ath11k: handle RX fragments

IPQ8074 HW has support to verify the PN of the received frames.
For all frames except for fragmented ones, HW checks the PN and
delivers them to the driver. For fragmented frames, driver is
required to do a little more; it has to reassemble the fragments
and then reinject them to the HW for verifying the PN. Currently,
to keep the logic simple, PN verifcation is disabled in HW and is
handled in mac80211 for all the frames (fragmented and unfragmented).

On the contrary, offloading PN Validation to the HW brings important
benefits. It reduces CPU cycles spent on the host CPU for verifying
the same; helps in enabling features which improve performance like
mac80211 fast RX path, enabling multiple REO rings for parallel RX
processing, 802.11 decapsulation offloading. All these features are
dependent on PN offload which in turn is dependent on handling of
the received fragments in the driver.

When TKIP security is used, additional handling is required while
processing the fragments; since MIC is computed on an MSDU in TKIP,
only the last fragment has the MIC info. In this case, driver has to
compute the MIC after reassembly and compare it against the MIC
present in the frame. For this, MICHAEL_MIC kernel crypto library
APIs are used and the dependencies are appropriately set.

Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <mpubbise@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_rx.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_rx.h
index 1b08b7dcafbc..c3f3ccd03a90 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_rx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_rx.h
@@ -84,5 +84,6 @@ int ath11k_dp_rx_mon_status_bufs_replenish(struct ath11k_base *ab, int mac_id,
 					   gfp_t gfp);
 int ath11k_dp_rx_pdev_mon_detach(struct ath11k *ar);
 int ath11k_dp_rx_pdev_mon_attach(struct ath11k *ar);
+int ath11k_peer_rx_frag_setup(struct ath11k *ar, const u8 *peer_mac, int vdev_id);
 
 #endif /* ATH11K_DP_RX_H */