kernel/linux.git/net/wireless/reg.h, branch v6.6.133

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

net: Fix various misspellings of "connect"

2019-10-28T20:41:59+00:00

Fix misspellings of "disconnect", "disconnecting", "connections", and "disconnected". Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Kalle Valo Acked-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: fix scan when operating on DFS channels in ETSI domains

2019-10-07T20:10:50+00:00

In non-ETSI regulatory domains scan is blocked when operating channel is a DFS channel. For ETSI, however, once DFS channel is marked as available after the CAC, this channel will remain available (for some time) even after leaving this channel. Therefore a scan can be done without any impact on the availability of the DFS channel as no new CAC is required after the scan. Enable scan in mac80211 in these cases. Signed-off-by: Aaron Komisar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1570024728-17284-1-git-send-email-aaron.komisar@tandemg.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: restore regulatory without calling userspace

2019-02-11T14:46:29+00:00

Jouni reports that in some cases it is possible that getting disconnected (or stopping AP, after previous patches) results in further operations hitting the window within the regulatory core restoring the regdomain to the defaults. The reason for this is that we have to call out to CRDA or otherwise do some asynchronous work, and thus can't do the restore atomically. However, we've previously seen all the data we need to do the restore, so we can hang on to that data and use it later for the restore. This makes the whole thing happen within a single locked section and thus atomic. However, we can't *always* do this - there are unfortunately cases where the restore needs to re-request, because this is also used (abused?) as an error recovery process, so make the new behaviour optional and only use it when doing a regular restore as described above. Reported-by: Jouni Malinen Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: implement regdb signature checking

2017-10-11T12:24:24+00:00

Currently CRDA implements the signature checking, and the previous commits added the ability to load the whole regulatory database into the kernel. However, we really can't lose the signature checking, so implement it in the kernel by loading a detached signature (regulatory.db.p7s) and check it against built-in keys. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: support reloading regulatory database

2017-10-11T11:04:15+00:00

If the regulatory database is loaded, and then updated, it may be necessary to reload it. Add an nl80211 command to do this. Note that this just reloads the database, it doesn't re-apply the rules from it immediately. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: Share Channel DFS state across wiphys of same DFS domain

2017-03-06T12:54:20+00:00

Sharing DFS channel state across multiple wiphys (radios) could be useful with multiple radios on the system. When one radio completes CAC and markes the channel available another radio can use this information and start beaconing without really doing CAC. Whenever there is a state change in dfs channel associated to a particular wiphy the the same state change is propagated to other wiphys having the same DFS reg domain configuration. Also when a new wiphy is created the dfs channel state of other existing wiphys of same DFS domain is copied. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: Make pre-CAC results valid only for ETSI domain

2017-03-06T12:54:15+00:00

DFS requirement for ETSI domain (section 4.7.1.4 in ETSI EN 301 893 V1.8.1) is the only one which explicitly states that once DFS channel is marked as available afer the CAC, this channel will remain in available state even moving to a different operating channel. But the same is not explicitly stated in FCC DFS requirement. Also, Pre-CAC requriements are not explicitly mentioned in FCC requirement. Current implementation in keeping DFS channel in available state is same as described in ETSI domain. For non-ETSI DFS domain, this patch gives a grace period of 2 seconds since the completion of successful CAC before moving the channel's DFS state to 'usable' from 'available' state. The same grace period is checked against the channel's dfs_state_entered timestamp while deciding if a DFS channel is available for operation. There is a new radar event, NL80211_RADAR_PRE_CAC_EXPIRED, reported when DFS channel is moved from available to usable state after the grace period. Also make sure the DFS channel state is reset to usable once the beaconing operation on that channel is brought down (like stop_ap, leave_ibss and leave_mesh) in non-ETSI domain. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_band

2016-04-12T13:56:15+00:00

This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: Stop calling crda if it is not responsive

2015-04-01T09:22:38+00:00

Patch eeca9fce1d71a4955855ceb0c3b13c1eb9db27c1 (cfg80211: Schedule timeout for all CRDA call) introduced a regression, where in case that crda is not installed (or not configured properly etc.), the regulatory core will needlessly continue to call it, polluting the log with the following log: "cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain" Fix this by limiting the number of continuous CRDA request failures. Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg