Introduce the capability to specify gfp_t parameter to
ieeee80211_obss_color_collision_notify routine since it runs in
interrupt context in ieee80211_rx_check_bss_color_collision().
Fixes: 6d945a33f2 ("mac80211: introduce BSS color collision detection")
Co-developed-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/02c990fb3fbd929c8548a656477d20d6c0427a13.1655419135.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
AP may run out of BSS color after color collision
detection event from driver.
Disable BSS color collision detection if no free colors are
available based on bss color disabled bit sent as a part of
NL80211_ATTR_HE_BSS_COLOR attribute sent in
NL80211_CMD_SET_BEACON.
It can be reenabled once new color is available.
Signed-off-by: Lavanya Suresh <lavaks@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1649867295-7204-3-git-send-email-quic_ramess@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
NL80211_ATTR_HE_BSS_COLOR attribute can be included in both
NL80211_CMD_START_AP and NL80211_CMD_SET_BEACON commands.
Move he_bss_color from cfg80211_ap_settings to cfg80211_beacon_data
and parse NL80211_ATTR_HE_BSS_COLOR as a part of nl80211_parse_beacon()
to have bss color settings parsed for both start ap and set beacon
commands.
Add a new flag he_bss_color_valid to indicate whether
NL80211_ATTR_HE_BSS_COLOR attribute is included.
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1649867295-7204-2-git-send-email-quic_ramess@quicinc.com
[fix build ...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Since we always track the BSSID there when we get associated,
these are equivalent, but ifmgd->bssid saves a dereference and
thus makes the code a bit smaller, and more readable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Currently in mac80211 each STA object is represented
using sta_info datastructure with the associated
STA specific information and drivers access ieee80211_sta
part of it.
With MLO (Multi Link Operation) support being added
in 802.11be standard, though the association is logically
with a single Multi Link capable STA, at the physical level
communication can happen via different advertised
links (uniquely identified by Channel, operating class,
BSSID) and hence the need to handle multiple link
STA parameters within a composite sta_info object
called the MLD STA. The different link STA part of
MLD STA are identified using the link address which can
be same or different as the MLD STA address and unique
link id based on the link vif.
To support extension of such a model, the sta_info
datastructure is modified to hold multiple link STA
objects with link specific params currently within
sta_info moved to this new structure. Similarly this is
done for ieee80211_sta as well which will be accessed
within mac80211 as well as by drivers, hence trivial
driver changes are expected to support this.
For current non MLO supported drivers, only one link STA
is present and link information is accessed via 'deflink'
member.
For MLO drivers, we still need to define the APIs etc. to
get the correct link ID and access the correct part of
the station info.
Currently in mac80211, all link STA info are accessed directly
via deflink. These will be updated to access via link pointers
indexed by link id with MLO support patches, with link id
being 0 for non MLO supported cases.
Except for couple of macro related changes, below spatch takes
care of updating mac80211 and driver code to access to the
link STA info via deflink.
@ieee80211_sta@
struct ieee80211_sta *s;
struct sta_info *si;
identifier var = {supp_rates, ht_cap, vht_cap, he_cap, he_6ghz_capa, eht_cap, rx_nss, bandwidth, txpwr};
@@
(
s->
- var
+ deflink.var
|
si->sta.
- var
+ deflink.var
)
@sta_info@
struct sta_info *si;
identifier var = {gtk, pcpu_rx_stats, rx_stats, rx_stats_avg, status_stats, tx_stats, cur_max_bandwidth};
@@
(
si->
- var
+ deflink.var
)
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1649086883-13246-1-git-send-email-quic_srirrama@quicinc.com
[remove MLO-drivers notes from commit message, not clear yet; run spatch]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Even if it is not a real issue since ieee80211_set_after_csa_beacon()
or ieee80211_set_after_color_change_beacon() are run only when csa or bcc
is active, move next_beacon check before running ieee80211_assign_beacon
routine.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/041764ed7e9781bcee66c33b41f1365aa4205932.1649327683.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Trigger ieee80211_csa_finish() on the non-transmitting interfaces
when channel switch concludes on the transmitting interface.
