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2008-05-14mac80211: Set IEEE80211_TXPD_REQ_TX_STATUS for all TX framesIvo van Doorn
All interfaces should set the IEEE80211_TXPD_REQ_TX_STATUS flag for all TX frames which will force the master interface to set the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag. This in turn will allow drivers to check for that flag before reporting the TX status to mac80211. This is very usefull when frames (like beacons, RTS and CTS-to-self) should not be reported back to mac80211. Later we could add more extensive checks to exclude more frames from being reported, or let mac80211 decide if it wants the frame for status reporting or not. v2: Monitor interfaces should also set IEEE80211_TXPD_REQ_TX_STATUS Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: make rx radiotap header more flexibleBruno Randolf
use hw flags and rx flags to determine which fields are present in the header and use all available information from the driver. make sure radiotap header starts at a naturally aligned address (mod 8) for all radiotap fields. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise unitsBruno Randolf
trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from the wireless extensions. this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future. for signal: IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW for noise we currently only have dBm: IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications to make sense of the signal values. i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing the hardware flags of the driver. DRIVER SIGNAL MAX NOISE QUAL ----------------------------------------------------------------- adm8211 unspec(?) 100 n/a missing at76_usb unspec(?) (?) unused missing ath5k dBm dBm percent rssi b43legacy dBm dBm percent jssi(?) b43 dBm dBm percent jssi(?) iwl-3945 dBm dBm percent snr+more iwl-4965 dBm dBm percent snr+more p54 unspec 127 n/a missing rt2x00 dBm n/a percent rssi+tx/rx frame success rt2400 dBm n/a rt2500pci dBm n/a rt2500usb dBm n/a rt61pci dBm n/a rt73usb dBm n/a rtl8180 unspec(?) 65 n/a (?) rtl8187 unspec(?) 65 (?) noise(?) zd1211 dB(?) 100 n/a percent drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: fix queue constant confusionJohannes Berg
In commit 31ccc476b77234f6afb3 (mac80211: QoS related cleanups) I accidentally changed these to use IEEE80211_MAX_AMPDU_QUEUES twice which obviously is wrong, it should be IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES once. Currently harmless as they're both the same value anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: proper STA info lockingJohannes Berg
As discussed earlier, we can unify locking in struct sta_info and use just a single spinlock protecting all members of the structure that need protection. Many don't, but one of the especially bad ones is the 'flags' member that can currently be clobbered when RX and TX is being processed on different CPUs at the same time. Because having four spinlocks for different, mostly exclusive parts of a single structure is overkill, this patch also kills the ampdu and mesh plink spinlocks and uses just a single one for everything. Because none of the spinlocks are nested, this is safe. It remains to be seen whether or not we should make the sta flags use atomic bit operations instead, for now though this is a safe thing and using atomic operations instead will be very simple using the new static inline functions this patch introduces for accessing sta->flags. Since spin_lock_bh() is used with this lock, there shouldn't be any contention even if aggregation is enabled at around the same time as both requires frame transmission/reception which is in a bh context. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: require four hardware queues for QoS/HTJohannes Berg
This patch makes mac80211 only announce QoS/HT support when the underlying hardware has four (or more) queues. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Ron Rindjunksi <ron.rindjunksi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: tkip.c use kernel-provided infrastructureHarvey Harrison
Use kernel-provided bit rotation and unaligned access infrastructure rather than opencoding it. Some minor spacing adjustments as well. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14wireless: use get/put_unaligned_* helpersHarvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07mac80211: fix wme codeJohannes Berg
In commit e100bb64bf7cdeae7f742a65ee1985649a7fd1b4 (mac80211: QoS related cleanups) I accidentally changed a variable from int to u16 causing a warning that a comparison for < 0 was always false. John thought this was a missing deletion of code and removed the warning by deleting the never executed branch of code in commit 3df5ee60f1ee559b1417397461891f8b483e8089 (wireless: fix warning introduced by "mac80211: QoS related cleanups") but the problem really was my mistake of using a u16 variable for the queue variable when that variable can also contain an error code. This patch restores the original code and variable type. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07wireless: fix warning introduced by "mac80211: QoS related cleanups"John W. Linville
net/mac80211/wme.c: In function ‘wme_qdiscop_enqueue’: net/mac80211/wme.c:219: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c: In function ‘p54_conf_tx’: drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c:947: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07mac80211: QoS related cleanupsJohannes Berg
This * makes the queue number passed to drivers a u16 (as it will be with skb_get_queue_mapping) * removes the useless queue number defines * splits hw->queues into hw->queues/ampdu_queues * removes the debugfs files for per-queue counters * removes some dead QoS code * removes the beacon queue configuration for IBSS so that the drivers now never get a queue number bigger than (hw->queues + hw->ampdu_queues - 1) for tx and only in the range 0..hw->queues-1 for conf_tx. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07make sta_rx_agg_session_timer_expired() staticAdrian Bunk
sta_rx_agg_session_timer_expired() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07mac80211: correct skb allocationEster Kummer
This patch corrects the allocation of skb in ADDBA req/resp and DELBA it removes redundant space u.addba_* are already counted in sizeof(*mgmt) Signed-off-by: Ester Kummer <ester.kummer@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07mac80211: Add IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_PAIRWISEIvo van Doorn
This adds a new flag to the ieee80211_key_conf structure. This flag will inform the driver the key is pairwise rather then a shared key. This is important for drivers who support both types of keys, and need to be informed which type of key this is. Alternative would be drivers checking the address argument of set_key(), but it will be safer when mac80211 is more explicit. Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07mac80211: a few code cleanupsJohannes Berg
This has some code cleanups (some inspired by checkpatch), I got bored at probably a third of the output though so if somebody else wants to... Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07mac80211: Replace ieee80211_tx_control->key_idx with ieee80211_key_confIvo van Doorn
The hw_key_idx inside the ieee80211_key_conf structure does not provide all the information drivers might need to perform hardware encryption. This is in particular true for rt2x00 who needs to know the key algorithm and whether it is a shared or pairwise key. By passing the ieee80211_key_conf pointer it assures us that drivers can make full use of all information that it should know about a particular key. Additionally this patch updates all drivers to grab the hw_key_idx from the ieee80211_key_conf structure. v2: Removed bogus u16 cast v3: Add warning about ieee80211_tx_control pointers v4: Update warning about ieee80211_tx_control pointers Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-01Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
2008-04-30mac80211: incorrect shift directionHarvey Harrison
Looks like 5d2cdcd4e85c5187db30a6b29f79fbbe59f39f78 ("mac80211: get a TKIP phase key from skb") got the shifts wrong. Noticed by sparse: net/mac80211/tkip.c:234:25: warning: right shift by bigger than source value net/mac80211/tkip.c:235:25: warning: right shift by bigger than source value net/mac80211/tkip.c:236:25: warning: right shift by bigger than source value Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-30mac80211: insert WDS peer after adding interfaceJohannes Berg
This reorders the open code so that WDS peer STA info entries are added after the corresponding interface is added to the driver so that driver callbacks aren't invoked out of order. Also make any master device startup fatal. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-30mac80211: don't allow invalid WDS peer addressesJohannes Berg
Rather than just disallowing the zero address, disallow all invalid ones. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-30mac80211: assign conf.beacon_control for meshJohannes Berg
Drivers can rightfully assume that they get a beacon_control if the beacon is set. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-30mac80211: use 4-byte mesh sequence numberLuis Carlos Cobo
This follows the new 802.11s/D2.0 draft. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: iwlwifi: Allow building iwl3945 without iwl4965. wireless: Fix compile error with wifi & leds tcp: Fix slab corruption with ipv6 and tcp6fuzz ipv4/ipv6 compat: Fix SSM applications on 64bit kernels. [IPSEC]: Use digest_null directly for auth sunrpc: fix missing kernel-doc can: Fix copy_from_user() results interpretation Revert "ipv6: Fix typo in net/ipv6/Kconfig" tipc: endianness annotations ipv6: result of csum_fold() is already 16bit, no need to cast [XFRM] AUDIT: Fix flowlabel text format ambibuity.
2008-04-27wireless: Fix compile error with wifi & ledsLuca Tettamanti
Fix build error caused by commit e82404ad612ebabc65d15c3d59b971cb35c3ff36 ("iwlwifi: Select LEDS_CLASS.") from David Miller: Since MAC80211_LEDS is selected by wireless drivers it must select its own dependencies otherwise a build error may occur (kbuild will select the symbol regardless of "depends" constraints). Signed-off-By: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-27asm/unaligned.h doesn't work well as the very first includeAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-23mac80211: fix use before check of Qdisc lengthRon Rindjunsky
This patch fixes use of Qdisc length in requeue function, before we checked the reference is valid. (Adrian Bunk's catch) Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-23net/mac80211/rx.c: fix off-by-oneAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes an off-by-one in net/mac80211/rx.c introduced by commit 8318d78a44d49ac1edf2bdec7299de3617c4232e (cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion) and spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-23mac80211: Fix race between ieee80211_rx_bss_put and lookup routines.Pavel Emelyanov
The put routine first decrements the users counter and then (if it is zero) locks the sta_bss_lock and removes one from the list and the hash. Thus, any of ieee80211_sta_config_auth, ieee80211_rx_bss_get or ieee80211_rx_mesh_bss_get can race with it by finding a bss that is about to get kfree-ed. Using atomic_dec_and_lock in ieee80211_rx_bss_put takes care of this race. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-23mac80211: Fix n-band association problemAbhijeet Kolekar
There are two structures named wmm_info and wmm_param, they are used while parsing the beacon frame. (Check the function ieee802_11_parse_elems). Certain APs like D-link does not set the fifth bit in WMM IE. While sending the association request to n-only ap it checks for wmm_ie. If it is set then only ieee80211_ht_cap is sent during association request. So n-only association fails. And this patch fixes this problem by copying the wmm_info to wmm_ie, which enables the "wmm" flag in iee80211_send_assoc. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Acked-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
2008-04-16mac80211: rework scanning to account for probe response/beacon differenceJohannes Berg
This patch reworks the scanning code (ieee80211_rx_bss_info) to take more parameters from beacons and keep a BSS info structure alive when only beacons for it are received. This fixes a problem with iwlwifi drivers (where we don't understand the root cause of the problem yet) and another driver for some broken hardware (which cannot send probe requests unless associated, so can't always actively scan.) Signed-off-by: Bill Moss <bmoss@clemson.edu> [jmberg: reformatted comments, make probe_resp a bool] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-16mac80211: allow WDS modeJohannes Berg
This allows creating interfaces in WDS mode or switching existing ones into WDS mode (both via cfg80211 and wext.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-16mac80211: fix key todo list orderJohannes Berg
When we add multiple todo entries, we rely on them being executed mostly in the right order, especially when a key is being replaced. But when a default key is replaced, the todo list order will differ from the order when the key being replaced is not a default key, so problems will happen. Hence, just move each todo item to the end of the list when it is added so we can in the other code ensure that hw accel for a key will be disabled before it is enabled for the replacement. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-16mac80211: fix spinlock recursionJohannes Berg
When STAs are expired, we need to hold the sta_lock. Using the same lock for keys too would then mean we'd need another key free function, and that'll just lead to confusion, so just use a new spinlock for all key lists. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-16mac80211: no BSS changes to driver from beacons processed during scanningReinette Chatre
There is no need to send BSS changes to driver from beacons processed during scanning. We are more interested in beacons from an AP with which we are associated - these will still be used to send updates to driver as the beacons are received without scanning. This change·removes the requirement that bss_info_changed needs to be atomic. The beacons received during scanning are processed from a tasklet, but if we do not call bss_info_changed for these beacons there is no need for it to be atomic. This function (bss_info_changed) is called either from workqueue or ioctl in all other instances. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-16mac80211: further RCU fixesJohannes Berg
There were a few more instances of sta_info_get calls not being protected by RCU, fix them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-16mac80211: fix key hwaccel raceJohannes Berg
The previous key locking patch left a small race: it would be possible to add a key and take the interface down before the key todo is run so that hwaccel for that key is enabled on an interface that is down. Avoid this by running the todo list when an interface is brought up or down. This patch also fixes a small bug: before this change, a few functions used the key list without the lock that protects it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-16mlme.c: fixup some merge damageJohn W. Linville
This one got renamed, complicating the merge a bit...this should restore it to its intended state. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-15mac80211: remove message on receiving unexpected unencrypted framesJohannes Berg
Some people are getting this message a lot, and we have traced it to broken access points that much too often send completely empty frames (all bytes zeroed, which they shouldn't do at all.) Since we cannot do anything about such frames in any case except the special case where we're debugging an AP, just remove the message. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-09mac80211: use short_preamble mode from capability if ERP IE not presentVladimir Koutny
When associating to a b-only AP where there is no ERP IE, short preamble mode is left at previous state (probably also protection mode). In this case, disable protection and use short preamble mode as specified in capability field. The same is done if capability field is changed on-the-fly. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@ksp.sk> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: fix key debugfs default_key linkJohannes Berg
The default_key symlink points to the key index rather than they key counter, fix it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: rename filesJohannes Berg
This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid of the useless ieee80211_ prefix. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: fix key vs. sta locking problemsJohannes Berg
Up to now, key manipulation is supposed to run under RTNL to avoid concurrent manipulations and also allow the set_key() hardware callback to sleep. This is not feasible because STA structs are rcu-protected and thus a lot of operations there cannot take the RTNL. Also, key references are rcu-protected so we cannot do things atomically. This patch changes key locking completely: * key operations are now atomic * hardware crypto offload is enabled and disabled from a workqueue, due to that key freeing is also delayed * debugfs code is also run from a workqueue * keys reference STAs (and vice versa!) so during STA unlink the STAs key reference is removed but not the keys STA reference, to avoid races key todo work is run before STA destruction. * fewer STA operations now need the RTNL which was required due to key operations This fixes the locking problems lockdep pointed out and also makes things more light-weight because the rtnl isn't required as much. Note that the key todo lock/key mutex are global locks, this is not required, of course, they could be per-hardware instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: fix sta-info pinningJohannes Berg
When a STA is supposed to be unlinked but is pinned, it still needs to be unlinked from all structures. Only at the end of the unlink process should we check for pin status and invalidate the callers reference if it is pinned. Move the pin status check down. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: fix defined but not usedJiri Slaby
These two symbols are used only in ifdeffed function. Move them to that section too. net/mac80211/sta_info.c:387: warning: `__sta_info_pin' defined but not used net/mac80211/sta_info.c:397: warning: `__sta_info_unpin' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: BA session debug prints changesRon Rindjunsky
This patch contains next issues: 1 - prevents "stop BA session" multiple warnings 2 - adds debug print to stop Rx BA session flow 3 - adds EOL in one debug print Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: notify mac from low level driver (iwlwifi)Mohamed Abbas
Add new API to MAC80211 to allow low level driver to notify MAC with driver status. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: fix ieee80211_ioctl_giwrateJohannes Berg
The ieee80211_ioctl_giwrate() ioctl handler doesn't rcu_read_lock() its access to the sta table, fix it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: make debugfs files root-onlyJohannes Berg
Unfortunately, debugfs can be made to access invalid memory by open()ing a file and then waiting until the corresponding debugfs file has been removed (and, probably, the underlying object.) That could be exploited by any user if the user is able to open debugfs files and can cause networking devices, STA entries or similar to disappear which is quite easy to do. Hence, all debugfs files should be root-only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: notify upper layers after lowerReinette Chatre
When drivers receive change notification they may do work that will enable the changes to take effect. For example, if new association the device needs to be programmed with this information. Give the driver chance to make the changes before notifying the upper layer - thus preventing race condition where upper layer attempts to utilize state that may not be configured yet. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>