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2010-02-16mac80211: split ieee80211_drop_unencryptedJohannes Berg
Currently, ieee80211_drop_unencrypted is called from management and data frame context, and the different contexts pass different frames. This could lead to it processing an 802.3 frame as an 802.11 frame when MFP is enabled. Move the MFP part of ieee80211_drop_unencrypted into a new function that is only called for mgmt frames. Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-15cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action framesJouni Malinen
This implements a new command to register for action frames that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but the socket can be closed for that. Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the cfg80211 API helps implementing that. Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be used either to exchange action frames on the current operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public Action frames with the remain-on-channel command. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-15mac80211: reject unhandled action framesJohannes Berg
802.11-2007 7.3.1.11 mandates that we need to reject action frames we don't handle by setting the 0x80 bit in the category and returning them to the sender, so do that. In AP mode, hostapd is responsible for this. Additionally, drop completely malformed action frames or ones that should've been encrypted as unusable, userspace shouldn't see those. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08mac80211: Reset dynamic ps timer in Rx path.Vivek Natarajan
The current mac80211 implementation enables power save if there is no Tx traffic for a specific timeout. Hence, PS is triggered even if there is a continuous Rx only traffic(like UDP) going on. This makes the drivers to wait on the tim bit in the next beacon to awake which leads to redundant sleep-wake cycles. Fix this by restarting the dynamic ps timer on receiving every data packet. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleepJohannes Berg
Many drivers would like to sleep during station addition and removal, and currently have a high complexity there from not being able to. This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to fail. The reason we didn't do this previously is that the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep. This patch will keep the station allocation in that path, but moves adding the station to the driver out of line. Since the addition can now fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver rejected -- in that case we still talk to the station but never tell the driver about it in the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be a driver that has a low limit on the number of stations and that cannot talk to any stations that are not known to it, we need to do come up with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs, maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01mac80211: fix sta lookup for received action frames on an AP VLANFelix Fietkau
When looking for a matching interface, __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet loops over all active interfaces, looking for matching stations. Because AP VLAN interfaces are not processed as part of this loop, it needs to use sta_info_get_bss instead of sta_info_get in order to find a STA that has been moved to a VLAN. This fixes issues with aggregation setup/teardown. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22mac80211: fix rx data handling for non-data frames on multiple vifsFelix Fietkau
The loop that passes non-data frames to all relevant vifs inside the __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet keeps a pointer to the previous sdata to avoid having to make unnecessary copies of the frame it's handling. This led to a bug that caused it to apply the ieee80211_rx_data state to the wrong interface, thereby either missing the rx.sta pointer or having it assigned where it shouldn't be. This breaks (among other things) aggregation on some vifs, as action frame exchages are dropped to the cooked monitor interface due to rx->sta being NULL. Fix this by restructuring the loop so that it prepares the rx data just before making the skb copy and calling the rx handlers. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
2010-01-12mac80211: use nullfunc frames for 4-addr sta detectionFelix Fietkau
To detect incoming 4-addr stations, hostapd needs to receive a 4-addr data frame from the remote station, so that it can create the AP VLAN for it. With this patch, the mlme code emits a 4-addr nullfunc frame immediately after assoc. On the AP side it also drops 4-addr nullfunc frames to the cooked monitor mode interface, if the interface hasn't been fully set up to receive 4-addr data frames yet. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-08mac80211: add missing sanity checks for action framesFelix Fietkau
Various missing sanity checks caused rejected action frames to be interpreted as channel switch announcements, which can cause a client mode interface to switch away from its operating channel, thereby losing connectivity. This patch ensures that only spectrum management action frames are processed by the CSA handling function and prevents rejected action frames from getting processed by the MLME code. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
Conflicts: net/mac80211/iface.c
2010-01-05mac80211: fix skb buffering issueJohannes Berg
Since I removed the master netdev, we've been keeping internal queues only, and even before that we never told the networking stack above the virtual interfaces about congestion. This means that packets are queued in mac80211 and the upper layers never know, possibly leading to memory exhaustion and other problems. This patch makes all interfaces multiqueue and uses ndo_select_queue to put the packets into queues per AC. Additionally, when the driver stops a queue, we now stop all corresponding queues for the virtual interfaces as well. The injection case will use VO by default for non-data frames, and BE for data frames, but downgrade any data frames according to ACM. It needs to be fleshed out in the future to allow chosing the queue/AC in radiotap. Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: generalise work handlingJohannes Berg
