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2009-04-02RDS: Rewrite connection cleanup, fixing oops on rmmodAndy Grover
This fixes a bug where a connection was unexpectedly not on *any* list while being destroyed. It also cleans up some code duplication and regularizes some function names. * Grab appropriate lock in conn_free() and explain in comment * Ensure via locking that a conn is never not on either a dev's list or the nodev list * Add rds_xx_remove_conn() to match rds_xx_add_conn() * Make rds_xx_add_conn() return void * Rename remove_{,nodev_}conns() to destroy_{,nodev_}conns() and unify their implementation in a helper function * Document lock ordering as nodev conn_lock before dev_conn_lock Reported-by: Yosef Etigin <yosefe@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-02RDS: Fix m_rs_lock deadlockAndy Grover
rs_send_drop_to() is called during socket close. If it takes m_rs_lock without disabling interrupts, then rds_send_remove_from_sock() can run from the rx completion handler and thus deadlock. Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-31core: remove pointless conditional before kfree()Wei Yongjun
Remove pointless conditional before kfree(). Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-31ipv4: remove unused parameter from tcp_recv_urg().Rami Rosen
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-29netfilter: xtables: fix IPv6 dependency in the cluster matchPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch fixes a dependency with IPv6: ERROR: "__ipv6_addr_type" [net/netfilter/xt_cluster.ko] undefined! This patch adds a function that checks if the higher bits of the address is 0xFF to identify a multicast address, instead of adding a dependency due to __ipv6_addr_type(). I came up with this idea after Patrick McHardy pointed possible problems with runtime module dependencies. Reported-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-29Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2009-03-28netpoll: store local and remote ip in net-endianHarvey Harrison
Allows for the removal of byteswapping in some places and the removal of HIPQUAD (replaced by %pI4). Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-28netfilter: fix endian bug in conntrack printksHarvey Harrison
dcc_ip is treated as a host-endian value in the first printk, but the second printk uses %pI4 which expects a be32. This will cause a mismatch between the debug statement and the warning statement. Treat as a be32 throughout and avoid some byteswapping during some comparisions, and allow another user of HIPQUAD to bite the dust. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-28gso: Fix support for linear packetsHerbert Xu
When GRO/frag_list support was added to GSO, I made an error which broke the support for segmenting linear GSO packets (GSO packets are normally non-linear in the payload). These days most of these packets are constructed by the tun driver, which prefers to allocate linear memory if possible. This is fixed in the latest kernel, but for 2.6.29 and earlier it is still the norm. Therefore this bug causes failures with GSO when used with tun in 2.6.29. Reported-by: James Huang <jamesclhuang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-28Merge branch 'percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (682 commits) percpu: fix spurious alignment WARN in legacy SMP percpu allocator percpu: generalize embedding first chunk setup helper percpu: more flexibility for @dyn_size of pcpu_setup_first_chunk() percpu: make x86 addr <-> pcpu ptr conversion macros generic linker script: define __per_cpu_load on all SMP capable archs x86: UV: remove uv_flush_tlb_others() WARN_ON percpu: finer grained locking to break deadlock and allow atomic free percpu: move fully free chunk reclamation into a work percpu: move chunk area map extension out of area allocation percpu: replace pcpu_realloc() with pcpu_mem_alloc() and pcpu_mem_free() x86, percpu: setup reserved percpu area for x86_64 percpu, module: implement reserved allocation and use it for module percpu variables percpu: add an indirection ptr for chunk page map access x86: make embedding percpu allocator return excessive free space percpu: use negative for auto for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() arguments percpu: improve first chunk initial area map handling percpu: cosmetic renames in pcpu_setup_first_chunk() percpu: clean up percpu constants x86: un-__init fill_pud/pmd/pte x86: remove vestigial fix_ioremap prototypes ... Manually merge conflicts in arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c
2009-03-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (119 commits) [SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Retry for NOT_READY check condition [SCSI] mpt2sas: make global symbols unique [SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty [SCSI] sd: Try READ CAPACITY 16 first for SBC-2 devices [SCSI] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity() [SCSI] mpt2sas v00.100.11.15 [SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h [SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias [SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add power management support [SCSI] bsg: add linux/types.h include to bsg.h [SCSI] cxgb3i: fix function descriptions [SCSI] libiscsi: fix possbile null ptr session command cleanup [SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout [SCSI] libiscsi: pass session failure a session struct [SCSI] iscsi lib: remove qdepth param from iscsi host allocation [SCSI] iscsi lib: have lib create work queue for transmitting IO [SCSI] iscsi class: fix lock dep warning on logout [SCSI] libiscsi: don't cap queue depth in iscsi modules [SCSI] iscsi_tcp: replace scsi_debug/tcp_debug logging with iscsi conn logging [SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: replace tcp_debug/scsi_debug logging with session/conn logging ...
2009-03-28Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/time_64.c drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c Manual merge to resolve build warning due to phys_addr_t type change on x86: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-27Merge 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: (166 commits) Revert "ax25: zero length frame filtering in AX25" Revert "netrom: zero length frame filtering in NetRom" cfg80211: default CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY to n mac80211/iwlwifi: move virtual A-MDPU queue bookkeeping to iwlwifi mac80211: fix aggregation to not require queue stop mac80211: add skb length sanity checking mac80211: unify and fix TX aggregation start mac80211: clean up __ieee80211_tx args mac80211: rework the pending packets code mac80211: fix A-MPDU queue assignment mac80211: rewrite fragmentation iwlwifi: show current driver status in user readable format b43: Add BCM4307 PCI-ID cfg80211: fix locking in nl80211_set_wiphy mac80211: fix RX path ath5k: properly drop packets from ops->tx ar9170: single module build ath9k: fix dma mapping leak of rx buffer upon rmmod rt2x00: New USB ID for rt73usb ath5k: warn and correct rate for unknown hw rate indexes ...
2009-03-27Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
2009-03-27Revert "ax25: zero length frame filtering in AX25"David S. Miller
This reverts commit f99bcff7a290768e035f3d4726e103c6ebe858bf. Like netrom, Alan Cox says that zero lengths have real meaning and are useful in this protocol. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-27Revert "netrom: zero length frame filtering in NetRom"David S. Miller
This reverts commit a3ac80a130300573de351083cf4a5b46d233e8bf. Alan Cox says that zero length writes do have special meaning and are useful in this protocol. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-27cfg80211: default CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY to nLuis R. Rodriguez
And update description and feature-removal schedule according to the new plan. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211/iwlwifi: move virtual A-MDPU queue bookkeeping to iwlwifiJohannes Berg
This patch removes all the virtual A-MPDU-queue bookkeeping from mac80211. Curiously, iwlwifi already does its own bookkeeping, so it doesn't require much changes except where it needs to handle starting and stopping the queues in mac80211. To handle the queue stop/wake properly, we rewrite the software queue number for aggregation frames and internally to iwlwifi keep track of the queues that map into the same AC queue, and only talk to mac80211 about the AC queue. The implementation requires calling two new functions, iwl_stop_queue and iwl_wake_queue instead of the mac80211 counterparts. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Reinette Chattre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: fix aggregation to not require queue stopJohannes Berg
Instead of stopping the entire AC queue when enabling aggregation (which was only done for hardware with aggregation queues) buffer the packets for each station, and release them to the pending skb queue once aggregation is turned on successfully. We get a little more code, but it becomes conceptually simpler and we can remove the entire virtual queue mechanism from mac80211 in a follow-up patch. This changes how mac80211 behaves towards drivers that support aggregation but have no hardware queues -- those drivers will now not be handed packets while the aggregation session is being established, but only after it has been fully established. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: add skb length sanity checkingJohannes Berg
We just found a bug in zd1211rw where it would reject packets in the ->tx() method but leave them modified, which would cause retransmit attempts with completely bogus skbs, eventually leading to a panic due to not having enough headroom in those. This patch adds a sanity check to mac80211 to catch such driver mistakes; in this case we warn and drop the skb. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: unify and fix TX aggregation startJohannes Berg
When TX aggregation becomes operational, we do a number of steps: 1) print a debug message 2) wake the virtual queue 3) notify the driver Unfortunately, 1) and 3) are only done if the driver is first to reply to the aggregation request, it is, however, possible that the remote station replies before the driver! Thus, unify the code for this and call the new function ieee80211_agg_tx_operational in both places where TX aggregation can become operational. Additionally, rename the driver notification from IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_RESUME to IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: clean up __ieee80211_tx argsJohannes Berg
__ieee80211_tx takes a struct ieee80211_tx_data argument, but only uses a few of its members, namely 'skb' and 'sta'. Make that explicit, so that less internal knowledge is required in ieee80211_tx_pending and the possibility of introducing errors here is removed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: rework the pending packets codeJohannes Berg
The pending packets code is quite incomprehensible, uses memory barriers nobody really understands, etc. This patch reworks it entirely, using the queue spinlock, proper stop bits and the skb queues themselves to indicate whether packets are pending or not (rather than a separate variable like before). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: fix A-MPDU queue assignmentJohannes Berg
Internally, mac80211 requires the skb's queue mapping to be set to the AC queue, not the virtual A-MPDU queue. This is not done correctly currently, this patch moves the code down to directly before the driver is invoked and adds a comment that it will be moved into the driver later. Since this requires __ieee80211_tx() to have the sta pointer, make sure to provide it in ieee80211_tx_pending(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: rewrite fragmentationJohannes Berg
Fragmentation currently uses an allocated array to store the fragment skbs, and then keeps track of which have been sent and which are still pending etc. This is rather complicated; make it simpler by just chaining the fragments into skb->next and removing from that list when sent. Also simplifies all code that needs to touch fragments, since it now only needs to walk the skb->next list. This is a prerequisite for fixing the stored packet code, which I need to do for proper aggregation packet storing. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27cfg80211: fix locking in nl80211_set_wiphyJohannes Berg
Luis reports that there's a circular locking dependency; this is because cfg80211_dev_rename() will acquire the cfg80211_mutex while the device mutex is held, while this normally is done the other way around. The solution is to open-code the device-getting in nl80211_set_wiphy and require holding the mutex around cfg80211_dev_rename rather than acquiring it within. Also fix a bug -- rtnl locking is expected by drivers so we need to provide it. Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: fix RX pathJohannes Berg
My previous patch ("mac80211: remove mixed-cell and userspace MLME code") was too obvious to me, so obvious that a stupid bug crept in. The IBSS RX function must be invoked for IBSS, of course, not anything != IBSS. Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: rate control status only for controlled packetsJohannes Berg
This patch changes mac80211 to not notify the rate control algorithm's tx_status() method when reporting status for a packet that didn't go through the rate control algorithm's get_rate() method. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: add beacon filtering supportKalle Valo
Add IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING flag so that driver inform that it supports beacon filtering. Drivers need to call the new function ieee80211_beacon_loss() to notify about beacon loss. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27cfg80211: add feature to hold bssKalle Valo
In beacon filtering there needs to be a way to not expire the BSS even when no beacons are received. Add an interface to cfg80211 to hold BSS and make sure that it's not expired. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: disable power save when scanningKalle Valo
When software scanning we need to disable power save so that all possible probe responses and beacons are received. For hardware scanning assume that hardware will take care of that and document that assumption. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: track beacons separately from the rx path activityKalle Valo
Separate beacon and rx path tracking in preparation for the beacon filtering support. At the same time change ieee80211_associated() to look a bit simpler. Probe requests are now sent only after IEEE80211_PROBE_IDLE_TIME, which is now set to 60 seconds. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: decrease execution of the associated timerKalle Valo
Currently the timer is triggering every two seconds (IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL). Decrease the timer to only trigger during data idle periods to avoid waking up CPU unnecessary. The timer will still trigger during idle periods, that needs to be fixed later. There's also a functional change that probe requests are sent only when the data path is idle, earlier they were sent also while there was activity on the data path. This is also preparation for the beacon filtering support. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the idea. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: remove mixed-cell and userspace MLME codeJohannes Berg
Neither can currently be set from userspace, so there's no regression potential, and neither will be supported from userspace since the new userspace APIs allow the SME, which is in userspace, to control all we need. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27cfg80211: accept no-op interface mode changesJohannes Berg
When somebody tries to set the interface mode to the existing mode, don't ask the driver but silently accept the setting. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27cfg80211: remove code about country IE support with OLD_REGLuis R. Rodriguez
We had left in code to allow interested developers to add support for parsing country IEs when OLD_REG was enabled. This never happened and since we're going to remove OLD_REG lets just remove these comments and code for it. This code path was never being entered so this has no functional change. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27cfg80211: make regdom module parameter available oustide of OLD_REGLuis R. Rodriguez
It seems a few users are using this module parameter although its not recommended. People are finding it useful despite there being utilities for setting this in userspace. I'm not aware of any distribution using this though. Until userspace and distributions catch up with a default userspace automatic replacement (GeoClue integration would be nirvana) we copy the ieee80211_regdom module parameter from OLD_REG to the new reg code to help these users migrate. Users who are using the non-valid ISO / IEC 3166 alpha "EU" in their ieee80211_regdom module parameter and migrate to non-OLD_REG enabled system will world roam. This also schedules removal of this same ieee80211_regdom module parameter circa March 2010. Hope is by then nirvana is reached and users will abandoned the module parameter completely. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27cfg80211: fix incorrect assumption on last_request for 11dLuis R. Rodriguez
The incorrect assumption is the last regulatory request (last_request) is always a country IE when processing country IEs. Although this is true 99% of the time the first time this happens this could not be true. This fixes an oops in the branch check for the last_request when accessing drv_last_ie. The access was done under the assumption the struct won't be null. Note to stable: to port to 29 replace as follows, only 29 has country IE code: s|NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE|REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Quentin Armitage <Quentin@armitage.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27cfg80211: force last_request to be set for OLD_REG if regdom is EULuis R. Rodriguez
Although EU is a bogus alpha2 we need to process the send request as our code depends on last_request being set. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Quentin Armitage <Quentin@armitage.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Check iftype in cfg80211 codeJouni Malinen
We do not want to require all the drivers using cfg80211 to need to do this. In addition, make the error values consistent by using EOPNOTSUPP instead of semi-random assortment of errno values. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Check that netif_runnin is true in cfg80211 codeJouni Malinen
