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Jouni Malinen 5394af4d86 mac80211: 802.11w - STA flag for MFP
Add flags for setting STA entries and struct ieee80211_if_sta to
indicate whether management frame protection (MFP) is 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>
2009-01-29 16:00:00 -05:00
Johannes Berg 4be8c3873e mac80211: extend/document powersave API
This modifies hardware flags for powersave to support three different
flags:
 * IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS - indicates general PS support
 * IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK - indicates nullfunc sending in software
 * IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS - indicates dynamic PS on the device

It also adds documentation for all this which explains how to set the
various flags.

Additionally, it fixes a few things:
 * a spot where && was used to test flags
 * enable CONF_PS only when associated again

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:58 -05:00
Johannes Berg 46f2c4bd7e mac80211: move dynamic PS timeout to hardware config
This will be needed for drivers that set the
IEEE80211_HW_NO_STACK_DYNAMIC_PS flag and still
want to handle dynamic PS.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:56 -05:00
Johannes Berg 4797938c5d mac80211: clean up channel type config
The channel_type really doesn't need to be the only member in
a new structure, so remove the struct. Additionally, remove
the _CONF_CHANGE_HT flag and use _CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL when the
channel type changes, since that's enough of a change to require
reprogramming the hardware anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:55 -05:00
Rami Rosen 504a71e4c2 mac80211: remove an unused parameter in ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_req().
This patch removes an unused parameter (rx_status) in
ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_req(),
in mlme.c.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:51 -05:00
Sujith c481ec9705 mac80211: Add 802.11h CSA support
Move to the advertised channel on reception of
a CSA element. This is needed for 802.11h compliance.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:50 -05:00
Alina Friedrichsen 65f0e6a36e mac80211: Don't merge if BSSID is set manually
If you set a fixed BSSID manually, you never want that the driver
change it back, or your ad-hoc mesh network will break into peaces. So
don't do it.

Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:49 -05:00
Alina Friedrichsen 137f9f46a4 mac80211: Don't scan if BSSID and channel are set manually
If you set a fixed BSSID and channel it's not necessary to scan for
neighbors to merge, because you really don't want to merge with it. So
don't do it.

Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:48 -05:00
Alina Friedrichsen 0efcdfd6ed mac80211: Disallow to set multicast BSSID
Okay, here is the first of the five patches. After applying all
of them you should be able to build/join huge city mesh networks
(e.g. with the OLSR protocol) with the most of the mac80211 wireless
drivers by setting a fixed BSSID in the ad hoc mode. (If you found no
other bug/problem.) This was not specified in the original standard,
but is a widely used de facto standard.

The first patch now completely disallow to set multicast MAC addresses
as BSSID. The behavior before was really strange.

Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:47 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 285256a59d mac80211: no need for ht.enabled
We can simply use conf_is_ht() check where needed.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:59:32 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan a97b77b90d mac80211: Enhancements to dynamic power save.
This patch enables mac80211 to send a null frame and also to
check for tim in the beacon if dynamic power save is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:58:49 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 869717fbe4 mac80211: A couple of fixes to dynamic power save.
a) hw_config() should not be called from siwpower() for the drivers which do not support
   dynamic powersave.
b) IEEE80211_HW_NO_STACK_DYNAMIC_PS needs to be verified in set_associated() also before
   enabling the power save timers.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:58:48 -05:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan eb46936b9f mac80211: Scale down to non-HT association with TKIP/WEP as pairwise cipher
As TKIP is not updated to new security needs which arise when
TKIP is used to encrypt A-MPDU aggregated data frames, IEEE802.11n
does not allow any cipher other than CCMP (Which has new extensions
defined) as pairwise cipher between HT peers.

When such configuration (TKIP/WEP in HT) is forced, we still
associate in non-HT mode (11a/b/g).

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 15:58:47 -05:00
Christian Lamparter 391429c18f mac80211: fix slot time debug message
wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:01:aa:bb:cc:dd)
wlan0: switched to short slot (BSSID=) <something is missing here>

should be:

wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:01:aa:bb:cc:dd)
wlan0: switched to short slot (BSSID=00:01:aa:bb:cc:dd)

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-22 13:55:01 -05:00
Kalle Valo 520eb82076 mac80211: implement dynamic power save
This patch implements dynamic power save for mac80211. Basically it
means enabling power save mode after an idle period. Implementing it
dynamically gives a good compromise of low power consumption and low
latency. Some hardware have support for this in firmware, but some
require the host to do it.

The dynamic power save is implemented by adding an timeout to
ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(). The timeout can be enabled from userspace
with Wireless Extensions. For example, the command below enables the
dynamic power save and sets the time timeout to 500 ms:

iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500m

Power save now only works with devices which handle power save in firmware.
It's also disabled by default and the heuristics when and how to enable is
considered as a policy decision and will be left for the userspace to handle.
In case the firmware has support for this, drivers can disable this feature
with IEEE80211_HW_NO_STACK_DYNAMIC_PS.

Big thanks to Johannes Berg for the help with the design and code.

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>
2008-12-19 15:24:00 -05:00
Kalle Valo e0cb686ff8 mac80211: enable IEEE80211_CONF_PS only when associated
Also disable power save when disassociated. It makes no sense to have
power save enabled while disassociated.

iwlwifi seems to have this check in the driver, but it's better to do this
in mac80211 instead.

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>
2008-12-19 15:23:57 -05:00
Rami Rosen 135541215c mac80211: fix a typo in ieee80211_send_assoc() method.
This patch fixes a typo in ieee80211_send_assoc(), net/mac80211/mlme.c.

The error is usage of a wrong member when building
the ie80211 management frame (it should be assoc_req, and not reassoc_req).

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19 15:23:30 -05:00
Jouni Malinen 0fb8ca45eb mac80211: Add HT rates into RX status reporting
This patch adds option for HT-enabled drivers to report HT rates
(HT20/HT40, short GI, MCS index) to mac80211. These rates are
currently not in the rate table, so the rate_idx is used to indicate
MCS index.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19 15:23:04 -05:00
Sujith 094d05dc32 mac80211: Fix HT channel selection
HT management is done differently for AP and STA modes, unify
to just the ->config() callback since HT is fundamentally a
PHY property and cannot be per-BSS.

Rename enum nl80211_sec_chan_offset as nl80211_channel_type to denote
the channel type ( NO_HT, HT20, HT40+, HT40- ).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19 15:22:54 -05:00
Rami Rosen ab1f5c0bb8 mac80211: misc cleanups
This patch removes unneeded member (skbuff) from
ieee80211_ibss_add_sta() method in its declaration (in ieee80211_i.h)
and its callers (in rx.c and mlme.c)

This patch removes unneeded member from struct ieee80211_rx_data
in ieee80211_i.h.

(Originally posted as two patches. -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12 14:45:27 -05:00
Fabio Rossi cb3da8ccc4 mac80211: accept empty strings for hidden SSIDs
Some access points (e.g. Sitecom WL-174) use an empty string as hidden SSID.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:32:59 -05:00
Tomas Winkler 8e268e47b8 mac80211: disassociate prior to unlinking AP/station
This patch reorders calls during disassociation in
ieee80211_set_disassoc function.
Since sta_info_unlink calls sta_notify(REMOVE) it will
remove the station representing AP from the driver before
it has disassociated from it using bss_info_changed callback.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:32:11 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 5925d976fb mac80211: Look out for some other AP when disassoc is received.
When a disassoc packet is received from the AP with a reason code of
'leaving the BSS', mac80211 should go into DISABLED state just as it
would do if the AP suddenly went away for some reason, as that is what
will happen shortly after the AP leaves anyway.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:42 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 3f2355cb91 cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d support
This adds country IE parsing to mac80211 and enables its usage
within the new regulatory infrastructure in cfg80211. We parse
the country IEs only on management beacons for the BSSID you are
associated to and disregard the IEs when the country and environment
(indoor, outdoor, any) matches the already processed country IE.

To avoid following misinformed or outdated APs we build and use
a regulatory domain out of the intersection between what the AP
provides us on the country IE and what CRDA is aware is allowed
on the same country.

A secondary device is allowed to follow only the same country IE
as it make no sense for two devices on a system to be in two
different countries.

In the case the AP is using country IEs for an incorrect country
the user may help compliance further by setting the regulatory
domain before or after the IE is parsed and in that case another
intersection will be performed.

CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is supported but requires CRDA
present.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:26 -05:00
Rami Rosen 1d047def6d mac80211: remove unnecessary include.
This patch removes unnecessary #include <linux/netdevice.h> from
/net/mac80211/mlme.c.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:08:17 -05:00
David S. Miller 6ab33d5171 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
	include/net/mac80211.h
	net/phonet/af_phonet.c
2008-11-20 16:44:00 -08:00
David S. Miller 198d6ba4d7 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c
	fs/cifs/connect.c
2008-11-18 23:38:23 -08:00
Johannes Berg 8e3bad65a5 mac80211: remove ieee80211_notify_mac
Before ieee80211_notify_mac() was added, it was presented with the
use case of using it to tell mac80211 that the association may
have been lost because the firmware crashed/reset.

Since then, it has also been used by iwlwifi to (slightly) speed
up re-association after resume, a workaround around the fact that
mac80211 has no suspend/resume handling yet. It is also not used
by any other drivers, so clearly it cannot be necessary for "good
enough" suspend/resume.

Unfortunately, the callback suffers from a severe problem: It only
works for station mode. If suspend/resume happens while in IBSS or
any other mode (but station), then the callback is pointless.

Recently, it has created a number of locking issues, first because
it required rtnl locking rather than RCU due to calling sleeping
functions within the critical section, and now because it's called
by iwlwifi from the mac80211 workqueue that may not use the rtnl
because it is flushed under rtnl.
(cf. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12046)

I think, therefore, that we should take a step back, remove it
entirely for now and add the small feature it provided properly.
For suspend and resume we will need to introduce new hooks, and for
the case where the firmware was reset the driver will probably
simply just pretend it has done a suspend/resume cycle to get
mac80211 to reprogram the hardware completely, not just try to
connect to the current AP again in station mode. When doing so, we
will need to take into account locking issues and possibly defer
to schedule_work from within mac80211 for the resume operation,
while the suspend operation must be done directly.

Proper suspend/resume should also not necessarily try to reconnect
to the current AP, the time spent in suspend may have been short
enough to not be disconnected from the AP, mac80211 will detect
that the AP went out of range quickly if it did, and if the
association is lost then the AP will disassoc as soon as a data
frame is sent. We might also take into account WWOL then, and
have mac80211 program the hardware into such a mode where it is
available and requested.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-18 17:26:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg db7fb86b0c mac80211: fix notify_mac function
The ieee80211_notify_mac() function uses ieee80211_sta_req_auth() which
in turn calls ieee80211_set_disassoc() which calls a few functions that
need to be able to sleep, so ieee80211_notify_mac() cannot use RCU
locking for the interface list and must use rtnl locking instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-12 16:49:53 -05:00
Tomas Winkler d61272cbb3 mac80211: fix basic rates setting from association response
In previous code all the rates were marked as basic.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:40 -05:00
Johannes Berg 41bb73eeac mac80211: remove SSID driver code
Remove the SSID from the driver API since now there is no
driver that requires knowing the SSID and I think it's
unlikely that any hardware design that does require the
SSID will play well with mac80211.

This also removes support for setting the SSID in master
mode which will require a patch to hostapd to not try.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:11:56 -05:00
Zhu Yi 97c8b013da mac80211: print reason code for deauth/dissoc frames
The patch prints reason code for deauth/dissoc frames to give users
more ideas what's happened for the disconnection.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:10:16 -05:00
Rami Rosen e2ef12d3fd mac80211: check return value of dev_alloc_skb() in ieee80211_sta_join_ibss().
This patch add a check on the return value of dev_alloc_skb() in
ieee80211_sta_join_ibss() in net/mac80211/mlme.c.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg ddf4ac53fb mac80211: insert AP sta entry after filling it
We never clearly defined the semantics of the sta_notify callback
and it was originally posted for iwlwifi which still doesn't use
it at all. With the recent HT rework ath9k started relying on it,
but I made a mistake there in that I made ath9k assume the HT
information has already been filled in at sta_notify time. This
isn't a hard thing to do, so do it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:46 -04:00
Johannes Berg 4a68ec535e mac80211: inform userspace of probe/auth/assoc timeout
I noticed that when for some reason [1] the probe or auth times
out, wpa_supplicant doesn't realise this and only tries the next
AP when it runs into its own timeout, which is ten seconds, and
that's quite long. Fix this by making mac80211 notify userspace
that it didn't associate.

