kernel/linux.git/net/wireless/trace.h, branch linux-5.9.y

cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh_param "mesh_nolearn" to skip path discovery

2020-07-31T07:24:23+00:00

Currently, before being able to forward a packet between two 802.11s nodes, both a PLINK handshake is performed upon receiving a beacon and then later a PREQ/PREP exchange for path discovery is performed on demand upon receiving a data frame to forward. When running a mesh protocol on top of an 802.11s interface, like batman-adv, we do not need the multi-hop mesh routing capabilities of 802.11s and usually set mesh_fwding=0. However, even with mesh_fwding=0 the PREQ/PREP path discovery is still performed on demand. Even though in this scenario the next hop PREQ/PREP will determine is always the direct 11s neighbor node. The new mesh_nolearn parameter allows to skip the PREQ/PREP exchange in this scenario, leading to a reduced delay, reduced packet buffering and simplifies HWMP in general. mesh_nolearn is still rather conservative in that if the packet destination is not a direct 11s neighbor, it will fall back to PREQ/PREP path discovery. For normal, multi-hop 802.11s mesh routing it is usually not advisable to enable mesh_nolearn as a transmission to a direct but distant neighbor might be worse than reaching that same node via a more robust / higher throughput etc. multi-hop path. Cc: Sven Eckelmann Cc: Simon Wunderlich Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617073034.26149-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue [fix nl80211 policy to range 0/1 only] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211: add ability to report TX status for control port TX

2020-05-27T08:02:04+00:00

This adds the necessary capabilities in nl80211 to allow drivers to assign a cookie to control port TX frames (returned via extack in the netlink ACK message of the command) and then later report the frame's status. Signed-off-by: Markus Theil Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200508144202.7678-2-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de [use extack cookie instead of explicit message, recombine patches] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: add KHz variants of frame RX API

2020-05-27T08:02:02+00:00

Drivers may wish to report the RX frequency in units of KHz. Provide cfg80211_rx_mgmt_khz() and wrap it with cfg80211_rx_mgmt() so exisiting drivers which can't report KHz anyway don't need to change. Add a similar wrapper for cfg80211_report_obss_beacon() so the frequency units stay somewhat consistent. This doesn't actually change the nl80211 API yet. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200430172554.18383-2-thomas@adapt-ip.com [fix mac80211 calling the non-khz version of obss beacon report, drop trace point name changes] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: express channels with a KHz component

2020-04-24T10:33:43+00:00

Some bands (S1G) define channels centered on a non-integer MHz. Give ieee80211_channel and cfg80211_chan_def a freq_offset component where the final frequency can be expressed as: MHZ_TO_KHZ(chan->center_freq) + chan->freq_offset; Also provide some helper functions to do the frequency conversion and test for equality. Retain the existing interface to frequency and channel conversion helpers, and expose new ones which handle frequencies in units of KHz. Some internal functions (net/wireless/chan.c) pass around a frequency value. Convert these to units of KHz. mesh, ibss, wext, etc. are currently ignored. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402011810.22947-3-thomas@adapt-ip.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: change internal management frame registration API

2020-04-24T10:33:40+00:00

Almost all drivers below cfg80211 get the API wrong (except for cfg80211) and are unable to cope with multiple registrations for the same frame type, which is valid due to the match filter. This seems to indicate the API is wrong, and we should maintain the full information in cfg80211 instead of the drivers. Change the API to no longer inform the driver about individual registrations and unregistrations, but rather every time about the entire state of the entire wiphy and single wdev, whenever it may have changed. This also simplifies the code in cfg80211 as it no longer has to track exactly what was unregistered and can free things immediately. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Arend van Spriel Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200417124300.f47f3828afc8.I7f81ef59c2c5a340d7075fb3c6d0e08e8aeffe07@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211: modify TID-config API

2020-02-24T11:01:10+00:00

Make some changes to the TID-config API: * use u16 in nl80211 (only, and restrict to using 8 bits for now), to avoid issues in the future if we ever want to use higher TIDs. * reject empty TIDs mask (via netlink policy) * change feature advertising to not use extended feature flags but have own mechanism for this, which simplifies the code * fix all variable names from 'tid' to 'tids' since it's a mask * change to cfg80211_ name prefixes, not ieee80211_ * fix some minor docs/spelling things. Change-Id: Ia234d464b3f914cdeab82f540e018855be580dce Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211: Add NL command to support TID speicific configurations

2020-02-24T10:15:25+00:00

Add the new NL80211_CMD_SET_TID_CONFIG command to support data TID specific configuration. Per TID configuration is passed in the nested NL80211_ATTR_TID_CONFIG attribute. This patch adds support to configure per TID noack policy through the NL80211_TID_CONFIG_ATTR_NOACK attribute. Signed-off-by: Tamizh chelvam Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1579506687-18296-2-git-send-email-tamizhr@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: Support key configuration for Beacon protection (BIGTK)

2020-02-24T09:35:48+00:00

IEEE P802.11-REVmd/D3.0 adds support for protecting Beacon frames using a new set of keys (BIGTK; key index 6..7) similarly to the way group-addressed Robust Management frames are protected (IGTK; key index 4..5). Extend cfg80211 and nl80211 to allow the new BIGTK to be configured. Add an extended feature flag to indicate driver support for the new key index values to avoid array overflows in driver implementations and also to indicate to user space when this functionality is available. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222132548.20835-2-jouni@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Revert "nl80211: add src and dst addr attributes for control port tx/rx"

2020-02-24T09:22:02+00:00

This reverts commit 8c3ed7aa2b9ef666195b789e9b02e28383243fa8. As Jouni points out, there's really no need for this, since the RSN pre-authentication frames are normal data frames, not port control frames (locally). We can still revert this now since it hasn't actually gone beyond -next. Fixes: 8c3ed7aa2b9e ("nl80211: add src and dst addr attributes for control port tx/rx") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224101910.b746e263287a.I9eb15d6895515179d50964dec3550c9dc784bb93@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-net-next-2020-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2020-02-17T03:00:22+00:00

Johannes Berg says: ==================== A few big new things: * 802.11 frame encapsulation offload support * more HE (802.11ax) support, including some for 6 GHz band * powersave in hwsim, for better testing Of course as usual there are various cleanups and small fixes. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller