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* mac80211: fix for incorrect sequence number on hostapd injected framesBjörn Smedman2009-10-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When hostapd injects a frame, e.g. an authentication or association response, mac80211 looks for a suitable access point virtual interface to associate the frame with based on its source address. This makes it possible e.g. to correctly assign sequence numbers to the frames. A small typo in the ethernet address comparison statement caused a failure to find a suitable ap interface. Sequence numbers on such frames where therefore left unassigned causing some clients (especially windows-based 11b/g clients) to reject them and fail to authenticate or associate with the access point. This patch fixes the typo in the address comparison statement. Signed-off-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: trivial: fix spelling in mesh_hwmpAndrey Yurovsky2009-10-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Fix a typo in the description of hwmp_route_info_get(), no function changes. Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: keep auth state when assoc failsJohannes Berg2009-10-271-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When association fails, we should stay authenticated, which in mac80211 is represented by the existence of the mlme work struct, so we cannot free that, instead we need to just set it to idle. (Brought to you by the hacking session at Kernel Summit 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. -- JWL) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix ibss joiningReinette Chatre2009-10-271-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recent commit "mac80211: fix logic error ibss merge bssid check" fixed joining of ibss cell when static bssid is provided. In this case ifibss->bssid is set before the cell is joined and comparing that address to a bss should thus always succeed. Unfortunately this change broke the other case of joining a ibss cell without providing a static bssid where the value of ifibss->bssid is not set before the cell is joined. Since ifibss->bssid may be set before or after joining the cell we do not learn anything by comparing it to a known bss. Remove this check. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: document ieee80211_rx() context requirementJohannes Berg2009-10-121-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ieee80211_rx() must be called with softirqs disabled since the networking stack requires this for netif_rx() and some code in mac80211 can assume that it can not be processing its own tasklet and this call at the same time. It may be possible to remove this requirement after a careful audit of mac80211 and doing any needed locking improvements in it along with disabling softirqs around netif_rx(). An alternative might be to push all packet processing to process context in mac80211, instead of to the tasklet, and add other synchronisation. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix ibss raceJohannes Berg2009-10-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a scan completes, we call ieee80211_sta_find_ibss(), which is also called from other places. When the scan was done in software, there's no problem as both run from the single-threaded mac80211 workqueue and are thus serialised against each other, but with hardware scan the completion can be in a different context and race against callers of this function from the workqueue (e.g. due to beacon RX). So instead of calling ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() directly, just arm the timer and have it fire, scheduling the work, which will invoke ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() (if that is appropriate in the current state). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix logic error ibss merge bssid checkFelix Fietkau2009-10-121-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use kfree_skb() to free struct sk_buff pointersRoel Kluin2009-10-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | kfree_skb() should be used to free struct sk_buff pointers. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix vlan and optimise RXJohannes Berg2009-10-073-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When receiving data frames, we can send them only to the interface they belong to based on transmitting station (this doesn't work for probe requests). Also, don't try to handle other frames for AP_VLAN at all since those interface should only receive data. Additionally, the transmit side must check that the station we're sending a frame to is actually on the interface we're transmitting on, and not transmit packets to functions that live on other interfaces, so validate that as well. Another bug fix is needed in sta_info.c where in the VLAN case when adding/removing stations we overwrite the sdata variable we still need. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix [re]association power saving issue on AP sideIgor Perminov2009-09-291-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Consider the following step-by step: 1. A STA authenticates and associates with the AP and exchanges traffic. 2. The STA reports to the AP that it is going to PS state. 3. Some time later the STA device goes to the stand-by mode (not only its wi-fi card, but the device itself) and drops the association state without sending a disassociation frame. 4. The STA device wakes up and begins authentication with an Auth frame as it hasn't been authenticated/associated previously. At the step 4 the AP "remembers" the STA and considers it is still in the PS state, so the AP buffers frames, which it has to send to the STA. But the STA isn't actually in the PS state and so it neither checks TIM bits nor reports to the AP that it isn't power saving. Because of that authentication/[re]association fails. To fix authentication/[re]association stage of this issue, Auth, Assoc Resp and Reassoc Resp frames are transmitted disregarding of STA's power saving state. N.B. This patch doesn't fix further data frame exchange after authentication/[re]association. A patch in hostapd is required to fix that. Signed-off-by: Igor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: improve/fix mlme messagesJohannes Berg2009-09-281-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | It's useful to know the MAC address when being disassociated; fix a typo (missing colon) and move some messages so we get them only when they are actually taking effect. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix DTIM settingJohannes Berg2009-09-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the DTIM setting is read from beacons, mac80211 will assume it is 1 if the TIM IE is not present or the value is 0. This sounds fine, but the same function processes probe responses as well, which don't have a TIM IE. This leads to overwriting any values previously parsed out of beacon frames. Thus, instead of checking for the presence of the TIM IE when setting the default, simply check whether the DTIM period value is valid already. If the TIM IE is not there then the value cannot be valid (it is initialised to 0) and probe responses received after beacons will not lead to overwriting an already valid value. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* rc80211_minstrel: fix contention window calculationPavel Roskin2009-09-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | The contention window is supposed to be a power of two minus one, i.e. 15, 31, 63, 127... minstrel_rate_init() forgets to subtract 1, so the sequence becomes 15, 32, 66, 134... Bug reported by Dan Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devicesMarcel Holtmann2009-09-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace application it is important to classify these devices correctly and not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid. To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available within udev. # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent DEVTYPE=wlan INTERFACE=wlan0 IFINDEX=5 This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc. The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-09-021-3/+2
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| * wireless: remove mac80211 rate selection extra menuLuis R. Rodriguez2009-09-021-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can just display this upon enabling mac80211 with an 'if MAC80211 != n' check. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | net: file_operations should be constStephen Hemminger2009-09-022-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | All instances of file_operations should be const. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | wireless: convert drivers to netdev_tx_tStephen Hemminger2009-09-012-6/+8
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Mostly just simple conversions: * ray_cs had bogus return of NET_TX_LOCKED but driver was not using NETIF_F_LLTX * hostap and ipw2x00 had some code that returned value from a called function that also had to change to return netdev_tx_t Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* mac80211: Check pending scan request after having processed mgd workJouni Malinen2009-08-281-16/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | When the queued management work items are processed in ieee80211_sta_work() an item could be removed. This could change the anybusy from true to false, so we better check whether we can start a new scan only after having processed the pending work first. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix scan cancel on ifdownJohannes Berg2009-08-282-27/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When an interface is taken down while a scan is pending -- i.e. a scan request was accepted but not yet acted upon due to other work being in progress -- we currently do not properly cancel that scan and end up getting stuck. Fix this by doing better checks when an interface is taken down. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix output of minstrels rc_statsArnd Hannemann2009-08-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | An integer overflow in the minstrel debug code prevented the throughput to be displayed correctly. This patch fixes that, by permutating operations like proposed by Pavel Roskin. Signed-off-by: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix RX skb leaksJohannes Berg2009-08-281-19/+15
| | | | | | | | | In mac80211's RX path some of the warnings that warn about drivers passing invalid status values leak the skb, fix that by refactoring the code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Remove unnused throughput field from minstrel_rate.Arnd Hannemann2009-08-281-1/+0
| | | | | | | | I noticed that the throughput field of the minstrel_rate struct is never used, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove tasklet enable/disableJohannes Berg2009-08-285-11/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to the way the tasklets work in mac80211 there's no need to ever disable them. However, we need to clear the pending packets when taking down the last interface because otherwise the tx_pending_tasklet might be queued if the driver mucks with the queues (which it shouldn't). I've had a situation occasionally with ar9170 in which ksoftirq was using 100% CPU time because a disabled tasklet was scheduled, and I think that was due to ar9170 receiving a packet while the tasklet was disabled. That's strange and it really should not do that for other reasons, but there's no need to waste that much CPU time over it, it should just warn instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove ieee80211_rx namespace hackJohn W. Linville2009-08-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | With the libipw naming scheme change, it is no longer necessary for mac80211 to avoid the ieee80211_rx name clash. Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix configure_filter invocation after stopJohannes Berg2009-08-284-16/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since configure_filter can sleep now, any multicast configuration needed to be postponed to a work struct. This, however, lead to a problem that we could queue the work, stop the device and then afterwards invoke configure_filter which may lead to driver hangs and is a bug. To fix this, we can just cancel the filter work since it's unnecessary to do after stopping the hw. Since there are various places that call drv_stop, and two of them do very similar things, the code for them can be put into a shared function at the same time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Tested-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Update mesh config IE to 11s draft 3.02Javier Cardona2009-08-282-15/+38
