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Johannes Berg c4de673b77 Merge remote-tracking branch 'wireless-next/master' into mac80211-next 2013-12-16 11:23:45 +01:00
John W. Linville e08fd975bf Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig
	net/mac80211/util.c
2013-12-06 09:50:45 -05:00
Simon Wunderlich bafdc614a1 mac80211: fix nested sdata lock for IBSS/CSA
This fixes a regression introduced by my patch "mac80211: don't cancel
csa finalize work within stop_ap", which added sdata locks to
ieee80211_csa_finalize_work() without removing the locking for
ieee80211_ibss_finish_csa(), which is called by the former, resulting
in a deadlock due to nested locking.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-05 20:15:19 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 0834ae3c3a mac80211: check csa wiphy flag in ibss before switching
When external CSA IEs are received (beacons or action messages), a
channel switch is triggered as well. This should only be allowed on
devices which actually support channel switches, otherwise disconnect.
(For the corresponding userspace invocation, the wiphy flag is checked
in nl80211).

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-02 11:54:13 +01:00
Luciano Coelho 33787fc4be mac80211: move csa_chandef to sdata
There is no reason why we should have only one channel switch
announcement at a time for a single phy.  When support for channel
switch with multiple contexts and multiple vifs per context is
implemented, we will need the chandef data for each vif.  Move the
csa_chandef structure to sdata to prepare for this.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
[Fixed compilation with mesh]
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25 20:51:58 +01:00
Chun-Yeow Yeoh c6da674aff {nl,cfg,mac}80211: enable the triggering of CSA frame in mesh
Allow the triggering of CSA frame using mesh interface. The
rules are more or less same with IBSS, such as not allowed to
change between the band and channel width has to be same from
the previous mode. Also, move the ieee80211_send_action_csa
to a common space so that it can be re-used by mesh interface.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-28 15:05:29 +01:00
Chun-Yeow Yeoh c0f17eb9b2 mac80211: refactor the parsing of chan switch ie
Refactor the channel switch IE parsing to reduce the number
of function parameters.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-28 15:05:28 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 8e8d347da7 mac80211: enable DFS for IBSS mode
Allow changing to DFS channels if the channel is available for
beaconing and userspace controls DFS operation.

Channel switch announcement from other stations on DFS channels will
be interpreted as radar event. These channels will then be marked as
unvailable.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-28 15:05:21 +01:00
Johannes Berg 55fff50113 mac80211: add explicit IBSS driver operations
This can be useful for drivers if they have any failure cases
when joining an IBSS. Also move setting the queue parameters
to before this new call, in case the new driver op needs them
already.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-01 12:17:45 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 9449410f3b mac80211: send a CSA action frame when changing channel
IBSS members may not immediately be able to send out their beacon when
performing CSA, therefore also send a CSA action frame.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-09-26 13:27:15 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich cd7760e62c mac80211: add support for CSA in IBSS mode
This function adds the channel switch announcement implementation for the
IBSS code. It is triggered by userspace (mac80211/cfg) or by external
channel switch announcement, which have to be adopted. Both CSAs in
beacons and action frames are supported. As for AP mode, the channel
switch is applied after some time. However in IBSS mode, the channel
switch IEs are generated in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-09-26 13:27:14 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 871a4180b8 mac80211: split off ibss disconnect
IBSS CSA will require to disconnect if a channel switch fails, but
mac80211 should search and re-connect after this disconnect. To allow
such usage, split off the ibss disconnect process in a separate function
which only performs the disconnect without overwriting nl80211-supplied
parameters.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-09-26 13:27:14 +02:00
John W. Linville b35c809708 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
	net/mac80211/ibss.c
2013-08-28 10:36:09 -04:00
Simon Wunderlich 75a423f493 mac80211: ibss: fix ignored channel parameter
my earlier patch "mac80211: change IBSS channel state to chandef"
created a regression by ignoring the channel parameter in
__ieee80211_sta_join_ibss, which breaks IBSS channel selection. This
patch fixes this situation by using the right channel and adopting the
selected bandwidth mode.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-21 15:33:08 +02:00
Johannes Berg 2a3ba63c23 mac80211: add missing channel context release
IBSS needs to release the channel context when leaving
but I evidently missed that. Fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-21 12:04:48 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich d51b70ff51 mac80211: move ibss presp generation in own function
Channel Switch will later require to generate beacons without setting
them immediately. Therefore split the presp generation in an own
function. Splitting the original very long function might be a good idea
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-16 12:25:34 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli d8eb741eb3 mac80211: ibss - do not scan if not needed when creating an IBSS
In some cases mac80211 will scan before creating an IBSS
even if bssid and frequency have been forced by the user.
This is not needed and leads only to a delay in the IBSS
establishment phase.

Immediately create the cell if both bssid and frequency
(and fixed_freq is set) have been specified.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-12 18:08:34 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli dad9defd28 mac80211: ibss - remove not authorized station earlier
A station which is not authorized has to be purged earlier
to give it a chance to re-try to establish an IBSS/RSN
session soon. Set the timeout to 10 seconds.

Some refactoring has also been done to allow the IBSS
submodule to have its own expiring function.

Reported-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-01 10:49:02 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 93c75786e8 mac80211: fix off-by-one regression in ibss beacon generation
There is an off-by-one error in the beacon generation for the ibss mode,
falsely a rate the extended supported rates which was already added to
supported rates, messing up the beacon. This was introduced by commit
"mac80211: select and adjust bitrates according to channel mode".

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-07-16 09:58:13 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 2ec9c1f67a mac80211: fix regression when initializing ibss wmm params
There appear to be two regressions in ibss.c when calling
ieee80211_sta_def_wmm_params():
 * the second argument should be a rate length, not a rate array. This
   was introduced by my commit "mac80211: select and adjust bitrates
   according to channel mode"
 * the third argument is not initialized (anymore), making further
   checks within this function useless.

Since ieee80211_sta_def_wmm_params() is only used by ibss anyway,
remove the function entirely and handle the operating mode decision
immediately.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-07-16 09:58:12 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 4b42aab1e8 mac80211: return if IBSS chandef can not be used
This was originally designed to fail when a 40+/40- mode can not be
used, but basic modes (such as 5/10/20 MHz) must be handled
with an error.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:10 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 7ca15a0ae8 mac80211: allow scanning for 5/10 MHz channels in IBSS
Use a chandef instead of just the channel for scanning, and enable
5/10 Mhz scanning for IBSS mode. Also reporting is changed to the new
inform_bss functions.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:09 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 74608aca4d cfg80211/mac80211: get mandatory rates based on scan width
Mandatory rates for 5 and 10 MHz are different from the rates used for
20 MHz in 2.4 GHz mode, as they use OFDM only.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:07 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 2103dec147 mac80211: select and adjust bitrates according to channel mode
The various components accessing the bitrates table must use consider
the used channel bandwidth to select only available rates or calculate
the bitrate correctly.

There are some rates in reduced bandwidth modes which can't be
represented as multiples of 500kbps, like 2.25 MBit/s in 5 MHz mode. The
standard suggests to round up to the next multiple of 500kbps, just do
that in mac80211 as well.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
[make rate unsigned in ieee80211_add_tx_radiotap_header(), squash fix]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:06 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 822854b0b1 mac80211: enable HT overrides for ibss
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:57:57 +03:00
Antonio Quartulli 52874a5e39 Revert "mac80211: in IBSS use the Auth frame to trigger STA reinsertion"
This reverts commit 6d810f1032

In this way an IBSS station will not use the AUTH messages
to trigger a state reinitialisation anymore.

The behaviour was racy and was not working properly.
It has been introduced to help wpa_supplicant to support
IBSS/RSN, however all the logic is now getting moved into
wpa_s itself which will also be in charge of handling the
AUTH messages thanks to the mgmt frame registration.

If userspace does not register for receiving AUTH frames
then mac80211 will still reply by itself.

At the same time, the auth frame registration counter can be
removed since it is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
[remove unused variable]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-18 16:36:59 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 3aede78aad mac80211: change IBSS channel state to chandef
This should make some parts cleaner and is also required for handling
5/10 MHz properly.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-18 16:27:25 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 0418a44583 mac80211: fix various components for the new 5 and 10 MHz widths
This is a collection of minor fixes:
 * don't allow HT IEs in IBSS for 5/10 MHz
 * don't allow HT IEs in Mesh for 5/10 MHz
 * don't downgrade from/to 5 and 10 MHz channels
 * don't try HT rates for 5 and 10 MHz channels when selecting rates

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-18 16:17:11 +02:00
Johannes Berg 8d61ffa5e0 cfg80211/mac80211: use cfg80211 wdev mutex in mac80211
Using separate locks in cfg80211 and mac80211 has always
caused issues, for example having to unlock in places in
mac80211 to call cfg80211, which even needed a framework
to make cfg80211 calls after some functions returned etc.