In order to use auth/assoc for different purposes other than MLME, it needs to be split up. For other purposes, a generic work handling (potentially on another channel) will be useful. To achieve that, this patch moves much of the MLME work handling out of mlme into a new work API. The API can currently handle probing a specific AP, authentication and association. The MLME previously handled probe/authentication as one step and will continue to do so, but they are separate in the new work handling. Work items are RCU-managed to be able to check for existence of an item for a specific frame in the RX path, but they can be re-used which the MLME right now will do for its combined probe/auth step. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28mac80211: add ieee80211_sdata_runningJohannes Berg
Instead of always using netif_running(sdata->dev) use ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata) now which is just an inline containing netif_running() for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville
2009-12-22wireless: add ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023sZhu Yi
Move the A-MSDU handling code from mac80211 to cfg80211 so that more drivers can use it. The new created function ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023s converts an A-MSDU frame to a list of 802.3 frames. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: remove payload alignment warningKalle Valo
The payload alignment warning enabled by MAC80211_DEBUG_PACKET_ALIGNMENT is difficult. To fix it, a firmware change is needed but in most cases that's very difficult. So the benefit from the warning is low and most probably it just creates more confusion for people who just enable all warnings (like it did for me). Remove the unaligned IP payload warning and the kconfig option. But leave the unaligned packet warning, it will be enabled with MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: trace interface nameJohannes Berg
It's not all that useful to have the vif/sdata pointer, we'd rather refer to the interfaces by their name. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg
For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: make station management completely depend on vifJohannes Berg
The station management currently uses the virtual interface, but you cannot add the same station to multiple virtual interfaces if you're communicating with it in multiple ways. This restriction should be lifted so that in the future we can, for instance, support bluetooth 3 with an access point that mac80211 is already associated to. We can do that by requiring all sta_info_get users to provide the virtual interface and making the RX code aware that an address may match more than one station struct. Thanks to the previous patches this one isn't all that large and except for the RX and TX status paths changes has low complexity. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-10mac80211: Fixed bug in mesh portal pathsJavier Cardona
Paths to mesh portals were being timed out immediately after each use in intermediate forwarding nodes. mppath->exp_time is set to the expiration time so assigning it to jiffies was marking the path as expired. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-04mac80211: fix reorder buffer releaseJohannes Berg
My patch "mac80211: correctly place aMPDU RX reorder code" uses an skb queue for MPDUs that were released from the buffer. I intentially didn't initialise and use the skb queue's spinlock, but in this place forgot that the code variant that doesn't touch the spinlock is needed. Thanks to Christian Lamparter for quickly spotting the bug in the backtrace Reinette reported. Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Bug-identified-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-04Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-11-29net: Move && and || to end of previous lineJoe Perches
Not including net/atm/ Compiled tested x86 allyesconfig only Added a > 80 column line or two, which I ignored. Existing checkpatch plaints willfully, cheerfully ignored. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-28mac80211: correctly place aMPDU RX reorder codeJohannes Berg
As indicated by the comment, the aMPDU RX reorder code should logically be after ieee80211_rx_h_check(). The previous patch moved the code there, and this patch now hooks it up in that place by introducing a list of skbs that are then processed by the remaining handlers. The list may be empty if the function is buffering the skb to release it later. The only change needed to the RX data is that the crypto handler needs to clear the key that may be set from a previous loop iteration, and that not everything can be in the rx flags now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-28mac80211: move aMPDU RX reorder codeJohannes Berg
This code should be part of RX handlers, so move it to the place where it belongs without changing it. A follow-up patch will do the changes to hook it up. The sole purpose of this code move is to make the other patch readable, it doesn't change the code at all except that it now requires a different static function declaration (which will go away too). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-28mac80211: move cmntr flag out of rx flagsJohannes Berg
The RX flags should soon be used only for flags that cannot change within an a-MPDU, so move the cooked monitor flag into the RX status flags. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19cfg80211: introduce capability for 4addr modeJohannes Berg
It's very likely that not many devices will support four-address mode in station or AP mode so introduce capability bits for both modes, set them in mac80211 and check them when userspace tries to use the mode. Also, keep track of 4addr in cfg80211 (wireless_dev) and not in mac80211 any more. mac80211 can also be improved for the VLAN case by not looking at the 4addr flag but maintaining the station pointer for it correctly. However, keep track of use_4addr for station mode in mac80211 to avoid all the derefs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18mac80211: remove encrypt parameter from ieee80211_tx_skbJohannes Berg