Co-developed-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Aloka Dixit <alokad@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Aloka Dixit <alokad@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6fde4d7f9fa387494f46a7aa4a584478dcda06f1.1645702516.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add new fields in struct beacon_data to store all MBSSID elements.
Generate a beacon template which includes all MBSSID elements.
Move CSA offset to reflect the MBSSID element length.
Co-developed-by: Aloka Dixit <alokad@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Aloka Dixit <alokad@codeaurora.org>
Co-developed-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Money Wang <money.wang@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5322db3c303f431adaf191ab31c45e151dde5465.1645702516.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
[small cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
While commit 6a01afcf84 ("mac80211: mesh: Free ie data when leaving
mesh") fixed a memory leak on mesh leave / teardown it introduced a
potential memory corruption caused by a double free when rejoining the
mesh:
ieee80211_leave_mesh()
-> kfree(sdata->u.mesh.ie);
...
ieee80211_join_mesh()
-> copy_mesh_setup()
-> old_ie = ifmsh->ie;
-> kfree(old_ie);
This double free / kernel panics can be reproduced by using wpa_supplicant
with an encrypted mesh (if set up without encryption via "iw" then
ifmsh->ie is always NULL, which avoids this issue). And then calling:
$ iw dev mesh0 mesh leave
$ iw dev mesh0 mesh join my-mesh
Note that typically these commands are not used / working when using
wpa_supplicant. And it seems that wpa_supplicant or wpa_cli are going
through a NETDEV_DOWN/NETDEV_UP cycle between a mesh leave and mesh join
where the NETDEV_UP resets the mesh.ie to NULL via a memcpy of
default_mesh_setup in cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call, which then avoids
the memory corruption, too.
The issue was first observed in an application which was not using
wpa_supplicant but "Senf" instead, which implements its own calls to
nl80211.
Fixing the issue by removing the kfree()'ing of the mesh IE in the mesh
join function and leaving it solely up to the mesh leave to free the
mesh IE.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6a01afcf84 ("mac80211: mesh: Free ie data when leaving mesh")
Reported-by: Matthias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fit.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <ll@simonwunderlich.de>
Tested-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fit.fraunhofer.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310183513.28589-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
ETSI standard defines "Offchannel CAC" as:
"Off-Channel CAC is performed by a number of non-continuous checks
spread over a period in time. This period, which is required to
determine the presence of radar signals, is defined as the Off-Channel
CAC Time..
Minimum Off-Channel CAC Time 6 minutes and Maximum Off-Channel CAC Time
4 hours..".
mac80211 implementation refers to a dedicated hw chain used for continuous
radar monitoring. Rename offchannel_* references to background_* in
order to avoid confusion with ETSI standard.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4204cc1d648d76b44557981713231e030a3bd991.1638190762.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Introduce a disconnect function that can be used when a
channel switch error occurs. The channel switch can request to
block the tx, and so, we need to make sure we do not send a deauth
frame in this case.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Errera <nathan.errera@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20211129152938.cd2a615a0702.I9edb14785586344af17644b610ab5be109dcef00@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When color change is triggered in multiple bssid case, allow
only for transmitting BSS, and when it changes its bss color,
notify the non transmitting BSSs also of the new bss color.
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Co-developed-by: Lavanya Suresh <lavaks@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Lavanya Suresh <lavaks@codeaurora.org>
Co-developed-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1637146647-16282-1-git-send-email-quic_ramess@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Similar to cfg80211, introduce set_radar_offchan callback in mac80211_ops
in order to configure a dedicated offchannel chain available on some hw
(e.g. mt7915) to perform offchannel CAC detection and avoid tx/rx downtime.
Tested-by: Evelyn Tsai <evelyn.tsai@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/201110606d4f3a7dfdf31440e351f2e2c375d4f0.1634979655.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Since commit a05829a722 ("cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when
calling the driver") we've not only been protecting the pointer
to monitor_sdata with the RTNL, but also with the wiphy->mtx. This
is relevant in a number of lockdep assertions, e.g. the one we hit
in ieee80211_set_monitor_channel(). However, we're now protecting
all the assignments/dereferences, even the one in interface iter,
with the wiphy->mtx, so switch over the lockdep assertions to that
lock.
Fixes: a05829a722 ("cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211112135143.cb8e8ceffef3.Iaa210f16f6904c8a7a24954fb3396da0ef86ec08@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Configure multiple BSSID and enhanced multi-BSSID advertisement (EMA)
parameters in mac80211 for AP mode.
For each interface, 'mbssid_tx_vif' points to the transmitting interface of
the MBSSID set. The pointer is set to NULL if MBSSID is disabled.
Function ieee80211_stop() is modified to always bring down all the
non-transmitting interfaces first and the transmitting interface last.
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Co-developed-by: Aloka Dixit <alokad@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Aloka Dixit <alokad@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210916025437.29138-3-alokad@codeaurora.org
[slightly change logic to be more obvious]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The color change announcement is very similar to how CSA works where
we have an IE that includes a counter. When the counter hits 0, the new
color is applied via an updated beacon.
This patch makes the CSA counter functionality reusable, rather than
implementing it again. This also allows for future reuse incase support
for other counter IEs gets added.
Co-developed-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/057c1e67b82bee561ea44ce6a45a8462d3da6995.1625247619.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Notify the driver about the 4-address mode change and also send a nulldata
packet to the AP to notify it about the change
Fixes: 1ff4e8f2de ("mac80211: notify the driver when a sta uses 4-address mode")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210702050111.47546-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This switches the airtime scheduler in mac80211 to use a virtual
time-based scheduler instead of the round-robin scheduler used before.
This has a couple of advantages:
- No need to sync up the round-robin scheduler in firmware/hardware with
the round-robin airtime scheduler.
- If several stations are eligible for transmission we can schedule both
of them; no need to hard-block the scheduling rotation until the head
of the queue has used up its quantum.
- The check of whether a station is eligible for transmission becomes
simpler (in ieee80211_txq_may_transmit()).
The drawback is that scheduling becomes slightly more expensive, as we
need to maintain an rbtree of TXQs sorted by virtual time. This means
that ieee80211_register_airtime() becomes O(logN) in the number of
currently scheduled TXQs because it can change the order of the
scheduled stations. We mitigate this overhead by only resorting when a
station changes position in the tree, and hopefully N rarely grows too
big (it's only TXQs currently backlogged, not all associated stations),
so it shouldn't be too big of an issue.
To prevent divisions in the fast path, we maintain both station sums and
pre-computed reciprocals of the sums. This turns the fast-path operation
into a multiplication, with divisions only happening as the number of
active stations change (to re-compute the current sum of all active
station weights). To prevent this re-computation of the reciprocal from
happening too frequently, we use a time-based notion of station
activity, instead of updating the weight every time a station gets
scheduled or de-scheduled. As queues can oscillate between empty and
occupied quite frequently, this can significantly cut down on the number
of re-computations. It also has the added benefit of making the station
airtime calculation independent on whether the queue happened to have
drained at the time an airtime value was accounted.
Co-developed-by: Yibo Zhao <yiboz@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Yibo Zhao <yiboz@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623134755.235545-1-toke@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS
- keep Chandrasekar
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
- simple fix + trust the code re-added to param.c in -next is fine
include/linux/bpf.h
- trivial
include/linux/ethtool.h
- trivial, fix kdoc while at it
include/linux/skmsg.h
- move to relevant place in tcp.c, comment re-wrapped
net/core/skmsg.c
- add the sk = sk // sk = NULL around calls
net/tipc/crypto.c
- trivial
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
In some race conditions, with more clients and traffic configuration,
below crash is seen when making the interface down. sta->fast_rx wasn't
cleared when STA gets removed from 4-addr AP_VLAN interface. The crash is
due to try accessing 4-addr AP_VLAN interface's net_device (fast_rx->dev)
which has been deleted already.
Resolve this by clearing sta->fast_rx pointer when STA removes
from a 4-addr VLAN.
[ 239.449529] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
[ 239.449531] pgd = 80204000
...
[ 239.481496] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.4.60 #227
[ 239.481591] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[ 239.487665] task: be05b700 ti: be08e000 task.ti: be08e000
[ 239.492360] PC is at get_rps_cpu+0x2d4/0x31c
[ 239.497823] LR is at 0xbe08fc54
...
[ 239.778574] [<80739740>] (get_rps_cpu) from [<8073cb10>] (netif_receive_skb_internal+0x8c/0xac)
[ 239.786722] [<8073cb10>] (netif_receive_skb_internal) from [<8073d578>] (napi_gro_receive+0x48/0xc4)
[ 239.795267] [<8073d578>] (napi_gro_receive) from [<c7b83e8c>] (ieee80211_mark_rx_ba_filtered_frames+0xbcc/0x12d4 [mac80211])
[ 239.804776] [<c7b83e8c>] (ieee80211_mark_rx_ba_filtered_frames [mac80211]) from [<c7b84d4c>] (ieee80211_rx_napi+0x7b8/0x8c8 [mac8
0211])
[ 239.815857] [<c7b84d4c>] (ieee80211_rx_napi [mac80211]) from [<c7f63d7c>] (ath11k_dp_process_rx+0x7bc/0x8c8 [ath11k])
[ 239.827757] [<c7f63d7c>] (ath11k_dp_process_rx [ath11k]) from [<c7f5b6c4>] (ath11k_dp_service_srng+0x2c0/0x2e0 [ath11k])
[ 239.838484] [<c7f5b6c4>] (ath11k_dp_service_srng [ath11k]) from [<7f55b7dc>] (ath11k_ahb_ext_grp_napi_poll+0x20/0x84 [ath11k_ahb]
)
[ 239.849419] [<7f55b7dc>] (ath11k_ahb_ext_grp_napi_poll [ath11k_ahb]) from [<8073ce1c>] (net_rx_action+0xe0/0x28c)
[ 239.860945] [<8073ce1c>] (net_rx_action) from [<80324868>] (__do_softirq+0xe4/0x228)
[ 239.871269] [<80324868>] (__do_softirq) from [<80324c48>] (irq_exit+0x98/0x108)
[ 239.879080] [<80324c48>] (irq_exit) from [<8035c59c>] (__handle_domain_irq+0x90/0xb4)
[ 239.886114] [<8035c59c>] (__handle_domain_irq) from [<8030137c>] (gic_handle_irq+0x50/0x94)
[ 239.894100] [<8030137c>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<803024c0>] (__irq_svc+0x40/0x74)
Signed-off-by: Seevalamuthu Mariappan <seevalam@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1616163532-3881-1-git-send-email-seevalam@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Coverity reported the strange "if (~...)" condition that's
always true. It suggested that ! was intended instead of ~,
but upon further analysis I'm convinced that what really was
intended was a comparison to 0xff/0xffff (in HT/VHT cases
respectively), since this indicates that all of the rates
are enabled.
Change the comparison accordingly.
I'm guessing this never really mattered because a reset to
not having a rate mask is basically equivalent to having a
mask that enables all rates.
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Fixes: 2ffbe6d333 ("mac80211: fix and optimize MCS mask handling")
Fixes: b119ad6e72 ("mac80211: add rate mask logic for vht rates")
Reviewed-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210212112213.36b38078f569.I8546a20c80bc1669058eb453e213630b846e107b@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This change registers ieee80211_set_sar_specs to
mac80211_config_ops, so cfg80211 can call it.
Signed-off-by: Carl Huang <cjhuang@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Abhishek Kumar <kuabhs@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201203103728.3034-3-cjhuang@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
We don't really use this struct, we're now using
struct cfg80211_he_bss_color instead.