We do not want to require all the drivers using cfg80211 to need to do this or to be prepared to handle these commands when the interface is down. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Add more through validation of MLME command parametersJouni Malinen
Check that the used authentication type and reason code are valid here so that drivers/mac80211 do not need to care about this. In addition, remove the unnecessary validation of SSID attribute length which is taken care of by netlink policy. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Remove NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IEJouni Malinen
The functionality that NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE provided can now be achieved with cleaner design by adding IE(s) into NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN, NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE, NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE, NL80211_CMD_DEAUTHENTICATE, and NL80211_CMD_DISASSOCIATE. Since this is a very recently added command and there are no known (or known planned) applications using NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IE and taken into account how much extra complexity it adds to the IE processing we have now (and need to add in the future to fix IE order in couple of frames), it looks like the best option is to just remove the implementation of this command for now. The enum values themselves are left to avoid changing the nl80211 command or attribute numbers. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: Fix memleak in nl80211 authentication on deinitJouni Malinen
This file was forgotten from the quilt patch that added MLME primitives, so the kfree on interface removal is missing. Fix this potential memleak by freeing the temporary Authentication frame IEs from SME when the interface is being removed. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: resume properly, add suspend/resume testJohannes Berg
When mac80211 resumes, it currently doesn't reconfigure the interfaces entirely and also doesn't reconfigure BSS information -- fix this. Also, to be able to test this, add a debugfs file that just calls the suspend/resume code to see what happens when we go through that, without needing the time-consuming suspend/resume cycle. (Original version broke the build for CONFIG_PM=n. Define alternative functions for that situation. -- JWL) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Add MLME primitives to support external SMEJouni Malinen
This patch adds new nl80211 commands to allow user space to request authentication and association (and also deauthentication and disassociation). The commands are structured to allow separate authentication and association steps, i.e., the interface between kernel and user space is similar to the MLME SAP interface in IEEE 802.11 standard and an user space application takes the role of the SME. The patch introduces MLME-AUTHENTICATE.request, MLME-{,RE}ASSOCIATE.request, MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.request, and MLME-DISASSOCIATE.request primitives. The authentication and association commands request the actual operations in two steps (assuming the driver supports this; if not, separate authentication step is skipped; this could end up being a separate "connect" command). The initial implementation for mac80211 uses the current net/mac80211/mlme.c for actual sending and processing of management frames and the new nl80211 commands will just stop the current state machine from moving automatically from authentication to association. Future cleanup may move more of the MLME operations into cfg80211. The goal of this design is to provide more control of authentication and association process to user space without having to move the full MLME implementation. This should be enough to allow IEEE 802.11r FT protocol and 802.11s SAE authentication to be implemented. Obviously, this will also bring the extra benefit of not having to use WEXT for association requests with mac80211. An example implementation of a user space SME using the new nl80211 commands is available for wpa_supplicant. This patch is enough to get IEEE 802.11r FT protocol working with over-the-air mechanism (over-the-DS will need additional MLME primitives for handling the FT Action frames). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27nl80211: Event notifications for MLME eventsJouni Malinen
Add new nl80211 event notifications (and a new multicast group, "mlme") for informing user space about received and processed Authentication, (Re)Association Response, Deauthentication, and Disassociation frames in station and IBSS modes (i.e., MLME SAP interface primitives MLME-AUTHENTICATE.confirm, MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm, MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm, MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indicate, and MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication). The event data is encapsulated as the 802.11 management frame since we already have the frame in that format and it includes all the needed information. This is the initial step in providing MLME SAP interface for authentication and association with nl80211. In other words, kernel code will act as the MLME and a user space application can control it as the SME. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: Fix reassociation by not clearing previous BSSIDJouni Malinen
We must not clear the previous BSSID when roaming to another AP within the same ESS for reassociation to be used properly. It is fine to clear this when the SSID changes, so let's move the code into ieee80211_sta_set_ssid(). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: Fix a typo in assoc vs. reassoc checkJouni Malinen
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27mac80211: don't drop nullfunc frames during software scanKalle Valo
ieee80211_tx_h_check_assoc() was dropping everything else than probe requests during software scan. So the nullfunc frame with the power save bit was dropped and AP never received it. This meant that AP never buffered any frames for the station during software scan. Fix this by allowing to transmit both probe request and nullfunc frames during software scan. Tested with stlc45xx. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>