The 802.11 spec states that the STA that generated the last Beacon frame shall
be the STA that response to a probe request. This is important for congestion
reduction when a probe request is received - only 1 node in an adhoc BSS
will transmit a response. While mac80211 drivers should provide the
tx_last_beacon function to report if they transmitted the last beacon many
do not. As an attempt to reduce probe response congestion default this
to 0 such that a node not implementing this capability does not contribute
to unnecessary congestion.
In a modern medium sized office environment I see upwards of 100 probe
requests per second received at a given node from various hardware/OS/drivers
doing zeroconf 'active probing' as opposed to passively listening for beacons.
With a modest 10-node adhoc network consisting of drivers that do not implement
this tx_last_beacon feature, I have seen this result in the simultaneous xmit
of probe responses accumulating to 500 probe responses per second because of
collisions which brings the adhoc network to its knees as well as causes
needless congestion.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rafał Miłecki [Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:56:01 +0000 (20:56 +0100)]
b43: rename TMS defines, drop useless condition from core reset
As discussed we do not know band width at core reset time and it is not a good
idea to reset whole just to change band. So just set unconditionally 20 MHz
band width as default during core reset.
As for defines PHY clock changed to band width in specs and it makes much more
sens to call defines by band width which is self-explainable. Updated specs do
not mention 0 value, but comparing to old ones you can notice lineral relation
between PHY clock speed and band width. So it makes sense for 0x0 value to be
10 MHz band width.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:58:59 +0000 (19:58 +0100)]
cfg80211/nl80211: separate unicast/multicast default TX keys
Allow userspace to specify that a given key
is default only for unicast and/or multicast
transmissions. Only WEP keys are for both,
WPA/RSN keys set here are GTKs for multicast
only. For more future flexibility, allow to
specify all combiations.
Wireless extensions can only set both so use
nl80211; WEP keys (connect keys) must be set
as default for both (but 802.1X WEP is still
possible).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:49:00 +0000 (19:49 +0100)]
mac80211: clean up RX key checks
Using the default key for "any key set" isn't
quite what we should do. It works, but with the
upcoming changes it makes life unnecessarily
complex, so do something better here and really
check for "any key".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The registers TBTT_TIMER ,DMA_BEACON_ALERT ,NEXT_SWBA are need to be
configured only for AP and IBSS mode.
SWBA register is used for generating software interrupts so that beacon
frames will be created by the software.DMA beacon alert register is
to indicate the hardware to DMA the contents of beacon buffer to PCU buffer
and TBTT to start transmitting the packet buffer to the base band.
Clearly these things are not needed for station/monitor mode so
remove configuring them.
Cc: doug dahlby <ddahlby@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sven Neumann [Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:05:24 +0000 (15:05 +0100)]
cfg80211: update information elements in cached BSS struct
When a cached BSS struct is updated because a new beacon was received,
the code replaces the cached information elements by the IEs from the
new beacon. However it did not update the pub.information_elements
and pub.len_information_elements fields leaving them either pointing
to the old beacon IEs or in an inconsistent state where the data is
replaced by the new beacon IEs but len_information_elements still has
its value from the first beacon.
Fix this by updating the information elements fields if they are
pointing to beacon IEs.
Signed-off-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Wed, 8 Dec 2010 04:59:24 +0000 (13:59 +0900)]
cfg80211: Add antenna availability information
Add a field to wiphy for the hardware to report the availble antennas for
configuration. Only if this is set to something bigger than zero, will the
anntenna configuration ops be executed.
Allthough this could be a simple number of antennas, I defined it as a bitmap
of antennas which are available for configuration, since it's more consistent
with the rest of the antenna API and there could be cases where the
hardware allows only configuration of certain antennas. As it does not make
much of a difference in size or normal usage, I think it's better to be able to
support this, in case the need arises.
