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2010-10-07mac80211: avoid transmitting delBA to old APJohannes Berg1-1/+1
When roaming while we have active BA session, we can end up transmitting delBA frames to the old AP while we're already on the new AP's channel, which can cause warnings. Simply avoid sending those frames, but still tear down the internal session state, since they are not really necessary anyway as we will implicitly disassociate when sending the association to the new AP. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05mac80211: fix deadlock with multiple interfacesJohannes Berg1-17/+3
The locking around ieee80211_recalc_smps is buggy -- it cannot acquire another interface's mutex while the iflist mutex is held because another code path could be holding the iface mutex and trying to acquire the iflist mutex. But the locking is also unnecessary, we only check "ifmgd->associated" as a bool, and don't use the pointer (in check_mgd_smps). Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-24mac80211: Add DS Parameter Set into Probe Request on 2.4 GHzJouni Malinen1-2/+14
IEEE Std 802.11k-2008 added DS Parameter Set information element into Probe Request frames as an optional information on 2.4 GHz band (and mandatory, if radio measurements are enabled). This allows APs to filter out Probe Request frames that may be received from neighboring overlapping channels and by doing so, reduce the number of unnecessary frames in the air. Make mac80211 add this IE into Probe Request frames whenever the channel is known (i.e., whenever hwscan is not used). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-24mac80211: Filter ProbeReq SuppRates based on TX rate maskJouni Malinen1-15/+22
If the TX rate set has been masked, the removed rates can also be removed from the Supported Rates and Extended Supported Rates IEs in Probe Request frames. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16mac80211: add p2p device type supportJohannes Berg1-14/+4
When a driver advertises p2p device support, mac80211 will handle it, but internally it will rewrite the interface type to STA/AP rather than P2P-STA/GO since otherwise a lot of paths need to be touched that are otherwise identical. A p2p boolean tells drivers whether or not a given interface will be used for p2p or not. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16cfg80211/mac80211: use lockdep_assert_heldJohannes Berg1-2/+2
Instead of using a WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked()) use lockdep_assert_held() which compiles away completely when lockdep isn't enabled, and also is a more accurate assertion since it checks that the current thread is holding the mutex. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-27mac80211: fix offchannel queue stopJohannes Berg1-1/+4
Somebody noticed this problem, and I outlined to them how to fix it, but haven't heard back from them. So while I was adding the state field I figured I could use it to fix it. The problem, as I understand it, is that when we go offchannel while the driver has a queue stopped, the driver will likely start draining the queue and then enable it while offchannel. This in turn will enable the interface queue, and that leads to transmitting data frames on the wrong channel. Fix this by keeping track of offchannel status per interface, and not enabling the interface queues on interfaces that are offchannel when the driver enables a queue. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-27mac80211: switch to ieee80211_sdata_runningJohannes Berg1-1/+1
Since the introduction of ieee80211_sdata_running(), some new code was introduced that uses netif_running() instead. Switch all these instances over. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-27mac80211: use subqueue helpersJohannes Berg1-2/+2
There are subqueue helpers so that we don't need to get the TX queue and then wake/stop it, use those helpers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25cfg80211/mac80211: extensible frame processingJohannes Berg1-3/+3
Allow userspace to register for more than just action frames by giving the frame subtype, and make it possible to use this in various modes as well. With some tweaks and some added functionality this will, in the future, also be usable in AP mode and be able to replace the cooked monitor interface currently used in that case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-26mac80211: Don't set per-BSS QoS for monitor interfacesSujith1-2/+6
In AP mode, there is no need to notify the driver about QoS changes for the monitor interface that is created. The warning in ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify() would be hit otherwise. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-21mac80211: move QoS-enable to BSS infoJohannes Berg1-3/+4
Ever since commit e1b3ec1a2a336c328c336cfa5485a5f0484cc90d Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Date: Mon Mar 29 12:18:34 2010 +0200 mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoS mac80211 is telling drivers, in particular iwlwifi, whether QoS is enabled or not. However, this is only relevant for station mode, since only then will any device send nullfunc frames and need to know whether they should be QoS frames or not. In other modes, there are (currently) no frames the device is supposed to send. When you now consider virtual interfaces, it becomes apparent that the current mechanism is inadequate since it enables/disables QoS on a global scale, where for nullfunc frames it has to be on a per-interface scale. Due to the above considerations, we can change the way mac80211 advertises the QoS state to drivers to only ever advertise it as "off" in station mode, and make it a per-BSS setting. Tested-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: simplify station/aggregation codeJohannes Berg1-15/+16
A number of places use RCU locking for accessing the station list, even though they do not need to. Use mutex locking instead to prepare for the locking changes I want to make. The mlme code is also using a WLAN_STA_DISASSOC flag that has the same meaning as WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA, so use that. While doing so, combine places where we loop over stations twice, and optimise away some of the loops by checking if the hardware supports aggregation at all first. Also fix a more theoretical race condition: right now we could resume, set up an aggregation session, and right after tear it down again due to the code that is needed for hardware reconfiguration here. Also mark add a comment to that code marking it as a workaround. Finally, remove a pointless aggregation disabling loop when an interface is stopped, directly after that we remove all stations from it which will also disable all aggregation sessions that may still be active, and does so in a race-free way unlike the current loop that doesn't block new sessions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-07mac80211: fix BSS info reconfigurationJohannes Berg1-5/+20
When reconfiguring an interface due to a previous hardware restart, mac80211 will currently include the new IBSS flag on non-IBSS interfaces which may confuse drivers. Instead of doing the ~0 trick, simply spell out which things are going to be reconfigured. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08mac80211: enhance tracingJohannes Berg1-0/+4
Enhance tracing by adding tracing for a variety of callbacks that the drivers call, and also for internal calls (currently limited to queue status). This can aid debugging what is going on in mac80211 in interaction with drivers, since we can now see what drivers call and not just what mac80211 calls in the driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville1-9/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into merge Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
2010-04-07mac80211: rename WLAN_STA_SUSPEND to WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BAJohannes Berg1-1/+1
I want to use it during station destruction as well so rename it to WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA which is also the only use of it now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoSStanislaw Gruszka1-0/+5
Add interface to disable/enable QoS (aka WMM or WME). Currently drivers enable it explicitly when ->conf_tx method is called, and newer disable. Disabling is needed for some APs, which do not support QoS, such we should send QoS frames to them. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30mac80211: move netdev queue enabling to correct spotJohannes Berg1-6/+6
"mac80211: fix skb buffering issue" still left a race between enabling the hardware queues and the virtual interface queues. In hindsight it's totally obvious that enabling the netdev queues for a hardware queue when the hardware queue is enabled is wrong, because it could well possible that we can fill the hw queue with packets we already have pending. Thus, we must only enable the netdev queues once all the pending packets have been processed and sent off to the device. In testing, I haven't been able to trigger this race condition, but it's clearly there, possibly only when aggregation is being enabled. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30mac80211: correct typos in "unavailable upon resume" warningJohn W. Linville1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-09mac80211: tear down all agg queues when restart/reconfig hwWey-Yi Guy1-0/+8
When there is a need to restart/reconfig hw, tear down all the aggregation queues and let the mac80211 and driver get in-sync to have the opportunity to re-establish the aggregation queues again. Need to wait until driver re-establish all the station information before tear down the aggregation queues, driver(at least iwlwifi driver) will reject the stop aggregation queue request if station is not ready. But also need to make sure the aggregation queues are tear down before waking up the queues, so mac80211 will not sending frames with aggregation bit set. Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-09mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleepJohannes Berg1-9/+7
Many drivers would like to sleep during station addition and removal, and currently have a high complexity there from not being able to. This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to fail. The reason we didn't do this previously is that the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep. This patch will keep the station allocation in that path, but moves adding the station to the driver out of line. Since the addition can now fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver rejected -- in that case we still talk to the station but never tell the driver about it in the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be a driver that has a low limit on the number of stations and that cannot talk to any stations that are not known to it, we need to do come up with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs, maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-16mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_send_probe_reqMing Lei1-0/+1
This patch fixes memory leak in ieee80211_send_probe_req, which is introduced in 7c12ce8b854df346388ea56d684784e3484012cf: mac80211: use Probe Request template when sending a direct scan The patch is against the latest wireless-test tree. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12mac80211: add U-APSD client supportKalle Valo1-0/+2
Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it possible to save even more power. Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported. Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running various test traffic with ping. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12mac80211: flush workqueue before calling driver ->stop() methodLennert Buytenhek1-1/+1
Since commit "mwl8k: handle station database update for AP's sta entry via ->sta_notify()", mwl8k every now and then gets a command timeout when ifconfig'ing a STA interface down. This turns out to be due to mwl8k_stop() being called while the work queue item that was scheduled by mwl8k_sta_notify() to remove the STA entry for the associated AP is still queued, and the former disables interrupts so that when the latter eventually runs, a command completion interrupt is never seen. Fix this by changing ieee80211_stop_device() so that the workqueue is flushed before drv_stop() is called, instead of doing it the other way around as is done now. (As ->stop() is allowed to sleep, there isn't any reason for drivers to queue work from within it.) Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12mac80211: use Probe Request template when sending a direct scanKalle Valo1-24/+16
As mac80211 now has a separate function for creating Probe Request templates, better to use it when sending direct Probe Requests to an AP. Only the bssid needs to be updated in the template before sending it. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville1-0/+12
Conflicts: net/mac80211/iface.c
2010-01-06mac80211: No need to include WEXT headers hereJouni Malinen1-1/+0
Remove the forgotten linux/wireless.h inclusion from mac80211. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-06mac80211: fix skb buffering issueJohannes Berg1-0/+12
Since I removed the master netdev, we've been keeping internal queues only, and even before that we never told the networking stack above the virtual interfaces about congestion. This means that packets are queued in mac80211 and the upper layers never know, possibly leading to memory exhaustion and other problems. This patch makes all interfaces multiqueue and uses ndo_select_queue to put the packets into queues per AC. Additionally, when the driver stops a queue, we now stop all corresponding queues for the virtual interfaces as well. The injection case will use VO by default for non-data frames, and BE for data frames, but downgrade any data frames according to ACM. It needs to be fleshed out in the future to allow chosing the queue/AC in radiotap. Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-04mac80211: fix typo added by "mac80211: fix propagation of failed..."John W. Linville1-1/+1
'Typo: it's "Hardware", not "Harware". Hmm, sometimes it's hairware :-)"' -- Holger Schurig Reported-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville1-0/+12
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
2009-12-29mac80211: remove struct ieee80211_if_init_confJohannes Berg1-7/+2
All its members (vif, mac_addr, type) are now available in the vif struct directly, so we can pass that instead of the conf struct. I generated this patch (except the mac80211 and header file changes) with this semantic patch: @@ identifier conf, fn, hw; type tp; @@ tp fn(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, -struct ieee80211_if_init_conf *conf) +struct ieee80211_vif *vif) { <... ( -conf->type +vif->type | -conf->mac_addr +vif->addr | -conf->vif +vif ) ...> } Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-29mac80211: split up and insert custom IEs correctlyJohannes Berg1-20/+114
Currently, we insert all user-specified IEs before the HT IE for association, and after the HT IE for probe requests. For association, that's correct only if the user-specified IEs are RSN only, incorrect in all other cases including WPA. Change this to split apart the user-specified IEs in two places for association: before the HT IE (e.g. RSN), after the HT IE (generally empty right now I think?) and after WMM (all other vendor-specific IEs). For probes, split the IEs in different places to be correct according to the spec. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-29mac80211: add ieee80211_sdata_runningJohannes Berg1-5/+5
Instead of always using netif_running(sdata->dev) use ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata) now which is just an inline containing netif_running() for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-29mac80211: fix propagation of failed hardware reconfigurationsLuis R. Rodriguez1-0/+12
mac80211 does not propagate failed hardware reconfiguration requests. For suspend and resume this is important due to all the possible issues that can come out of the suspend <-> resume cycle. Not propagating the error means cfg80211 will assume the resume for the device went through fine and mac80211 will continue on trying to poke at the hardware, enable timers, queue work, and so on for a device which is completley unfunctional. The least we can do is to propagate device start issues and warn when this occurs upon resume. A side effect of this patch is we also now propagate the start errors upon harware reconfigurations (non-suspend), but this should also be desirable anyway, there is not point in continuing to reconfigure a device if mac80211 was unable to start the device. For further details refer to the thread: http://marc.info/?t=126151038700001&r=1&w=2 Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville1-1/+1
2009-12-22mac80211: allow disabling 40MHz on 2.4GHzJohannes Berg1-3/+11
In some situations it is required that a system be configured with no support for 40 MHz channels in the 2.4 GHz band. Rather than imposing any such restrictions on everybody, allow configuration a system like that with a module parameter. It is writable at runtime but only takes effect at the time of the next association. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: enable spatial multiplexing powersaveJohannes Berg1-0/+74
Enable spatial multiplexing in mac80211 by telling the driver what to do and, where necessary, sending action frames to the AP to update the requested SMPS mode. Also includes a trivial implementation for hwsim that just logs the requested mode. For now, the userspace interface is in debugfs only, and let you toggle the requested mode at any time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: trace interface nameJohannes Berg1-1/+1
It's not all that useful to have the vif/sdata pointer, we'd rather refer to the interfaces by their name. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg1-7/+7
For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-08mac80211: Fix bug in computing crc over dynamic IEs in beaconVasanthakumar Thiagarajan1-1/+1
On a 32-bit machine, BIT() macro does not give the required bit value if the bit is mroe than 31. In ieee802_11_parse_elems_crc(), BIT() is suppossed to get the bit value more than 31 (42 (id of ERP_INFO_IE), 37 (CHANNEL_SWITCH_IE), (42), 32 (POWER_CONSTRAINT_IE), 45 (HT_CAP_IE), 61 (HT_INFO_IE)). As we do not get the required bit value for the above IEs, crc over these IEs are never calculated, so any dynamic change in these IEs after the association is not really handled on 32-bit platforms. This patch fixes this issue. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-29Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-10/+9
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c drivers/net/e1000e/phy.c drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
2009-11-19mac80211: fix resumeJohannes Berg1-10/+9
When mac80211 resumes, it currently first sets suspended to false so the driver can start doing things and we can receive frames. However, if we actually receive frames then it can end up starting some work which adds timers and then later runs into a BUG_ON in the timer code because it tries add_timer() on a pending timer. Fix this by keeping track of the resuming process by introducing a new variable 'resuming' which gets set to true early on instead of setting 'suspended' to false, and allow queueing work but not receiving frames while resuming. Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19mac80211: use a structure to hold the mesh config information elementRui Paulo1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19mac80211: remove encrypt parameter from ieee80211_tx_skbJohannes Berg1-2/+4
Since the flags moved into skb->cb, there's no longer a need to have the encrypt bool passed into the function, anyone who requires it set to 0 (false) can just set the flag directly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-14mac80211: implement RANN processing and forwardingRui Paulo1-0/+4
Process the RANN (Root Annoucement) Frame and try to find the HWMP root station by sending a PREQ. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: split hardware scan by bandJohannes Berg1-3/+5
There's currently a very odd bug in mac80211 -- a hardware scan that is done while the hardware is really operating on 2.4 GHz will include CCK rates in the probe request frame, even on 5 GHz (if the driver uses the mac80211 IEs). Vice versa, if the hardware is operating on 5 GHz the 2.4 GHz probe requests will not include CCK rates even though they should. Fix this by splitting up cfg80211 scan requests by band -- recalculating the IEs every time -- and requesting only per-band scans from the driver. Apparently this bug hasn't been a problem yet, but it is imaginable that some older access points get confused if confronted with such behaviour. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-08mac80211: use kfree_skb() to free struct sk_buff pointersRoel Kluin1-2/+2
kfree_skb() should be used to free struct sk_buff pointers. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28mac80211: fix configure_filter invocation after stopJohannes Berg1-0/+10
Since configure_filter can sleep now, any multicast configuration needed to be postponed to a work struct. This, however, lead to a problem that we could queue the work, stop the device and then afterwards invoke configure_filter which may lead to driver hangs and is a bug. To fix this, we can just cancel the filter work since it's unnecessary to do after stopping the hw. Since there are various places that call drv_stop, and two of them do very similar things, the code for them can be put into a shared function at the same time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Tested-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleepJohannes Berg1-2/+0
Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that need the multicast address list implement. This new callback must be atomic, but most drivers either don't care or just calculate a hash which can be done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware non-atomically. A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170, mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00, wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this new capability. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>