Patrik Flykt [Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:08:02 +0000 (15:08 +0200)]
mac80211_hwsim: Send alpha2 only if non-zero
A properly set alpha2 value consists of two chars that both contain
letters or digits. If no value is set, both chars keep their initial
value zero. Therefore do not send the alpha2 parameter to user space
if either of the characters has been left at its initial zero value.
Signed-off-by: Patrik Flykt <patrik.flykt@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:10:42 +0000 (00:10 +0100)]
mac80211: notify drivers on sta rate table changes
This allows drivers with a firmware or chip-based rate lookup table to
use the most recent default rate selection without having to get it from
per-packet data or explicit ieee80211_get_tx_rate calls
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tomasz Bursztyka [Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:26:45 +0000 (16:26 +0200)]
nl80211: Broadcast CMD_NEW_INTERFACE and CMD_DEL_INTERFACE
Let the other listeners being notified when a new or del interface
command has been issued, thus reducing later necessary request to be in
sync with current context.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Patrik Flykt [Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:42:40 +0000 (16:42 +0200)]
mac80211-hwsim: Add HWSIM_CMD_GET_RADIO command
HWSIM_CMD_GET_RADIO returns information about a specific radio id or
all of them in response to a dump. Create the netlink skb or use the
one provided by the dump functionality. Use the existing attribute
appending function to fill in the same attributes when creating a
new hwsim radio.
Save alpha2 and struct ieee80211_regdomain in the hwsim data or else
they will be lost in the depths of regulatory infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Patrik Flykt <patrik.flykt@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Jukka Rissanen [Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:25:14 +0000 (17:25 +0200)]
nl80211: Replace interface socket owner attribute with more generic one
Replace NL80211_ATTR_IFACE_SOCKET_OWNER attribute with more generic
NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER that can be used with other commands
that interface creation.
Signed-off-by: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:51:55 +0000 (18:51 +0100)]
mac80211-hwsim: remove unnecessary hwname check
The hwname will always be set if idx is negative (as it's
a u32 read into an s64 it can't overflow either) so we can
remove the unnecessary check for hwname being non-NULL.
This was reported by smatch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Rafał Miłecki [Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:43:28 +0000 (18:43 +0100)]
cfg80211: protect fools returning NULL in add_virtual_intf
Callback add_virtual_intf is supposed to return ERR_PTR and trying to
return NULL results in some "Unable to handle kernel paging request",
etc. As it may be complicated to debug & trace, let's catch it (WARN).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Arik Nemtsov [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:37:47 +0000 (16:37 +0200)]
cfg80211: explicitly initialize some fields in custom reg path
Explicitly initialize the DFS state and beacon found state when handling
channels in the custom regulatory path.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Arik Nemtsov [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:37:46 +0000 (16:37 +0200)]
cfg80211: update missing fields in custom regulatory path
Some channels fields were not being updated in the custom regulatory
path. Update them according to the code in handle_channel().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Doron <jonathanx.doron@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Felix Fietkau [Sat, 15 Nov 2014 02:48:54 +0000 (03:48 +0100)]
mac80211: skip legacy rate mask handling for VHT rates
The rate mask code currently assumes that a rate is legacy if
IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS is not set. This might be the cause of bogus VHT
rates being reported with minstrel_ht.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:24:31 +0000 (22:24 +0200)]
mac80211: allow drivers to support NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR
Allow drivers to support NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR with software
based scanning and generate a random MAC address for them for every
scan request with the flag.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:39:05 +0000 (21:39 +0200)]
cfg80211: allow drivers to support random MAC addresses for scan
Add the necessary feature flags and a scan flag to support using
random MAC addresses for scan while unassociated.
The configuration for this supports an arbitrary MAC address
value and mask, so that any kind of configuration (e.g. fixed
OUI or full 46-bit random) can be requested. Full 46-bit random
is the default when no other configuration is passed.
Also add a small helper function to use the addr/mask correctly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add a new WoWLAN API to enable net-detect as a wake up trigger.
Net-detect allows the device to scan in the background while the
host is asleep to wake up the host system when a matching network
is found.
Reuse the scheduled scan attributes to specify how the scan is
performed while suspended and the matches that will trigger a
wake event.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Luciano Coelho [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:13:46 +0000 (16:13 +0200)]
cfg80211: refactor nl80211_start_sched_scan so it can be reused
For net detect, we will need to reuse most of the scheduled scan
parsing function, but not all, so split out the attributes parsing
part out of the main start sched_scan function.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Liad Kaufman [Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:47:38 +0000 (13:47 +0200)]
mac80211: synchronously reserve TID per station
In TDLS (e.g., TDLS off-channel) there is a requirement for
some drivers to supply an unused TID between the AP and the
device to the FW, to allow sending PTI requests and to allow
the FW to aggregate on a specific TID for better throughput.
To ensure that the allocated TID is indeed unused, this patch
introduces an API for blocking the driver from TXing on that
TID.
Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Arik Nemtsov [Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:50:20 +0000 (18:50 +0200)]
mac80211: add TDLS channel-switch Rx flow
When receiving a TDLS channel switch request or response, parse the frame
and call a new tdls_recv_channel_switch op in the low level driver with
the parsed data.
Arik Nemtsov [Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:50:19 +0000 (18:50 +0200)]
mac80211: introduce TDLS channel switch ops
Implement the cfg80211 TDLS channel switch ops and introduce new mac80211
ones for low-level drivers.
Verify low-level driver support for the new ops when using the relevant
wiphy feature bit. Also verify the peer supports channel switching before
passing the command down.
Add a new STA flag to track the off-channel state with the TDLS peer and
make sure to cancel the channel-switch if the peer STA is unexpectedly
removed.
Arik Nemtsov [Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:54:26 +0000 (12:54 +0200)]
cfg80211: introduce TDLS channel switch commands
Introduce commands to initiate and cancel TDLS channel-switching. Once
TDLS channel-switching is started, the lower level driver is responsible
for continually initiating channel-switch operations and returning to
the base (AP) channel to listen for beacons from time to time.
Upon cancellation of the channel-switch all communication between the
relevant TDLS peers will continue on the base channel.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Arik Nemtsov [Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:50:16 +0000 (18:50 +0200)]
mac80211: prepare TDLS mgmt code for channel-switch templates
Split the data-generating from the Tx-sending functionality, as we do
not want to send templates to the lower driver. Also add an optional
chandef argument to the data-generating portion. It will be used for
channel-switch templates.
Arik Nemtsov [Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:50:15 +0000 (18:50 +0200)]
mac80211: track AP and peer STA TDLS chan-switch support
The AP or peer can prohibit TDLS channel switch via a bit in the
extended capabilities IE. Parse the IE and track this bit. Set an
appropriate STA flag if both the AP and peer STA support TDLS
channel-switching.
Add the new STA flag and the missing TDLS_INITIATOR to debugfs.
Arik Nemtsov [Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:50:12 +0000 (18:50 +0200)]
mac80211: add supported channels IE during TDLS setup
This information element is mandatory in case TDLS channel-switching is to
be supported. The channels given are ones supported and allowed to be
active in the current regulatory setting.
Johannes Berg [Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:50:11 +0000 (18:50 +0200)]
mac80211: add function to create data frame template including key
For some TDLS channel switch implementations data frames need to be
sent by the firmware based on a template. This template should be
created by mac80211, and thus needs to properly be built from an
802.3 frame into an 802.11 frame. In addition, the device will need
the key information so the select_key handler needs to be run.
However, the driver/device will be responsible for all of the crypto
encapsulation, as the sequence numbers etc. cannot be built by the
host anyway in this case since it's a template to be used multiple
times.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:50:09 +0000 (18:50 +0200)]
mac80211: move skb info band assignment out
Instead of passing the band as a parameter to ieee80211_xmit()
and ieee80211_tx(), move it outside of the two functions while
making sure info->band is set up before calling them.
This removes the parameter and simplifies the follow commit.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Liad Kaufman [Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:50:08 +0000 (18:50 +0200)]
mac80211: retransmit TDLS teardown packet through AP if not ACKed
Since the TDLS peer station might not receive the teardown
packet (e.g., when in PS), this makes sure the packet is
retransmitted - this time through the AP - if the TDLS peer
didn't ACK the packet.
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:10 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Move roc completion to the offchannel timer
Currently, when a roc period expires, the offchannel
timer calls ieee80211_remain_on_channel_expired(), but
the roc state is cleared only when the queued work
to switch to the operating channel gets a chance to run.
This race is a problem because mac80211 can issue a
new roc request in this window. To avoid this, handle
roc completion in the offchannel timer itself.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:09 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Adjust tbtt delta properly
In a GO/STA setup, when we switch to the STA context,
the channel context timer is scheduled with a period of
half the beacon interval. If a beacon is received in
this duration, the timer is adjusted to accommodate
TSF sync done by the HW.
But, if the actual channel switch is delayed for some
reason, we end up rearming the timer every time a new
beacon is received. Avoid this by doing the adjustment
only once.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:08 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Handle failure to send NoA
If for some reason a beacon with a new NoA is
not sent out, then reset the mgd_prepare_tx flag.
Not doing this will result in a situation where
a GO will send a new NoA when it shouldn't.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:07 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Cancel pending offchannel operations
This patch makes sure that pending roc/scan
operations are cancelled properly when a new
context is assigned/unassigned.
The flush_work() call to flush out any scheduled
channel context work is removed, instead, sc->mutex
is dropped to allow any pending work to get a chance
to complete by the channel scheduler. Also, increase
the timeout to allow a switch to an active GO.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:06 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Clear offchannel state properly
When a pending roc or scan operation is cancelled,
the offchannel operation is cleared, but the offchannel
state in the main scheduler is not cleared. This causes
problems since an active GO will try to process a stale
offchannel request that was deferred earlier. Fix this
by clearing the state when there is no pending offchannel
(roc/scan) operation.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:05 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Fix thermometer programming
The registers that control the on-chip thermometer
need to be programmed based on the chainmask that
the solution supports, not the chainmask that is
present in the eeprom.
Cc: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:04 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Store the chip chainmask in HW capabilities
Cc: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:03 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Enable TSF2 for generic HW timers
The base TSF is used for HW timers 0..7, but chips
in the AR9003 family and above can support more generic
timers. To use them, however, a second HW TSF needs to
be enabled. This patch allows usage of the extra
timers by starting the second TSF properly.
The extra set of HW timers is apparently also present
in AR9287, but we enable it only for the AR9003 family.
Cc: Kobi Cohen-Arazi <kobic@qti.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:02 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Fix LED configuration
On some x86 platforms, the LED gpio is active high
instead of active low. Identify such cards and modify
the GPIO usage to make sure LED works properly.
Cc: Russell Hu <rhu@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Miaoqing Pan [Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:41:01 +0000 (06:11 +0530)]
ath9k: Use new QCA953x initvals
This patch updates the initvals for QCA953x v1.1 and v2.0
Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Chun-Yeow Yeoh [Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:05:41 +0000 (03:05 +0800)]
ath9k_htc: Enable software crypto for mgmt frame in Tx for USB devices
In secured mesh, the unicast mgmt frame is encrypted using
the same key that used for encrypting the unicast data frame.
This patch "ath9k_htc_firmware: fix the offset of CCMP header
for mesh data frame" applied to open-ath9k-htc-firmware allows
the ath9k_htc to be loaded without "nohwcrypt=1". Unfortunately,
this is not working and we still need CCMP encryption of
transmitted management frames to be done in software.
So this patch allows the software encryption for transmitted
management frame to be done in software but remain the hardware
decryption for received management frame.
This patch is tested with the following hardwares:
- TP-Link TL-WN821N v3 802.11n [Atheros AR7010+AR9287]
- AR9271 802.11n
and managed to work with peer mesh STA equipped with ath9k.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Chun-Yeow Yeoh [Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:05:40 +0000 (03:05 +0800)]
ath9k|ath9k_htc: Seperate the software crypto flag for Tx and Rx
Use the sw_mgmt_crypto_tx flag to trigger the CCMP encryption
for transmitted management frames to be done in software while
the sw_mgmt_crypto_rx flag is used to trigger the CCMP decryption
for received management frames to be done in software.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:24:16 +0000 (21:54 +0530)]
mwifiex: add auto TDLS support
This patch adds auto TDLS support to mwifiex.
Auto TDLS functionality works as follows:
1. Whenever userspace application has triggered TDLS connection with
any peer, driver would store this peer mac address details in its database.
2. After this driver whenever driver receives packet on direct link,
it would store rssi and timestamp in peer information.
3. Whenever a packet is to be transmitted to non-AP peer in station mode,
driver would check if TDLS link can be established by looking at peer RSSI
information. Driver would initiate TDLS setup in such cases.
4. Periodic timer is used for updating peer information.
5. Auto TDLS peer list & timer are cleared during disconnection or driver unload.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:24:14 +0000 (21:54 +0530)]
mwifiex: do not explicitly disable TDLS link during teardown
When Teardown event from FW is indicated to userspace, userspace
would trigger tdls_oper handler to disable TDLS link.
We need not do this explicitly here.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Chun-Yeow Yeoh [Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:40:19 +0000 (16:40 +0800)]
ath9k: fix the assignment of hw queues for mesh interface
We need to assign the hw queues for mesh interface. Otherwise,
we are not able to bring up the mesh interface due to the
IEEE80211_INVAL_HW_QUEUE error.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Oleksij Rempel [Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:32:08 +0000 (08:32 +0100)]
ath9k: common-spectral: don't depend from ATH9K_DEBUGFS
we can have here two variants. Add
ATH9K_CMN_DEBUGFS y if ATH9K_CMN_DEBUGFS || ATH9K_HTC_DEBUGFS
wich will add more configurations and testcases. Or remove ATH9K_HTC_DEBUGFS
which need more time to be done.
So, make common-spectral ignore ATH9K_DEBUGFS option for now.
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:56:6: sparse: symbol 'ath9k_htc_op_ps_wakeup' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:61:6: sparse: symbol 'ath9k_htc_op_ps_restore' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:66:19: sparse: symbol 'ath9k_htc_ps_ops' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c:91:6: sparse: symbol 'ath9k_op_ps_wakeup' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c:96:6: sparse: symbol 'ath9k_op_ps_restore' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c:101:19: sparse: symbol 'ath9k_ps_ops' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:08:11 +0000 (19:38 +0530)]
mwifiex: module load parameter for interface creation
This patch adds module load parameter driver_mode for mwifiex
which would enable driver to create AP or P2P client interface while loading
module. driver_mode is bitmap of interface modes for station, AP and
P2P client.
Station interface is created by default and is unaffected by driver_mode
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
John W. Linville [Mon, 17 Nov 2014 20:28:39 +0000 (15:28 -0500)]
Merge branch 'for-linville' of git://github.com/kvalo/ath
Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> says:
"One ath6kl patch and rest for ath10k, but nothing really major which
stands out. Most notable:
o fix resume (Bartosz)
o firmware restart is now faster and more reliable (Michal)
o it's now possible to test hardware restart functionality without
crashing the firmware using hw-restart parameter with
simulate_fw_crash debugfs file (Michal)"
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Peter Oh [Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:44:15 +0000 (16:44 +0200)]
ath10k: fix mismatched wmi api call
Fix to use v10.2 wmi call for firmware v10.2.
It turned out that peer association function was using
v10.1 wmi call for v10.2 firmware during code review.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oh <poh@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
ath10k: handle ieee80211 header and payload tracing separately
For packet log, the transmitted frame 802.11 header alone is sufficient.
Recording entire packet is also consuming lot of disk space. To optimize
this, tx and rx data tracepoints are splitted into header and payload
tracepoints.
To record tx ieee80211 headers
trace-cmd record -e ath10k_tx_hdr
To record complete packets
trace-cmd record -e ath10k_tx_hdr -e ath10k_tx_payload
Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
James Cameron [Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:21:28 +0000 (16:21 +1100)]
mwifiex: simplify ad hoc join capability info
While preparing an ad-hoc start command, the capability info bitmap is
needlessly set from the command, and then the ESS bit cleared.
Change to set the bitmap directly without reference to the command.
Signed-off-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org> Acked-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Luciano Coelho [Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:25:17 +0000 (09:25 +0200)]
wlcore: check minimum buffer size in some cmd_send functions
Check for the minimum required buffer length in wlcore_cmd_send() and
wlcore_cmd_configure_failsafe. This ensures that we will never try to
use a buffer that is smaller than the required header.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mwifiex: fix version display problem on big endian platforms
It's been observed that wrong firmware version (ex. 66.14.96.p9
instead of 14.66.9.p96) is displayed on big endian platforms.
The problem is fixed here.
Reported-by: Daniel Mosquera <daniel.mosquera@ctag.com> Tested-by: Daniel Mosquera <daniel.mosquera@ctag.com> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:34:30 +0000 (17:04 +0530)]
mwifiex: do not setup AMPDU/AMSDU with broadcast receiver
It is observed that device sometimes sends BA setup requests for
broadcast mac address.
This patch adds a check to avoid checking availability of
AMPDU/AMSDU streams for broadcast mac address.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mwifiex: fix out of memory issue observed for USB chipsets
On some platforms, system goes out of memory during heavy
Rx traffic with our USB chipsets.
In case of SDIO/PCIe, after receiving 50 packets in Rx queue
we stop processing interrupts till packets pending fall below
low threshold i.e 20. We don't have similar logic for USB,
so if host platform is slow, we would hit a case where firmware
keeps on pushing packets at high speed than driver/kernel can
process.
We will stop submitting URBs for Rx data when pending packet
count reaches high threshold and restart them when enough
packets are consumed to solve the problem.
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85071 Reported-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@gmail.com> Tested-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avinash Patil [Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:34:27 +0000 (17:04 +0530)]
mwifiex: rx workqueue support for USB interface
This patch adds RX workqueue support for USB interfaces.
Currently rx_pending is applicable for cmd/events and Rx
data in USB interface. Let's use it only for Rx data.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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