Change the one place in mac80211 that's using the old
name to use struct assignment instead of memcpy() and
thus remove the wrong sizeof while at it.
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20201206145305.f6698d97ae4e.Iba2dffcb79c4ab80bde7407609806010b55edfdf@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The user is allowed to change beacon tx rate (HT/VHT/HE) from hostapd.
This information needs to be passed to the driver when the rate control
is offloaded to the firmware. The driver capability of allowing beacon
rate is already validated in cfg80211, so simply passing the rate
information to the driver is enough.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1601762658-15627-1-git-send-email-rmanohar@codeaurora.org
[adjust commit message slightly]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Even though a driver or mac80211 shouldn't produce a
legacy bitrate if sband->bitrates doesn't exist, don't
crash if that is the case either.
This fixes a kernel panic if station dump is run before
last_rate can be updated with a data frame when
sband->bitrates is missing (eg. in S1G bands).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201005164522.18069-1-thomas@adapt-ip.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The changes required for associating in S1G are:
- apply S1G BSS channel info before assoc
- mark all S1G STAs as QoS STAs
- include and parse AID request element
- handle new Association Response format
- don't fail assoc if supported rates element is missing
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922022818.15855-15-thomas@adapt-ip.com
[pass skb to ieee80211_add_aid_request_ie(), remove unused variable 'bss']
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This patch adds mac80211 support to configure unsolicited
broadcast probe response transmission for in-band discovery in 6GHz.
Changes include functions to store and retrieve probe response template,
and packet interval (0 - 20 TUs).
Setting interval to 0 disables the unsolicited broadcast probe response
transmission.
Signed-off-by: Aloka Dixit <alokad@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/010101747a946b35-ad25858a-1f1f-48df-909e-dc7bf26d9169-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
We want to reuse the functions and structs for other counters such as BSS
color change. Rename them to more generic names.
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200811080107.3615705-2-john@phrozen.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This is in fact 'disabled' in the spec, but there it's in a
place where that actually makes sense. In our internal data
structures, it doesn't really make sense, and in fact the
previous commit just fixed a bug in that area.
Make this safer by inverting the polarity from 'disabled' to
'enabled'.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730130051.5d8399545bd9.Ie62fdcd1a6cd9c969315bc124084a494ca6c8df3@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Adding bss-color configuration is only valid in HE mode.
Earlier we have enabled it by default, irrespective of
capabilities/mode. Fix that.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: P Praneesh <ppranees@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1594262781-21444-1-git-send-email-ppranees@codeaurora.org
[fix up commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Besides information about num of peerings and gate connectivity,
the mesh formation byte also contains a flag for authentication
server connectivity, that currently cannot be set in the mesh conf.
This patch adds this capability, which is necessary to implement
802.1X authentication in mesh mode.
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611140238.427461-1-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Currently, before being able to forward a packet between two 802.11s
nodes, both a PLINK handshake is performed upon receiving a beacon and
then later a PREQ/PREP exchange for path discovery is performed on
demand upon receiving a data frame to forward.
When running a mesh protocol on top of an 802.11s interface, like
batman-adv, we do not need the multi-hop mesh routing capabilities of
802.11s and usually set mesh_fwding=0. However, even with mesh_fwding=0
the PREQ/PREP path discovery is still performed on demand. Even though
in this scenario the next hop PREQ/PREP will determine is always the
direct 11s neighbor node.
The new mesh_nolearn parameter allows to skip the PREQ/PREP exchange in
this scenario, leading to a reduced delay, reduced packet buffering and
simplifies HWMP in general.
mesh_nolearn is still rather conservative in that if the packet destination
is not a direct 11s neighbor, it will fall back to PREQ/PREP path
discovery.
For normal, multi-hop 802.11s mesh routing it is usually not advisable
to enable mesh_nolearn as a transmission to a direct but distant neighbor
might be worse than reaching that same node via a more robust /
higher throughput etc. multi-hop path.
Cc: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <ll@simonwunderlich.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617073034.26149-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue
[fix nl80211 policy to range 0/1 only]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
