The hardware rx filter flag triggered by FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS is overly broad
and covers even frames with PHY errors. When this flag is enabled, this message
shows up frequently during scanning or hardware resets:
ath: Could not stop RX, we could be confusing the DMA engine when we start RX up
Since promiscuous mode is usually not particularly useful, yet enabled by
default by bridging (either used normally in 4-addr mode, or with hacks
for various virtualization software), we should sacrifice it for better
reliability during normal operation.
This patch leaves it enabled if there are active monitor mode interfaces, since
it's very useful for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The flag isn't very descriptive -- the intention
is that the driver provides a TSF timestamp at
the beginning of the MPDU -- make that clearer
by renaming the flag to RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With this change, less CPU time is spent trying to look for consecutive
pages for rx skbs. This also reduces the socket memory required for IP/UDP
reassembly.
Only two buffers per frame are supported. Frames spanning more buffers
will be dropped, but the buffer size is enough to handle the required
AMSDU size.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When using a mixture of AP and Station interfaces,
the hardware mode was using the type of the
last VIF registered. Instead, we should keep track
of the number of different types of vifs and set the
mode accordingly.
In addtion, use the vif type instead of hardware opmode
when dealing with beacons.
Attempt to move some of the common setup code into smaller
methods so we can re-use it when changing vif mode as
well as adding/deleting vifs.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The structure struct ieee80211_rx_status *rxs is no longer needed to be
passed to ath_rx_send_to_mac80211 function
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AUTOSLEEP feature is enabled only for AR9271 and AR9003 version
chipsets.So unlikely macro should be used only to check whether
auto-sleep feature is enabled
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This decreases spammage in the log. A single line message
will still be printed, so users can be aware that problem
exists.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove ath/debug.h and the includes of these files.
Coalesce long formats.
Correct a few misspellings and missing "\n"s from these logging messages.
Remove unnecessary trailing space before a newline.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
So these errors are always emitted at KERN_ERR level.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR_RxKeyIdxValid will not be set for bcast/mcast frames and so relying
this status for MIC failed frames is buggy.
Due to this, MIC failure events for broadcast frames are not sent to
supplicant resulted in AP disconnecting the STA.
Able to pass Wifi Test case 5.2.18 with this fix.
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> (2.6.36+)
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit 916448e77f.
"As far as I can tell, either of these patches breaks multiple VIF
scenarios. I'm not sure exactly why, but I had to revert this to
get any of my interfaces to associate."
-- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=129123368719339&w=2
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR_RxKeyIdxValid will not be set for bcast/mcast frames and so relying
this status for MIC failed frames is buggy.
Due to this, MIC failure events for broadcast frames are not sent to
supplicant resulted in AP disconnecting the STA.
Able to pass Wifi Test case 5.2.18 with this fix.
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> (2.6.36+)
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It seems that using ath9k_hw_stoppcurecv to stop rx dma is not enough.
When it's time to stop DMA, the PCU is still busy, so the rx enable
bit never clears.
Using ath9k_hw_abortpcurecv helps with getting rx stopped much faster,
with this change, I cannot reproduce the rx stop related WARN_ON anymore.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The PCU lock should be used to contend TX DMA as well,
this will be done next.
This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping
TX DMA completley when requested on the driver.
For more details about this issue refer to this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We have seen several DMA races when we race against
stopping and starting the PCU. I suspect that when
we cannot stop the PCU we may hit some of these same
races so warn against them for now but only when
debugging (CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG) is enabled.
If you run into this warning and are a developer,
please fix the cause of the warning. The potential
here, although I cannot prove yet, is that the DMA
engine can be confused and start writing to a buffer
that was already DMA'd before and at least the kernel
assumes is not being accessed by hardware anymore.
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI needs the RSSI average only in station mode, and only for tracking
the signal strength of beacons of the AP that it is connected to.
Adjust the code to track on the beacon RSSI, and store the average of that
in the ath_wiphy struct.
With these changes, we can get rid of this extra station lookup in the
rx path, which saves precious CPU cycles.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The HW opmode is blindly set to monitor type on monitor mode
change notification. This overrides the opmode when one of the
interfaces is still running as non-monitor iftype. So the monitoring
information needs to be maintained seperately.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Apart from locking the start and stop PCU we need
to ensure we also content starting and stopping the PCU
between hardware resets.
This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
For more details about this issue refer to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The real way to lock RX is to contend on the PCU
and reset, this will be fixed in the next patch but for
now just do the renames so that the next patch which changes
the locking order is crystal clear.
This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
For more details about this issue refer to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There was some locking for starting some parts of
RX but not for starting the PCU. Include this otherwise
we can content against stopping the PCU.
This can potentially lead to races against different
buffers on the PCU which can lead to to the DMA RX
engine writing to buffers which are already freed.
This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
For more details about this issue refer to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k locks for starting RX but not for stopping RX. We could
potentially run into a situation where tried to stop RX
but immediately started RX. This allows for races on the
the RX engine deciding what buffer we last left off on
and could potentially cause ath9k to DMA into already
free'd memory or in the worst case at a later time to
already given memory to other drivers.
Fix this by locking stopping RX.
This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
For more details about this issue refer to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This doesn't fix any problem that I'm aware of, but should
make it harder to add use-after-free type bugs in the
future.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The bf_dmacontext seems to be totally useless and duplicated
by bf_buf_addr. Remove it entirely, use bf_buf_addr in its
place.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This allows mac80211 to enable receiving of Probe Request frames in
station mode which is needed for P2P.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The old ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw method didn't properly
find VIFS when there was more than one per AP. This caused
AMPDU logic in ath9k to get the wrong VIF when trying to
account for transmitted SKBs.
This patch changes ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw to take a
localaddr argument to distinguish between VIFs with the
same AP but different local addresses. The method name
is changed to ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since AR9285 v1.0 and v1.1 were never sold (and the initvals removed),
its revision checks can be simplified similar to AR9280
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since AR9280 v1.0 was never sold (and the initvals removed), v1.0 specific
revision checks can be removed and the 'v2.0 or later' check can be
simplified to a check for AR9280 or later.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch:
commit 293dc5dfdb
Author: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Date: Fri Jun 19 12:17:48 2009 +0200
ath9k: remove ath_rx_ps_back_to_sleep helper
This helper only clears the SC_OP_WAIT_FOR_{BEACON,CAB} flags.
Remove it and clear these flags directly in the approptiate
places instead.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
introduced a regression which forgot to lift the beacon flag
after we received all broadcast and multicast data. This meant
we never went to sleep consuming about ~650mW on idle. This pretty
much broke power save completely.
This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.32+].
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Sameer Nanda <snanda@google.com>
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k's entire logic with SC_OP_SCANNING is incorrect due to the
way mac80211 currently implements the scan complete callback and
we handle it in ath9k. This patch removes the flag completely in
preference for the SC_OP_OFFCHANNEL which is really what we wanted.
The scanning flag was used to ensure we reset ANI to the old values
when we go back to the home channel, but if we are offchannel we
use some defaults. The flag was also used to re-enable the TX monitor.
Without this patch we simply never re-enabled ANI and the TX monitor
after going offchannel. This means that after one background
scan we are prone to noise issues and if we had a TX hang we would
not recover. To get this to work properly we must enable ANI after
we have configured the beacon timers, otherwise hardware acts really
oddly.
This patch has stable fixes which apply down to [2.6.36+], there
*may* be a to fix this on older kernels but requires a bit of
work since this patch relies on the new mac80211 flag
IEEE80211_CONF_OFFCHANNEL which was introduced as of 2.6.36.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k has a race on putting the chip into network sleep and
having registers read from hardware. The race occurs because
although ath9k_ps_restore() locks its own callers it makes use
of some variables which get altered in the driver at different
code paths. The variables are the ps_enabled and ps_flags.
This is easily reprodicible in large network environments when
roaming with the wpa_supplicant simple bgscan. You'd get some
0xdeadbeef read out on certain registers such as:
ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x806c: 0xdeadbeef & 0x01f00000 != 0x00000000
ath: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xdeadbeef
ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7000: 0xdeadbeef & 0x00000003 != 0x00000000
ath: Chip reset failed
The fix is to protect the ath9k_config(hw, IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_PS)
calls with a spin_lock_irqsave() which will disable contendors for
these variables from interrupt context, timers, re-entry from mac80211
on the same callback, and most importantly from ath9k_ps_restore()
which is the only call which will put the device into network sleep.
There are quite a few threads and bug reports on these a few of them are:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/+bug/407040http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5709http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5943
Stable fixes apply to [2.6.32+]
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:1341:6: warning: symbol 'ath_ant_div_conf_fast_divbias' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When there is more than one VIF, listen for all beacons
and ensure ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL is set.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This algorithm chooses the best main and alt lna out of
LNA1, LNA2, LNA1+LNA2 and LNA1-LNA2 to improve rx for single
chain chips(AR9285). This would greatly improve rx when there
is only one antenna is connected with AR9285.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to the hardware documentation, the MIC failure bit is only
valid if the frame was decrypted using a valid TKIP key and is not a
fragment.
In some setups I've seen hardware-reported MIC failures on an AP that
was configured for CCMP only, so it's clear that additional checks are
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess nulls rxs and the mactime is never set again -
mactime is always 0. This causes problems in IBSS mode.
ieee80211_rx_bss_info uses mactime to decide if an IBSS merge is needed.
Without this patch the merge is triggered by each beacon received.
This can be recognized by the "beacon TSF higher than local TSF - IBSS
merge with BSSID" log message accompanying each beacon.
This problem was not completely fixed in commit
a6d2055b02 and is not a stable kernel fix.
It is solely intended for wireless-testing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Friedrich <jft@dev2day.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw_setmac() only copies the mac address it is called with into
common->macaddr, yet in all call sites, the supplied mac address pointer
is already common->macaddr.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR5416 and all newer chipsets use a 32 bit rx timestamp, so there
is no need to keep the 15 bit timestamp extending logic around.
This patch removes ath9k_hw_extend_tsf (replaced by a call to
ath9k_hw_gettsf64), and reduces the frequency of TSF reads, which
can improve performance in some cases.
This change also has the side effect of making rx timestamps
more accurate.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The new ANI implementation will use this to skip ANI
calibration upon a scan. This cannot be ported to the
older ANI implementation unless default ANI values from
the ANI are also used upon a scan. This is essentially
what one of the things thenew ANI does.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If buffer is to be accessed by cpu after dma is over, but
between dma mapping and dma unmapping, we should use
dma_sync_single_for_cpu to sync the buffer between cpu with
device. And dma_sync_single_for_device is used to let
device gain the buffer again.
v2: Felix pointed out dma_sync_single_for_device is needed to return
buffer to device if an unsuccessful status bit check is found.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The rx status length should also be taken into account while
validating the length of a received frame.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Skip the rx status portion in skb->data before accessing ieee80211
frame header.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess() needs only ieee80211 frame header,
pass only frame headers instead of skb to that function. Also
remove ineffective frame dump in ath9k_process_rate().
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch relocates RX processing code from the
common module to ath9k. This reduces the size
of the common module which is also used by ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For edma, we should use DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL, or else use
DMA_FROM_DEVICE.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau