01 Nov, 2011

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07 Oct, 2010

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29 Sep, 2010

1 commit

  • IBSS started from wireless extensions is currently
    missing basic rate configuration, fix this by moving
    the code to generate the default to the common code
    that gets invoked for both nl80211 and wext.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     

27 Jul, 2010

1 commit


12 May, 2010

1 commit


08 May, 2010

1 commit

  • Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
    things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
    then adding another virtual interface and making
    that associate on another channel -- this will make
    the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
    the necessary IEs data update.

    In order to improve this situation, first make the
    configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
    multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
    that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
    change and one API addition. The API change is that
    now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
    index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
    effect for that interface -- luckily all current
    users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
    old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
    slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.

    The second userland API change is the introduction
    of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
    hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
    to understand what's going on (it can automatically
    detect a kernel with this command).

    Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
    are affected by this change because they only allow
    a single virtual interface.

    mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
    channel settings are per interface now, and needs
    to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
    which is another important part of this patch.

    One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
    start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
    has a connection on another virtual interface, as
    long as you specify the same channel.

    Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
    improvement -- not a complete fix):

    * different HT/no-HT modes

    currently you could start an HT AP and then
    connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
    which would configure the hardware for no HT;
    that can be fixed fairly easily

    * CSA

    An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
    might indicate switching channels, and in that
    case we would follow it, regardless of how many
    other interfaces are operating; this requires
    more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     

30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    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>

    Tejun Heo
     

29 Nov, 2009

1 commit

  • This patch moves the works cleanup, scan and events to a cfg80211
    dedicated workqueue.

    Platform driver like eeepc-laptop ought to use works to rfkill (as
    new rfkill does lock in rfkill_unregister and the platform driver is
    called from rfkill_switch_all which also lock the same mutex).
    This raise a new issue in itself that the work scheduled by the platform
    driver to the global worqueue calls wiphy_unregister which flush_work
    scan and event works (which thus flush works on the global workqueue inside
    a work on the global workqueue) and also put on hold the wdev_cleanup_work
    (which prevents the dev_put on netdev thus indefinite Usage count error on
    wifi device).

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Alban Browaeys
     

19 Nov, 2009

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08 Oct, 2009

1 commit

  • Refactor wext to
    * split out iwpriv handling
    * split out iwspy handling
    * split out procfs support
    * allow cfg80211 to have wireless extensions compat code
    w/o CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT

    After this, drivers need to
    - select WIRELESS_EXT - for wext support
    - select WEXT_PRIV - for iwpriv support
    - select WEXT_SPY - for iwspy support

    except cfg80211 -- which gets new hooks in wext-core.c
    and can then get wext handlers without CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT.

    Wireless extensions procfs support is auto-selected
    based on PROC_FS and anything that requires the wext core
    (i.e. WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT).

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     

29 Aug, 2009

1 commit

  • Bob reported that he got warnings in IBSS mode about
    the ssid_len being zero on a joined event, but only
    when kmemcheck was enabled. This appears to be due
    to a race condition between drivers and userspace,
    when the driver reports joined but the user in the
    meantime decided to leave the IBSS again, the warning
    would trigger. This was made more likely by kmemcheck
    delaying the code that does the check and sends the
    event.

    So first, make the warning trigger closer to the
    driver, which means it's not locked, but since only
    the warning depends on it that's ok.

    And secondly, users will not want to have spurious
    warnings at all, so make those that are known to be
    racy in such a way configurable.

    Reported-by: Bob Copeland
    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     

14 Aug, 2009

1 commit

  • Currently, there's a problem that affects regulatory
    enforcement and connection stability, in that it is
    possible to switch the channel while connected to a
    network or joined to an IBSS.

    The problem comes from the fact that we only validate
    the channel against the current interface's type, not
    against any other interface. Thus, you have any type
    of interface up, additionally bring up a monitor mode
    interface and switch the channel on the monitor. This
    will obviously also switch the channel on the other
    interface.

    The problem now is that if you do that while sending
    beacons for IBSS mode, you can switch to a disabled
    channel or a channel that doesn't allow beaconing.
    Combined with a managed mode interface connected to
    an AP instead of an IBSS interface, you can easily
    break the connection that way.

    To fix this, this patch validates any channel change
    with all available interfaces, and disallows such
    changes on secondary interfaces if another interface
    is connected to an AP or joined to an IBSS.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     

30 Jul, 2009

3 commits


25 Jul, 2009

2 commits

  • This patch avoids memcpy from wdev->wext.ibss.bssid if it is NULL.
    This could happen if we SIOCGIWAP before SIOCSIWAP.

    Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Zhu Yi
     
  • This reworks the key operation in cfg80211, and now only
    allows, from userspace, configuring keys (via nl80211)
    after the connection has been established (in managed
    mode), the IBSS been joined (in IBSS mode), at any time
    (in AP[_VLAN] modes) or never for all the other modes.

    In order to do shared key authentication correctly, it
    is now possible to give a WEP key to the AUTH command.
    To configure static WEP keys, these are given to the
    CONNECT or IBSS_JOIN command directly, for a userspace
    SME it is assumed it will configure it properly after
    the connection has been established.

    Since mac80211 used to check the default key in IBSS
    mode to see whether or not the network is protected,
    it needs an update in that area, as well as an update
    to make use of the WEP key passed to auth() for shared
    key authentication.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     

11 Jul, 2009

4 commits

  • Over time, a lot of locking issues have crept into
    the smarts of cfg80211, so e.g. scan completion can
    race against a new scan, IBSS join can race against
    leaving an IBSS, etc.

    Introduce a new per-interface lock that protects
    most of the per-interface data that we need to keep
    track of, and sprinkle assertions about that lock
    everywhere. Some things now need to be offloaded to
    work structs so that we don't require being able to
    sleep in functions the drivers call. The exception
    to that are the MLME callbacks (rx_auth etc.) that
    currently only mac80211 calls because it was easier
    to do that there instead of in cfg80211, and future
    drivers implementing those calls will, if they ever
    exist, probably need to use a similar scheme like
    mac80211 anyway...

    In order to be able to handle _deauth and _disassoc
    properly, introduce a cookie passed to it that will
    determine locking requirements.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     
  • We shouldn't be looking at the ssid_len for non-IBSS,
    and for IBSS we should also return an error on trying
    to leave an IBSS while not in or joining an IBSS.

    This fixes an issue where we wouldn't disconnect() on
    an interface being taken down since there's no SSID
    configured this way.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     
  • In order to avoid problems with BSS structs going away
    while they're in use, I've long wanted to make cfg80211
    keep track of them. Without the SME, that wasn't doable
    but now that we have the SME we can do this too. It can
    keep track of up to four separate authentications and
    one association, regardless of whether it's controlled
    by the cfg80211 SME or the userspace SME.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     
  • This variable isn't necessary -- the wext code keeps
    track of the BSSID itself, and otherwise we have
    current_bss.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     

12 May, 2009

1 commit


23 Apr, 2009

4 commits

  • Make the JOIN_IBSS command look at the beacon interval
    attribute to see if the user requested a specific beacon
    interval, if not default to 100 TU (wext too).

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     
  • When we leave an IBSS, we should clear the SSID and not just the
    BSSID, but since WEXT allows configuring while the interface is
    down we must not clear it when leaving due to taking the iface
    down, so some complications are needed.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     
  • Trying to separate header files into net/wireless.h and
    net/cfg80211.h has been a source of confusion. Remove
    net/wireless.h (because there also is the linux/wireless.h)
    and subsume everything into net/cfg80211.h -- except the
    definitions for regulatory structures which get moved to
    a new header net/regulatory.h.

    The "new" net/cfg80211.h is now divided into sections.

    There are no real changes in this patch but code shuffling
    and some very minor documentation fixes.

    I have also, to make things reflect reality, put in a
    copyright line for Luis to net/regulatory.h since that
    is probably exclusively written by him but was formerly
    in a file that only had my copyright line.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg
     
  • This adds IBSS API along with (preliminary) wext handlers.
    The wext handlers can only do IBSS so you need to call them
    from your own wext handlers if the mode is IBSS.

    The nl80211 API requires
    * an SSID
    * a channel (frequency) for the case that a new IBSS
    has to be created

    It optionally supports
    * a flag to fix the channel
    * a fixed BSSID

    The cfg80211 code also takes care to leave the IBSS before
    the netdev is set down. If wireless extensions are used, it
    also caches values when the interface is down and instructs
    the driver to join when the interface is set up.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Johannes Berg