Add support for drivers to report the total number of MPDUs received
and the number of MPDUs received with an FCS error from a specific
peer. These counters will be incremented only when the TA of the
frame matches the MAC address of the peer irrespective of FCS
error.
It should be noted that the TA field in the frame might be corrupted
when there is an FCS error and TA matching logic would fail in such
cases. Hence, FCS error counter might not be fully accurate, but it can
provide help in detecting bad RX links in significant number of cases.
This FCS error counter without full accuracy can be used, e.g., to
trigger a kick-out of a connected client with a bad link in AP mode to
force such a client to roam to another AP.
Signed-off-by: Ankita Bajaj <bankita@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Instead of open-coding a lot of calls to is_valid_ie_attr(),
add this validation directly to the policy, now that we can.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Many range checks can be done in the policy, move them
there. A few in mesh are added in the code (taken out of
the macros) because they don't fit into the s16 range in
the policy validation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Merge net-next, which pulled in net, so I can merge a few more
patches that would otherwise conflict.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Minor conflict in net/core/rtnetlink.c, David Ahern's bug fix in 'net'
overlapped the renaming of a netlink attribute in net-next.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There isn't really any need for us to be sending this from
two different places - move cfg80211_init_wdev() later and
send the notification from there, removing it from the non-
netdev case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add some error messages to nl80211_parse_chandef() to make
failures here - especially with disabled channels - easier
to diagnose.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
There's no reason for drivers to be able to access the
cfg80211 internal cookie counter; move it out of the
wiphy into the rdev structure.
While at it, also make it never assign 0 as a cookie
(we consider that invalid in some places), and warn if
we manage to do that for some reason (wrapping is not
likely to happen with a u64.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump() is using the output skb to look up
the network namespace, but this isn't really necessary, it can
just as well use the input skb which is available as cb->skb,
the sk is the same anyway.
Therefore, remove the redundant argument.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Allow userspace to enable fine timing measurement responder
functionality with configurable lci/civic parameters in AP mode.
This can be done at AP start or changing beacon parameters.
A new EXT_FEATURE flag is introduced for drivers to advertise
the capability.
Also nl80211 API support for retrieving statistics is added.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu <pradeepc@codeaurora.org>
[remove unused cfg80211_ftm_responder_params, clarify docs,
move validation into policy]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Use the NL80211_KEY_IDX attribute inside the NL80211_ATTR_KEY in
NL80211_CMD_GET_KEY responses to comply with nl80211_key_policy.
This is unlikely to affect existing userspace.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
There's a bit of duplicated code to initialize a wdev, pull it out
into a separate function to call from both places.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The check for !scan_plan is redunant as this has been checked
in the proceeding statement and the code returns -ENOBUFS if
it is true. Remove the redundant check.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Use array_index_nospec() to sanitize i with respect to speculation.
Note that the user doesn't control i directly, but can make it out
of bounds by not finding a threshold in the array.
Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
[add note about user control, as explained by Masashi]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Use array_index_nospec() to sanitize ridx with respect to speculation.
Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Same as for HT and VHT.
This helps the lower level to know whether the AP supports HE.
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* various A-MSDU building fixes (currently only affects mt76)
* syzkaller & spectre fixes in hwsim
* TXQ vs. teardown fix that was causing crashes
* embed WMM info in reg rule, bad code here had been causing crashes
* one compilation issue with fix from Arnd (rfkill-gpio includes)
* fixes for a race and bad data during/after channel switch
* nl80211: a validation fix, attribute type & unit fixes
along with other small fixes.
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Merge tag 'mac80211-for-davem-2018-09-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211
Johannes Berg says:
====================
Here are quite a large number of fixes, notably:
* various A-MSDU building fixes (currently only affects mt76)
* syzkaller & spectre fixes in hwsim
* TXQ vs. teardown fix that was causing crashes
* embed WMM info in reg rule, bad code here had been causing crashes
* one compilation issue with fix from Arnd (rfkill-gpio includes)
* fixes for a race and bad data during/after channel switch
* nl80211: a validation fix, attribute type & unit fixes
along with other small fixes.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
nl80211_update_ft_ies() tried to validate NL80211_ATTR_IE with
is_valid_ie_attr() before dereferencing it, but that helper function
returns true in case of NULL pointer (i.e., attribute not included).
This can result to dereferencing a NULL pointer. Fix that by explicitly
checking that NL80211_ATTR_IE is included.
Fixes: 355199e02b ("cfg80211: Extend support for IEEE 802.11r Fast BSS Transition")
Signed-off-by: Arunk Khandavalli <akhandav@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Modify the API to include all ACK frames in average ACK
signal strength reporting, not just ACKs for data frames.
Make exposing the data conditional on implementing the
extended feature flag.
This is how it was really implemented in mac80211, update
the code there to use the new defines and clean up some of
the setting code.
Keep nl80211.h source compatibility by keeping the old names.
Signed-off-by: Balaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@codeaurora.org>
[rewrite commit log, change compatibility to be old=new
instead of the other way around, update kernel-doc,
roll in mac80211 changes, make mac80211 depend on valid
bit instead of HW flag]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
freq_reg_info expects to get the frequency in kHz. Instead we
accidently pass it in MHz. Thus, currently the function always
return ERR rule. Fix that.
Fixes: 50f32718e1 ("nl80211: Add wmm rule attribute to NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY dump command")
Signed-off-by: Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
[fix kHz/MHz in commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
TXOP (also known as Channel Occupancy Time) is u16 and should be
added using nla_put_u16 instead of u8, fix that.
Fixes: 50f32718e1 ("nl80211: Add wmm rule attribute to NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY dump command")
Signed-off-by: Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Make wmm_rule be part of the reg_rule structure. This simplifies the
code a lot at the cost of having bigger memory usage. However in most
cases we have only few reg_rule's and when we do have many like in
iwlwifi we do not save memory as it allocates a separate wmm_rule for
each channel anyway.
This also fixes a bug reported in various places where somewhere the
pointers were corrupted and we ended up doing a null-dereference.
Fixes: 230ebaa189 ("cfg80211: read wmm rules from regulatory database")
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
[rephrase commit message slightly]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
I was looking at usually suppressed gcc warnings,
[-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] in this case:
The code definitely looks like a break is missing here.
However I am not able to test the NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT,
nor do I actually know what might be :)
So please use this patch with caution and only if you are
able to do some testing.
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
[johannes: looks obvious enough to apply as is, interesting
though that it never seems to have been a problem]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The current implementation of cfg80211_rx_control_port assumed that the
caller could provide a contiguous region of memory for the control port
frame to be sent up to userspace. Unfortunately, many drivers produce
non-linear skbs, especially for data frames. This resulted in userspace
getting notified of control port frames with correct metadata (from
address, port, etc) yet garbage / nonsense contents, resulting in bad
handshakes, disconnections, etc.
mac80211 linearizes skbs containing management frames. But it didn't
seem worthwhile to do this for control port frames. Thus the signature
of cfg80211_rx_control_port was changed to take the skb directly.
nl80211 then takes care of obtaining control port frame data directly
from the (linear | non-linear) skb.
The caller is still responsible for freeing the skb,
cfg80211_rx_control_port does not take ownership of it.
Fixes: 6a671a50f8 ("nl80211: Add CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME API")
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
[fix some kernel-doc formatting, add fixes tag]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Simple overlapping changes in stmmac driver.
Adjust skb_gro_flush_final_remcsum function signature to make GRO list
changes in net-next, as per Stephen Rothwell's example merge
resolution.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* finally some of the promised HE code, but it turns
out to be small - but everything kept changing, so
one part I did in the driver was >30 patches for
what was ultimately <200 lines of code ... similar
here for this code.
* improved scan privacy support - can now specify scan
flags for randomizing the sequence number as well as
reducing the probe request element content
* rfkill cleanups
* a timekeeping cleanup from Arnd
* various other cleanups
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Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2018-06-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Small merge conflict in net/mac80211/scan.c, I preserved
the kcalloc() conversion. -DaveM
Johannes Berg says:
====================
This round's updates:
* finally some of the promised HE code, but it turns
out to be small - but everything kept changing, so
one part I did in the driver was >30 patches for
what was ultimately <200 lines of code ... similar
here for this code.
* improved scan privacy support - can now specify scan
flags for randomizing the sequence number as well as
reducing the probe request element content
* rfkill cleanups
* a timekeeping cleanup from Arnd
* various other cleanups
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The BIT macro uses unsigned long which some architectures handle as 32 bit
and therefore might cause macro's shift to overflow when used on a value
equals or larger than 32 (NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_DURATION and afterwards).
Since 'filled' member in station_info changed to u64, BIT_ULL macro
should be used with all NL80211_STA_INFO_* attribute types instead of BIT
to prevent future possible bugs when one will use BIT macro for higher
attributes by mistake.
This commit cleans up all usages of BIT macro with the above field
in cfg80211 by changing it to BIT_ULL instead. In addition, there are
some places which don't use BIT nor BIT_ULL macros so align those as well.
Signed-off-by: Omer Efrat <omer.efrat@tandemg.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
At the very least we should check the return value if
nla_parse_nested() is called with a non-NULL policy.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Commit 9757235f45, "nl80211: correct checks for
NL80211_MESHCONF_HT_OPMODE value") relaxed the range for the HT
operation field in meshconf, while also adding checks requiring
the non-greenfield and non-ht-sta bits to be set in certain
circumstances. The latter bit is actually reserved for mesh BSSes
according to Table 9-168 in 802.11-2016, so in fact it should not
be set.
wpa_supplicant sets these bits because the mesh and AP code share
the same implementation, but authsae does not. As a result, some
meshconf updates from authsae which set only the NONHT_MIXED
protection bits were being rejected.
In order to avoid breaking userspace by changing the rules again,
simply accept the values with or without the bits set, and mask
off the reserved bit to match the spec.
While in here, update the 802.11-2012 reference to 802.11-2016.
Fixes: 9757235f45 ("nl80211: correct checks for NL80211_MESHCONF_HT_OPMODE value")
Cc: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <bobcopeland@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add support for the HE in cfg80211 and also add userspace API to
nl80211 to send rate information out, conforming with P802.11ax_D2.0.
Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <idox.yariv@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
User space tools might be interested in knowing the current
status of the 4ADDR property of an interface (when supported).
Send the status along with the other attributes when replying
to a GET_INTERFACE netlink query.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Add the scan flags for randomized SN and minimized probe request
content for improved scan privacy.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
There's a very common pattern to check for a scan flag and
then reject it if an extended feature flag isn't set, factor
this out into a helper function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reject NL80211_CMD_DISCONNECT, NL80211_CMD_DISASSOCIATE,
NL80211_CMD_DEAUTHENTICATE and NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE commands
from clients other than the connection owner set in the connect,
authenticate or associate commands, if it was set.
The main point of this check is to prevent chaos when two processes
try to use nl80211 at the same time, it's not a security measure.
The same thing should possibly be done for JOIN_IBSS/LEAVE_IBSS and
START_AP/STOP_AP.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Use NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_CONNECT_PARAMS to update new ERP information,
Association IEs and the Authentication type to driver / firmware which
will be used in subsequent roamings.
Signed-off-by: Vidyullatha Kanchanapally <vidyullatha@codeaurora.org>
[arend: extended fils-sk kernel doc and added check in wiphy_register()]
Reviewed-by: Jithu Jance <jithu.jance@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Eylon Pedinovsky <eylon.pedinovsky@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
In case of FILS shared key offload the parameters can change
upon roaming of which user-space needs to be notified.
Reviewed-by: Jithu Jance <jithu.jance@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Eylon Pedinovsky <eylon.pedinovsky@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Put FILS related parameters into their own struct definition so
it can be reused for roam events in subsequent change.
Reviewed-by: Jithu Jance <jithu.jance@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Eylon Pedinovsky <eylon.pedinovsky@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Only invoke cfg80211_bss_expire on the first nl80211_dump_scan
invocation to avoid (likely) redundant processing.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Bring in net-next which had pulled in net, so I have the changes
from mac80211 and can apply a patch that would otherwise conflict.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Commit 7ea3e110f2 seems to have
introduced:
net/wireless/nl80211.c: In function ‘nl80211_get_station’:
net/wireless/nl80211.c:4802:34: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of ‘cfg80211_sinfo_release_content’
cfg80211_sinfo_release_content(sinfo);
^~~~~
In file included from net/wireless/nl80211.c:24:0:
./include/net/cfg80211.h:5721:20: note: expected ‘struct station_info *’ but argument is of type ‘struct station_info’
static inline void cfg80211_sinfo_release_content(struct station_info *sinfo)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Fixes: 7ea3e110f2 ("cfg80211: release station info tidstats where needed")
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This fixes memory leaks in cases where we got the station
info but failed sending it out properly.
Fixes: 8689c051a2 ("cfg80211: dynamically allocate per-tid stats for station info")
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Arend's previous patch made the sinfo structure smaller
again by to dynamically allocating the per-tid stats
only when needed. Thus, revert to stack allocation for
the struct to simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
With the addition of TXQ stats in the per-tid statistics the struct
station_info grew significantly. This resulted in stack size warnings
due to the structure itself being above the limit for the warnings.
Add an allocation function that those who want to provide per-tid
stats should use to allocate the tid array, i.e.
struct station_info::pertid.
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Fixes: 52539ca89f ("cfg80211: Expose TXQ stats and parameters to userspace")
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
[johannes: fix missing BIT() and logic by removing]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Allocation size of nlmsg in cfg80211_ft_event is based on ric_ies_len
and doesn't take into account ies_len. This leads to
NL80211_CMD_FT_EVENT message construction failure in case ft_event
contains large enough ies buffer.
Add ies_len to the nlmsg allocation size.
Signed-off-by: Dedy Lansky <dlansky@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This adds support for exporting the mac80211 TXQ stats via nl80211 by
way of a nested TXQ stats attribute, as well as for configuring the
quantum and limits that were previously only changeable through debugfs.
This commit adds just the nl80211 API, a subsequent commit adds support to
mac80211 itself.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Average ack rssi will be given to userspace via NL80211 interface
if firmware is capable. Userspace tool ‘iw’ can process this
information and give the output as one of the fields in
‘iw dev wlanX station dump’.
Example output :
localhost ~ #iw dev wlan-5000mhz station dump Station
34:f3:9a:aa:3b:29 (on wlan-5000mhz)
inactive time: 5370 ms
rx bytes: 85321
rx packets: 576
tx bytes: 14225
tx packets: 71
tx retries: 0
tx failed: 2
beacon loss: 0
rx drop misc: 0
signal: -54 dBm
signal avg: -53 dBm
tx bitrate: 866.7 MBit/s VHT-MCS 9 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 2
rx bitrate: 866.7 MBit/s VHT-MCS 9 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 2
avg ack signal: -56 dBm
authorized: yes
authenticated: yes
associated: yes
preamble: short
WMM/WME: yes
MFP: no
TDLS peer: no
DTIM period: 2
beacon interval:100
short preamble: yes
short slot time:yes
connected time: 203 seconds
Main use case is to measure the signal strength of a connected station
to AP. Data packet transmit rates and bandwidth used by station can vary
a lot even if the station is at fixed location, especially if the rates
used are multi stream(2stream, 3stream) rates with different bandwidth(20/40/80 Mhz).
These multi stream rates are sensitive and station can use different transmit power
for each of the rate and bandwidth combinations. RSSI measured from these RX packets
on AP will be not stable and can vary a lot with in a short time.
Whereas 802.11 ack frames from station are sent relatively at a constant
rate (6/12/24 Mbps) with constant bandwidth(20 Mhz).
So average rssi of the ack packets is good and more accurate.
Signed-off-by: Balaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Ankita Bajaj