[1] my wrt350n in mixed B/G/HT mode often runs into this, maybe
it's because one of the antennas is broken off and for whatever
reason it decides to use that antenna to transmit the response
frames (auth, probe); I do see beacons fine so it's not totally
broken. Works fine in pure-G mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg ae5eb02641 mac80211: rewrite HT handling
The HT handling has the following deficiencies, which I've
(partially) fixed:
 * it always uses the AP info even if there is no AP,
   hence has no chance of working as an AP
 * it pretends to be HW config, but really is per-BSS
 * channel sanity checking is left to the drivers
 * it generally lets the driver control too much

HT enabling is still wrong with this patch if you have more than
one virtual STA mode interface, but that never happens currently.
Once WDS, IBSS or AP/VLAN gets HT capabilities, it will also be
wrong, see the comment in ieee80211_enable_ht().

Additionally, this fixes a number of bugs:
 * mac80211: ieee80211_set_disassoc doesn't notify the driver any
             more since the refactoring
 * iwl-agn-rs: always uses the HT capabilities from the wrong stuff
               mac80211 gives it rather than the actual peer STA
 * ath9k: a number of bugs resulting from the broken HT API

I'm not entirely happy with putting the HT capabilities into
struct ieee80211_sta as restricted to our own HT TX capabilities,
but I see no cleaner solution for now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg bda3933a8a mac80211: move bss_conf into vif
Move bss_conf into the vif struct so that drivers can
access it during ->tx without having to store it in
the private data or similar. No driver updates because
this is only for when they want to start using it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:15 -04:00
Johannes Berg d9fe60dea7 802.11: clean up/fix HT support
This patch cleans up a number of things:
 * the unusable definition of the HT capabilities/HT information
   information elements
 * variable names that are hard to understand
 * mac80211: move ieee80211_handle_ht to ht.c and remove the unused
             enable_ht parameter
 * mac80211: fix bug with MCS rate 32 in ieee80211_handle_ht
 * mac80211: fix bug with casting the result of ieee80211_bss_get_ie
             to an information element _contents_ rather than the
             whole element, add size checking (another out-of-bounds
             access bug fixed!)
 * mac80211: remove some unused return values in favour of BUG_ON
             checking
 * a few minor other things

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:06 -04:00
Johannes Berg 7a5158ef8d mac80211: fix short slot handling
This patch makes mac80211 handle short slot requests from the AP
properly. Also warn about uses of IEEE80211_CONF_SHORT_SLOT_TIME
and optimise out the code since it cannot ever be hit anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 18:58:53 -04:00
Johannes Berg 0c68ae2605 mac80211: convert to %pM away from print_mac
Also remove a few stray DECLARE_MAC_BUF that were no longer
used at all.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27 17:06:16 -07:00
Johannes Berg 09914813da mac80211: fix HT information element parsing
There's no checking that the HT IEs are of the right length
which can be used by an attacker to cause an out-of-bounds
access by sending a too short HT information/capability IE.
Fix it by simply pretending those IEs didn't exist when too
short.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-14 20:47:15 -04:00
John W. Linville ad788b5e07 mac80211: avoid "Wireless Event too big" message for assoc response
The association response IEs are sent to userland with an IWEVCUSTOM
event, which unfortunately is limited to a little more than 100 bytes
of IE information with the encoding used.  Many APs send so much
IE information that this message overflows.  When the IWEVCUSTOM
event is too large, the kernel doesn't send it to userland anyway --
better just not to send it.

An attempt was made by Jouni Malinen to correct this issue by
converting to use IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE messages instead
("mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM").  Unfortunately,
that caused a problem due to 32-/64-bit interactions on some systems and
was reverted after the 'userland ABI' rule was invoked.  That leaves
us with this option instead of a proper fix, at least until we move
to a cfg80211-based solution.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06 19:37:33 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 74af025073 wireless: restore revert lost to merge damage
Restore revert "mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM",
originally reverted in commit bf7394ccc1.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06 18:12:56 -04:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 4492bea656 mac80211: fix led behavior in IBSS
This patch fixes the led behavior in IBSS. After we joined an IBSS cell we
need to inform the led that we got associated. Although there is no 802.11
association in IBSS mode, the semantic of "There is a link" is relevant.
This allows the led to blink in IBSS mode (at least this solves a bug for
iwlwifi).

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24 16:18:03 -04:00
Johannes Berg 4dfe51e100 mac80211: probe with correct SSID
While associated, we should probe with the SSID we're associated to,
not the scan SSID.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24 16:18:03 -04:00
Johannes Berg 4b7679a561 mac80211: clean up rate control API
Long awaited, hard work. This patch totally cleans up the rate control
API to remove the requirement to include internal headers outside of
net/mac80211/.

There's one internal use in the PID algorithm left for mesh networking,
we'll have to figure out a way to clean that one up and decide how to
do the peer link evaluation, possibly independent of the rate control
algorithm or via new API.

Additionally, ath9k is left using the cross-inclusion hack for now, we
will add new API where necessary to make this work properly, but right
now I'm not expert enough to do it. It's still off better than before.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24 16:18:03 -04:00
Johannes Berg 687c7c0807 mac80211: share sta_info->ht_info
Rate control algorithms may need access to a station's
HT capabilities, so share the ht_info struct in the
public station API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:24 -04:00
Johannes Berg 323ce79a9c mac80211: share sta->supp_rates
As more preparation for a saner rate control algorithm API,
share the supported rates bitmap in the public API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:24 -04:00
Johannes Berg 17741cdc26 mac80211: share STA information with driver
This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about
stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when
 they get around to updating, and might also help with
implementing rate control algorithms without internals.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg 05c914fe33 mac80211: use nl80211 interface types
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its
own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and
simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need
to translate them any more now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg 96dd22ac06 mac80211: inform driver of basic rateset
Drivers need to know the basic rateset to be able to configure
the ACK/CTS programming in hardware correctly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:22 -04:00
Johannes Berg c2b13452b2 mac80211: clean up scan namespace
Most of the scan functions are called ieee80211_sta_scan_*
or similar, make clean it up so they are all just called
ieee80211_scan_*.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:22 -04:00
Johannes Berg 9c6bd79011 mac80211: reorder MLME code more
This way all the utility functions are at the top, then the
state machine and externally callable functions are moved to
the bottom. Also clean up ieee80211_i.h a bit and add a few
comments about which functions are called from where.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:21 -04:00
Johannes Berg 5bc75728fd mac80211: fix scan vs. interface removal race
When we remove an interface, we can currently end up having
a pointer to it left in local->scan_sdata after it has been
set down, and then with a hardware scan the scan completion
can try to access it which is a bug. Alternatively, a scan
that started as a hardware scan may terminate as though it
was a software scan, if the timing is just right.

On SMP systems, software scan also has a similar problem,
just canceling the delayed work and setting a flag isn't
enough since it may be running concurrently; in this case
we would also never restore state of other interfaces.

This patch hopefully fixes the problems by always invoking
ieee80211_scan_completed or requiring it to be invoked by
the driver, I suspect the drivers that have ->hw_scan() are
buggy. The bug will not manifest itself unless you remove
the interface while hw-scanning which will also turn off
the hw, and then add a new interface which will be unusable
until you scan once.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg 472dbc45dc mac80211: split off mesh handling entirely
This patch splits off mesh handling from the STA/IBSS.
Unfortunately it increases mesh code size a bit, but I
think it makes things clearer. The patch also reduces
per-interface run-time memory usage.

Also clean up a few places where ifdef is not required.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg 7c95069522 mac80211: dont set REQ_RUN when scan finishes
The timer restart is done wrongly, we shouldn't set the REQ_RUN
bit when the scan has finished if it hadn't been set before the
scan started. If the timer fires during the scan, it will set
REQ_RUN and then we can run the work for it, if it didn't fire
then we shouldn't run its work either.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg a1678f84bf mac80211: move STA timer restart
This I shouldn't have moved to the scan implementation, move
it back to the MLME where it belongs, to the notification.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg 24723d1bc9 mac80211: move ieee80211_sta_expire
ieee80211_sta_expire uses the internal __sta_info_unlink
function which can become static if this function is moved
to sta_info.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg e50db65c0d mac80211: move frame TX function
The ieee80211_sta_tx function isn't MLME code any more,
it's getting used by a lot of code. Move it to utils and
rename it to ieee80211_tx_skb.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg 39192c0bcf mac80211: move spectrum management code out
Like the HT code, this doesn't depend on the STA-mode implementation
and can be handled entirely independently. There's only stub code
for now, but when it gets filled having it in its own file will be
beneficial.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg de1ede7ac3 mac80211: make BA session handling independent of STA mode
The aggregation handling isn't dependent on anything related to our
STA-mode implementation, and doesn't need to depend on it for frame
processing. This patch moves the relevant code to ht.c and adds a
hook in rx.c. For now, the relevant action frames are only processed
in STA/IBSS modes, but that's now something we can easily change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg 5825fe100d mac80211: initialise queue QoS parameters at hw start
When hardware is started it might be in a confused state with
respect to queue QoS parameters. This patch changes mac80211
to set sane defaults right after the hardware is brought up.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg 3d35f7c687 mac80211: split ieee80211_sta_def_wmm_params
Cleans up the code a bit and prepares for the next patch
that will use the function elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg ef422bc0ae mac80211: consolidate deauth/disassoc
deauth and disassoc frames are completely identical so there's
little point in having two functions to send them rather than
one that gets a parameter. This same a bit of code size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg 9ac19a9084 mac80211: reorder frame code in mlme
This reorders all frame sending functions to be at the top of the
file. When reading the file, I tend to be looking at either the
frame code or the state machine, and having them mixed in the file
is confusing. When all frame sending is at the top the remainder
of the file is more readable, in my opinion.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg b079ada7dd mac80211: remove useless 'ibss' parameter
Ever since we refactored beaconing to not be controlled by a
fake queue this parameter to ieee80211_sta_def_wmm_params
has been unused.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg a0fe8b3349 mac80211: simplify scan start
ieee80211_sta_start_scan() can very well take a non-NULL
ssid pointer with a zero ssid_len.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg 44d414dbff mac80211: move some HT code out of mlme.c
Some of the HT code in mlme.c is misplaced:
 * constants/definitions belong to the ieee80211.h header
 * code being used in other modes as well shouldn't be there

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg 5484e23749 mac80211: move BSS handling to scan code
This moves all the BSS list handling out of mlme.c to scan.c,
no further changes except fixing kzalloc/atomic_inc/atomic_inc
to kzalloc/atomic_set(2).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg 98c8fccfae mac80211: refactor and move scan RX code
This patch refactors some code and moves the scan RX function
to scan.c. More importantly, however, it changes it so that the
MLME's beacon/probe_resp functions aren't invoked when scanning
so that we can remove a "if (scanning)" conditions from two
places.

There's a very slight behavioural change in this patch: now,
when scanning, IBSS and mesh aren't updated even on the same
channel.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg 0a51b27e95 mac80211: start moving scan code from mlme
Here's a first patch to move some code from mlme.c to a
new file called scan.c. The end result will hopefully be
a more manageable mlme.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg ee96d6ef82 mac80211: remove useless non-NULL tests from scan results code
I'm surprised nobody complained about these before. What a waste.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg 491775a507 mac80211: use sdata pointer for scan interface
Since we now use sdata pointers most of the time, using a netdev
pointer here is somewhat artificial, use an sdata pointer instead.
Replace a netdev-prefix in a few messages by a wiphy-prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg 60f8b39c94 mac80211: reorder mlme code
This reorders the mlme code a bit so we don't need all the forward
function declarations. It also removes the ERP_INFO_USE_PROTECTION
define that is unused, but otherwise contains no real changes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 24e64622c3 mac80211: stop queues before carrier off
During testing of the disassociation fixes, Tomas noticed that it
was possible to run into a situation where you'd suddenly get a
few "wlan0: dropped frame to <AP> (unauthorized port)" messages
and I found this to be due to the AP's sta_info having been
removed but netif_carrier_off not having removed/stopped traffic
yet. To avoid that, stop the queue for the interface (and avoid
bringing them up when another vif scans when they weren't up.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler f5e5bf258b mac80211: remove disassociation code from ieee80211_set_associated
This patch moves disassociation code from ieee80211_set_associated
to ieee80211_set_disassoc. To reduce code duplication, it introduces
the ieee80211_sta_send_apinfo function. Additionally, it fixes a lapse
where BSS_CHANGED_HT wasn't set when notifying the driver of changes
due to disassociation.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 3b7ee69d0c mac80211: disassociate when moving to new BSS
This patch makes the MLME cleanly disassociate from the current BSS
when leaving it for a new one. This is not just nicer to the old AP
(we're leaving it, might as well tell it!) but also required for some
drivers that keep track of the station we're associated with, they'd
get confused because they'd think we are associated with two APs.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Tomas Winkler aa458d1737 mac80211: restructure disassoc/deauth flows
This patch restructure the flow of disassociation and deauthentication
flows to be consistent under all circumstances.
It ensures that BA session is treated down before deauthentication or disassociation,
adds the removal of the obsolete sta form station table and fixes a related bug (sta_info_destroy
without sta_info_unlink) in ieee80211_associated()
and reduce some code duplication

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg 37ffc8da80 mac80211: move IE parsing to util file
Since IE parsing is required for the mlme and mesh code, it's
not a static function anyway, and it's much better to have it
in util rather than the overly large mlme.c

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg 5fd12d4da1 mac80211: fix typo in action frame handling
This says chan_switch.action_code but really means
measurement.action_code, of course the actual offset in
the frame is the same, it's just harder to understand
this way.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg 9c80d3dc27 mac80211: fix action frame length checks
The action frame length checks are one too small, there's not just
an action code as the comment makes you believe, there's a category
code too, and the category code is required in each action frame
(hence part of IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg 5bda617576 mac80211: BSS info: check channel first
When we receive information about a BSS we check at some point
whether or not we think we're allowed to use the channel it is
on, but we do that fairly late. I don't think we should do it
that late, so do it earlier to avoid doing IBSS/mesh stuff on
that channel and then getting confused because it's disabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg fe3fa82731 mac80211: make conf_tx non-atomic
The conf_tx callback currently needs to be atomic, this requirement
is just because it can be called from scanning. This rearranges it
slightly to only update while not scanning (which is fine, we'll be
getting beacons when associated) and thus removes the atomic
requirement.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:34 -04:00
Johannes Berg 69e6c010fd mac80211: move some RCU locking into an if branch
The if itself doesn't need to be protected, so move in the RCU
locking to avoid doing anything at all when the condition isn't
true.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:34 -04:00
David S. Miller 17dce5dfe3 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-09-08 16:59:05 -07:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 8e1535d51b mac80211: Fix rate scale initialization in IBSS
This patch address some IBSS rate issues introduced or not covered
by "mac80211: eliminate IBSS warning in rate_lowest_index()" and
"cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion".

This patch:
1. Moves addition of IBSS station from
prepare_for_handlers to ieee80211_rx_bss_info when triggered from beacon
eliminating bogus supported rates.
2. Initialize properly supported rates also in IBSS merging
3. Ensure that mandatory rates are always added into supported
rates. This is needed in case when station addition is triggered from
non beacon/probe packet. Some management frames need to be sent
4. Remove initialization of supported rates from self rates. This path
was dead code after 6bc37c06bc4 and in general incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:22:46 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 9818babc8f mac80211: Fix low bit rate in IBSS
This patch fixes regression in iwlwifi IBSS rate scaling caused by patch:

    commit 6bc37c06bc424bcf3f944e6a79e2d5bb537e02ed
    Author: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
    Date:   Fri Jun 13 16:50:44 2008 +0200

        mac80211: eliminate IBSS warning in rate_lowest_index()

An IBSS station is added in prepare_for_handlers where the rate scaling was
initialized only with single rate matching the received packet.
The correct rate scale information should be updated only in
ieee80211_rx_bss_info function where beacon is parsed. Because
of coding error the rate info was left untouched.
If a beacon has triggered the connection the rate remined 1Mbps.
This patch fixes this coding error

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:00:18 -04:00
Linus Torvalds bf7394ccc1 Revert "mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM"
This reverts commit 087d833e5a, which was
reported to break wireless at least in some combinations with 32bit user
space and a 64bit kernel.  Alex Williamnson bisected it to this commit.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-05 12:38:09 -07:00
David S. Miller b171e19ed0 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-08-29 23:06:00 -07:00
Jouni Malinen 43ac2ca384 mac80211: Handle scan result IEs in one block
Clean up and extend scan result processing by storing all the IEs from
Beacon/Probe Response frames in a single block instead of allocating
memory for each specific IE separately. This removes lot of unnecessary
code and automatically supports reporting of new IEs (e.g., IEEE
802.11r) into user space without need to manually extend mac80211
scanning code whenever a new protocol adds IE(s).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:05 -04:00
John W. Linville 576fdeaef6 mac80211: quiet chatty IBSS merge message
It seems obvious that this #ifndef should be the opposite polarity...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-26 20:33:34 -04:00
Jan-Espen Pettersen 8ab65b03b7 mac80211: don't send empty extended rates IE
The association request includes a list of supported data rates.

