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2012-10-17cfg80211: Allow user space to specify non-IEs to SAE AuthenticationJouni Malinen1-3/+8
SAE extends Authentication frames with fields that are not information elements. NL80211_ATTR_IE is not suitable for these, so introduce a new attribute that can be used to specify the fields needed for SAE in station mode. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> [change to verify that SAE is only used with authenticate command] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-15cfg80211/mac80211: avoid state mishmash on deauthStanislaw Gruszka1-9/+3
Avoid situation when we are on associate state in mac80211 and on disassociate state in cfg80211. This can results on crash during modules unload (like showed on this thread: http://marc.info/?t=134373976300001&r=1&w=2) and possibly other problems. Reported-by: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-28Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davemJohn W. Linville1-0/+11
Conflicts: net/nfc/netlink.c Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-09-18cfg80211/nl80211: Notify connection request failure in AP modePandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu1-0/+11
In AP mode, when a station requests connection to an AP and if the request is failed for particular reason, userspace is notified about the failure through NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED command. Reason for the failure is sent through the attribute NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON. Signed-off-by: Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu <c_ppitch@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman1-8/+8
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-20cfg80211: add P2P Device abstractionJohannes Berg1-3/+7
In order to support using a different MAC address for the P2P Device address we must first have a P2P Device abstraction that can be assigned a MAC address. This abstraction will also be useful to support offloading P2P operations to the device, e.g. periodic listen for discoverability. Currently, the driver is responsible for assigning a MAC address to the P2P Device, but this could be changed by allowing a MAC address to be given to the NEW_INTERFACE command. As it has no associated netdev, a P2P Device can only be identified by its wdev identifier but the previous patches allowed using the wdev identifier in various APIs, e.g. remain-on-channel. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17cfg80211: support TX error rate CQMThomas Pedersen1-0/+13
Let the user configure serveral TX error conection quality monitoring parameters: % error rate, survey interval, and # of attempted packets. On exceeding the TX failure rate over the given interval, the driver will send a CQM notify event with the actual TX failure rate and packets attempted. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09cfg80211: use wdev in mgmt-tx/ROC APIsJohannes Berg1-19/+15
The management frame and remain-on-channel APIs will be needed in the P2P device abstraction, so move them over to the new wdev-based APIs. Userspace can still use both the interface index and wdev identifier for them so it's backward compatible, but for the P2P Device wdev it will be able to use the wdev identifier only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29cfg80211: respect iface combinations when starting operationMichal Kazior1-0/+16
devlist_mtx locking is changed to accomodate changes. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29cfg80211: add channel tracking for AP and meshMichal Kazior1-0/+1
We need to know which channel is used by a running AP and mesh for channel context accounting and finding matching/active interface combination. STA/IBSS have current_bss already which allows us to check which channel a vif is tuned to. Non-fixed channel IBSS can be handled with additional changes. Monitor mode is going to be handled differently. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-06cfg80211: clarify set_channel APIsJohannes Berg1-2/+0
Now that we've removed all uses of the set_channel API except for the monitor channel and in libertas, clarify this. Split the libertas mesh use into a new libertas_set_mesh_channel() operation, just to keep backward compatibility, and rename the normal set_channel() to set_monitor_channel(). Also describe the desired set_monitor_channel() semantics more clearly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-09wireless: Convert compare_ether_addr to ether_addr_equalJoe Perches1-16/+15
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>
2012-04-11cfg80211: add channel switch notify eventThomas Pedersen1-0/+27
The firmware may decide to switch channels while already beaconing, e.g. in response to a cfg80211 connect request on a different vif. Add this event to notify userspace when an AP or GO interface has successfully migrated to a new channel, so it can update its configuration accordingly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-09cfg80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmpFelix Fietkau1-15/+17
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>
2012-03-06cfg80211/mac80211: report signal strength for mgmt framesJohannes Berg1-3/+4
Add the signal strength (in dBm only for now) to frames that are received via nl80211's various frame APIs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-29cfg80211: remove cookies from callbacksJohannes Berg1-3/+3
In "cfg80211: no cookies in cfg80211_send_XXX()" Holger Schurig removed the cookies in the calls from mac80211 to cfg80211, but the ones in the other direction were left in. Remove them now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06cfg80211: stop tracking authenticated stateJohannes Berg1-269/+53
To track authenticated state seems to have been a design mistake in cfg80211. It is possible to have out of band authentication (FT), tracking multiple authentications caused more problems than it ever helped, and the implementation in mac80211 is too complex. Remove all this complexity, and let userspace do whatever it wants to, mac80211 can deal with that just fine. Association is still tracked of course, but authentication no longer is. Local auth state changes are thus no longer of value, so ignore them completely. This will also help implement SAE -- asking the driver to do an authentication is now almost equivalent to sending an authentication frame, with the exception of shared key authentication which is still handled completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides.Ben Greear1-3/+34
This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40, and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for drivers that support it. The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask. Attemping to disable features that are not supported will take no affect, but will not return errors. This is to aid backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask. This patch only enables the infrastructure. An additional patch will enable the feature in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACKJohannes Berg1-2/+3
For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag. Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a few lines of code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09cfg80211: add event for unexpected 4addr framesJohannes Berg1-0/+14
The frames are used by AP/STA WDS mode, and hostapd needs to know when such a frame was received to set up the VLAN appropriately to allow using it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09nl80211: allow subscribing to unexpected class3 framesJohannes Berg1-0/+16
To implement AP mode without monitor interfaces we need to be able to send a deauth to stations that send frames without being associated. Enable this by adding a new nl80211 event for such frames that an application can subscribe to. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to disable CCK rate for management frameRajkumar Manoharan1-2/+3
Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz without disabling 11b rates. This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame transmission. Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19cfg80211/nl80211: Add PMKSA caching candidate eventJouni Malinen1-0/+11
When the driver (or most likely firmware) decides which AP to use for roaming based on internal scan result processing, user space needs to be notified of PMKSA caching candidates to allow RSN pre-authentication to be used. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-06cfg80211/nl80211: support GTK rekey offloadJohannes Berg1-0/+11
In certain circumstances, like WoWLAN scenarios, devices may implement (partial) GTK rekeying on the device to avoid waking up the host for it. In order to successfully go through GTK rekeying, the KEK, KCK and the replay counter are required. Add API to let the supplicant hand the parameters to the driver which may store it for future GTK rekey operations. Note that, of course, if GTK rekeying is done by the device, the EAP frame must not be passed up to userspace, instead a rekey event needs to be sent to let userspace update its replay counter. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-10cfg80211: Ignore downstream DEAUTH for authtry_bssesPaul Stewart1-1/+3
Downsteram DEAUTH messages do not refer to a current authentication attempt -- AUTH responses do. Therefore we should not allow DEAUTH from an AP to void state for an AUTH attempt in progress. Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-11mac80211: Let userspace send action frames over mesh interfacesJavier Cardona1-0/+10
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30cfg80211: Add nl80211 event for deletion of a station entryJouni Malinen1-0/+9
Indicate an NL80211_CMD_DEL_STATION event when a station entry in mac80211 is deleted to match with the NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION event that is used when the entry was added. This is needed, e.g., to allow user space to remove a peer from RSN IBSS Authenticator state machine to avoid re-authentication and re-keying delays when the peer is not reachable anymore. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-16nl80211: Add notification for dropped Deauth/DisassocJouni Malinen1-0/+22
Add a new notification to indicate that a received, unprotected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame was dropped due to management frame protection being in use. This notification is needed to allow user space (e.g., wpa_supplicant) to implement SA Query procedure to recover from association state mismatch between an AP and STA. This is needed to avoid getting stuck in non-working state when MFP (IEEE 802.11w) is used and a protected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame is dropped for any reason. After that, the station would silently discard any unprotected Deauthentication or Disassociation frame that could be indicating that the AP does not have association for the STA (when the Reason Code would be 6 or 7). IEEE Std 802.11w-2009, 11.13 describes this recovery mechanism. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29nl80211/cfg80211: extend mgmt-tx API for off-channelJohannes Berg1-4/+5
