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2009-04-22cfg80211/mac80211: move wext SIWMLME into cfg80211Johannes Berg
Since we have ->deauth and ->disassoc we can support the wext SIWMLME call directly without driver wext handlers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: enable PS by defaultJohannes Berg
Enable PS by default (depending on Kconfig) -- rely on drivers to control the level using pm_qos. Due to the previous patch we turn off PS when necessary due to latency requirements. This has a Kconfig symbol so people can, if they really want, configure the default in their kernels. We may want to keep it at "default y" only in wireless-testing for a while. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: implement beacon filtering in softwareJohannes Berg
Regardless of whether the hardware implements beacon filtering, there's no need to process all beacons in software all the time throughout the stack (mac80211 does a lot, then cfg80211, then in the future possibly userspace). This patch implements the "best possible" beacon filtering in mac80211. "Best possible" means that it can look for changes in all requested information elements, and distinguish vendor IEs by their OUI. In the future, we will add nl80211 API for userspace to request information elements and vendor IE OUIs to watch -- drivers can then implement the best they can do while software implements it fully. It is unclear whether or not this actually saves CPU time, but the data is all in the cache already so it should be fairly cheap. The additional _testing_, however, has great benefit; Without this, and on hardware that doesn't implement beacon filtering, wrong assumptions about, for example, scan result updates could quickly creep into code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: disable powersave if pm_qos asks for low latencyJohannes Berg
When an application asks for a latency lower than the beacon interval there's nothing we can do -- we need to stay awake and not have the AP buffer frames for us. Add code to automatically calculate this constraint in mac80211 so drivers need not concern themselves with it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: improve powersave implementationJohannes Berg
When you have multiple virtual interfaces the current implementation requires setting them up properly from userspace, which is undesirable when we want to default to power save mode. Keep track of powersave requested from userspace per managed mode interface, and only enable powersave globally when exactly one managed mode interface is active and has powersave turned on. Second, only start the dynPS timer when PS is turned on, and properly turn it off when PS is turned off. Third, fix the scan_sdata abuse in the dynps code. Finally, also reorder the code and refactor the code that enables PS or the dynps timer instead of having it copied in two places. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: Report rejected association to user space SMEJouni Malinen
When using nl80211 association, we need to send association response with a failure code to user space SME instead of just internally trying to send out the same (re)association request again couple of times. This fixes problems in association process getting stuck on a failure when user space is not notified in any way that something actually failed. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22mac80211: move ieee80211_enable_ht function to mlme.cJohannes Berg
It really belongs into that file since it is only relevant for managed mode. Move 1:1, not even whitespace changes, but make it static and remove from header file. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22nl80211: Generate deauth/disassoc event for locally generated framesJouni Malinen
Previously, nl80211 mlme events were generated only for received deauthentication and disassociation frames. We need to do the same for locally generated ones in order to let applications know that we disconnected (e.g., when AP does not reply to a probe). Rename the nl80211 and cfg80211 functions (s/rx_//) to make it clearer that they are used for both received and locally generated frames. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-20mac80211: fix basic rate bitmap calculationJohannes Berg
"mac80211: fix basic rates setting from association response" introduced a copy/paste error. Unfortunately, this not just leads to wrong data being passed to the driver but is remotely exploitable for some hardware or driver combinations. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-20mac80211: fix beacon loss detection after scanKalle Valo
Currently beacon loss detection triggers after a scan. A probe request is sent and a message like this is printed to the log: wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:12:17:e7:98:de - sending probe request But in fact there is no beacon loss, the beacons are just not received because of the ongoing scan. Fix it by updating last_beacon after the scan has finished. Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-17mac80211: validate TIM IE lengthJohannes Berg
The TIM IE must not be shorter than 4 bytes, so verify that when parsing it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-17mac80211: avoid crashing when no scan sdataJohannes Berg
Using the scan_sdata variable here is terribly wrong, if there has never been a scan then we fail. However, we need a bandaid... Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-16mac80211: quiet beacon loss messagesMichael Buesch
On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:29:38 Michael Buesch wrote: > On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:23:59 Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > With latest linus tree I am getting, .config file attached: > > > > [ 22.895051] r8169: eth0: link down > > [ 22.897564] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready > > [ 22.928047] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > > [ 22.982292] libvirtd used greatest stack depth: 4200 bytes left > > [ 63.709879] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 > > [ 63.712096] wlan0: authenticated > > [ 63.712127] wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 > > [ 63.726831] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1) > > [ 63.726855] wlan0: associated > > [ 63.730093] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready > > [ 74.296087] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present > > [ 79.349044] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 119.358200] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 179.354292] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 259.366044] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 359.348292] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 361.953459] packagekitd used greatest stack depth: 4160 bytes left > > [ 478.824258] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 598.813343] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 718.817292] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 838.824567] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 958.815402] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1078.848434] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1198.822913] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1318.824931] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1438.814157] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1558.827336] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1678.823011] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1798.830589] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1918.828044] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 2038.827224] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 2116.517152] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 2158.840243] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 2278.827427] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > > I think this message should only show if CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG is set. > It's kind of expected that we lose a beacon once in a while, so we shouldn't print > verbose messages to the kernel log (even if they are KERN_DEBUG). > > And besides that, I think one can easily remotely trigger this message and flood the logs. > So it should probably _also_ be ratelimited. Something like this: Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
2009-03-27mac80211: add beacon filtering supportKalle Valo
Add IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING flag so that driver inform that it supports beacon filtering. Drivers need to call the new function ieee80211_beacon_loss() to notify about beacon loss. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: track beacons separately from the rx path activityKalle Valo
Separate beacon and rx path tracking in preparation for the beacon filtering support. At the same time change ieee80211_associated() to look a bit simpler. Probe requests are now sent only after IEEE80211_PROBE_IDLE_TIME, which is now set to 60 seconds. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timerKalle Valo
Currently the timer is triggering every two seconds (IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL). Decrease the timer to only trigger during data idle periods to avoid waking up CPU unnecessary. The timer will still trigger during idle periods, that needs to be fixed later. There's also a functional change that probe requests are sent only when the data path is idle, earlier they were sent also while there was activity on the data path. This is also preparation for the beacon filtering support. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the idea. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: remove mixed-cell and userspace MLME codeJohannes Berg
Neither can currently be set from userspace, so there's no regression potential, and neither will be supported from userspace since the new userspace APIs allow the SME, which is in userspace, to control all we need. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Remove NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IEJouni Malinen
The functionality that NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE provided can now be achieved with cleaner design by adding IE(s) into NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN, NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE, NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE, NL80211_CMD_DEAUTHENTICATE, and NL80211_CMD_DISASSOCIATE. Since this is a very recently added command and there are no known (or known planned) applications using NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE and taken into account how much extra complexity it adds to the IE processing we have now (and need to add in the future to fix IE order in couple of frames), it looks like the best option is to just remove the implementation of this command for now. The enum values themselves are left to avoid changing the nl80211 command or attribute numbers. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Add MLME primitives to support external SMEJouni Malinen
This patch adds new nl80211 commands to allow user space to request authentication and association (and also deauthentication and disassociation). The commands are structured to allow separate authentication and association steps, i.e., the interface between kernel and user space is similar to the MLME SAP interface in IEEE 802.11 standard and an user space application takes the role of the SME. The patch introduces MLME-AUTHENTICATE.request, MLME-{,RE}ASSOCIATE.request, MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.request, and MLME-DISASSOCIATE.request primitives. The authentication and association commands request the actual operations in two steps (assuming the driver supports this; if not, separate authentication step is skipped; this could end up being a separate "connect" command). The initial implementation for mac80211 uses the current net/mac80211/mlme.c for actual sending and processing of management frames and the new nl80211 commands will just stop the current state machine from moving automatically from authentication to association. Future cleanup may move more of the MLME operations into cfg80211. The goal of this design is to provide more control of authentication and association process to user space without having to move the full MLME implementation. This should be enough to allow IEEE 802.11r FT protocol and 802.11s SAE authentication to be implemented. Obviously, this will also bring the extra benefit of not having to use WEXT for association requests with mac80211. An example implementation of a user space SME using the new nl80211 commands is available for wpa_supplicant. This patch is enough to get IEEE 802.11r FT protocol working with over-the-air mechanism (over-the-DS will need additional MLME primitives for handling the FT Action frames). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Event notifications for MLME eventsJouni Malinen
Add new nl80211 event notifications (and a new multicast group, "mlme") for informing user space about received and processed Authentication, (Re)Association Response, Deauthentication, and Disassociation frames in station and IBSS modes (i.e., MLME SAP interface primitives MLME-AUTHENTICATE.confirm, MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm, MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm, MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indicate, and MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication). The event data is encapsulated as the 802.11 management frame since we already have the frame in that format and it includes all the needed information. This is the initial step in providing MLME SAP interface for authentication and association with nl80211. In other words, kernel code will act as the MLME and a user space application can control it as the SME. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: Fix reassociation by not clearing previous BSSIDJouni Malinen
We must not clear the previous BSSID when roaming to another AP within the same ESS for reassociation to be used properly. It is fine to clear this when the SSID changes, so let's move the code into ieee80211_sta_set_ssid(). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: Fix a typo in assoc vs. reassoc checkJouni Malinen
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: start pending scan after probe/auth/assoc timed outHelmut Schaa
If a scan is queued in STA mode while the interface is in state direct probe, authenticate or associate the scan is delayed until the interface enters disabled or associated state. But in case of direct probe-, authentication- or association- timeout sta_work will not be scheduled anymore (without external trigger) and thus the pending scan is not executed and prevents a new scan from being triggered (-EBUSY). Fix this by queueing the sta work again after direct probe-, authentication- and association- timeout. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: remove ieee80211_num_regular_queuesJohannes Berg
This inline is useless and actually makes the code _longer_ rather than shorter. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-16mac80211: handle failed scan requests in STA modeHelmut Schaa
If cfg80211 requests a scan it awaits either a return code != 0 from the scan function or the cfg80211_scan_done to be called. In case of a STA mac80211's scan function ever returns 0 and queues the scan request. If ieee80211_sta_work is executed and ieee80211_start_scan fails for some reason cfg80211_scan_done will never be called but cfg80211 still thinks the scan was triggered successfully and will refuse any future scan requests due to drv->scan_req not being cleaned up. If a scan is triggered from within the MLME a similar problem appears. If ieee80211_start_scan returns an error, local->scan_req will not be reset and mac80211 will refuse any future scan requests. Hence, in both cases call ieee80211_scan_failed (which notifies cfg80211 and resets local->scan_req) if ieee80211_start_scan returns an error. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-16mac80211: Fix WMM ACM parsing and AC downgrade operationJouni Malinen
Incorrect local->wmm_acm bits were set for AC_BK and AC_BE. Fix this and add some comments to make it easier to understand the AC-to-UP(pair) mapping. Set the wmm_acm bits (and show WMM debug) even if the driver does not implement conf_tx() handler. In addition, fix the ACM-based AC downgrade code to not use the highest priority in error cases. We need to break the loop to get the correct AC_BK value (3) instead of returning 0 (which would indicate AC_VO). The comment here was not really very useful either, so let's provide somewhat more helpful description of the situation. Since it is very unlikely that the ACM flag would be set for AC_BK and AC_BE, these bugs are not likely to be seen in real life networks. Anyway, better do these things correctly should someone really use silly AP configuration (and to pass some functionality tests, too). Remove the TODO comment about handling ACM. Downgrading AC is perfectly valid mechanism for ACM. Eventually, we may add support for WMM-AC and send a request for a TS, but anyway, that functionality won't be here at the location of this TODO comment. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-05mac80211: Always send a null data frame if TIM bit is set.Vivek Natarajan
If the AP thinks we are in power save state eventhough we are not truly in that state, it sets the TIM bit and does not send a data frame unless we send a null data frame to correct the state in the AP. This might happen if the null data frame for wake up is lost in the air after we disable power save. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-05mac80211: Fix TKIP/WEP HT capability handlingSujith
There is no need to parse the AP's HT capabilities if the STA uses TKIP/WEP cipher. This allows the rate control module to choose the correct(legacy) rate table. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: Introduce a generic commit() to apply changesAlina Friedrichsen
This patch introduces a generic commit() function which initiate a new network joining process. It should be called after some interface config changes, so that the changes get applied more cleanly. Currently set_ssid() and set_bssid() call it. Others can be added in future patches. In version 1 the header files was forgotten, sorry. Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27nl80211: Optional IEs into scan requestJouni Malinen
This extends the NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN command to allow applications to specify a set of information element(s) to be added into Probe Request frames with NL80211_ATTR_IE. This provides support for the MLME-SCAN.request primitive parameter VendorSpecificInfo and can be used, e.g., to implement WPS scanning. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: split IBSS/managed codeJohannes Berg
This patch splits out the ibss code and data from managed (station) mode. The reason to do this is to better separate the state machines, and have the code be contained better so it gets easier to determine what exactly a given change will affect, that in turn makes it easier to understand. This is quite some churn, especially because I split sdata->u.sta into sdata->u.mgd and sdata->u.ibss, but I think it's easier to maintain that way. I've also shuffled around some code -- null function sending is only applicable to managed interfaces so put that into that file, some other functions are needed from various places so put them into util, and also rearranged the prototypes in ieee80211_i.h accordingly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27mac80211: Make sure non-HT connection when IEEE80211_STA_TKIP_WEP_USED is setVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
It is possible that some broken AP might send HT IEs in it's assoc response even though the STA has not sent them in assoc req when WEP/TKIP is used as pairwise cipher suite. Also it is important to check this bit before enabling ht mode in beacon receive path. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: split managed/ibss code a little moreJohannes Berg
It appears that you can completely mess up mac80211 in IBSS mode by sending it a disassoc or deauth: it'll stop queues and do a lot more but not ever do anything again. Fix this by not handling all those frames in IBSS mode, Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: fix IBSS authJohannes Berg
The code beyond this point is supposed to be used for non-IBSS (managed) mode only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: use cfg80211s BSS infrastructureJohannes Berg
Remove all the code from mac80211 to keep track of BSSes and use the cfg80211-provided code completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: dont add BSS when creating IBSSJohannes Berg
There's no need to create a BSS struct only to pass it to ieee80211_sta_join_ibss, so refactor this function into __ieee80211_sta_join_ibss which takes all the relevant paramters, and ieee80211_sta_join_ibss which takes a BSS struct (used when joining an IBSS that already has other members). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13cfg80211/nl80211: scanning (and mac80211 update to use it)Johannes Berg
This patch adds basic scan capability to cfg80211/nl80211 and changes mac80211 to use it. The BSS list that cfg80211 maintains is made driver-accessible with a private area in each BSS struct, but mac80211 doesn't yet use it. That's another large project. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: clean up BA session teardownJohannes Berg
The sta_info pointer can very well be passed to ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions, this will later allow us to pass it through even further. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: use ps-poll when dynamic power save mode is disabledKalle Valo
When a directed tim bit is set, mac80211 currently disables power save ands sends a null frame to the AP. But if dynamic power save is disabled, mac80211 will not enable power save ever gain. Fix this by adding ps-poll functionality to mac80211. When a directed tim bit is set, mac80211 sends a ps-poll frame to the AP and checks for the more data bit in the returned data frames. Using ps-poll is slower than waking up with null frame, but it's saves more power in cases where the traffic is low. Userspace can control if either ps-poll or null wakeup method is used by enabling and disabling dynamic power save. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-13mac80211: remove multicast check from check_tim()Kalle Valo
Currently mac80211 checks for the multicast tim bit from beacons, disables power save and sends a null frame if the bit is set. This was added to support ath9k. But this is a bit controversial because the AP will send multicast frames immediately after the beacon and the time constraints are really high. Relying mac80211 to be fast enough here might not be reliable in all situations. And there's no need to send a null frame, AP will send the frames immediately after the dtim beacon no matter what. Also if dynamic power save is disabled (iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 0) currently mac80211 disables power save whenever the multicast bit is set but it's never enabled again after receiving the first multicast/broadcast frame. The current implementation is not usable on p54/stlc45xx and the easiest way to fix this is to remove the multicast tim bit check altogether. Handling multicast tim bit in host is rare, most of the designs do this in firmware/hardware, so it's better not to have it in mac80211. It's a lot better to do this in firmware/hardware, or if that's not possible it could be done in the driver. Also renamed the function to ieee80211_check_tim() to follow the style of the file. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-11mac80211: Free current bss information in few places where we don't need it ↵Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
any more Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: Remove bss information of the current AP when it goes out of rangeVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
There is no point having the bss information of currently associated AP when the AP is detected to be out of range. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: IBSS join reworkAlina Friedrichsen
I hold back this patch for around a week to avoid confusion. This is the second step of "mac80211: Fixed BSSID handling revisited". With it, in the situation of a strange merge to the same BSSID (e.g. caused by a TSF overflow) only reset_tsf() is called. And sta_info_flush_delayed() is only called if you change the network manually, not on an automatic BSSID merge. Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: Creating new IBSS with fixed BSSIDAlina Friedrichsen
This fixes a bug when creating a new IBSS network with a fixed BSSID. The fixed BSSID situation is now with one of my last patches handled in ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() function. It's more robust to test against (ifsta->flags & IEEE80211_STA_PREV_BSSID_SET), because ifsta->state is not seted right in every situation and so the creating of the new IBSS network sometimes hangs after the first try to scan for a network to merge. Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09mac80211: Reset assoc_scan_tries after an unsuccessful scan runSujith
Trying to associate with a non-existent SSID stops the state machine after the first run. Subsequent association requests fail to start the scan engine. Fix this by resetting assoc_scan_tries to zero after completing a scan run. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: Fixed BSSID handling revisitedAlina Friedrichsen
This patch cleanup the fixed BSSID handling, that ieee80211_sta_set_bssid() works like ieee80211_sta_set_ssid(). So that the BSSID is only a second selection criterion besides the SSID. This allows us to create new IBSS networks with fixed BSSIDs, which was broken before. In the second version of this patch the handling of the stupid merges to the same BSSID is moved out to get reworked into an other patch. And this version hopefully solves the problems with some low-level drivers and re-adds the config BSSID warning to help debugging the low-level drivers. Much thanks to all who have helped testing! :) Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: Add capability to enable/disable beaconingJohannes Berg
This patch adds a flag to notify drivers to start and stop beaconing when needed, for example, during a scan run. Based on Sujith's first patch to do the same, but now disables beaconing for all virtual interfaces while scanning, has a separate change flag and tracks user-space requests. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29wireless: restrict to 32 legacy ratesJohannes Berg
Since the standards only define 12 legacy rates, 32 is certainly a sane upper limit and we don't need to use u64 everywhere. Add sanity checking that no more than 32 rates are registered and change the variables to u32 throughout. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: Fix MFP Association Comeback to use Timeout Interval IEJouni Malinen
The separate Association Comeback Time IE was removed from IEEE 802.11w and the Timeout Interval IE (from IEEE 802.11r) is used instead. The editing on this is still somewhat incomplete in IEEE 802.11w/D7.0, but still, the use of Timeout Interval IE is the expected mechanism. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29nl80211: New command for adding extra IE(s) into management framesJouni Malinen
A new nl80211 command, NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE, can be used to add arbitrary IE data into the end of management frames. The interface allows extra IEs to be configured for each management frame subtype, but only some of them (ProbeReq, ProbeResp, Auth, (Re)AssocReq, Deauth, Disassoc) are currently accepted in mac80211 implementation. This makes it easier to implement IEEE 802.11 extensions like WPS and FT that add IE(s) into some management frames. In addition, this can be useful for testing and experimentation purposes. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>