Since the flags moved into skb->cb, there's no longer a need to have the encrypt bool passed into the function, anyone who requires it set to 0 (false) can just set the flag directly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18mac80211: improve rate handlingJohannes Berg
Some code currently assumes that there's a valid rate pointer even in the HT case, but there can't be. To reduce reliance on that, remove the rate pointer from the RX data struct and pass it where it's needed. Also, for now, in radiotap announce HT frames as having a DYN channel type, and remove their rate from cooked monitor radiotap completely (it isn't present in the regular monitor radiotap either.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18mac80211: trim RX dataJohannes Berg
The RX data contains the netdev, which is duplicated since we have the sdata, and the RX status pointer, which is duplicate since we have the skb. Remove those two fields to have fewer fields that depend on each other and simply load them as necessary. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18mac80211: cleanup reorder buffer handlingJohannes Berg
The reorder buffer handling is written in a quite peculiar style (especially comments) and also has a quirk where it invokes the entire reorder code in ieee80211_sta_manage_reorder_buf() for just a handful of lines in it with a special argument. Split out ieee80211_release_reorder_frames which can then be invoked from BAR handling and other reordering code, clean up code and comments and remove function arguments that are now unused from ieee80211_sta_manage_reorder_buf(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18mac80211: push michael MIC report after DA checkJohannes Berg
When we receive a michael MIC failure report from the hardware we currently do not check whether it is actually reported on a frame that is destined to us. It shouldn't be possible to get a michael MIC failure report on other frames, but it also doesn't hurt to verify. Also, since we then don't need the station struct that early, move looking it up a bit later in the RX path. Finally, while at it, a few code cleanups in the area. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-13mac80211: fix broadcast frame handling for 4-addr AP VLANsFelix Fietkau
Without this patch, broadcast frames from the station behind a 4-addr AP VLAN would be reflected back to the source. Fix this by checking the 4-addr flag before bridging multicast frames in the cell. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11mac80211: fix max HT rate processing on mac80211Luis R. Rodriguez
The max MCS index is 76, fix the higher check to allow through frames received at MCS 76. This is a non-issue for current drivers as MCS 76 is only possible with a device supporting 4 spatial streams. While at it change the WARN_ON() on invalid HT rates to a WARN() to provide more useful information. This will help debug issues when the driver is passing up a bogus HT rate value. The rate must map to a valid MCS index which can be any of the values in the set [0 - 76] (inclusive). Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11mac80211: implement support for 4-address frames for AP and client modeFelix Fietkau
In some situations it might be useful to run a network with an Access Point and multiple clients, but with each client bridged to a network behind it. For this to work, both the client and the AP need to transmit 4-address frames, containing both source and destination MAC addresses. With this patch, you can configure a client to communicate using only 4-address frames for data traffic. On the AP side you can enable 4-address frames for individual clients by isolating them in separate AP VLANs which are configured in 4-address mode. Such an AP VLAN will be limited to one client only, and this client will be used as the destination for all traffic on its interface, regardless of the destination MAC address in the packet headers. The advantage of this mode compared to regular WDS mode is that it's easier to configure and does not require a static list of peer MAC addresses on any side. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11mac80211: update peer link management IE and action framesRui Paulo
Update the length and format of the peer link management action frames. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-06mac80211: async station powersave handlingJohannes Berg
Some devices require that all frames to a station are flushed when that station goes into powersave mode before being able to send frames to that station again when it wakes up or polls -- all in order to avoid reordering and too many or too few frames being sent to the station when it polls. Normally, this is the case unless the station goes to sleep and wakes up very quickly again. But in that case, frames for it may be pending on the hardware queues, and thus races could happen in the case of multiple hardware queues used for QoS/WMM. Normally this isn't a problem, but with the iwlwifi mechanism we need to make sure the race doesn't happen. This makes mac80211 able to cope with the race with driver help by a new WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER per-station flag that can be controlled by the driver and tells mac80211 whether it can transmit frames or not. This flag must be set according to very specific rules outlined in the documentation for the function that controls it. When we buffer new frames for the station, we normally set the TIM bit right away, but while the driver has blocked transmission to that sta we need to avoid that as well since we cannot respond to the station if it wakes up due to the TIM bit. Once the driver unblocks, we can set the TIM bit. Similarly, when the station just wakes up, we need to wait until all other frames are flushed before we can transmit frames to that station, so the same applies here, we need to wait for the driver to give the OK. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: remove sent_ps_bufferedJohannes Berg
