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* mac80211: fix sw scan lockingJohannes Berg2010-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | The recent scan overhaul broke locking because now we can jump to code that attempts to unlock, while we don't have the mutex held. Fix this by holding the mutex around all the relevant code. 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>
* mac80211: avoid uninitialized var warning in ieee80211_scan_cancelJohn W. Linville2010-10-06
| | | | | | | net/mac80211/scan.c: In function ‘ieee80211_scan_cancel’: net/mac80211/scan.c:794: warning: ‘finish’ may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: compete scan to cfg80211 if deferred scan fail to startStanislaw Gruszka2010-10-06
| | | | | | | | | We nulify local->scan_req on failure in __ieee80211_start_scan, so __ieee80211_scan_completed will not call cfg80211_scan_done. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: do not requeue scan work when not neededStanislaw Gruszka2010-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | When performing hw scan and not abort it, __ieee80211_scan_completed() is currently called from scan work, so does not need to reschedule work to call drv_hw_scan(). Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: assure we also cancel deferred scan requestStanislaw Gruszka2010-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is partial revert and fix for commit 85f72bc839705294b32b6c16b491c0422f0a71b3 "mac80211: only cancel software-based scans on suspend" When cfg80211 request the scan and mac80211 perform some management work, we defer the scan request. We do not canceling such requests when calling ieee80211_scan_cancel(), because of SCAN_SW_SCANNING bit check just before the call. So fix that problem. Another problem, which commit 85f72bc839705294b32b6c16b491c0422f0a71b3 tries to solve, is we can not cancel HW scan. Hence patch make ieee80211_scan_cancel() ignore HW scan (see code comments). Keeping local->mtx lock assures that the deferred scan will not become "working" HW scan. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: keep lock when calling __ieee80211_scan_completed()Stanislaw Gruszka2010-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We are taking local->mtx inside __ieee80211_scan_completed(), but just before call to that function we drop the lock. Dropping/taking lock is not good, because can lead to hard to understand race conditions. Patch split scan_completed() code into two functions, first must be called with local->mtx taken and second without it. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: reduce number of __ieee80211_scan_completed callsStanislaw Gruszka2010-10-06
| | | | | | | | | Use goto instruction to call __ieee80211_scan_completed only ones in ieee80211_scan_work. This is prepare for the next patch. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Add DS Parameter Set into Probe Request on 2.4 GHzJouni Malinen2010-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | IEEE Std 802.11k-2008 added DS Parameter Set information element into Probe Request frames as an optional information on 2.4 GHz band (and mandatory, if radio measurements are enabled). This allows APs to filter out Probe Request frames that may be received from neighboring overlapping channels and by doing so, reduce the number of unnecessary frames in the air. Make mac80211 add this IE into Probe Request frames whenever the channel is known (i.e., whenever hwscan is not used). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Filter ProbeReq SuppRates based on TX rate maskJouni Malinen2010-09-24
| | | | | | | | | If the TX rate set has been masked, the removed rates can also be removed from the Supported Rates and Extended Supported Rates IEs in Probe Request frames. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: allow scan to complete from any contextJohannes Berg2010-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ieee80211_scan_completed() function was a frequent source of potential deadlocks, since it is called by drivers but may call back into drivers, so drivers had to make sure to call it without any locks held, which frequently lead to more complex code in drivers. Avoid that problem by allowing the function to be called in any context, and queueing the actual work it does. Also update the documentation for it to indicate this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: per interface idle notificationJohannes Berg2010-08-16
| | | | | | | | | Sometimes we don't just need to know whether or not the device is idle, but also per interface. This adds that reporting capability to mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: unify scan and work mutexesJohannes Berg2010-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Having both scan and work mutexes is not just a bit too fine grained, it also creates issues when there's code that needs both since they then need to be acquired in the right order, which can be hard to do. Therefore, use just a single mutex for both. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix scan locking wrt. hw scanJohannes Berg2010-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | Releasing the scan mutex while starting scans can lead to unexpected things happening, so we shouldn't do that. Fix that and hold the mutex across the scan triggering. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: allow drivers to request DTIM periodJohannes Berg2010-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | Some features require knowing the DTIM period before associating. This implements the ability to wait for a beacon in mac80211 before assoc to provide this value. It is optional since most likely not all drivers will need this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Revert "mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing"Luis R. Rodriguez2010-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts this commit. While in theory the change is correct the patch does not address current assumptions made by some drivers, one which is definitley affected is ath9k. Prior to this change the scan complete callback would be called after we returned to the home channel and configured the hardware RX filters. After this change we call the scan complete callback prior to both the hw config and the config filter. At least for ath9k this breaks quite a few assumptions on the callback, leading to disconnects to the AP after every scan making the driver pretty useless on STA mode. The goal behind this commit was to address the now understood spurious warnings from ath9k and mac80211_hwsim on scanning on two wiphys at the same time but we have now supressed these and will address this issue in the next kernel release. When fixing this for good next we must first review the other driver's dependence on this logic and perhaps consider removal of the scan complete callback all together. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix compile warning in scan.c.Gertjan van Wingerde2010-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the following compile warning: CC [M] net/mac80211/scan.o net/mac80211/scan.c: In function 'ieee80211_request_internal_scan': net/mac80211/scan.c:749:23: warning: comparison between 'enum nl80211_band' and 'enum ieee80211_band' caused by the local variable band not being of the proper 'ieee80211_band' type. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix sw scan bracketingJohannes Berg2010-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, detection in hwsim and ath9k can detect that two sw scans are in flight at the same time, which isn't really true. It is caused by a race condition, because the scan complete callback is called too late, after the lock has been dropped, so that a new scan can be started before it is called. It is also called too early semantically, as it is currently called _after_ the return to the operating channel -- it should be before so that drivers know this is the operating channel again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-05-21
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1674 commits) qlcnic: adding co maintainer ixgbe: add support for active DA cables ixgbe: dcb, do not tag tc_prio_control frames ixgbe: fix ixgbe_tx_is_paused logic ixgbe: always enable vlan strip/insert when DCB is enabled ixgbe: remove some redundant code in setting FCoE FIP filter ixgbe: fix wrong offset to fc_frame_header in ixgbe_fcoe_ddp ixgbe: fix header len when unsplit packet overflows to data buffer ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address ipv6: Use POSTDAD state ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state cxgb4: notify upper drivers if the device is already up when they load cxgb4: keep interrupts available when the ports are brought down cxgb4: fix initial addition of MAC address cnic: Return SPQ credit to bnx2x after ring setup and shutdown. cnic: Convert cnic_local_flags to atomic ops. can: Fix SJA1000 command register writes on SMP systems bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled ARCNET: Limit com20020 PCI ID matches for SOHARD cards ... Fix up various conflicts with pcmcia tree drivers/net/ {pcmcia/3c589_cs.c, wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.c and wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.c} and feature removal (Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt). Also fix a non-content conflict due to pm_qos_requirement getting renamed in the PM tree (now pm_qos_request) in net/mac80211/scan.c
| * Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-05-05
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
| | * mac80211: improve IBSS scanningJohannes Berg2010-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When IBSS is fixed to a frequency, it can still scan to try to find the right BSSID. This makes sense if the BSSID isn't also fixed, but it need not scan all channels -- just one is sufficient. Make it do that by moving the scan setup code to ieee80211_request_internal_scan() and include a channel variable setting. Note that this can be further improved to start the IBSS right away if both frequency and BSSID are fixed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| | * mac80211: do not wip out old supported ratesStanislaw Gruszka2010-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use old supported rates, if AP do not provide supported rates information element in a new managment frame. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| | * mac80211: give virtual interface to hw_scanJohannes Berg2010-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When scanning, it is somewhat important to scan on the correct virtual interface. All drivers that currently implement hw_scan only support a single virtual interface, but that may change and then we'd want to be ready. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| * | Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-04-15
| |\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
| | * mac80211: enhance tracingJohannes Berg2010-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enhance tracing by adding tracing for a variety of callbacks that the drivers call, and also for internal calls (currently limited to queue status). This can aid debugging what is going on in mac80211 in interaction with drivers, since we can now see what drivers call and not just what mac80211 calls in the driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| * | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2010-04-11
| |\ \ | |/ / |/| / | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
| * mac80211: Improve software scan timingHelmut Schaa2010-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current software scan implemenation in mac80211 returns to the operating channel after each scanned channel. However, in some situations (e.g. no traffic) it would be nicer to scan a few channels in a row to speed up the scan itself. Hence, after scanning a channel, check if we have queued up any tx frames and return to the operating channel in that case. Unfortunately we don't know if the AP has buffered any frames for us. Hence, scan only as many channels in a row as the pm_qos latency and the negotiated listen interval allows us to. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-30
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-02-08
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 Conflicts: net/mac80211/scan.c
| * mac80211: fix deferred hardware scan requestsJohannes Berg2010-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reinette found the reason for the warnings that happened occasionally when a hw-offloaded scan finished; her description of the problem: mac80211 will defer the handling of scan requests if it is busy with management work at the time. The scan requests are deferred and run after the work has completed. When this occurs there are currently two problems. * The scan request for hardware scan is not fully populated with the band and channels to scan not initialized. * When the scan is queued the state is not correctly updated to reflect that a scan is in progress. The problem here is that when the driver completes the scan and calls ieee80211_scan_completed() a warning will be triggered since mac80211 was not aware that a scan was in progress. The reason is that the queued scan work will start the hw scan right away when the hw_scan_req struct has already been allocated. However, in the first pass it will not have been filled, which happens at the same time as setting the bits. To fix this, simply move the allocation after the pending work test as well, so that the first iteration of the scan work will call __ieee80211_start_scan() even in the hardware scan case. Bug-identified-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| * Revert "mac80211: replace netif_tx_{start,stop,wake}_all_queues"John W. Linville2010-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 53623f1a09c7a7d23b74f0f7d93dba0ebde1006b. This was inadvertantly missed in "mac80211: fix skb buffering issue", and is required with that patch to restore proper queue operation. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersaveJohannes Berg2010-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because DTIM information is required for powersave but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon before enabling powersave, and change the way the information is conveyed to the driver accordingly. mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but requires the DTIM period in a different way; after talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do the parsing itself in the finalize_join work. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: add U-APSD client supportKalle Valo2010-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it possible to save even more power. Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported. Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running various test traffic with ping. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: fix a few work bugsJohannes Berg2010-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kalle and Lennert reported problems with the new work code, and at least Kalle's problem I was able to trace to a missing jiffies initialisation. I also ran into a problem where occasionally I couldn't connect, which seems fixed with kicking the work items after scanning. Finally, also add some sanity checking code to verify that we're not adding work items while an interface is down -- that case could lead to something similar to what Lennert was seeing. There still seems to be a race condition that we're trying to figure out separately. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: No need to include WEXT headers hereJouni Malinen2010-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the forgotten linux/wireless.h inclusion from mac80211. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Generalize off-channel operation helpers from scan codeJouni Malinen2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The off-channel operations for going into power save mode (station mode) or stop beaconing (AP/IBSS) are not limited to scanning. Move these into a separate file and allow them to be used for other purposes, too. 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>
* | mac80211: proper bss private data handlingJohannes Berg2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cfg80211 offers private data for each BSS struct, which mac80211 uses. However, mac80211 uses internal and external (cfg80211) BSS pointers interchangeably and has a hack to put the cfg80211 bss struct into the private struct. Remove this hack, properly converting between the pointers wherever necessary. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: generalise work handlingJohannes Berg2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to use auth/assoc for different purposes other than MLME, it needs to be split up. For other purposes, a generic work handling (potentially on another channel) will be useful. To achieve that, this patch moves much of the MLME work handling out of mlme into a new work API. The API can currently handle probing a specific AP, authentication and association. The MLME previously handled probe/authentication as one step and will continue to do so, but they are separate in the new work handling. Work items are RCU-managed to be able to check for existence of an item for a specific frame in the RX path, but they can be re-used which the MLME right now will do for its combined probe/auth step. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: introduce flush operationJohannes Berg2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We've long lacked a good confirmation that frames have really gone out, e.g. before going off-channel for a scan. Add a flush() operation that drivers can implement to provide that confirmation, and use it in a few places: * before scanning sends the nullfunc frames * after scanning sends the nullfunc frames, if any * when going idle, to send any pending frames Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: add ieee80211_sdata_runningJohannes Berg2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of always using netif_running(sdata->dev) use ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata) now which is just an inline containing netif_running() for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville2009-12-28
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| * mac80211: Fix dynamic power save for scanning.Vivek Natarajan2009-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not only ps_sdata but also IEEE80211_CONF_PS is to be considered before restoring PS in scan_ps_disable(). For instance, when ps_sdata is set but CONF_PS is not set just because the dynamic timer is still running, a sw scan leads to setting of CONF_PS in scan_ps_disable instead of restarting the dynamic PS timer. Also for the above case, a null data frame is to be sent after returning to operating channel which was not happening with the current implementation. This patch fixes this too. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg2009-12-21
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: validate scan channelsJohannes Berg2009-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently it is possible to request a scan on only disabled channels, which could be problematic for some drivers. Reject such scans, and also ignore disabled channels that are given. This resuls in the scan begin/end event only including channels that are actually used. This makes the mac80211 check for disabled channels superfluous. At the same time, remove the no-IBSS check from mac80211 -- nothing says that we should not find any networks on channels that cannot be used for an IBSS, even when operating in IBSS mode. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix scan abort sanity checksJohannes Berg2009-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since sometimes mac80211 queues up a scan request to only act on it later, it must be allowed to (internally) cancel a not-yet-running scan, e.g. when the interface is taken down. This condition was missing since we always checked only the local->scanning variable which isn't yet set in that situation. Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: split hardware scan by bandJohannes Berg2009-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's currently a very odd bug in mac80211 -- a hardware scan that is done while the hardware is really operating on 2.4 GHz will include CCK rates in the probe request frame, even on 5 GHz (if the driver uses the mac80211 IEs). Vice versa, if the hardware is operating on 5 GHz the 2.4 GHz probe requests will not include CCK rates even though they should. Fix this by splitting up cfg80211 scan requests by band -- recalculating the IEs every time -- and requesting only per-band scans from the driver. Apparently this bug hasn't been a problem yet, but it is imaginable that some older access points get confused if confronted with such behaviour. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove outdated commentJohannes Berg2009-10-30
| | | | | | | | This comment hasn't been a real TODO item for a long time now since we fixed that quite a while ago. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: replace netif_tx_{start,stop,wake}_all_queuesJohn W. Linville2009-10-27
| | | | | | | | Replace netif_tx_{start,stop,wake}_all_queues with the single-queue equivalents (i.e. netif_{start,stop,wake}_queue). Since we are down to a single queue, these should peform slightly better. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix DTIM settingJohannes Berg2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the DTIM setting is read from beacons, mac80211 will assume it is 1 if the TIM IE is not present or the value is 0. This sounds fine, but the same function processes probe responses as well, which don't have a TIM IE. This leads to overwriting any values previously parsed out of beacon frames. Thus, instead of checking for the presence of the TIM IE when setting the default, simply check whether the DTIM period value is valid already. If the TIM IE is not there then the value cannot be valid (it is initialised to 0) and probe responses received after beacons will not lead to overwriting an already valid value. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix scan cancel on ifdownJohannes Berg2009-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When an interface is taken down while a scan is pending -- i.e. a scan request was accepted but not yet acted upon due to other work being in progress -- we currently do not properly cancel that scan and end up getting stuck. Fix this by doing better checks when an interface is taken down. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleepJohannes Berg2009-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that need the multicast address list implement. This new callback must be atomic, but most drivers either don't care or just calculate a hash which can be done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware non-atomically. A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170, mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00, wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this new capability. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>