802.11b: 4 supported rates.
802.11g: 12 (8 + 4) supported rates.
802.11a: 8 supported rates.

The rates tag of the assoc request has room for only 8 rates. In case of
802.11g an extended rate tag is appended. However in net/wireless/mlme.c
an extended (empty) rate tag is also appended if the number of rates is
exact 8. This empty (length=0) extended rates tag causes some APs to
deny association with code 18 (unsupported rates). These APs include my
ZyXEL G-570U, and according to Tomas Winkler som Cisco APs.

'If count == 8' has been used to check for the need for an extended rates
tag. But count would also be equal to 8 if the for loop exited because of
no more supported rates. Therefore a check for count being less than
rates_len would seem more correct.

Thanks to:
 * Dan Williams for newbie guidance
 * Tomas Winkler for confirming the problem

Signed-off-by: Jan-Espen Pettersen <sigsegv@radiotube.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-26 20:06:33 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 087d833e5a mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM
The previous code was using IWEVCUSTOM to report IEs from AssocReq and
AssocResp frames into user space. This can easily hit the 256 byte
limit (IW_CUSTOM_MAX) with APs that include number of vendor IEs in
AssocResp. This results in the event message not being sent and dmesg
showing "wlan0 (WE) : Wireless Event too big (366)" type of errors.

Convert mac80211 to use IWEVASSOCREQIE/IWEVASSOCRESPIE to avoid the
issue of being unable to send association IEs as wireless events. These
newer event types use binary encoding and larger maximum size
(IW_GENERIC_IE_MAX = 1024), so the likelyhood of not being able to send
the IEs is much smaller than with IWEVCUSTOM. As an extra benefit, the
code is also quite a bit simpler since there is no need to allocate an
extra buffer for hex encoding.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-26 20:06:32 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky 9859b81eae mac80211: add direct probe before association
This patch adds a direct probe request as first step in the association
flow if data we have is not up to date. Motivation of this step is to make
sure that the bss information we have is correct, since last scan could
have been done a while ago, and beacons do not fully answer this need as
there are potential differences between them and probe responses (e.g.
WMM parameter element)

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:30:00 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky 6042a3e3ff mac80211: change number of pre-assoc scans
This patch fixes noticed problem in noisy environments of 50+ APs
that scan fails to find the requested AP on first try, which
leads to connection refusal. second scan has empirically proven to fix
this problem in almost all cases.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Esti Kummer <ester.kummer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:59 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 48c2fc59aa mac80211: cleanup mlme state namespace
This patch move add STA_MLME to station mlme state defines.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:59 -04:00
Tomas Winkler 8e7cdbb633 mac80211: filter probes in ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp
This patch moves filtering statement from ieee80211_rx_bss_info
which is called for both beacon and probe to ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp
and save few cycles in beacon parsing.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:58 -04:00
Jasper Bryant-Greene f698d856f6 replace net_device arguments with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate
This patch replaces net_device arguments to mac80211 internal functions
with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate.

It also does the same for many 802.11s mesh functions, and changes the
mesh path table to be indexed on sub_if_data rather than net_device.

If the mesh part needs to be a separate patch let me know, but since
mesh uses a lot of mac80211 functions which were being converted anyway,
the changes go hand-in-hand somewhat.

This patch probably does not convert all the functions which could be
converted, but it is a large chunk and followup patches will be
provided.

Signed-off-by: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@amiton.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:58 -04:00
Harvey Harrison e7827a7031 mac80211: remove IEEE80211_FC helper
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:54 -04:00
Ron Rindjunsky a61dae1f78 mac80211: update new sta's rx timestamp
This patch fixes needless probe request caused by zero value in
sta->last_rx inside ieee80211_associated flow

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-18 11:05:13 -04:00