-08-21 12:45:44 -07:00
ethernet net: Convert GRO SKB handling to list_head. 2018-06-26 11:33:04 +09:00
hsr
ieee802154 net: ieee802154: 6lowpan: remove redundant pointers 'fq' and 'net' 2018-08-06 11:21:15 +02:00
ife net: sched: ife: check on metadata length 2018-04-22 21:12:00 -04:00
ipv4 tcp_bbr: apply PROBE_RTT cwnd cap even if acked==0 2018-08-22 21:45:32 -07:00
ipv6 net/ipv6: init ip6 anycast rt->dst.input as ip6_input 2018-08-22 21:48:37 -07:00
iucv net:af_iucv: get rid of the unneeded variable 'err' in afiucv_pm_freeze 2018-08-08 09:39:36 -07:00
kcm net: remove blank lines at end of file 2018-07-24 14:10:43 -07:00
key Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next 2018-07-27 09:33:37 -07:00
l2tp l2tp: fix unused function warning 2018-08-13 20:45:49 -07:00
l3mdev
lapb
llc Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-08-09 11:52:36 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: add missing WFA Multi-AP backhaul STA Rx requirement 2018-08-29 09:25:17 +02:00
mac802154 net: mac802154: tx: expand tailroom if necessary 2018-08-06 11:21:37 +02:00
mpls mpls: remove trailing whitepace 2018-07-24 14:10:42 -07:00
ncsi net/ncsi: Fixup .dumpit message flags and ID check in Netlink handler 2018-08-22 21:39:08 -07:00
netfilter treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
netlabel audit: eliminate audit_enabled magic number comparison 2018-06-19 10:43:55 -04:00
netlink Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-08-05 13:04:31 -07:00
netrom Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
nfc net: simplify sock_poll_wait 2018-07-30 09:10:25 -07:00
nsh nsh: set mac len based on inner packet 2018-07-12 16:55:29 -07:00
openvswitch Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-08-02 10:55:32 -07:00
packet packet: switch kvzalloc to allocate memory 2018-08-13 09:21:05 -07:00
phonet Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
psample
qrtr net: qrtr: Reset the node and port ID of broadcast messages 2018-07-05 20:20:03 +09:00
rds rds: tcp: remove duplicated include from tcp.c 2018-08-21 09:50:53 -07:00
rfkill rfkill: fix spelling mistake contidion to condition 2018-08-28 11:15:27 +02:00
rose Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
rxrpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
sched net: sched: Fix memory exposure from short TCA_U32_SEL 2018-08-26 14:21:50 -07:00
sctp net/sctp: Replace in/out stream arrays with flex_array 2018-08-11 12:25:15 -07:00
smc RDMA/smc: Replace ib_query_gid with rdma_get_gid_attr 2018-08-17 16:45:51 -06:00
strparser strparser: remove redundant variable 'rd_desc' 2018-08-01 10:00:06 -07:00
sunrpc NFS client updates for Linux 4.19 2018-08-23 16:03:58 -07:00
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tipc Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-08-09 11:52:36 -07:00
tls tls: possible hang when do_tcp_sendpages hits sndbuf is full case 2018-08-22 21:57:14 +02:00
unix af_unix: ensure POLLOUT on remote close() for connected dgram socket 2018-08-03 16:44:19 -07:00
vmw_vsock vsock: split dwork to avoid reinitializations 2018-08-07 12:39:13 -07:00
wimax wimax: remove blank lines at EOF 2018-07-24 14:10:42 -07:00
wireless cfg80211: Add support for 60GHz band channels 5 and 6 2018-08-28 11:23:08 +02:00
x25 x25: remove blank lines at EOF 2018-07-24 14:10:42 -07:00
xdp xsk: fix return value of xdp_umem_assign_dev() 2018-08-21 22:06:53 +02:00
xfrm Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-08-02 10:55:32 -07:00
compat.c net: avoid unnecessary sock_flag() check when enable timestamp 2018-08-06 10:42:48 -07:00
Kconfig net: remove blank lines at end of file 2018-07-24 14:10:43 -07:00
Makefile bpfilter: check compiler capability in Kconfig 2018-06-28 13:36:39 +09:00
socket.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: Drop pernet_operations::async 2018-03-27 13:18:09 -04:00