| | | | | | | | | | The mesh config information element has changed significantly since draft 1.08 This patch brings it up to date. Thanks to Sam Leffler and Rui Paulo for identifying this. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix register_hw error pathJohannes Berg2009-08-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | "cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan request" introduced a bug into the error path, because now we allocate the entire scan request and not just the channel list (the channel list is allocated together with the scan request) -- on errors we thus also need to free the entire scan request. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: New stat counters for multicast and unicast forwarded framesDaniel Walker2009-08-204-2/+21
| | | | | | | | | | This expands on the current fwded_frames stat counter which should be equal to the total of these two new counters. The new counters are called "fwded_mcast" and "fwded_unicast". Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* rc80211_pid_algo.c: remove unused variable declarationJohn W. Linville2009-08-201-1/+0
| | | | | | | | CC [M] net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.o net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c: In function ‘rate_control_pid_rate_init’: net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c:304: warning: unused variable ‘si’ Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.Javier Cardona2009-08-205-29/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric. This used to be done inside the rate control module. This patch breaks the dependency between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm. Mesh will now work independently of the chosen rate control algorithm. The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for each mesh peer station. If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the peer link is marked as broken. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove deprecated APIJohannes Berg2009-08-201-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | All but two drivers have now stopped using the two deprecated members radio_enabled and beacon_int, so it's about time to remove them for good. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleepJohannes Berg2009-08-207-43/+77
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that need the multicast address list implement. This new callback must be atomic, but most drivers either don't care or just calculate a hash which can be done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware non-atomically. A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170, mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00, wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this new capability. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-08-141-0/+8
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| * mac80211: fix panic when splicing unprepared TIDsLuis R. Rodriguez2009-08-131-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We splice skbs from the pending queue for a TID onto the local pending queue when tearing down a block ack request. This is not necessary unless we actually have received a request to start a block ack request (rate control, for example). If we never received that request we should not be splicing the tid pending queue as it would be null, causing a panic. Not sure yet how exactly we allowed through a call when the tid state does not have at least HT_ADDBA_REQUESTED_MSK set, that will require some further review as it is not quite obvious. For more information see the bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13922 This fixes this oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000030 IP: [<f8806c70>] ieee80211_agg_splice_packets+0x40/0xc0 [mac80211] *pdpt = 0000000002d1e001 *pde = 0000000000000000 Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/module/aes_generic/initstate Modules linked in: <bleh> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.31-rc5-wl #2) Dell DV051 EIP: 0060:[<f8806c70>] EFLAGS: 00010292 CPU: 0 EIP is at ieee80211_agg_splice_packets+0x40/0xc0 [mac80211] EAX: 00000030 EBX: 0000004c ECX: 00000003 EDX: 00000000 ESI: c1c98000 EDI: f745a1c0 EBP: c076be58 ESP: c076be38 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c076a000 task=c0709160 task.ti=c076a000) Stack: <bleh2> Call Trace: [<f8806edb>] ? ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb+0xab/0x150 [mac80211] [<f8802f1e>] ? ieee80211_tasklet_handler+0xce/0x110 [mac80211] [<c04862ff>] ? net_rx_action+0xef/0x1d0 [<c0149378>] ? tasklet_action+0x58/0xc0 [<c014a0f2>] ? __do_softirq+0xc2/0x190 [<c018eb48>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x58/0x140 [<c01205fe>] ? ack_apic_level+0x7e/0x270 [<c014a1fd>] ? do_softirq+0x3d/0x40 [<c014a345>] ? irq_exit+0x65/0x90 [<c010a6af>] ? do_IRQ+0x4f/0xc0 [<c014a35d>] ? irq_exit+0x7d/0x90 [<c011d547>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0x90 [<c01094a9>] ? common_interrupt+0x29/0x30 [<c010fd9e>] ? mwait_idle+0xbe/0x100 [<c0107e42>] ? cpu_idle+0x52/0x90 [<c054b1a5>] ? rest_init+0x55/0x60 [<c077492d>] ? start_kernel+0x315/0x37d [<c07743ce>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1f9 [<c0774099>] ? i386_start_kernel+0x79/0x81 Code: <bleh3> EIP: [<f8806c70>] ieee80211_agg_splice_packets+0x40/0xc0 [mac80211] SS:ESP 0068:c076be38 CR2: 0000000000000030 Cc: stable@kernel.org Testedy-by: Jack Lau <jackelectronics@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Fix invalid length passed to IE parser for PLINK CONFIRM framesDavid Woo2009-08-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The length of the fixed portion of plink confirm frames is 4 bytes longer than the other plink_action frames. This path corrects an error in the length adjustment done for these type of frames. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Mark a destination sequence number as valid when a PREQ is received.David Woo2009-08-141-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a PREQ frame is received giving us a fresher DSN than what we have, record the new dsn and mark it as valid. This patch fixes a bug in the setting of the MESH_PATH_DSN_VALID flag. Also, minor fix to coding style on that file. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Fix unresolved mesh frames queued without valid control.vifJavier Cardona2009-08-141-8/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mesh frames that could not be immediately resolved were queued with a NULL info->control.vif. This patch moves the call to mesh_nexthop_lookup closer to the point where it is handed over to ieee80211_tx(). This ensures that the unresolved frames are ready to be sent once the path is resolved. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Move mpath and mpp growth to mesh workqueue.Javier Cardona2009-08-145-109/+144
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This prevents calling rcu_synchronize from within the tx path by moving the table growth code to the mesh workqueue. Move mesh_table_free and mesh_table_grow from mesh.c to mesh_pathtbl.c and declare them static. Also, re-enable mesh in Kconfig and update the configuration description. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Assign a default mesh beaconing interval.Javier Cardona2009-08-142-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The mesh stack was enabling beaconing without specifying an interval. This patch defines a default beaconing interval of 1s. Incidentally, this fixes mesh beaconing in mac80211_hwsim devices. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Early detection of broken mesh paths when using minstrel.Javier Cardona2009-08-141-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change triggers a path discovery as soon as the link quality degrades below a certain threshold. This results in a faster path recovery time than by simply relying on the periodic path refresh mechanism to detect broken links. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Update the station failed frames average when minstrel is used.Javier Cardona2009-08-141-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The fail_avg value is used to compute the mesh metric, and was only being set by the pid rate control module. This fixes the mesh path selection mechanism for cards that use mistrel for rate control. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Use 3-address format for mesh broadcast frames.Javier Cardona2009-08-144-52/+124
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 11s task group recently changed the frame mesh multicast/broadcast frame format to use 3-address. This was done to avoid interactions with widely deployed lazy-WDS access points. This patch changes the format of group addressed frames, both mesh-originated and proxied, to use the data format defined in draft D2.08 and forward. The address fields used for group addressed frames is: In 802.11 header ToDS:0 FromDS:1 addr1: DA (broadcast/multicast address) addr2: TA addr3: Mesh SA In address extension header: addr4: SA (only present if frame was proxied) Note that this change breaks backward compatibility with earlier mesh stack versions. Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Use correct sign for mesh active path refresh.Andrey Yurovsky2009-08-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On locally originated traffic, we refresh active paths after a timeout. The decision to do this was using the wrong sign and therefore the refresh timer was triggered for every frame. Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Improve dequeing from mpath frame queue.Javier Cardona2009-08-142-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Also, fix typo in comment. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: small tx code cleanupJohannes Berg2009-08-141-19/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's really easier to read if it's not indented as much, so invert the condition and rearrange the code so the smaller chunk is indented instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: sequence number micro-optimisationJohannes Berg2009-08-141-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no need to mask the variable with 0xFFF0 since we ever only use it as a u16 and the lowest four bits can't ever be non-zero. The compiler cannot infer the latter, and therefore has to emit code to do the masking. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: take statistics before encryptionJohannes Berg2009-08-141-18/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When encryption is used, the number of bytes sent to the peer increases by the IV and ICV. This is accounted if software encryption is used, but not if the devices does hardware encryption. To make the numbers comparable, never account for that overhead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan requestJohannes Berg2009-08-143-14/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The memory layout for scan requests was rather wrong, we put the scan SSIDs before the channels which could lead to the channel pointers being unaligned in memory. It turns out that using a pointer to the channel array isn't necessary anyway since we can embed a zero-length array into the struct. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: allow DMA optimisationJohannes Berg2009-08-141-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we have a lot of frames to transmit at once, for instance with fragmentation, it can be an optimisation to only tell the DMA engine about them on the last fragment/frame to avoid banging the IO too much. This patch allows implementation such an optimisation by telling the driver when more frames can be expected. Currently, this is used by mac80211 only on fragmented frames, but could also be used in the future on other frames when the queue was full and there are multiple frames pending. Note that drivers need to be careful when using this flag, they need to kick their DMA engines not just when this flag is clear, but also when the queue gets full so that progress can be made. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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