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Christian Lamparter
f9e124fbd8 mac80211: protect rx-path with spinlock
This patch fixes the problem which was discussed in
"mac80211: Fix PN corruption in case of multiple
virtual interface" [1].

Amit Shakya reported a serious issue with my patch:
mac80211: serialize rx path workers" [2]:

In case, ieee80211_rx_handlers processing is going on
for skbs received on one vif and at the same time, rx
aggregation reorder timer expires on another vif then
sta_rx_agg_reorder_timer_expired is invoked and it will
push skbs into the single queue (local->rx_skb_queue).

ieee80211_rx_handlers in the while loop assumes that
the skbs are for the same sdata and sta. This assumption
doesn't hold good in this scenario and the PN gets
corrupted by PN received in other vif's skb, causing
traffic to stop due to PN mismatch."

[1] Message-Id: http://mid.gmane.org/201302041844.44436.chunkeey@googlemail.com
[2] Commit-Id: 24a8fdad35

Reported-by: Amit Shakya <amit.shakya@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:55 +01:00
Marco Porsch
3f52b7e328 mac80211: mesh power save basics
Add routines to
- maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode
- indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames
- track neighbor STAs power modes
- buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode
- add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons
- release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods

Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power
mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer
link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh
config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor
changes.
Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the
non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated
mesh peering is currently not working when either node is
configured to be in power save mode.

Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS
Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions.
For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame
flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA
pointer is already available.

Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific
power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to
represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations.
Track power modes based on received frames.

Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS
neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer).

Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame
buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer
and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons.

Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or
deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE
similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received
Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames.

Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use
the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status.
Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end
the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and
show large delay spikes and frame losses.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy <ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:47 +01:00
Johannes Berg
3146a7da83 mac80211: remove unused SSID from BSS
The ssid/ssid_len fields in the private BSS
struct are unused, contrary to the comment
we do look up the SSID in the few cases we
need it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:42 +01:00
Johannes Berg
682bd38b8a mac80211: always allow calling ieee80211_connection_loss()
With multi-channel, there's a corner case where a driver
doesn't receive a beacon soon enough to be able to sync
its timers with the AP. In this case, the only recovery
(after trying again) is to disconnect from the AP. Allow
calling ieee80211_connection_loss() for such cases. To
make that possible, modify the work function to not rely
on the IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR flag but use new
state kept in the interface instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 16:09:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg
1672c0e319 mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status
When sending authentication/association frames they
might take a bit of time to go out because we may
have to synchronise with the AP, in particular in
the case where it's really a P2P GO. In this case
the 200ms fixed timeout could potentially be too
short if the beacon interval is relatively large.

For drivers that report TX status we can do better.
Instead of starting the timeout directly, start it
only when the frame status arrives. Since then the
frame was out on the air, we can wait shorter (the
typical response time is supposed to be 30ms, wait
100ms.) Also, if the frame failed to be transmitted
try again right away instead of waiting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:28:43 +01:00
Johannes Berg
0fe20add2c mac80211: remove unused mesh data from bss
These pointers/values are never used, remove them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:07:14 +01:00
Johannes Berg
ce9877c0cd mac80211: remove last_probe_resp from bss
We track this, but never use it, so we can
just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:06:32 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
c65dd1477b mac80211: inform the driver about update of dtim_period
Currently, when the driver requires the DTIM period,
mac80211 will wait to hear a beacon before association.
This behavior is suboptimal since some drivers may be
able to deal with knowing the DTIM period after the
association, if they get it at all.

To address this, notify the drivers with bss_info_changed
with the new BSS_CHANGED_DTIM_PERIOD flag when the DTIM
becomes known. This might be when changing to associated,
or later when the entire association was done with only
probe response information.

Rename the hardware flag for the current behaviour to
IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_BEFORE_ASSOC to more accurately
reflect its behaviour. IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_PERIOD is
no longer accurate as all drivers get the DTIM period
now, just not before association.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:05:38 +01:00
Johannes Berg
fdcb786930 mac80211: remove assoc data "sent_assoc"
The field is never used, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:05:33 +01:00
Johannes Berg
448cd55c37 Merge remote-tracking branch 'wireless-next/master' into HEAD 2013-01-29 12:16:22 +01:00
John W. Linville
9ebea3829f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/tx.c
2013-01-28 13:54:03 -05:00
Johannes Berg
a65240c101 mac80211: allow drivers to access IPv6 information
To be able to implement NS response offloading (in
regular operation or while in WoWLAN) drivers need
to know the IPv6 addresses assigned to interfaces.
Implement an IPv6 notifier in mac80211 to call the
driver when addresses change.

Unlike for IPv4, implement it as a callback rather
than as a list in the BSS configuration, that is
more flexible.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-18 21:55:38 +01:00
Johannes Berg
0f19b41e22 mac80211: remove ARP filter enable/disable logic
Depending on the driver, having ARP filtering for
some addresses may be possible. Remove the logic
that tracks whether ARP filter is enabled or not
and give the driver the total number of addresses
instead of the length of the list so it can make
its own decision.

Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-18 21:20:34 +01:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
aacde9ee45 mac80211: synchronize scan off/on-channel and PS states
Since:

commit b23b025fe2
Author: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 4 11:54:17 2011 -0800

    mac80211: Optimize scans on current operating channel.

we do not disable PS while going back to operational channel (on
ieee80211_scan_state_suspend) and deffer that until scan finish.
But since we are allowed to send frames, we can send a frame to AP
without PM bit set, so disable PS on AP side. Then when we switch
to off-channel (in ieee80211_scan_state_resume) we do not enable PS.
Hence we are off-channel with PS disabled, frames are not buffered
by AP.

To fix remove offchannel_ps_disable argument and always enable PS when
going off-channel and disable it when going on-channel, like it was
before.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-16 15:06:18 +01:00
Johannes Berg
c82c4a80bb mac80211: split aggregation stop by reason
The initiator/tx doesn't really identify why an
aggregation session is stopped, give a reason
for stopping that more clearly identifies what's
going on. This will help tell the driver clearly
what is expected of it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:41 +01:00
Johannes Berg
b08fbbd8ad mac80211: restrict assoc request VHT capabilities
In interoperability testing some APs showed bad behaviour
if some of the VHT capabilities of the station are better
than their own. Restrict the assoc request parameters
 - beamformee capabable,
 - RX STBC and
 - RX MCS set
to the subset that the AP can support.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:39 +01:00
Johannes Berg
d6a8322882 mac80211: track enable_beacon explicitly
Instead of calculating in ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify()
whether beaconing should be enabled or not, set it in the
correct places in the callers. This simplifies the logic in
this function at the expense of offchannel, but is also more
robust.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:35 +01:00
Johannes Berg
8a61af65c6 mac80211: fix channel context iteration
During suspend/resume channel contexts might be
iterated even if they haven't been re-added to
the driver, keep track of this and skip them in
iteration. Also use the new status for sanity
checks.

Also clarify the fact that during HW restart all
contexts are iterated over (thanks Eliad.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:35 +01:00
Johannes Berg
529ba6e931 mac80211: clean up association better in suspend
When suspending, bss_info_changed() is called to
disable beacons, but managed mode interfaces are
simply removed (bss_info_changed() is called with
"no change" only). This can lead to problems.

To fix this and copy the BSS configuration, clear
it during suspend and restore it on resume.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:34 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
d45c41722a mac82011: use frame control to differentiate probe resp/beacon
The probe response/beacon management frame RX code passes a
bool parameter to differentiate beacons and probe responses.
This is useless since we have the frame and can thus use its
frame control field. Moreover it is buggy since there is one
call to ieee80211_rx_bss_info with a beacon frame that is
indicated as a probe response, which is also fixed by using
the frame control field, so do that.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:33 +01:00
Johannes Berg
826262c3d2 mac80211: fix dtim_period in hidden SSID AP association
When AP's SSID is hidden the BSS can appear several times in
cfg80211's BSS list: once with a zero-length SSID that comes
from the beacon, and once for each SSID from probe reponses.

Since the mac80211 stores its data in ieee80211_bss which
is embedded into cfg80211_bss, mac80211's data will be
duplicated too.

This becomes a problem when a driver needs the dtim_period
since this data exists only in the beacon's instance in
cfg80211 bss table which isn't the instance that is used
when associating.

Remove the DTIM period from the BSS table and track it
explicitly to avoid this problem.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Efi Tubul <efi.tubul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:00:00 +01:00
Johannes Berg
97f97b1f5f mac80211: fix station destruction in AP/mesh modes
Unfortunately, commit b22cfcfcae, intended to speed up roaming
by avoiding the synchronize_rcu() broke AP/mesh modes as it moved
some code into that work item that will still call into the driver
at a time where it's no longer expected to handle this: after the
AP or mesh has been stopped.

To fix this problem remove the per-station work struct, maintain a
station cleanup list instead and flush this list when stations are
flushed. To keep this patch smaller for stable, do this when the
stations are flushed (sta_info_flush()). This unfortunately brings
back the original roaming delay; I'll fix that again in a separate
patch.

Also, Ben reported that the original commit could sometimes (with
many interfaces) cause long delays when an interface is set down,
due to blocking on flush_workqueue(). Since we now maintain the
cleanup list, this particular change of the original patch can be
reverted.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.7]
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 12:59:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg
4d76d21bd7 mac80211: assign VLAN channel contexts
Make AP_VLAN type interfaces track the AP master channel
context so they have one assigned for the various lookups.
Don't give them their own refcount etc. since they're just
slaves to the AP master.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 12:59:58 +01:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
34bcf71502 mac80211: fix ibss scanning
Do not scan on no-IBSS and disabled channels in IBSS mode. Doing this
can trigger Microcode errors on iwlwifi and iwlegacy drivers.

Also rename ieee80211_request_internal_scan() function since it is only
used in IBSS mode and simplify calling it from ieee80211_sta_find_ibss().

This patch should address:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883414
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49411

Reported-by: Jesse Kahtava <jesse_kahtava@f-m.fm>
Reported-by: Mikko Rapeli  <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 12:59:57 +01:00
John W. Linville
403e16731f Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2012-12-06 14:58:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg
c604b9f219 mac80211: make ieee80211_build_preq_ies safer
Instead of assuming 200 bytes are always enough for
all the IEs we add, give the length of the buffer
to the function and warn instead of overrunning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:26 +01:00
Johannes Berg
f2d9d270c1 mac80211: support VHT association
Determine the VHT channel from the AP's VHT operation IE
(if present) and configure the hardware to that channel
if it is supported. If channel contexts cause a channel
to not be usable, try a smaller bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-27 11:56:07 +01:00
John W. Linville
62c8003ecb Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2012-11-26 14:46:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg
4bf88530be mac80211: convert to channel definition struct
Convert mac80211 (and where necessary, some drivers a
little bit) to the new channel definition struct.

This will allow extending mac80211 for VHT, which is
currently restricted to channel contexts since there
are no drivers using that which makes it easier. As
I also don't care about VHT for drivers not using the
channel context API, I won't convert the previous API
to VHT support.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg
42d97a599e cfg80211: remove remain-on-channel channel type
As mwifiex (and mac80211 in the software case) are the
only drivers actually implementing remain-on-channel
with channel type, userspace can't be relying on it.
This is the case, as it's used only for P2P operations
right now.

Rather than adding a flag to tell userspace whether or
not it can actually rely on it, simplify all the code
by removing the ability to use different channel types.
Leave only the validation of the attribute, so that if
we extend it again later (with the needed capability
flag), it can't break userspace sending invalid data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg
a8243b7245 mac80211: rename IEEE80211_STA_DISABLE_11N to HT
Since the 11n spec amendment was rolled into the
2012 version, "11n" no longer makes sense. Use
"HT" instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-23 08:43:26 +01:00
John W. Linville
75c8ec71fb Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2012-11-21 14:43:51 -05:00
John W. Linville
b311749477 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
2012-11-21 12:57:56 -05:00
Thomas Pedersen
f4bda337bb mac80211: support RX_FLAG_MACTIME_END
Allow drivers to indicate their mactime is at RX completion and adjust
for this in mac80211. Also rename the existing RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU to
RX_FLAG_MACTIME_START to clarify its intent. Based on similar code by
Johannes Berg.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
[fix docs, atheros drivers]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-13 21:43:55 +01:00
Felix Fietkau
1f98ab7fef mac80211: call skb_dequeue/ieee80211_free_txskb instead of __skb_queue_purge
Fixes more wifi status skb leaks, leading to hostapd/wpa_supplicant hangs.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-10 21:26:28 +01:00
Johannes Berg
488dd7b53d mac80211: pass P2P powersave parameters to driver
While connected to a GO, parse the P2P NoA attribute
and pass the CT Window and opportunistic powersave
parameters to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-06 13:25:06 +01:00
Johannes Berg
50febf6a1a mac80211: use a counter for remain-on-channel cookie
Instead of using the pointer which can be re-used
fairly quickly due to allocator patterns and then
makes debugging difficult, maintain a counter and
use its value. Since it's a 64-bit value it can't
really wrap, but catch that case anyway since it
most likely points to a bug somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-30 09:33:40 +01:00
Johannes Berg
1ea6f9c0d4 mac80211: handle TX power per virtual interface
Even before channel contexts/multi-channel, having a
single global TX power limit was already problematic,
in particular if two managed interfaces connected to
two APs with different power constraints. The channel
context introduction completely broke this though and
in fact I had disabled TX power configuration there
for drivers using channel contexts.

Change everything to track TX power per interface so
that different user settings and different channel
maxima are treated correctly. Also continue tracking
the global TX power though for compatibility with
applications that attempt to configure the wiphy's
TX power globally.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-30 09:11:34 +01:00
Marco Porsch
d012a60510 mac80211: make client powersave independent of interface type
This patch prepares mac80211 for a later implementation of mesh or
ad-hoc powersave clients.
The structures related to powersave (buffer, TIM map, counters) are
moved from the AP-specific interface structure to a generic structure
that can be embedded into any interface type.
The functions related to powersave are prepared to allow easy
extension with different interface types. For example with:

+ } else if (sta->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) {
+         ps = &sdata->u.mesh.ps;

Some references to the AP's beacon structure are removed where they
were obviously not used.

The patch compiles without warning and has been briefly tested as AP
interface with one client in PS mode.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-19 15:43:51 +02:00
Johannes Berg
8ba7acf376 mac80211: remove unimplemented mesh vendor sync
There's no vendor-specific mesh sync implemented
and there don't need to be dummy handlers that
only print messages, so remove that code. While
at it, also constify the mesh sync ops.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 09:01:56 +02:00
Sam Leffler
cd2bb512cd mac80211: add support for tx to abort low priority scan requests
Use NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_LOW_PRIORITY flag in mac80211's scan state
machine to prematurely terminate scan operations if outbound
traffic collides. This is useful for marking background scans so
they don't affect throughput.

Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
[set feature flag only if software scan is used]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 09:01:53 +02:00
Mahesh Palivela
818255ea47 mac80211: VHT peer STA caps
Save the AP's VHT capabilities (in managed
mode) and make them available to the driver
in the station information.

Unlike HT capabilities, they aren't restricted
to the common capabilities, so drivers must be
aware of their own capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Palivela <maheshp@posedge.com>
[fix endian conversion bug ...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:14 +02:00
Ashok Nagarajan
1258d97616 mac80211: move out the non-statistics variable estab_plinks from mesh_stat
estab_plinks is not a statistics member. Hence move estab_plinks from
struct mesh_stat to struct ieee80211_if_mesh

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:13 +02:00
Jouni Malinen
6b8ece3a70 mac80211: Allow station mode SAE to be implemented in user space
SAE uses two rounds of Authentication frames and both rounds require
considerable calculation to be done. This commit extends the existing
station mode authentication request to allow more control for user
space programs to build the SAE fields and to run the authentication
step ones. Only the second round with authentication transaction
sequence 2 will result in moving to authenticated state.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:12 +02:00
Jouni Malinen
700e8ea677 mac80211: Take status code as parameter to ieee80211_send_auth
Non-zero status code may be needed for Authentication frames, e.g.,
when using SAE.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:10 +02:00
Johannes Berg
04ecd2578e mac80211: track needed RX chains for channel contexts
On each channel that the device is operating on, it
may need to listen using one or more chains depending
on the SMPS settings of the interfaces using it. The
previous channel context changes completely removed
this ability (before, it was available as the SMPS
mode).

Add per-context tracking of the required static and
dynamic RX chains and notify the driver on changes.
To achieve this, track the chains and SMPS mode used
on each virtual interface and update the channel
context whenever this changes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:09 +02:00
Johannes Berg
55de908ab2 mac80211: use channel contexts
Instead of operating on a single channel only,
use the new channel context infrastructure in
all mac80211 code.

This enables drivers that want to use the new
channel context infrastructure to use multiple
channels, while nothing should change for all
the other drivers that don't support it.

Right now this disables both TX power settings
and spatial multiplexing powersave. Both need
to be re-enabled on a channel context basis.

Additionally, when channel contexts are used
drop the connection when channel switch is
received rather than trying to handle it. This
will have to be improved later.

[With fixes from Eliad and Emmanuel incorporated]
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:09 +02:00
Johannes Berg
fe57d9f5c0 mac80211: track whether to use channel contexts
Depending on the driver, channel contexts may be used or
not. If they are used, the driver must have support for
hardware scan and remain-on-channel; otherwise the driver
must not advertise support for multiple channels.

Also prohibit WDS type interfaces when channel contexts
are to be used as there's no clear definition of which
channel they use.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-16 20:22:46 +02:00
Michal Kazior
d01a1e6586 mac80211: introduce channel context skeleton code
Channel context are the foundation for multi-channel
operation. They are are immutable and are re-created
(or re-used if other interfaces are bound to a certain
channel and a compatible channel type) on channel
switching.

This is an initial implementation and more features
will come in separate patches.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
[some changes including RCU protection]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-16 20:22:41 +02:00
Johannes Berg
04b7b2ff50 mac80211: handle power constraint/country IE better
Currently, mac80211 uses the power constraint IE, and reduces
the regulatory max TX power by it. This can cause issues if
the AP is advertising a large power constraint value matching
a high TX power in its country IE, for example in this case:

...
Country: US  Environment: Indoor/Outdoor
    ...
    Channels [157 - 157] @ 30 dBm
    ...
Power constraint: 13 dB
...

What happened here is that our local regulatory TX power is
15 dBm, and gets reduced by 13 dB so we end up with only
2 dBm effective TX power, which is way too low.

Instead, handle the country IE/power constraint IE combined
and restrict our TX power to the max of the regulatory power
and the maximum power advertised by the AP, in this case
17 dBm (= 30 dBm - 13 dB).

Also print a message when this happens to let the user know
and help us debug issues with it.

Reported-by: Carl A. Cook <CACook@quantum-equities.com>
Tested-by: Carl A. Cook <CACook@quantum-equities.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-14 14:06:51 +02:00