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2010-01-16mac80211: check that ieee80211_set_power_mgmt only handles STA interfaces.Benoit Papillault1-0/+3
ieee80211_set_power_mgmt is meant for STA interfaces only. Moreover, since sdata->u.mgd.mtx is only initialized for STA interfaces, using this code for any other type of interface (like creating a monitor interface) will result in a oops. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-09wireless: correctly report signal value for IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPECJohn W. Linville1-1/+2
This part was missed in "cfg80211: implement get_wireless_stats", probably because sta_set_sinfo already existed and was only handling dBm signals. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-24mac80211: fix rcu lockingJohannes Berg1-1/+3
Add a missing rcu_read_unlock() before jumping out of the ieee80211_change_station() function in the error case. 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 Berg1-13/+8
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>
2009-11-19mac80211: let sta_info_get_by_idx get sta by sdataJohannes Berg1-2/+2
Instead of filtering by device, directly look up by sdata. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-14mac80211: add nl80211/cfg80211 handling of the new mesh root mode option.Rui Paulo1-0/+7
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>
2009-11-14mac80211: replace "destination" with "target" to follow the specRui Paulo1-4/+4
Resulting object files have the same MD5 as before. 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>
2009-11-12mac80211: implement support for 4-address frames for AP and client modeFelix Fietkau1-2/+30
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>
2009-11-09Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-7/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-11-02mac80211: check interface is down before type changeJohannes Berg1-3/+3
For some strange reason the netif_running() check ended up after the actual type change instead of before, potentially causing all kinds of problems if the interface is up while changing the type; one of the problems manifests itself as a warning: WARNING: at net/mac80211/iface.c:651 ieee80211_teardown_sdata+0xda/0x1a0 [mac80211]() Hardware name: Aspire one Pid: 2596, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G W 2.6.31-10-generic #32-Ubuntu Call Trace: [] warn_slowpath_common+0x6d/0xa0 [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [] ieee80211_teardown_sdata+0xda/0x1a0 [mac80211] [] ieee80211_if_change_type+0x4a/0xc0 [mac80211] [] ieee80211_change_iface+0x61/0xa0 [mac80211] [] cfg80211_wext_siwmode+0xc7/0x120 [cfg80211] [] ioctl_standard_call+0x58/0xf0 (http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=ieee80211_teardown_sdata) Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: remove bogus codeJohannes Berg1-7/+0
It's not right to do something here when returning an error, and hostapd should never have relied on it as it only fixes up a small part of the problem anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14nl80211: add generation number to all dumpsJohannes Berg1-0/+4
In order for userspace to be able to figure out whether it obtained a consistent snapshot of data or not when using netlink dumps, we need to have a generation number in each dump message that indicates whether the list has changed or not -- its value is arbitrary. This patch adds such a number to all dumps, this needs some mac80211 involvement to keep track of a generation number to start with when adding/removing mesh paths or stations. The wiphy and netdev lists can be fully handled within cfg80211, of course, but generation numbers need to be stored there as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27cfg80211: make aware of net namespacesJohannes Berg1-12/+2
In order to make cfg80211/nl80211 aware of network namespaces, we have to do the following things: * del_virtual_intf method takes an interface index rather than a netdev pointer - simply change this * nl80211 uses init_net a lot, it changes to use the sender's network namespace * scan requests use the interface index, hold a netdev pointer and reference instead * we want a wiphy and its associated virtual interfaces to be in one netns together, so - we need to be able to change ns for a given interface, so export dev_change_net_namespace() - for each virtual interface set the NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL flag, and clear that flag only when the wiphy changes ns, to disallow breaking this invariant * when a network namespace goes away, we need to reparent the wiphy to init_net * cfg80211 users that support creating virtual interfaces must create them in the wiphy's namespace, currently this affects only mac80211 The end result is that you can now switch an entire wiphy into a different network namespace with the new command iw phy#<idx> set netns <pid> and all virtual interfaces will follow (or the operation fails). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24mac80211: fix sparse warningJohannes Berg1-1/+1
ieee80211_testmode_cmd can very well be static. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: fix lockingJohannes Berg1-4/+8
Over time, a lot of locking issues have crept into the smarts of cfg80211, so e.g. scan completion can race against a new scan, IBSS join can race against leaving an IBSS, etc. Introduce a new per-interface lock that protects most of the per-interface data that we need to keep track of, and sprinkle assertions about that lock everywhere. Some things now need to be offloaded to work structs so that we don't require being able to sleep in functions the drivers call. The exception to that are the MLME callbacks (rx_auth etc.) that currently only mac80211 calls because it was easier to do that there instead of in cfg80211, and future drivers implementing those calls will, if they ever exist, probably need to use a similar scheme like mac80211 anyway... In order to be able to handle _deauth and _disassoc properly, introduce a cookie passed to it that will determine locking requirements. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10mac80211: rework MLME for multiple authenticationsJohannes Berg1-101/+4
Sit tight. This shakes up the world as you know it. Let go of your spaghetti tongs, they will no longer be required, the horrible statemachine in net/mac80211/mlme.c is no more... With the cfg80211 SME mac80211 now has much less to keep track of, but, on the other hand, for FT it needs to be able to keep track of at least one authentication being in progress while associated. So convert from a single state machine to having small ones for all the different things we need to do. For real FT it will still need work wrt. PS, but this should be a good step. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: let SME control reassociation vs. associationJohannes Berg1-0/+6
Since we don't really know that well in the kernel, let's let the SME control whether it wants to use reassociation or not, by allowing it to give the previous BSSID in the associate() parameters. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: keep track of BSSesJohannes Berg1-13/+9
In order to avoid problems with BSS structs going away while they're in use, I've long wanted to make cfg80211 keep track of them. Without the SME, that wasn't doable but now that we have the SME we can do this too. It can keep track of up to four separate authentications and one association, regardless of whether it's controlled by the cfg80211 SME or the userspace SME. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10mac80211: remove dead code, clean upJohannes Berg1-25/+14
With mac80211 now always controlled by an external SME, a lot of code is dead -- SSID, BSSID, channel selection is always done externally, etc. Additionally, rename IEEE80211_STA_TKIP_WEP_USED to IEEE80211_STA_DISABLE_11N and clean up the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10mac80211: remove auth algorithm retryJohannes Berg1-4/+4
The automatic auth algorithm issue is now solved in cfg80211, so mac80211 no longer needs code to try different algorithms -- just using whatever cfg80211 asked for is good. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10mac80211: re-add HT disablingJohannes Berg1-1/+9
The IEEE80211_STA_TKIP_WEP_USED flag is used internally to disable HT when WEP or TKIP are used. Now that cfg80211 is giving us the required information, we can set the flag appropriately again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: implement IWRATEJohannes Berg1-0/+43
For now, let's implement that using a very hackish way: simply mirror the wext API in the cfg80211 API. This will have to be changed later when we implement proper bitrate API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: implement IWAP for WDSJohannes Berg1-0/+11
This implements siocsiwap/giwap for WDS mode. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: implement iwpowerJohannes Berg1-0/+26
Just on/off and timeout, and with a hacky cfg80211 method until we figure out what we want, though this is probably sufficient as we want to use pm_qos for wifi everywhere. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: connect/disconnect APISamuel Ortiz1-1/+1
This patch introduces the cfg80211 connect/disconnect API. The goal here is to run the AUTH and ASSOC steps in one call. This is needed for some fullmac cards that run both steps directly from the target, after the host driver sends a connect command. Additionally, all the new crypto parameters for connect() are now also valid for associate() -- although associate requires the IEs to be used, the information can be useful for drivers and should be given. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: introduce nl80211 testmode commandJohannes Berg1-0/+13
This introduces a new NL80211_CMD_TESTMODE for testing and calibration use with nl80211. There's no multiplexing like like iwpriv had, and the command is not available by default, it needs to be explicitly enabled in Kconfig and shouldn't be enabled in most kernels. The command requires a wiphy index or interface index to identify the device to operate on, and the new TESTDATA attribute. There also is API for sending replies to the command, and testmode multicast messages (on a testmode multicast group). I've also updated mac80211 to be able to pass through the command to the driver, since it itself doesn't implement the testmode command. Additionally, to give people an idea of how to use the command, I've added a little code to hwsim that makes use of the new command to set the powersave mode, this is currently done via debugfs and should remain there, and the testmode command only serves as an example of how to use this best -- with nested netlink attributes in the TESTDATA attribute. A hwsim testmode tool can be found at http://git.sipsolutions.net/hwsim.git/. This tool is BSD licensed so people can easily use it as a basis for their own internal fabrication and validation tools. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: pass netdev to change_virtual_intfJohannes Berg1-7/+2
If there was a reason I'm passing the ifidx I cannot remember it any more and don't see one now, so let's just pass the pointer itself. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10mac80211: don't use master netdev nameJohannes Berg1-2/+2
Always use the wiphy name instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03cfg80211: add rfkill supportJohannes Berg1-12/+8
To be easier on drivers and users, have cfg80211 register an rfkill structure that drivers can access. When soft-killed, simply take down all interfaces; when hard-killed the driver needs to notify us and we will take down the interfaces after the fact. While rfkilled, interfaces cannot be set UP. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03cfg80211: move txpower wext from mac80211Johannes Berg1-0/+54
This patch introduces new cfg80211 API to set the TX power via cfg80211, puts the wext code into cfg80211 and updates mac80211 to use all that. The -ENETDOWN bits are a hack but will go away soon. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03mac80211: handle -EALREADY on cfg80211 op assoc reqLuis R. Rodriguez1-1/+1
When the SME requests to associate to an open AP ieee80211_sta_set_extra_ie() can be called with zero IE length. When this happens or when the extra IE has already been set -EALREADY is passed down and the supplicant will complain that the operation is already in progress and it will not let us associate. We correct this by treating -EALREADY from ieee80211_sta_set_extra_ie() as a success just as we do for wext. Cc: Shan.Palanisamy@Atheros.com Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03cfg80211: validate AID of stations being addedJohannes Berg1-6/+7
We have some validation code in mac80211 but said code will force an invalid AID to 0 which isn't a valid AID either; instead require a valid AID (1-2007) to be passed in from userspace in cfg80211 already. Also move the code before the race comment since it can only be executed during STA addition and thus is not racy. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-13nl80211: Add RSC configuration for new keysJouni Malinen1-1/+2
When setting a key with NL80211_CMD_NEW_KEY, we should allow the key sequence number (RSC) to be set in order to allow replay protection to work correctly for group keys. This patch documents this use for nl80211 and adds the couple of missing pieces in nl80211/cfg80211 and mac80211 to support this. In addition, WEXT SIOCSIWENCODEEXT compat processing in cfg80211 is extended to handle the RSC (this was already specified in WEXT, but just not implemented in cfg80211/mac80211). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-13nl80211: Add IEEE 802.1X PAE control for station modeJouni Malinen1-0/+5
Add a new NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT flag for NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE to allow user space to indicate that it will control the IEEE 802.1X port in station mode. Previously, mac80211 was always marking the port authorized in station mode. This was enough when drop_unencrypted flag was set. However, drop_unencrypted can currently be controlled only with WEXT and the current nl80211 design does not allow fully secure configuration. Fix this by providing a mechanism for user space to control the IEEE 802.1X port in station mode (i.e., do the same that we are already doing in AP mode). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-13nl80211: improve station flags handlingJohannes Berg1-12/+16
It is currently not possible to modify station flags, but that capability would be very useful. This patch introduces a new nl80211 attribute that contains a set/mask for station flags, and updates the internal API (and mac80211) to mirror that. The new attribute is parsed before falling back to the old so that userspace can specify both (if it can) to work on all kernels. 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>
2009-05-11cfg80211: constify key mac address in opsJohannes Berg1-3/+3
The address pointed to by mac_addr can be marked as const. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-11nl80211 : Add support for configuring MFPJouni Malinen1-0/+8
NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE request must be able to indicate whether management frame protection (IEEE 802.11w) is being used. mac80211 was able to use MFP in client mode only with WEXT, but the new NL80211_ATTR_USE_MFP attribute will allow this to be done with nl80211, too. Since we are currently using nl80211 for MFP only with drivers that use user space SME, only MFP disabled and required values are used. However, the NL80211_ATTR_USE_MFP attribute is an enum that can be extended with MFP optional in the future, if that is needed with some drivers (e.g., if the RSN IE is generated by the driver). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: add driver ops wrappersJohannes Berg1-14/+10
In order to later add tracing or verifications to the driver calls mac80211 makes, this patch adds static inline wrappers for all operations. All calls are now written as drv_<op>(local, ...); instead of local->ops-><op>(&local->hw, ...); Where necessary, the wrappers also do existence checking and return default values as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: unify config_interface and bss_info_changedJohannes Berg1-3/+5
The config_interface method is a little strange, it contains the BSSID and beacon updates, while bss_info_changed contains most other BSS information for each interface. This patch removes config_interface and rolls all the information it previously passed to drivers into bss_info_changed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06mac80211: clean up beacon interval settingsJohannes Berg1-12/+5
We currently have two beacon interval configuration knobs: hw.conf.beacon_int and vif.bss_info.beacon_int. This is rather confusing, even though the former is used when we beacon ourselves and the latter when we are associated to an AP. This just deprecates the hw.conf.beacon_int setting in favour of always using vif.bss_info.beacon_int. Since it touches all the beaconing IBSS code anyway, we can also add support for the cfg80211 IBSS beacon interval configuration easily. NOTE: The hw.conf.beacon_int setting is retained for now due to drivers still using it -- I couldn't untangle all drivers, some are updated in this patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23nl80211: Add set/get for frag/rts threshold and retry limitsJouni Malinen1-0/+27
Add new nl80211 attributes that can be used with NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY and NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY to manage fragmentation/RTS threshold and retry limits. Since these values are stored in struct wiphy, remove the local copy from mac80211 where feasible (frag & rts threshold). The retry limits are currently needed in struct ieee80211_conf, but these could be eventually removed since the driver should have access to the values in struct wiphy. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23mac80211: convert to cfg80211 IBSS APIJohannes Berg1-0/+17
This converts mac80211 to the new cfg80211 IBSS API, the wext handling functions are called where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23cfg80211/mac80211: move wext SIWMLME into cfg80211Johannes Berg1-8/+4
Since we have ->deauth and ->disassoc we can support the wext SIWMLME call directly without driver wext handlers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-23mac80211: Allow scan to be requested in AP modeJouni Malinen1-1/+2
We can allow scan requests in AP mode as long as the interface has not yet been configured to send out Beacon frames (or if beaconing has been disabled prior to the scan request). This makes it easier to scan for neighboring BSSes during AP initialization and makes it possible to run a scan without setting the interface down, if needed. Without this change, the only available option would be to set the interface down, move into station mode, and set the interface up, prior to requesting the scan. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-28nl80211: Check iftype in cfg80211 codeJouni Malinen1-40/+0
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>
2009-03-28nl80211: Check that netif_runnin is true in cfg80211 codeJouni Malinen1-25/+0
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>
2009-03-28nl80211: Remove NL80211_CMD_SET_MGMT_EXTRA_IEJouni Malinen1-86/+0
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>
2009-03-28nl80211: Add MLME primitives to support external SMEJouni Malinen1-0/+140
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>
2009-03-05mac80211: Notify the driver only when the beacon interval changesSujith1-1/+2
Currently, the driver is unconditionally notified of beacon interval. This is a problem in AP mode, because the driver has to know that the beacon interval has actualy changed to recalculate TBTT and reset the HW TSF. Fix this to make mac80211 notify the driver only when the beacon interval has been reconfigured to a new value. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27nl80211: Provide access to STA TX/RX packet countersJouni Malinen1-0/+4
The TX/RX packet counters are needed to fill in RADIUS Accounting attributes Acct-Output-Packets and Acct-Input-Packets. We already collect the needed information, but only the TX/RX bytes were previously exposed through nl80211. Allow applications to fetch the packet counters, too, to provide more complete support for accounting. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>