kernel/linux.git/net/mac80211/rate.c, branch v7.0.10

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

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

Revert "mac80211: Dynamically set CoDel parameters per station"

2025-04-23T13:22:11+00:00

This reverts commit 484a54c2e597dbc4ace79c1687022282905afba0. The CoDel parameter change essentially disables CoDel on slow stations, with some questionable assumptions, as Dave pointed out in [0]. Quoting from there: But here are my pithy comments as to why this part of mac80211 is so wrong... static void sta_update_codel_params(struct sta_info *sta, u32 thr) { - if (thr && thr < STA_SLOW_THRESHOLD * sta->local->num_sta) { 1) sta->local->num_sta is the number of associated, rather than active, stations. "Active" stations in the last 50ms or so, might have been a better thing to use, but as most people have far more than that associated, we end up with really lousy codel parameters, all the time. Mistake numero uno! 2) The STA_SLOW_THRESHOLD was completely arbitrary in 2016. - sta->cparams.target = MS2TIME(50); This, by itself, was probably not too bad. 30ms might have been better, at the time, when we were battling powersave etc, but 20ms was enough, really, to cover most scenarios, even where we had low rate 2Ghz multicast to cope with. Even then, codel has a hard time finding any sane drop rate at all, with a target this high. - sta->cparams.interval = MS2TIME(300); But this was horrible, a total mistake, that is leading to codel being completely ineffective in almost any scenario on clients or APS. 100ms, even 80ms, here, would be vastly better than this insanity. I'm seeing 5+seconds of delay accumulated in a bunch of otherwise happily fq-ing APs.... 100ms of observed jitter during a flow is enough. Certainly (in 2016) there were interactions with powersave that I did not understand, and still don't, but if you are transmitting in the first place, powersave shouldn't be a problemmmm..... - sta->cparams.ecn = false; At the time we were pretty nervous about ecn, I'm kind of sanguine about it now, and reliably indicating ecn seems better than turning it off for any reason. [...] In production, on p2p wireless, I've had 8ms and 80ms for target and interval for years now, and it works great. I think Dave's arguments above are basically sound on the face of it, and various experimentation with tighter CoDel parameters in the OpenWrt community have show promising results[1]. So I don't think there's any reason to keep this parameter fiddling; hence this revert. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CAA93jw6NJ2cmLmMauz0xAgC2MGbBq6n0ZiZzAdkK0u4b+O2yXg@mail.gmail.com/ [1] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/reducing-multiplexing-latencies-still-further-in-wifi/133605/130 Suggested-By: Dave Taht In-memory-of: Dave Taht Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250403183930.197716-1-toke@toke.dk Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: remove more 5/10 MHz code

2025-04-23T13:21:32+00:00

We still have ieee80211_chandef_rate_flags() and all that, but all the users seem pretty much broken (deflink, etc.) Remove all the code. It's been two years since last anyone even vaguely entertained the notion of looking at this and fixing it. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250329221419.c31da7ae8c84.I1a3a4b6008134d66ca75a5bdfc004f4594da8145@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: convert debugfs files to short fops

2024-10-23T14:47:07+00:00

Given the large size of the regular struct file_operations, save a lot of space with the newly added short fops for debugfs. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241022151838.2f6de3ea3ecc.I45657e6a8415d796ec95c95becc9efb377ee3be6@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: call rate_control_rate_update() for link STA

2024-10-23T14:43:27+00:00

In order to update the right link information, call the update rate_control_rate_update() with the right link_sta, and then pass that through to the driver's sta_rc_update() method. The software rate control still doesn't support it, but that'll be skipped by not having a rate control ref. Since it now operates on a link sta, rename the driver method. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241007144851.5851b6b5fd41.Ibdf50d96afa4b761dd9b9dfd54a1147e77a75329@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: allow rate_control_rate_init() for links

2024-10-23T14:43:23+00:00

Andrei previously fixed an issue in the client where the NSS for links other than the primary/assoc/deflink isn't set. The same issue appears to exist on the AP side, because there's only a call to rate_control_rate_init() for the deflink, and not any other links. Rework the code a bit to do rate_control_rate_init() for links, even if it really doesn't work with software rate control yet, it does other things as well. Also add rate_control_rate_init_all_links() to actually do it properly when moving to ASSOC state in cfg80211. Change the explicit call to ieee80211_sta_init_nss() to instead be rate_control_rate_init() now in the client code, but also add a call to rate_control_rate_init() when a link is added in AP mode and the STA is already associated. This should fix the NSS initialization issue, and perhaps pave the way for actual software rate scaling a bit, in case anyone cares in the future, but that of course needs a lot more than just the init call. We still need to fix the rate control _update_ as well, and the sta_rc_update() driver method especially, but that will be in a different patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241007144851.c693274a908f.I0376da02e9f5a30eaa1b5d0d01371ff09506d453@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

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: don't use rate mask for scanning

2024-04-08T18:11:34+00:00

The rate mask is intended for use during operation, and can be set to only have masks for the currently active band. As such, it cannot be used for scanning which can be on other bands as well. Simply ignore the rate masks during scanning to avoid warnings from incorrect settings. Reported-by: syzbot+fdc5123366fb9c3fdc6d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fdc5123366fb9c3fdc6d Co-developed-by: Dmitry Antipov Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov Tested-by: Dmitry Antipov Link: https://msgid.link/20240326220854.9594cbb418ca.I7f86c0ba1f98cf7e27c2bacf6c2d417200ecea5c@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg