kernel/linux.git/net/wireless/core.h, branch v5.15.209

wifi: cfg80211: move scan done work to wiphy work

2026-04-18T08:33:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit fe0af9fe54d0ff53aa49eef390c8962355b274e2 ] Move the scan done work to the new wiphy work to simplify the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Stable-dep-of: 767d23ade706 ("wifi: cfg80211: cancel rfkill_block work in wiphy_unregister()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: cfg80211: add a work abstraction with special semantics

2026-02-06T15:42:04+00:00

[ Upstream commit a3ee4dc84c4e9d14cb34dad095fd678127aca5b6 ] Add a work abstraction at the cfg80211 level that will always hold the wiphy_lock() for any work executed and therefore also can be canceled safely (without waiting) while holding that. This improves on what we do now as with the new wiphy works we don't have to worry about locking while cancelling them safely. Also, don't let such works run while the device is suspended, since they'll likely need to interact with the device. Flush them before suspend though. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Hanne-Lotta Mäenpää Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "wifi: cfg80211: check wiphy mutex is held for wdev mutex"

2024-10-17T13:10:41+00:00

This reverts commit 89795eeba6d13b5ba432425dd43c34c66f2cebde which is commmit 1474bc87fe57deac726cc10203f73daa6c3212f7 upstream. The reverted commit is based on implementation of wiphy locking that isn't planned to redo on a stable kernel, so revert it to avoid warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at net/wireless/core.h:231 disconnect_work+0xb8/0x144 [cfg80211] CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.6.51-00141-ga1649b6f8ed6 #7 Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 SoloX (Device Tree) Workqueue: events disconnect_work [cfg80211] unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14 show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x58/0x70 dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0x70/0x1c0 __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x16c/0x294 warn_slowpath_fmt from disconnect_work+0xb8/0x144 [cfg80211] disconnect_work [cfg80211] from process_one_work+0x204/0x620 process_one_work from worker_thread+0x1b0/0x474 worker_thread from kthread+0x10c/0x12c kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24 Reported-by: petter@technux.se Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/9e98937d781c990615ef27ee0c858ff9@technux.se/T/#t Cc: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: cfg80211: check wiphy mutex is held for wdev mutex

2024-09-04T11:23:20+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1474bc87fe57deac726cc10203f73daa6c3212f7 ] This might seem pretty pointless rather than changing the locking immediately, but it seems safer to run for a while with checks and the old locking scheme, and then remove the wdev lock later. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

cfg80211: fix management registrations locking

2021-10-25T13:20:22+00:00

The management registrations locking was broken, the list was locked for each wdev, but cfg80211_mgmt_registrations_update() iterated it without holding all the correct spinlocks, causing list corruption. Rather than trying to fix it with fine-grained locking, just move the lock to the wiphy/rdev (still need the list on each wdev), we already need to hold the wdev lock to change it, so there's no contention on the lock in any case. This trivially fixes the bug since we hold one wdev's lock already, and now will hold the lock that protects all lists. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Jouni Malinen Fixes: 6cd536fe62ef ("cfg80211: change internal management frame registration API") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211025133111.5cf733eab0f4.I7b0abb0494ab712f74e2efcd24bb31ac33f7eee9@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: expose the rfkill device to the low level driver

2021-06-23T09:29:13+00:00

This will allow the low level driver to query the rfkill state. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210616202826.9833-1-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver

2021-01-26T10:55:50+00:00

Currently, _everything_ in cfg80211 holds the RTNL, and if you have a slow USB device (or a few) you can get some bad lock contention on that. Fix that by re-adding a mutex to each wiphy/rdev as we had at some point, so we have locking for the wireless_dev lists and all the other things in there, and also so that drivers still don't have to worry too much about it (they still won't get parallel calls for a single device). Then, we can restrict the RTNL to a few cases where we add or remove interfaces and really need the added protection. Some of the global list management still also uses the RTNL, since we need to have it anyway for netdev management, but we only hold the RTNL for very short periods of time here. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122161942.81df9f5e047a.I4a8e1a60b18863ea8c5e6d3a0faeafb2d45b2f40@changeid Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski [marvell driver issues] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211: validate key indexes for cfg80211_registered_device

2020-12-11T12:20:04+00:00

syzbot discovered a bug in which an OOB access was being made because an unsuitable key_idx value was wrongly considered to be acceptable while deleting a key in nl80211_del_key(). Since we don't know the cipher at the time of deletion, if cfg80211_validate_key_settings() were to be called directly in nl80211_del_key(), even valid keys would be wrongly determined invalid, and deletion wouldn't occur correctly. For this reason, a new function - cfg80211_valid_key_idx(), has been created, to determine if the key_idx value provided is valid or not. cfg80211_valid_key_idx() is directly called in 2 places - nl80211_del_key(), and cfg80211_validate_key_settings(). Reported-by: syzbot+49d4cab497c2142ee170@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+49d4cab497c2142ee170@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Anant Thazhemadam Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204215825.129879-1-anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [also disallow IGTK key IDs if no IGTK cipher is supported] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: initialize wdev data earlier

2020-10-30T09:03:59+00:00

There's a race condition in the netdev registration in that NETDEV_REGISTER actually happens after the netdev is available, and so if we initialize things only there, we might get called with an uninitialized wdev through nl80211 - not using a wdev but using a netdev interface index. I found this while looking into a syzbot report, but it doesn't really seem to be related, and unfortunately there's no repro for it (yet). I can't (yet) explain how it managed to get into cfg80211_release_pmsr() from nl80211_netlink_notify() without the wdev having been initialized, as the latter only iterates the wdevs that are linked into the rdev, which even without the change here happened after init. However, looking at this, it seems fairly clear that the init needs to be done earlier, otherwise we might even re-init on a netns move, when data might still be pending. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009135821.fdcbba3aad65.Ie9201d91dbcb7da32318812effdc1561aeaf4cdc@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211/cfg80211: support 6 GHz scanning

2020-09-28T11:53:04+00:00

Support 6 GHz scanning, by * a new scan flag to scan for colocated BSSes advertised by (and found) APs on 2.4 & 5 GHz * doing the necessary reduced neighbor report parsing for this, to find them * adding the ability to split the scan request in case the device by itself cannot support this. Also add some necessary bits in mac80211 to not break with these changes. Signed-off-by: Tova Mussai Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918113313.232917c93af9.Ida22f0212f9122f47094d81659e879a50434a6a2@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg