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* mac80211: make TX aggregation start/stop request asyncJohannes Berg2010-06-141-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the driver or rate control requests starting or stopping an aggregation session, that currently causes a direct callback into the driver, which could potentially cause locking problems. Also, the functions need to be callable from contexts that cannot sleep, and thus will interfere with making the ampdu_action callback sleeping. To address these issues, add a new work item for each station that will process any start or stop requests out of line. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use RCU for TX aggregationJohannes Berg2010-06-141-30/+58
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we allocate some memory for each TX aggregation session and additionally keep a state bitmap indicating the state it is in. By using RCU to protect the pointer, moving the state into the structure and some locking trickery we can avoid locking when the TX agg session is fully operational. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: set IEEE80211_TX_CTL_FIRST_FRAGMENT for beaconsJohn W. Linville2010-05-071-2/+3
| | | | | | | Also simplify the flags assignment into a single statement at the end of ieee80211_beacon_get_tim. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix rts threshold checkShanyu Zhao2010-04-271-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently whenever rts thresold is set, every packet will use RTS protection no matter its size exceeds the threshold or not. This is due to a bug in the rts threshold check. if (len > tx->local->hw.wiphy->rts_threshold) { txrc.rts = rts = true; } Basically it is comparing an int (len) and a u32 (rts_threshold), and the variable len is assigned as: len = min_t(int, tx->skb->len + FCS_LEN, tx->local->hw.wiphy->frag_threshold); However, when frag_threshold is "-1", len is always "-1", which is 0xffffffff therefore rts is always set to true. CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Prevent running sta_cleanup timer unnecessarilyJuuso Oikarinen2010-04-191-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The sta_cleanup timer is used to periodically expire buffered frames from the tx buf. The timer is executing periodically, regardless of the need for it. This is wasting resources. Fix this simply by not restarting the sta_cleanup timer if the tx buffer was empty. Restart the timer when there is some more tx-traffic. Cc: Janne Ylälehto <janne.ylalehto@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-04-081-0/+6
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into merge Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
| * mac80211: move netdev queue enabling to correct spotJohannes Berg2010-03-301-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "mac80211: fix skb buffering issue" still left a race between enabling the hardware queues and the virtual interface queues. In hindsight it's totally obvious that enabling the netdev queues for a hardware queue when the hardware queue is enabled is wrong, because it could well possible that we can fill the hw queue with packets we already have pending. Thus, we must only enable the netdev queues once all the pending packets have been processed and sent off to the device. In testing, I haven't been able to trigger this race condition, but it's clearly there, possibly only when aggregation is being enabled. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: remove irq disabling for sta lockJohannes Berg2010-04-071-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All other places except one in the TX path, which has BHs disabled, and it also cannot be locked from interrupts so disabling IRQs is not necessary. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Fix BIP to be used only with group-addressed framesJouni Malinen2010-03-311-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BIP (part of IEEE 802.11w) is only supposed to be used with group-addressed frames. We ended up picking it as a default mechanism for every management whenever we did not have a STA entry for the destination (e.g., for Probe Response to a STA that is not associated). While the extra MMIE in the end of management frames should not break frames completed in most cases, there is no point in doing this. Fix key selection to pick the default management key only if the frame is sent to multicast/broadcast address and the frame is a robust management frame. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: remove unneed variable from ieee80211_tx_pending()Dan Carpenter2010-03-241-2/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | We don't need "sdata" any more after: d84f323477260e773d5317ad7cbe50f76115cb47 mac80211: remove dev_hold/put calls Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleepJohannes Berg2010-02-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many drivers would like to sleep during station addition and removal, and currently have a high complexity there from not being able to. This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to fail. The reason we didn't do this previously is that the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep. This patch will keep the station allocation in that path, but moves adding the station to the driver out of line. Since the addition can now fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver rejected -- in that case we still talk to the station but never tell the driver about it in the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be a driver that has a low limit on the number of stations and that cannot talk to any stations that are not known to it, we need to do come up with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs, maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* wireless: update radiotap parserJohannes Berg2010-02-081-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* mac80211: fix sta lookup with AP VLAN interfaces and injected framesFelix Fietkau2010-02-011-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | When injecting frames, mac80211 currently looks for the first AP interface that matches the source address of the injected frame. This breaks when such a frame is directed at a STA that has been moved to a VLAN. This patch fixes it by using sta_info_get_bss instead of sta_info_get, which also finds stations belonging to a VLAN interface of the same BSS as the AP interface. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix monitor mode tx radiotap header handlingFelix Fietkau2010-02-011-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When an injected frame gets buffered for a powersave STA or filtered and retransmitted, mac80211 attempts to parse the radiotap header again, which doesn't work because it's gone at that point. This patch adds a new flag for checking the availability of a radiotap header, so that it only attempts to parse it once, reusing the tx info on the next call to ieee80211_tx(). This fixes severe issues with rekeying in AP mode. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix sw cryptoJohannes Berg2010-01-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | What a stupid mistake. In commit 813d76694043d00b59475baa1fbfaf54a2eb7fad Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Date: Sun Jan 17 01:47:58 2010 +0100 mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment I inserted code testing the wrong flags field, which means that the test is almost always true (it's really testing for the peer's WMM support) and thus the later parts of the stack assume hw crypto will be done even if that's not true. Obviously, that broke software crypto. Maxim said so specifically, and Jochen probably uses some cipher that iwl3945 doesn't support in hardware, which might also explain that Maxim reports that even hw crypto is broken. Fix this to test the right flags field. Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix tx select key null pointer crash with hostapdKalle Valo2010-01-231-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pavel Roskin reported a crash in ieee80211_tx_h_select_key(): http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=126419655108528&w=2 This is a regression from patch "mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment". Fix it as suggested by Johannes, adding an else statement to make sure that tx->key is not accessed when it's null. Compile-tested only. Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Tested-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add missing key checkJohannes Berg2010-01-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | ieee80211_tx_h_select_key might decide that a frame need not be encrypted at all, in which case it will clear tx->key. In that case it may crash if a key was previously selected, e.g. as the default key. This is also due to my patch "mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment". Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: re-enable re-transmission of filtered framesJohannes Berg2010-01-191-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In an earlier commit, mac80211: disable software retry for now Pavel Roskin reported a problem that seems to be due to software retry of already transmitted frames. It turns out that we've never done that correctly, but due to some recent changes it now crashes in the TX code. I've added a comment in the patch that explains the problem better and also points to possible solutions -- which I can't implement right now. I disabled software retry of failed/filtered frames because it was broken. With the work of the previous patches, it now becomes fairly easy to re-enable it by adding a flag indicating that the frame shouldn't be modified, but still running it through the transmit handlers to populate the control information. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: move control.hw_key assignmentJohannes Berg2010-01-191-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When mac80211 asks a driver to encrypt a frame, it must assign the control.hw_key pointer for it to know which key to use etc. Currently, mac80211 does this whenever it would software-encrypt a frame. Change the logic of this code to assign the hw_key pointer when selecting the key, and later check it when deciding whether to encrypt the frame or let it be encrypted by the hardware. This allows us to later simply skip the encryption function since it no longer modifies the TX control. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove useless setting of IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPTJohannes Berg2010-01-191-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no value in setting a flag that will never be checked after this point, this seems to be legacy code -- I think previously the flag was used to check whether to encrypt the frame or not. Now, however, the flag need not be set, and setting it actually interferes if the frame will be processed again later. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: move and rename misc tx handlerJohannes Berg2010-01-191-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | This TX handler is used only for assigning the station pointer in the control information, so give it a better name. Also move it before rate control. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: check uapsd state for dynamic power saveKalle Valo2010-01-121-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make U-APSD client mode effective, we must not wake up from dynamic power save when transmitting frames. So if dynamic power save is enabled, it needs check the queue the transmitted packet is in and decide if we need to wake up or not. In a perfect world, where all packets would have correct QoS tags, U-APSD enabled queues should not trigger wakeup from power save. But in the real world, where very few packets have correct QoS tags, this won't work. For example, if only voip class has U-APSD enabled and we send a packet in voip class, but the packets we receive are in best effort class, we would receive the packets with the legacy power save method. And that would increase latencies too much from a voip application point of view. The workaround is to enable U-APSD for all qeueus and still use dynamic ps wakeup for all other queues except voip. That way we can still save power with a voip application and not sacrifice latency. Normal traffic (in background, best effort or video class) would still trigger wakeup from dynamic power save. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: create tx handler for dynamic psKalle Valo2010-01-121-40/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently dynamic ps check is in ieee80211_xmit(), but it's cleaner to have a separate tx handler for this. Also this is a prerequisite for U-APSD client mode which needs to know the queue frame is in. Also need_dynamic_ps() function is embedded to the tx handler. No functional changes expect that the code is run in a later phase than originally. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: do not transmit frames on unconfigured 4-addr vlan interfacesFelix Fietkau2010-01-121-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | If frames are transmitted on 4-addr ap vlan interfaces with no station, they end up being transmitted unencrypted, even if the ap interface uses WPA. This patch add some sanity checking to make sure that this does not happen. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: create Probe Request templateKalle Valo2010-01-121-0/+50
| | | | | | | | | Certain type of hardware, for example wl1251 and wl1271, need a template for the Probe Request. Create a function ieee80211_probereq_get() which creates the template and drivers send it to hardware. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add functions to create PS Poll and Nullfunc templatesKalle Valo2010-01-121-0/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some hardware, for example wl1251 and wl1271, handle the transmission of power save related frames in hardware, but the driver is responsible for creating the templates. It's better to create the templates in mac80211, that way all drivers can benefit from this. Add two new functions, ieee80211_pspoll_get() and ieee80211_nullfunc_get() which drivers need to call to get the frame. Drivers are also responsible for updating the templates after each association. Also new struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr is added to ieee80211.h to make it easy to calculate length of the Nullfunc frame. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211/mac80211: Use more generic bitrate mask for rate controlJouni Malinen2010-01-121-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* mac80211: Select lowest rate based on basic rate set in AP modeJouni Malinen2010-01-121-11/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the basic rate set is configured to not include the lowest rate (e.g., basic rate set = 6, 12, 24 Mbps in IEEE 802.11g mode), the AP should not send out broadcast frames at 1 Mbps. This type of configuration can be used to optimize channel usage in cases where there is no need for backwards compatibility with IEEE 802.11b-only devices. In AP mode, mac80211 was unconditionally using the lowest rate for Beacon frames and similarly, with all rate control algorithms that use rate_control_send_low(), the lowest rate ended up being used for all broadcast frames (and all unicast frames that are sent before association). Change this to take into account the basic rate configuration in AP mode, i.e., use the lowest rate in the basic rate set instead of the lowest supported rate when selecting the rate. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville2010-01-051-1/+4
|\ | | | | | | | | Conflicts: net/mac80211/iface.c
| * mac80211: fix skb buffering issueJohannes Berg2010-01-051-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since I removed the master netdev, we've been keeping internal queues only, and even before that we never told the networking stack above the virtual interfaces about congestion. This means that packets are queued in mac80211 and the upper layers never know, possibly leading to memory exhaustion and other problems. This patch makes all interfaces multiqueue and uses ndo_select_queue to put the packets into queues per AC. Additionally, when the driver stops a queue, we now stop all corresponding queues for the virtual interfaces as well. The injection case will use VO by default for non-data frames, and BE for data frames, but downgrade any data frames according to ACM. It needs to be fleshed out in the future to allow chosing the queue/AC in radiotap. Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville2009-12-301-0/+4
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
| * mac80211: fix race with suspend and dynamic_ps_disable_workLuis R. Rodriguez2009-12-281-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When mac80211 suspends it calls a driver's suspend callback as a last step and after that the driver assumes no calls will be made to it until we resume and its start callback is kicked. If such calls are made, however, suspend can end up throwing hardware in an unexpected state and making the device unusable upon resume. Fix this by preventing mac80211 to schedule dynamic_ps_disable_work by checking for when mac80211 starts to suspend and starts quiescing. Frames should be allowed to go through though as that is part of the quiescing steps and we do not flush the mac80211 workqueue since it was already done towards the beginning of suspend cycle. The other mac80211 issue will be hanled in the next patch. For further details see refer to the thread: http://marc.info/?t=126144866100001&r=1&w=2 Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: add ieee80211_sdata_runningJohannes Berg2009-12-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg2009-12-211-17/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | mac80211: make station management completely depend on vifJohannes Berg2009-12-211-5/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The station management currently uses the virtual interface, but you cannot add the same station to multiple virtual interfaces if you're communicating with it in multiple ways. This restriction should be lifted so that in the future we can, for instance, support bluetooth 3 with an access point that mac80211 is already associated to. We can do that by requiring all sta_info_get users to provide the virtual interface and making the RX code aware that an address may match more than one station struct. Thanks to the previous patches this one isn't all that large and except for the RX and TX status paths changes has low complexity. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* net: Move && and || to end of previous lineJoe Perches2009-11-291-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | Not including net/atm/ Compiled tested x86 allyesconfig only Added a > 80 column line or two, which I ignored. Existing checkpatch plaints willfully, cheerfully ignored. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* mac80211: request TX status where neededJohannes Berg2009-11-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Right now all frames mac80211 hands to the driver have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set to request TX status. This isn't really necessary, only the injected frames need TX status (the latter for hostapd) so move setting this flag. The rate control algorithms also need TX status, but they don't require it. Also, rt2x00 uses that bit for its own purposes and seems to require it being set for all frames, but that can be fixed in rt2x00. This doesn't really change anything for any drivers but in the future drivers using hw-rate control may opt to not report TX status for frames that don't have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> [rt2x00 bits] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: introduce capability for 4addr modeJohannes Berg2009-11-191-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's very likely that not many devices will support four-address mode in station or AP mode so introduce capability bits for both modes, set them in mac80211 and check them when userspace tries to use the mode. Also, keep track of 4addr in cfg80211 (wireless_dev) and not in mac80211 any more. mac80211 can also be improved for the VLAN case by not looking at the 4addr flag but maintaining the station pointer for it correctly. However, keep track of use_4addr for station mode in mac80211 to avoid all the derefs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove encrypt parameter from ieee80211_tx_skbJohannes Berg2009-11-181-6/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Since the flags moved into skb->cb, there's no longer a need to have the encrypt bool passed into the function, anyone who requires it set to 0 (false) can just set the flag directly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: make software rate control optionalJohannes Berg2009-11-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some devices implement the entire rate control in firmware in some way, like wl1271 or like iwlwifi which does some things in software but not a lot. Therefore generic software rate control is rather useless for them and just adds avoidable overhead to the transmit path. It's fairly simple to let drivers indicate that they do not need rate control, but they need to fulfil a number of conditions that we encode in WARN_ONs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use fixed broadcast addressJohannes Berg2009-11-181-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The netdev broadcast address cannot change from all-ones so there's no need to use it; we can instead hard-code it. Since we already have an instance in tkip.c, which will be shared if it is marked static const, doing this reduces text size at no data/bss cost. The real motivation for this is, of course, the desire to get rid of almost all uses of netdevs in mac80211 so that auditing their use becomes easier. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove dev_hold/put callsJohannes Berg2009-11-181-11/+5
| | | | | | | | If we move the rcu sections a little, there's no need to touch the device refcount. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix BSSID setup for beacon framesRui Paulo2009-11-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | BSSID is now set to the TA. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: implement support for 4-address frames for AP and client modeFelix Fietkau2009-11-111-8/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some situations it might be useful to run a network with an Access Point and multiple clients, but with each client bridged to a network behind it. For this to work, both the client and the AP need to transmit 4-address frames, containing both source and destination MAC addresses. With this patch, you can configure a client to communicate using only 4-address frames for data traffic. On the AP side you can enable 4-address frames for individual clients by isolating them in separate AP VLANs which are configured in 4-address mode. Such an AP VLAN will be limited to one client only, and this client will be used as the destination for all traffic on its interface, regardless of the destination MAC address in the packet headers. The advantage of this mode compared to regular WDS mode is that it's easier to configure and does not require a static list of peer MAC addresses on any side. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: async station powersave handlingJohannes Berg2009-11-061-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some devices require that all frames to a station are flushed when that station goes into powersave mode before being able to send frames to that station again when it wakes up or polls -- all in order to avoid reordering and too many or too few frames being sent to the station when it polls. Normally, this is the case unless the station goes to sleep and wakes up very quickly again. But in that case, frames for it may be pending on the hardware queues, and thus races could happen in the case of multiple hardware queues used for QoS/WMM. Normally this isn't a problem, but with the iwlwifi mechanism we need to make sure the race doesn't happen. This makes mac80211 able to cope with the race with driver help by a new WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER per-station flag that can be controlled by the driver and tells mac80211 whether it can transmit frames or not. This flag must be set according to very specific rules outlined in the documentation for the function that controls it. When we buffer new frames for the station, we normally set the TIM bit right away, but while the driver has blocked transmission to that sta we need to avoid that as well since we cannot respond to the station if it wakes up due to the TIM bit. Once the driver unblocks, we can set the TIM bit. Similarly, when the station just wakes up, we need to wait until all other frames are flushed before we can transmit frames to that station, so the same applies here, we need to wait for the driver to give the OK. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: make CALL_TXH a statementJohannes Berg2009-11-021-16/+18
| | | | | | | | | The multi-line code in this macro wasn't wrapped in do {} while (0) so we cannot use it in an if() branch safely in the future -- fix that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: unconditionally set IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIMJohannes Berg2009-10-301-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | When mac80211 is asked to buffer multicast frames in AP mode, it will not set the flag indicating that the frames should be sent after the DTIM beacon for those frames buffered in software. Fix this little inconsistency by always setting that flag in the buffering code path. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: introduce ieee80211_beacon_get_tim()Johannes Berg2009-10-301-3/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Compared to ieee80211_beacon_get(), the new function ieee80211_beacon_get_tim() returns information on the location and length of the TIM IE, which some drivers need in order to generate the TIM on the device. The old function, ieee80211_beacon_get(), becomes a small static inline wrapper around the new one to not break all drivers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix dynamic power save for devices with nullfunc support in hwKalle Valo2009-10-301-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In TX path it was assumed that dynamic power save works only if IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is set. But is not the case, there are devices which have nullfunc support in hardware but need mac80211 to handle dynamic power save timers, TI's wl1251 is one of them. The fix is to not check for IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK in is_dynamic_ps_enabled(), instead check IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS and IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS flags and act accordingly. Tested with wl1251. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: refactor dynamic power save checkKalle Valo2009-10-301-3/+21
| | | | | | | | | Refactor dynamic power save checks to a function of it's own for better readibility. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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