mac80211: make master netdev handling sane

Currently, almost every interface type has a 'bss' pointer
pointing to BSS information. This BSS information, however,
is for a _local_ BSS, not for the BSS we joined, so having
it on a STA mode interface makes little sense, but now they
have it pointing to the master device, which is an AP mode
virtual interface. However, except for some bitrate control
data, this pointer is only used in AP/VLAN modes (for power
saving stations.)

Overall, it is not necessary to even have the master netdev
be a valid virtual interface, and it doesn't have to be on
the list of interfaces either.

This patch changes the master netdev to be special, it now
 - no longer is on the list of virtual interfaces, which
   lets me remove a lot of tests for that
 - no longer has sub_if_data attached, since that isn't used

Additionally, this patch changes some vlan/ap mode handling
that is related to these 'bss' pointers described above (but
in the VLAN case they actually make sense because there they
point to the AP they belong to); it also adds some debugging
code to IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF to validate it is not called
on the master netdev any more.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wext.c b/net/mac80211/wext.c
index 207971e9ad7..e8e4a6215e8 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wext.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wext.c
@@ -627,16 +627,14 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_siwrate(struct net_device *dev,
 	struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
 
 	sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
-	if (!sdata->bss)
-		return -ENODEV;
 
 	sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[local->hw.conf.channel->band];
 
 	/* target_rate = -1, rate->fixed = 0 means auto only, so use all rates
 	 * target_rate = X, rate->fixed = 1 means only rate X
 	 * target_rate = X, rate->fixed = 0 means all rates <= X */
-	sdata->bss->max_ratectrl_rateidx = -1;
-	sdata->bss->force_unicast_rateidx = -1;
+	sdata->max_ratectrl_rateidx = -1;
+	sdata->force_unicast_rateidx = -1;
 	if (rate->value < 0)
 		return 0;
 
@@ -645,9 +643,9 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_siwrate(struct net_device *dev,
 		int this_rate = brate->bitrate;
 
 		if (target_rate == this_rate) {
-			sdata->bss->max_ratectrl_rateidx = i;
+			sdata->max_ratectrl_rateidx = i;
 			if (rate->fixed)
-				sdata->bss->force_unicast_rateidx = i;
+				sdata->force_unicast_rateidx = i;
 			err = 0;
 			break;
 		}