With p2p, it is sometimes necessary to transmit a frame (typically an action frame) on another channel than the current channel. Enable this through the CMD_FRAME API, and allow it to wait for a response. A new command allows that wait to be aborted. However, allow userspace to specify whether or not it wants to allow off-channel TX, it may actually want to use the same channel only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24cfg80211: allow using CQM event to notify packet lossJohannes Berg1-0/+12
This adds the ability for drivers to use CQM events to notify about packet loss for specific stations (which could be the AP for the managed mode case). Since the threshold might be determined by the driver (it isn't passed in right now) it will be passed out of the driver to userspace in the event. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-13cfg80211: notify drivers about frame registrationsJohannes Berg1-3/+20
Drivers may need to adjust their filters according to frame registrations, so notify them about them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05cfg80211/mac80211: allow management frame TX in AP modeJohannes Berg1-11/+43
Enable management frame transmission and subscribing to management frames through nl80211 in both cfg80211 and mac80211. Also update a few places that I forgot to update for P2P-client mode previously, and fix a small bug with non-action frames in this API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16cfg80211/nl80211: introduce p2p device typesJohannes Berg1-1/+2
This adds P2P-STA and P2P-GO as device types so we can distinguish between those and normal STA or AP (respectively) type interfaces. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24cfg80211/mac80211: extensible frame processingJohannes Berg1-50/+94
Allow userspace to register for more than just action frames by giving the frame subtype, and make it possible to use this in various modes as well. With some tweaks and some added functionality this will, in the future, also be usable in AP mode and be able to replace the cooked monitor interface currently used in that case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16cfg80211: deauth doesn't always imply disconnectJohannes Berg1-2/+3
When an AP sends a deauth frame, or we send one to an AP, that only means we lost our connection if we were actually connected to that AP. Check this to avoid sending spurious "disconnected" events and breaking "iw ... link" reporting. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-09cfg80211: fix locking in action frame TXJohannes Berg1-1/+7
Accesses to "wdev->current_bss" must be locked with the wdev lock, which action frame transmission is missing. Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.33+] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-12cfg80211: ignore spurious deauthJohannes Berg1-4/+4
Ever since mac80211/drivers are no longer fully in charge of keeping track of the auth status, trying to make them do so will fail. Instead of warning and reporting the deauthentication to userspace, cfg80211 must simply ignore it so that spurious deauthentications, e.g. before starting authentication, aren't seen by userspace as actual deauthentications. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14cfg80211/mac80211: allow action frame TX/RX in IBSSJohannes Berg1-2/+3
When in IBSS mode, currently action frame TX and RX cannot be used. Allow using it to talk to any peer, or for public action frames. Also, while at it, restructure the code in mac80211 to make it easier to add this for other interface types in the future. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02cfg80211: make action channel type optionalJohannes Berg1-1/+2
When sending action frames, we want to verify that we do that on the correct channel. However, checking the channel type in addition can get in the way, since the channel type could change on the fly during an association, and it's not useful to have the channel type anyway since it has no effect on the transmission. Therefore, make it optional to specify so that if wanted, it can still be checked, but is not required. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davemJohn W. Linville1-11/+28
Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
2010-04-11Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-0/+1
Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-07cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassocJouni Malinen1-11/+28
cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements, user space applications may need to clear authentication or association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other deauth/disassoc operations being completed. Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.hTejun Heo1-0/+1
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-24cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211Juuso Oikarinen1-0/+13
Add support for basic configuration of a connection quality monitoring to the nl80211 interface, and basic support for notifying about triggered monitoring events. Via this interface a user-space connection manager may configure and receive pre-warning events of deteriorating WLAN connection quality, and start preparing for roaming in advance, before the connection is already lost. An example usage of such a trigger is starting scanning for nearby AP's in an attempt to find one with better connection quality, and associate to it before the connection characteristics of the existing connection become too bad or the association is even lost, leading in a prolonged delay in connectivity. The interface currently supports only RSSI, but it could be later extended to include other parameters, such as signal-to-noise ratio, if need for that arises. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-15cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action framesJouni Malinen1-0/+166
This implements a new command to register for action frames that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but the socket can be closed for that. Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the cfg80211 API helps implementing that. Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be used either to exchange action frames on the current operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public Action frames with the remain-on-channel command. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville1-1/+12
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
2009-12-28mac80211/cfg80211: add station eventsJohannes Berg1-0/+10
When, for instance, a new IBSS peer is found, userspace wants to be notified. Add events for all new stations that mac80211 learns about. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28cfg80211: add remain-on-channel commandJouni Malinen1-0/+27
Add new commands for requesting the driver to remain awake on a specified channel for the specified amount of time (and another command to cancel such an operation). This can be used to implement userspace-controlled off-channel operations, like Public Action frame exchange on another channel than the operation channel. The off-channel operation should behave similarly to scan, i.e. the local station (if associated) moves into power save mode to request the AP to buffer frames for it and then moves to the other channel to allow the off-channel operation to be completed. The duration parameter can be used to request enough time to receive a response from the target station. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28cfg80211: fix race between deauth and assoc responseJohannes Berg1-1/+12
Joseph Nahmias reported, in http://bugs.debian.org/562016, that he was getting the following warning (with some log around the issue): ath0: direct probe to AP 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (try 1) ath0: direct probe responded ath0: authenticate with AP 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (try 1) ath0: authenticated ath0: associate with AP 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (try 1) ath0: deauthenticating from 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 by local choice (reason=3) ath0: direct probe to AP 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (try 1) ath0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (capab=0x421 status=0 aid=2) ath0: associated ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at net/wireless/mlme.c:97 cfg80211_send_rx_assoc+0x14d/0x152 [cfg80211]() Hardware name: 7658CTO ... Pid: 761, comm: phy0 Not tainted 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1 Call Trace: [<c1030a5d>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5e/0x8a [<c1030a93>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xa/0xc [<f86cafc7>] ? cfg80211_send_rx_assoc+0x14d/0x152 ... ath0: link becomes ready ath0: deauthenticating from 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 by local choice (reason=3) ath0: no IPv6 routers present ath0: link is not ready ath0: direct probe to AP 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (try 1) ath0: direct probe responded ath0: authenticate with AP 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (try 1) ath0: authenticated ath0: associate with AP 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (try 1) ath0: RX ReassocResp from 00:11:95:77:e0:b0 (capab=0x421 status=0 aid=2) ath0: associated It is not clear to me how the first "direct probe" here happens, but this seems to be a race condition, if the user requests to deauth after requesting assoc, but before the assoc response is received. In that case, it may happen that mac80211 tries to report the assoc success to cfg80211, but gets blocked on the wdev lock that is held because the user is requesting the deauth. The result is that we run into a warning. This is mostly harmless, but maybe cause an unexpected event to be sent to userspace; we'd send an assoc success event although userspace was no longer expecting that. To fix this, remove the warning and check whether the race happened and in that case abort processing. Reported-by: Joseph Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: 562016-quiet@bugs.debian.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22cfg80211: avoid sending spurious deauth to userspaceJohannes Berg1-2/+9
Before commit ca9034592823e8179511e48a78731f95bfdd766c Author: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Date: Tue Oct 13 13:45:28 2009 +0200 cfg80211: remove warning in deauth case we assumed that drivers never give us spurious deauth frames because they filter them out based on the auth state they keep track of. This turned out to be racy, because userspace might deauth while the AP is also sending a deauth frame, so the warning was removed. However, in that case we should not tell userspace about the AP's frame if it requested deauth "first", where "first" means it came to cfg80211 first. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>