This variable is set once, and tested once. However, the code path that can set it is mutually exclusive with the code path that tests it, so the test is always true. Thus we also don't need to set it either and can just remove the variable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: also drop qos-nullfunc frames silentlyJohannes Berg
We drop nullfunc frames, but not qos-nullfunc frames, even though those could be used for PS state control as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: deprecate qual valueJohannes Berg
This value is unused by mac80211, because it was only be used by wireless extensions, and turned out to not be useful there because the quality value needs to be comparable between scan results and the current value which is impossible when the qual value is calculated taking into account noise, for example. Since it is unused anyway, this patch deprecates it in the hope that drivers will remove their sometimes quite expensive calculations of the value. I'm open to actual uses of the value, but the best way of using it seems to be what the Intel drivers do which should probably be generalised if we have noise values from the hardware. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: make align adjustment code support paged SKBZhu Yi
This fixed a BUG_ON in __skb_trim() when paged rx is used in iwlwifi driver. Yes, the whole mac80211 stack doesn't support paged SKB yet. But let's start the work slowly from small code snippets. Reported-and-tested-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: remove RX_FLAG_RADIOTAPJohannes Berg
While there may be a case for a driver adding its own bits of radiotap information, none currently does. Also, drivers would have to copy the code to generate the radiotap bits that now mac80211 generates. If some driver in the future needs to add some driver-specific information I'd expect that to be in a radiotap vendor namespace and we can add a different way of passing such data up and having mac80211 include it. Additionally, rename IEEE80211_CONF_RADIOTAP to IEEE80211_CONF_MONITOR since it's still used by b43(legacy) to obtain per-frame timestamps. The purpose of this patch is to simplify the RX code in mac80211 to make it easier to add paged skb support. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: fix radiotap header generationJohannes Berg
In commit 601ae7f25aea58f208a7f640f6174aac0652403a Author: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Date: Thu May 8 19:22:43 2008 +0200 mac80211: make rx radiotap header more flexible code was added that tried to align the radiotap header position in memory based on the radiotap header length. Quite obviously, that is completely useless. Instead of trying to do that, use unaligned accesses to generate the radiotap header. To properly do that, we also need to mark struct ieee80211_radiotap_header packed, but that is fine since it's already packed (and it should be marked packed anyway since its a wire format). Cc: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27mac80211: Learn about mesh portals from multicast trafficJavier Cardona
Mesh portals proxy traffic for nodes external to the mesh. When a proxied frame is received by a mesh interface, it should update its mesh portal table. This was only happening for unicast frames. With this change we also learn about mesh portals from proxied multicast frames. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12mac80211: document ieee80211_rx() context requirementJohannes Berg
ieee80211_rx() must be called with softirqs disabled since the networking stack requires this for netif_rx() and some code in mac80211 can assume that it can not be processing its own tasklet and this call at the same time. It may be possible to remove this requirement after a careful audit of mac80211 and doing any needed locking improvements in it along with disabling softirqs around netif_rx(). An alternative might be to push all packet processing to process context in mac80211, instead of to the tasklet, and add other synchronisation. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07mac80211: fix vlan and optimise RXJohannes Berg
When receiving data frames, we can send them only to the interface they belong to based on transmitting station (this doesn't work for probe requests). Also, don't try to handle other frames for AP_VLAN at all since those interface should only receive data. Additionally, the transmit side must check that the station we're sending a frame to is actually on the interface we're transmitting on, and not transmit packets to functions that live on other interfaces, so validate that as well. Another bug fix is needed in sta_info.c where in the VLAN case when adding/removing stations we overwrite the sdata variable we still need. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28mac80211: fix RX skb leaksJohannes Berg
In mac80211's RX path some of the warnings that warn about drivers passing invalid status values leak the skb, fix that by refactoring the code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28mac80211: remove tasklet enable/disableJohannes Berg
Due to the way the tasklets work in mac80211 there's no need to ever disable them. However, we need to clear the pending packets when taking down the last interface because otherwise the tx_pending_tasklet might be queued if the driver mucks with the queues (which it shouldn't). I've had a situation occasionally with ar9170 in which ksoftirq was using 100% CPU time because a disabled tasklet was scheduled, and I think that was due to ar9170 receiving a packet while the tasklet was disabled. That's strange and it really should not do that for other reasons, but there's no need to waste that much CPU time over it, it should just warn instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28mac80211: remove ieee80211_rx namespace hackJohn W. Linville
With the libipw naming scheme change, it is no longer necessary for mac80211 to avoid the ieee80211_rx name clash. Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>