kernel/linux.git/net/mac80211/offchannel.c, branch v6.19.11

wifi: mac80211: Support Tx of action frame for NAN

2025-09-19T09:26:22+00:00

Add support for sending management frame over a NAN Device interface: - Declare support for the supported management frames types. - Since action frame transmissions over a NAN Device interface do not necessarily require a channel configuration, e.g., they can be transmitted during DW, modify the Tx path to avoid accessing channel information for NAN Device interface. - In addition modify the points in the Tx path logic to account for cases that a band is not specified in the Tx information. Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250908140015.23b160089228.I65a58af753bcbcfb5c4ad8ef372d546f889725ba@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Add support to get radio index

2025-06-24T13:19:27+00:00

Currently, per-radio attributes are set on per-phy basis, i.e., all the radios present in a wiphy will take attributes values sent from user. But each radio in a wiphy can get different values from userspace based on its requirement. To extend support to set per-radio attributes, add support to get radio index from userspace. Add an NL attribute - NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RADIO_INDEX, to get user specified radio index for which attributes should be changed. Pass this to individual drivers, so that the drivers can use this radio index to change per-radio attributes when necessary. Currently, per-radio attributes identified are: NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_TX_POWER_LEVEL NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_TX NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_RX NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_SHORT NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_LONG NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FRAG_THRESHOLD NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RTS_THRESHOLD NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS NL80211_ATTR_TXQ_LIMIT NL80211_ATTR_TXQ_MEMORY_LIMIT NL80211_ATTR_TXQ_QUANTUM By default, the radio index is set to -1. This means the attribute should be treated as a global configuration. If the user has not specified any index, then the radio index passed to individual drivers would be -1. This would indicate that the attribute applies to all radios in that wiphy. Signed-off-by: Roopni Devanathan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250615082312.619639-2-quic_rdevanat@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: Allow scan on a radio while operating on DFS on another radio

2025-06-20T08:44:05+00:00

Currently, in multi-radio wiphy cases, if one radio is operating on a DFS channel, -EBUSY is returned even when a scan is requested on a different radio. Because of this, an MLD AP with one radio (link) on a DFS channel and Automatic Channel Selection (ACS) on another radio (link) cannot be brought up. In multi-radio wiphy cases, multiple radios are grouped under a single wiphy. Hence, if a radio is operating on a DFS channel and a scan is requested on a different radio of the same wiphy, the scan can be allowed simultaneously without impacting the DFS operations. Add logic to check the underlying radio used for the requested scan. If the radio on which DFS is already running is not being used, allow the scan operation; otherwise, return -EBUSY. Signed-off-by: Raj Kumar Bhagat Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250527-mlo-dfs-acs-v2-3-92c2f37c81d9@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel TX either

2024-08-27T08:13:23+00:00

Like the commit ab9177d83c04 ("wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for scanning"), ignore incorrect settings to avoid no supported rate warning reported by syzbot. The syzbot did bisect and found cause is commit 9df66d5b9f45 ("cfg80211: fix default HE tx bitrate mask in 2G band"), which however corrects bitmask of HE MCS and recognizes correctly settings of empty legacy rate plus HE MCS rate instead of returning -EINVAL. As suggestions [1], follow the change of SCAN TX to consider this case of offchannel TX as well. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/6ab2dc9c3afe753ca6fdcdd1421e7a1f47e87b84.camel@sipsolutions.net/T/#m2ac2a6d2be06a37c9c47a3d8a44b4f647ed4f024 Reported-by: syzbot+8dd98a9e98ee28dc484a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/000000000000fdef8706191a3f7b@google.com/ Fixes: 9df66d5b9f45 ("cfg80211: fix default HE tx bitrate mask in 2G band") Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240729074816.20323-1-pkshih@realtek.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: handle HW restart during ROC

2024-05-29T08:38:53+00:00

If we have a HW restart in the middle of a ROC period, then there are two cases: - if it's a software ROC, we really don't need to do anything, since the ROC work will still be queued and will run later, albeit with the interruption due to the restart; - if it's a hardware ROC, then it may have begun or not, if it did begin already we can only remove it and tell userspace about that. In both cases, this fixes the warning that would appear in ieee80211_start_next_roc() in this case. In the case of some drivers such as iwlwifi, the part of restarting is never going to happen since the driver will cancel the ROC, but flushing the work to ensure nothing is pending here will also result in no longer being able to trigger the warning in this case. Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit Link: https://msgid.link/20240523120352.f1924b5411ea.Ifc02a45a5ce23868dc7e428bad8d0e6996dd10f4@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: handle link ID during management Tx

2024-04-19T08:54:58+00:00

During non-STA management Tx, when source address is same as one of the link addresses and even when userspace requested Tx on a specific link, the link ID is not set in the TX control information. Now if the MLD address is also the same as that of the link address, then mac80211 fills link as "unspecified", since it looks like MLD TX. This is unexpected, however, since non-STA TX must specify which link to use. In hwsim, this will (after warnings) result in dropping such frames as well. Use and set the link id if the link bss is matching the address and requested channel. Signed-off-by: Sriram R Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh Link: https://msgid.link/20240410052705.169865-1-quic_adisi@quicinc.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0496fb7e-53cc-476f-8052-985d82fd8d01@quicinc.com [reword commit message, should spell out hwsim etc.] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: simplify non-chanctx drivers

2024-02-08T11:58:32+00:00

There are still surprisingly many non-chanctx drivers, but in mac80211 that code is a bit awkward. Simplify this by having those drivers assign 'emulated' ops, so that the mac80211 code can be more unified between non-chanctx/chanctx drivers. This cuts the number of places caring about it by about 15, which are scattered across - now they're fewer and no longer in the channel context handling. Link: https://msgid.link/20240129194108.6d0ead50f5cf.I60d093b2fc81ca1853925a4d0ac3a2337d5baa5b@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: fix a expired vs. cancel race in roc

2023-10-23T09:45:17+00:00

When the remain on channel is removed at the time it should have expired, we have a race: the driver could be handling the flow of the expiration while mac80211 is cancelling that very same remain on channel request. This wouldn't be problem in itself, but since mac80211 can send the next request to the driver in the cancellation flow, we can get to the following situation: CPU0 CPU1 expiration of roc in driver ieee80211_remain_on_channel_expired() Cancellation of the roc schedules a worker (hw_roc_done) Add next roc hw_roc_done_wk runs and ends the second roc prematurely. Since, by design, there is only one single request sent to the driver at a time, we can safely assume that after the cancel() request returns from the driver, we should not handle any worker that handles the expiration of the request. Cancel the hw_roc_done worker after the cancellation to make sure we start the next one with a clean slate. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230928172905.4e4469be20ac.Iab0525f5cc4698acf23eab98b8b1eec02099cde0@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: Do not force off-channel for management Tx with MLO

2023-09-11T10:33:54+00:00

When user space transmits a management frame it is expected to use the MLD addresses if the connection is an MLD one. Thus, in case the management Tx is using the MLD address and no channel is configured off-channel should not be used (as one of the active links would be used). Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230827135854.73c8efce252f.Ie4b0a842debb24ef25c5e6cb2ad69b9f46bc4b2a@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg