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Author SHA1 Message Date
Zhao, Gang 4da6462213 cfg80211: remove unnecessary check
RCU pointer bss->pub.beacon_ies is checked before in previous
statement:

if (rcu_access_pointer(bss->pub.beacon_ies))
	continue;

There is no need to check it twice(and in the wrong way :) ).

Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-03-19 21:29:57 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 3afc2167f6 cfg80211/mac80211: ignore signal if the frame was heard on wrong channel
On 2.4Ghz band, the channels overlap since the delta
between different channels is 5Mhz while the width of the
receiver is 20Mhz (at least).

This means that we can hear beacons or probe responses from
adjacent channels. These frames will have a significant
lower RSSI which will feed all kinds of logic with inaccurate
data. An obvious example is the roaming algorithm that will
think our AP is getting weak and will try to move to another
AP.

In order to avoid this, update the signal only if the frame
has been heard on the same channel as the one advertised by
the AP in its DS / HT IEs.
We refrain from updating the values only if the AP is
already in the BSS list so that we will still have a valid
(but inaccurate) value if the AP was heard on an adjacent
channel only.

To achieve this, stop taking the channel from DS / HT IEs
in mac80211. The DS / HT IEs is taken into account to
discard the frame if it was received on a disabled channel.
This can happen due to the same phenomenon: the frame is
sent on channel 12, but heard on channel 11 while channel
12 can be disabled on certain devices. Since this check
is done in cfg80211, stop even checking this in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
[remove unused rx_freq variable]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-03-19 21:29:56 +01:00
Johannes Berg f9d15d162b cfg80211: send scan results from work queue
Due to the previous commit, when a scan finishes, it is in theory
possible to hit the following sequence:
 1. interface starts being removed
 2. scan is cancelled by driver and cfg80211 is notified
 3. scan done work is scheduled
 4. interface is removed completely, rdev->scan_req is freed,
    event sent to userspace but scan done work remains pending
 5. new scan is requested on another virtual interface
 6. scan done work runs, freeing the still-running scan

To fix this situation, hang on to the scan done message and block
new scans while that is the case, and only send the message from
the work function, regardless of whether the scan_req is already
freed from interface removal. This makes step 5 above impossible
and changes step 6 to be
 5. scan done work runs, sending the scan done message

As this can't work for wext, so we send the message immediately,
but this shouldn't be an issue since we still return -EBUSY.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-06 09:55:19 +01:00
Ilan Peer bdfbec2d2d cfg80211: Add a function to get the number of supported channels
Add a utility function to get the number of channels supported by
the device, and update the places in the code that need this data.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
[replace another occurrence in libertas, fix kernel-doc, fix bugs]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-01-09 14:24:24 +01:00
Eliad Peller 4a58e7c384 cfg80211: don't "leak" uncompleted scans
___cfg80211_scan_done() can be called in some cases
(e.g. on NETDEV_DOWN) before the low level driver
notified scan completion (which is indicated by
passing leak=true).

Clearing rdev->scan_req in this case is buggy, as
scan_done_wk might have already being queued/running
(and can't be flushed as it takes rtnl()).

If a new scan will be requested at this stage, the
scan_done_wk will try freeing it (instead of the
previous scan), and this will later result in
a use after free.

Simply remove the "leak" option, and replace it with
a standard WARN_ON.

An example backtrace after such crash:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffee5
pgd = c0004000
[fffffee5] *pgd=9fdf6821, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP ARM
PC is at cfg80211_scan_done+0x28/0xc4 [cfg80211]
LR is at __ieee80211_scan_completed+0xe4/0x2dc [mac80211]
[<bf0077b0>] (cfg80211_scan_done+0x28/0xc4 [cfg80211])
[<bf0973d4>] (__ieee80211_scan_completed+0xe4/0x2dc [mac80211])
[<bf0982cc>] (ieee80211_scan_work+0x94/0x4f0 [mac80211])
[<c005fd10>] (process_one_work+0x1b0/0x4a8)
[<c0060404>] (worker_thread+0x138/0x37c)
[<c0066d70>] (kthread+0xa4/0xb0)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-05 19:06:47 +01:00
Johannes Berg 79845c662e cfg80211: fix scheduled scan pointer access
Since rdev->sched_scan_req is dereferenced outside the
lock protecting it, this might be done at the wrong
time, causing crashes. Move the dereference to where
it should be - inside the RTNL locked section.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.8+]
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-21 11:59:15 +02:00
Joe Perches 1372a298ea wireless: scan: Remove comment to compare_ether_addr
This function is being removed, so remove the reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-03 22:34:48 -04:00
Simon Wunderlich dcd6eac1f3 nl80211: add scan width to bss and scan request structs
To allow scanning and working with 5 MHz and 10 MHz BSS, extend the
inform bss commands and add wrappers to take 5 and 10 MHz bss into
account.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:01 +03:00
Ben Greear 0e3a39b562 wireless: add comments about bss refcounting
Should help the next person that tries to understand
the bss refcounting logic.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-24 15:54:45 +02:00
Johannes Berg 5fe231e873 cfg80211: vastly simplify locking
Virtually all code paths in cfg80211 already (need to) hold
the RTNL. As such, there's little point in having another
four mutexes for various parts of the code, they just cause
lock ordering issues (and much of the time, the RTNL and a
few of the others need thus be held.)

Simplify all this by getting rid of the extra four mutexes
and just use the RTNL throughout. Only a few code changes
were needed to do this and we can get rid of a work struct
for bonus points.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:15 +02:00
Johannes Berg 9f419f3851 cfg80211: move cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex under wext
The function is only used and needed by the wext code
for scanning, so move it there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:13 +02:00
Johannes Berg f9f475292d cfg80211: always check for scan end on P2P device
If a P2P device wdev is removed while it has a scan, then the
scan completion might crash later as it is already freed by
that time. To avoid the crash always check the scan completion
when the P2P device is being removed for some reason. If the
driver already canceled it, don't want and free it, otherwise
warn and leak it to avoid later crashes.

In order to do this, locking needs to be changed away from the
rdev mutex (which can't always be guaranteed). For now, use
the sched_scan_mtx instead, I'll rename it to just scan_mtx in
a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-24 11:15:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg 1345ee6a6d cfg80211: fix potential BSS memory leak and update
In the odd case that while updating information from a beacon,
a BSS was found that is part of a hidden group, we drop the
new information. In this case, however, we leak the IE buffer
from the update, and erroneously update the entry's timestamp
so it will never time out. Fix both these issues.

Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-07 12:55:32 +01:00
Johannes Berg 8cdc196b74 Merge remote-tracking branch 'mac80211/master' into HEAD 2013-02-15 09:41:21 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 04f39047af nl80211/cfg80211: add radar detection command/event
Add new NL80211_CMD_RADAR_DETECT, which starts the Channel
Availability Check (CAC). This command will also notify the
usermode about events (CAC finished, CAC aborted, radar
detected, NOP finished).
Once radar detection has started it should continuously
monitor for radars as long as the channel is active.

This patch enables DFS for AP mode in nl80211/cfg80211.

Based on original patch by Victor Goldenshtein <victorg@ti.com>

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
[remove WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_RADAR_DETECT again -- my mistake]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:40:18 +01:00
Luciano Coelho 6719429dd6 cfg80211: check vendor IE length to avoid overrun
cfg80211_find_vendor_ie() was checking only that the vendor IE would
fit in the remaining IEs buffer.  If a corrupt includes a vendor IE
that is too small, we could potentially overrun the IEs buffer.

Fix this by checking that the vendor IE fits in the reported IE length
field and skip it otherwise.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
[change BUILD_BUG_ON to != 1 (from >= 2)]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-13 10:14:17 +01:00
Johannes Berg 8cef2c9df8 cfg80211: move TSF into IEs
While technically the TSF isn't an IE, it can be
necessary to distinguish between the TSF from a
beacon and a probe response, in particular in
order to know the next DTIM TBTT, as not all APs
are spec compliant wrt. TSF==0 being a DTIM TBTT
and thus the DTIM count needs to be taken into
account as well.

To allow this, move the TSF into the IE struct
so it can be known whence it came.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg 83c7aa1a14 cfg80211: remove scan ies NULL check
There's no way scan BSS IEs can be NULL as even
if the allocation fails the frame is discarded.
Remove some code checking for this and document
that it is always non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg 776b358017 cfg80211: track hidden SSID networks properly
Currently, cfg80211 will copy beacon IEs from a previously
received hidden SSID beacon to a probe response entry, if
that entry is created after the beacon entry. However, if
it is the other way around, or if the beacon is updated,
such changes aren't propagated.

Fix this by tracking the relation between the probe
response and beacon BSS structs in this case.

In case drivers have private data stored in a BSS struct
and need access to such data from a beacon entry, cfg80211
now provides the hidden_beacon_bss pointer from the probe
response entry to the beacon entry.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:57 +01:00
Johannes Berg 5b112d3d09 cfg80211: pass wiphy to cfg80211_ref_bss/put_bss
This prepares for using the spinlock instead of krefs
which is needed in the next patch to track the refs
of combined BSSes correctly.

Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [mwifiex]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:52 +01:00
Johannes Berg 0532d4f154 cfg80211: wrap BSS kref
Add inline wrappers for the BSS struct krefs
to be able to extend them easily later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:46 +01:00
Johannes Berg 9537f227b4 cfg80211: remove a local variable
This local variable is only used once, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:46 +01:00
Johannes Berg 4b1af4792a cfg80211: use lockdep to assert lock is held
Instead of annotating with a comment, add a lockdep
annotation which also serves as documentation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:45 +01:00
Johannes Berg 2ca813ad61 cfg80211: move locking into cfg80211_bss_age
There's no reason for it to require external
locking, move it into the function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:43 +01:00
Johannes Berg 50521aa881 cfg80211: fix BSS IE allocation comment
The comment about allocating the IEs together with
the BSS struct is no longer true, remove it. Also
fix a typo in the same area.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:43 +01:00
Johannes Berg 37e0838117 cfg80211: remove unused cfg80211_get_mesh
As Thomas pointed out, cfg80211_get_mesh() is
unused and can be removed.

Cc: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:42 +01:00
Johannes Berg 3af6341c53 cfg80211: simplify mesh BSS comparison
Instead of first checking if a BSS is an MBSS
and then doing the comparisons, inline it all
into the BSS comparison function. This avoids
doing the IE searches twice and is also a lot
less code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:41 +01:00
Johannes Berg 4593c4cbe1 cfg80211: fix BSS list hidden SSID lookup
When trying to find a hidden SSID, the lookup function
is done wrong; the code is trying to combine the two
lookups into one, and as a consequence doesn't always
find the entry at all. To understand this, consider a
case where multiple BSS entries with the same channel
and BSSID exist but have different SSID length. Then
comparing against the probe response SSID length is
bound to cause problems since the hidden one might be
either zeroed out or zero-length.

To fix this we need to do two lookups for the two ways
to hide SSIDs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:41 +01:00
Johannes Berg 5622f5bb8d cfg80211: refactor hidden SSID finding
Instead of duplicating the rbtree functions, pass
an argument to the compare function. This removes
the code duplication for the two searches.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:40 +01:00
Johannes Berg 3ff9a827c6 cfg80211: remove free_priv BSS API
Now that mac80211 no longer uses this API, remove
it completely. If anyone needs it again, we can
revert this patch of course, but mac80211 was the
only user right now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:07:30 +01:00
Dan Carpenter c49dc9008b cfg80211: off by one in ieee80211_bss()
We do a:

	sprintf(buf, " Last beacon: %ums ago",
		elapsed_jiffies_msecs(bss->ts));

elapsed_jiffies_msecs() can return a 10 digit number so "buf" needs to
be 31 characters long.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-24 15:47:22 +01:00
Johannes Berg 9caf036402 cfg80211: fix BSS struct IE access races
When a BSS struct is updated, the IEs are currently
overwritten or freed. This can lead to races if some
other CPU is accessing the BSS struct and using the
IEs concurrently.

Fix this by always allocating the IEs in a new struct
that holds the data and length and protecting access
to this new struct with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:42:20 +01:00
Johannes Berg f94f8b168c cfg80211: fix cmp_hidden_bss
The cmp_bss() comparator function uses memcmp() to
compare the SSID. This means that cmp_hidden_bss()
needs to similarly return a number bigger than zero
(use 1) instead of -1 when ie1 is bigger than ie2,
which is the case if an ie2 byte is non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:26 +01:00
Johannes Berg 915de2ff4a cfg80211: fix whitespace in scan handling
Fix a number of indentation and similar issues.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:25 +01:00
Johannes Berg b629ea3db4 cfg80211: don't BUG_ON BSS struct issues
There's no need to stop the machine, just leak
the BSS entry if there's an issue with its hold
counter when freeing.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:24 +01:00
Johannes Berg 0172bb7507 cfg80211: use DS or HT operation IEs to determine BSS channel
Currently, mac80211 checks the DS params IE if present and
uses it for the (primary) BSS channel, instead of the one
that the frame was received on. This is particularly useful
in the 2.4 GHz band since a frame is often received on one
of the adjacent channels due to overlap.

Move this code to cfg80211 so other drivers also do this.

Additionally, on 5 GHz, in particular with some (possibly)
upcoming changes in 802.11ai and duplicate transmissions
when wider channels are used, something similar happens.
So if present, also use the (primary) channel information
contained in the HT operation IE.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-23 14:23:30 +01:00
Beni Lev 4ee3e063f1 cfg80211: add cfg80211 exported function tracing
Also add tracing to the API functions that drivers
(and mac80211) can call in cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Beni Lev <beni.lev@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 10:53:38 +02:00
Hila Gonen e35e4d28b6 cfg80211: add wrappers for registered_device_ops
This will allow adding central tracing like in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Hila Gonen <hila.gonen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 10:53:37 +02:00
Sam Leffler 15d6030b4b cfg80211: add support for flushing old scan results
Add an NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_FLUSH flag that causes old bss cache
entries to be flushed on scan completion. This is useful for
collecting guaranteed fresh scan/survey result (e.g. on resume).

For normal scan, flushing only happens on successful completion
of a scan; i.e. it does not happen if the scan is aborted.
For scheduled scan, previous scan results are flushed everytime
when we get new scan results.

This feature is enabled by default. Drivers can disable it by
unsetting the NL80211_FEATURE_SCAN_FLUSH flag.

Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
[invert polarity of feature flag to account for old kernels]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 09:01:52 +02:00
Amitkumar Karwar e8e27c668b cfg80211: code rearrangement to avoid forward declarations
bss_release() and __cfg80211_unlink_bss() function definitions
are moved at the begining of the file. They are used in next
patch in this series.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 09:01:26 +02:00
Hila Gonen 768be59f30 cfg80211: fix indentation
checkpatch pointed out an issue, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Hila Gonen <hila.gonen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-05 16:54:05 +02:00
Johannes Berg fd0142844e nl80211: move scan API to wdev
The new P2P Device will have to be able to scan for
P2P search, so move scanning to use struct wireless_dev
instead of struct net_device.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:41 +02:00
David S. Miller c597f6653d Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next 2012-05-14 18:00:48 -04:00
Joe Perches ac422d3cc2 wireless: Convert compare_ether_addr to ether_addr_equal
Use the new bool function ether_addr_equal to add
some clarity and reduce the likelihood for misuse
of compare_ether_addr for sorting.

I removed a conversion from scan.c/cmp_bss_core
that appears to be a sorting function.

Done via cocci script:

$ cat compare_ether_addr.cocci
@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!compare_ether_addr(a, b)
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	compare_ether_addr(a, b)
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!ether_addr_equal(a, b) == 0
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!ether_addr_equal(a, b) != 0
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	ether_addr_equal(a, b) == 0
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	ether_addr_equal(a, b) != 0
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!!ether_addr_equal(a, b)
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-09 20:49:19 -04:00
Emmanuel Grumbach ef9456a85d cfg80211: fix BSS comparison
Since the BSS table is organized in a RB tree, the BSSs need to be
comparable. This means that we must define a < and > operator to
the BSS object.
compare_ethr_addr isn't enough since it returns only a binary value.

Since Felix's

cfg80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmp

    Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline
    compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp.

    Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The BSS table is corrupted: rb_find_bss can't find the bss.
As a result BSSes are duplicated in the BSS table, and we get stuck
while probing an AP before associating (in STA mode).

Change-Id: I85928756f4328028230832c1565ece7f412f3843
CC: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-08 21:53:56 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan f9616e0f88 cfg80211: increse bss expire time
The background scan completion takes more time when the station is
having heavy uplink traffic. The scan state machine decides to fall
back to home channel on every off-channel visit when there are pending
frames in tx queue. bgscan completion took ~30sec on dual band US
regulatory card.

scan period = (20 active channels * probe timeout) +
              (12 passive channels * passive probe timeout) +
              (32 * timeout on home channel) +
              (32 * flush timeout)

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-16 14:38:43 -04:00
Felix Fietkau c6fb08aaa8 cfg80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmp
Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline
compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-09 16:09:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg 7b8bcff2e0 cfg80211: clarify timestamp in cfg80211_inform_bss
This is intended to be the timestamp sent by the
peer in the beacon/probe response, not any form
of host timestamp. Clarify the documentation and
variable names.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-13 14:54:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg 4c0c0b75e0 cfg80211: export cfg80211_ref_bss
This is needed by mac80211 to keep a reference
to a BSS alive for the auth process. Remove the
old version of cfg80211_ref_bss() since it's
not actually used.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06 14:50:37 -05:00
Dmitry Tarnyagin dd9dfb9f95 cfg80211: merge in beacon ies of hidden bss.
The problem with PSM when a hidden SSID was used was originally
reported by Juuso Oikarinen.

 - When generally scanning, the AP is getting a bss entry with
   a zero SSID.
 - When associating, a probe-req is sent to the AP with the SSID,
   and as a result a probe-response is received with the hidden
   SSID in place. As a consequence, a second bss entry is created
   for the AP, now with the real SSID.
 - After association, mac80211 executes ieee80211_recalc_ps(),
   but does not switch to powersave because the beacon-ies are missing.

As result, the STA does not ever enter PSM.

The patch merges in beacon ies of hidden bss from beacon to the probe
response, creating a consistent set of ies in place.

Patch is depended on "cfg80211: fix cmp_ies" made by Johannes.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11 12:32:47 -05:00