The antenna configuration is now also checked against the availabe antennas and
rejected if it does not match.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
--
v3: always apply available antenna mask (for "all" antennas case).
v2: reject antenna configurations which don't match the available antennas Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: fix assumptions for idle calls on suspend/resume
mac80211 will notify drivers when to go idle and ath9k
assumed that it would get further notifications for idle
states after a device stop() config call but as per agreed
semantics the idle state of the radio is left up to driver
after mac80211 issues the stop() callback. The driver is
resposnbile for ensuring the device remains idle after
that even between suspend / resume calls.
This fixes suspend/resume when you issue suspend and resume
twice on ath9k when ath9k_stop() was already called. We need
to put the radio to full sleep in order for resume to work
correctly.
What might seem fishy is we are turning the radio off
after resume. The reason why we do this is because we know
we should not have anything enabled after a mac80211 tells
us to stop(), if we resume and never get a start() we won't
get another stop() by mac80211 so to be safe always bring
the 802.11 device with the radio disabled after resume,
this ensures that if we suspend we already have the radio
disabled and only a start() will ever trigger it on.
Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: Fix power save count imbalance on ath_radio_enable()
Upon a failure we never call ath9k_ps_restore() on ath_radio_enable(),
this will throw off the sc->ps_usecount. When the sc->ps_usecount
is > 0 we never put the chip to full sleep. This drains battery,
and will also make the chip fail upon resume with:
ath: Starting driver with initial channel: 5745 MHz
ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7000: 0xdeadbeef & 0x00000003 != 0x00000000
This would make the chip useless upon resume.
I cannot prove this can happen but in theory it is so best to
avoid this race completely and not have users complain about
a broken device after resume.
Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"If CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG=y is set ATH_DBG_WARN_ON_ONCE uses WARN_ON_ONCE and
returns something, but if CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG is not set it does not return
anything. Now ATH_DBG_WARN_ON_ONCE is used in the boolean expression in
an if case and is not returning anything and causes a compile error.
CC [M] /drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.o
/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c: In function ‘ath_isr’:
/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:769: error: expected expression
before ‘do’
make[5]: *** [/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k] Error 2"
Reported-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sedat Dilek [Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:35:50 +0000 (22:35 +0100)]
ath5k: Fix modinfo does not list alias -> pci-id lines
The AHB bus support patchset moved the table "Known PCI ids" from base.c
to pci.c - unfortunately, MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() was not transferred.
With this fix 'modinfo ath5k' lists the alias -> pci-id lines, again.
ath9k_hw: warn if we cannot change the power to the chip
Suspend requires the device to be in fullsleep otherwise upon
resume the device becomes unresponsive. We need to ensure
that when we want the device to go to sleep it yields to
the request, otherwise we'll have a useless devices upon
resume. Warn when changing the power fails as we need
to look into these issues.
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We should not be idle when we get the ATH9K_INT_TIM_TIMER,
otherwise its a sign of something broken in our design with
our idle state machine and mac80211. Skip these and WARN once
just in case this is triggerable.
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rafał Miłecki [Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:42:05 +0000 (09:42 +0100)]
b43: N-PHY: reorder and optimize tables initialization
Order was changed in specs. For writing arrays we have designed bulk function
which makes use of auto increment and do not write table address over and over.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Helmut Schaa [Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:40:26 +0000 (12:40 +0100)]
mac80211: Apply ht_opmode changes in ieee80211_change_bss
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Helmut Schaa [Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:40:25 +0000 (12:40 +0100)]
cfg80211: Add new BSS attribute ht_opmode
Add a new BSS attribute to allow hostapd to set the current HT opmode.
Otherwise drivers won't be able to set up protection for HT rates in
AP mode.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
David Kilroy [Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:43:55 +0000 (15:43 +0000)]
orinoco: fix TKIP countermeasure behaviour
Enable the port when disabling countermeasures, and disable it on
enabling countermeasures.
This bug causes the response of the system to certain attacks to be
ineffective.
It also prevents wpa_supplicant from getting scan results, as
wpa_supplicant disables countermeasures on startup - preventing the
hardware from scanning.
wpa_supplicant works with ap_mode=2 despite this bug because the commit
handler re-enables the port.
The log tends to look like:
State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
Starting AP scan for wildcard SSID
Scan requested (ret=0) - scan timeout 5 seconds
EAPOL: disable timer tick
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
Scan timeout - try to get results
Failed to get scan results
Failed to get scan results - try scanning again
Setting scan request: 1 sec 0 usec
Starting AP scan for wildcard SSID
Scan requested (ret=-1) - scan timeout 5 seconds
Failed to initiate AP scan.
Reported by: Giacomo Comes <comes@naic.edu>
Signed-off by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
David Kilroy [Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:45:58 +0000 (15:45 +0000)]
orinoco: clear countermeasure setting on commit
... and interface up.
In these situations, you are usually trying to connect to a new AP, so
keeping TKIP countermeasures active is confusing. This is already how
the driver behaves (inadvertently). However, querying SIOCGIWAUTH may
tell userspace that countermeasures are active when they aren't.
Clear the setting so that the reporting matches what the driver has
done..
Signed-off by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix this by making a local copy of shared skbs prior to mangeling them.
To avoid copying the skb unnecessarily move the skb_copy call below the
checks that don't need write access to the skb.
Also, move the assignment of nh_pos and h_pos below the skb_copy to point
to the correct skb.
It would be possible to avoid another resize of the copied skb by using
skb_copy_expand instead of skb_copy but that would make the patch more
complex. Also, shared skbs are a corner case right now, so the resize
shouldn't matter much.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The HW has to be set to FULLSLEEP mode during suspend,
when no interface has been brought up. Not doing this would
break resume, as the chip won't be powered up at all.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
David Kilroy [Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:50:42 +0000 (18:50 +0000)]
orinoco: initialise priv->hw before assigning the interrupt
The interrupt handler takes a lock - but since commit bcad6e80f3f this
lock goes through an indirection specified in the hermes_t structure.
We must therefore initialise the structure before setting up the
interrupt handler.
Bisected by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the current save power save implementation we assume a dtim period
of 1.This value is assigned based on a sanity check in the driver
eventhough we had not parsed it from mac80211.This patch obtains the actual
DTIM period from AP by parsing it from mac80211.Yet for handling
multicast traffic we may still have it as fixed rather than parsing it
from mac80211 .This does not breaks power save or anything as the sleep
duration is currently fixed in the driver.This patch may serve to improve
power save in the future by using dtim period for sleep duration and using
correct dtim period adhoc mode.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AUTOSLEEP feature is enabled only for AR9271 and AR9003 version
chipsets.So unlikely macro should be used only to check whether
auto-sleep feature is enabled
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath.ko is a common module shared between ath5k, ar9170usb, ath9k and ath9k_htc.
Adding driver specific data to the shared structure would impact all the
drivers. Handling USB device recognition for devices specific to ath9k_htc
can be handled within the driver itself.
Also, AR7010 refers to the processor used in both AR9280/AR9287 based
devices. Rename the device enumerations accordingly.
While at it, check properly for the bus type when choosing the EEPROM
base address for UB95.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Tue, 7 Dec 2010 02:08:12 +0000 (11:08 +0900)]
ath5k: Use capabilities information for the number of TX queues
One thing I missed in my WME series: Older hardware does not have enough
hardware queues to support WME. In this case we just set up one data queue. Use
the capability information to decide how many queues to set up.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ben Greear [Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:13:07 +0000 (13:13 -0800)]
ath9k: Make DMA warning in ath_stoprecv WARN_ON_ONCE.
This decreases spammage in the log. A single line message
will still be printed, so users can be aware that problem
exists.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Joe Perches [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 03:12:37 +0000 (19:12 -0800)]
ath: Convert ath_print to ath_dbg
Remove ath/debug.h and the includes of these files.
Coalesce long formats.
Correct a few misspellings and missing "\n"s from these logging messages.
Remove unnecessary trailing space before a newline.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Eliad Peller [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 00:16:23 +0000 (02:16 +0200)]
mac80211: fix dynamic-ps/pm_qos magic numbers
mac80211 uses pm_qos (/dev/network_latency) in order to determine the
dynamic ps timeout (or disable the dynamic-ps at all in some cases).
commit ff616381 added a comparison for the current network_latency
against one high value (1900ms), and against the default value
(2000sec, rather than the commented 2sec).
however, the representation of 1900ms was incorrect:
1900ms = 1900000us ( != 1900000000 )
fix it by using USEC_TO_MSEC/SEC consts.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:12:43 +0000 (19:12 +0900)]
nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average
Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
--
v2: fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The beacon tasklet is accesssing the bslot info for beacon generation.
Meanwhile the same slot can be freed on interface deletion.
Current the remove_interface disables the beacon alert after freeing the slot.
This may leads to null pointer access.
This patch disables SWBA and kills the beacon tasklet to prevent access
to the slot to be freed. After releasing the slot, swba will be enabled again
upon the availablity of beaconing interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:17:53 +0000 (20:17 +0100)]
ath9k: fix a DMA related race condition on reset
When ath_drain_all_txq fails to stop DMA, it issues a hw reset. This reset
happens at a very problematic point in time, when the hardware rx path has
not been stopped yet. This could lead to memory corruption, hardware hangs
or other issues.
To fix these issues, simply remove the reset entirely and check the tx DMA
stop status to prevent problems with fast channel changes.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Matteo Croce [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 01:25:08 +0000 (02:25 +0100)]
ath9k: fix bug in tx power
The ath9k driver subtracts 3 dBm to the txpower as with two radios the
signal power is doubled.
The resulting value is assigned in an u16 which overflows and makes
the card work at full power.
Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <matteo@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch replace monitor/recover timer by watchdog based on time
stamp. New code allow to discover hangs more precisely.
Timeout values are currently doubled monitoring period values of
previous timer. This have to be tuned based of firmware timing
capabilities.
Tested on 3945, 4965, 5300, 6300.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Similarly like on iwlagn, initialize reset duration on iwl3945 to prevent
too frequent firmware resets.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:20:44 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh join/leave commands
Instead of tying mesh activity to interface up,
add join and leave commands for mesh. Since we
must be backward compatible, let cfg80211 handle
joining a mesh if a mesh ID was pre-configured
when the device goes up.
Note that this therefore must modify mac80211 as
well since mac80211 needs to lose the logic to
start the mesh on interface up.
We now allow querying mesh parameters before the
mesh is connected, which simply returns defaults.
Setting them (internally renamed to "update") is
only allowed while connected. Specify them with
the new mesh join command instead where needed.
In mac80211, beaconing must now also follow the
mesh enabled/not enabled state, which is done
by testing the mesh ID.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:20:43 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
nl80211: refactor mesh parameter parsing
I'm going to need this in a new place later.
Tested-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:20:42 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
cfg80211: require add_virtual_intf to return new dev
cfg80211 used to do all its bookkeeping in
the notifier, but some new stuff will have
to use local variables so make the callback
return the netdev pointer.
Tested-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:20:41 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
mac80211: move mesh filter adjusting
Logically, the filter adjusting belongs with
starting/stopping mesh, not interface up/down,
so move it there.
Tested-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Javier Cardona [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:20:40 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
nl80211/mac80211: define and allow configuring mesh element TTL
The TTL in path selection information elements is different from
the mesh ttl used in mesh data frames. Version 7.03 of the 11s
draft calls this ttl 'Element TTL'.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 04:12:39 +0000 (06:12 +0200)]
ath5k: Include tx ack reporting on hw flags
* Since we report tx acks to the protocol stack, add the needed
flag to hw_flags. This way we'll also use the new AP probing mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Kossifidis [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 04:09:38 +0000 (06:09 +0200)]
ath5k: Fix reporting of RX dma stop failure
* Correctly report failure to stop RX DMA
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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