Additionally, I suspect some issues people have reported
with the cfg80211 state getting confused could be due to
such issues, when cfg80211 is asking mac80211 to change
state but mac80211 is in the process of telling cfg80211
that the state changed (in another way.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:16 +02:00
Ashok Nagarajan b422c6cd7e {cfg,mac}80211: move mandatory rates calculation to cfg80211
Move mandatory rates calculation to cfg80211, shared with non mac80211 drivers.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
[extend documentation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-24 23:54:43 +02:00
Johannes Berg b2e506bfc4 mac80211: parse VHT channel switch IEs
VHT introduces multiple IEs that need to be parsed for a
wide bandwidth channel switch. Two are (currently) needed
in mac80211:
 * wide bandwidth channel switch element
 * channel switch wrapper element

The former is contained in the latter for beacons and probe
responses, but not for the spectrum management action frames
so the IE parser needs a new argument to differentiate them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-16 15:29:45 +02:00
Marek Puzyniak 0ca54f6c5f mac80211: provide SSID in IBSS mode
Some drivers need SSID in AP and IBSS mode. AP SSID is provided
through BSS_CHANGED_SSID notification. There was no easy way to
do the same for IBSS. In IBSS mode SSID is known but was not
stored in BSS configuration. Extend the AP-mode functionality
to also work in IBSS mode.

Signed-off-by: Marek Puzyniak <marek.puzyniak@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-10 20:24:18 +02:00
Johannes Berg 1cd8e88e17 mac80211: check DSSS params IE length in parser
It's always just one byte, so check for that and
remove the length field from the parser struct.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-08 09:16:56 +02:00
Johannes Berg c3ffeab434 mac80211: ibss: use beacon_data struct for beacon and probe response
Instead of having an SKB all the time, use a beacon_data struct
with just the information required. This also allows removing a
synchronize_rcu() and using kfree_rcu() instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-25 14:42:41 +01:00
Johannes Berg 1852d40eab mac80211: ibss: disable beaconing before freeing beacon
If we don't disable beaconing, the driver might attempt
to continue, but would fail to request a beacon. That's
strange, so disable beaconing first.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-25 14:42:39 +01:00
Stanislaw Gruszka a61829437e mac80211: cleanup suspend/resume on ibss mode
Remove not used any longer suspend/resume code.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:35:57 +01:00
Johannes Berg e1a0c6b3a4 mac80211: stop toggling IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40
For VHT, many more bandwidth changes are possible. As a first
step, stop toggling the IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40 flag
in the HT capabilities and instead introduce a bandwidth field
indicating the currently usable bandwidth to transmit to the
station. Of course, make all drivers use it.

To achieve this, make ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() get
the station as an argument, rather than the new capabilities,
so it can set up the new bandwidth field.

If the station is a VHT station and VHT bandwidth is in use,
also set the bandwidth accordingly.

Doing this allows us to get rid of the supports_40mhz flag as
the HT capabilities now reflect the true capability instead of
the current setting.

While at it, also fix ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() to not
ignore HT cap overrides when MCS TX isn't supported (not that it
really happens...)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:30 +01:00
Johannes Berg fd0f979a1b mac80211: simplify idle handling
Now that we have channel contexts, idle is (pretty
much) equivalent to not having a channel context.
Change the code to use this relation so that there
no longer is a need for a lot of idle recalculate
calls everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:45:01 +01:00
Johannes Berg 8cef2c9df8 cfg80211: move TSF into IEs
While technically the TSF isn't an IE, it can be
necessary to distinguish between the TSF from a
beacon and a probe response, in particular in
order to know the next DTIM TBTT, as not all APs
are spec compliant wrt. TSF==0 being a DTIM TBTT
and thus the DTIM count needs to be taken into
account as well.

To allow this, move the TSF into the IE struct
so it can be known whence it came.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg 5b112d3d09 cfg80211: pass wiphy to cfg80211_ref_bss/put_bss
This prepares for using the spinlock instead of krefs
which is needed in the next patch to track the refs
of combined BSSes correctly.

Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [mwifiex]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:52 +01:00
Johannes Berg 1672c0e319 mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status
When sending authentication/association frames they
might take a bit of time to go out because we may
have to synchronise with the AP, in particular in
the case where it's really a P2P GO. In this case
the 200ms fixed timeout could potentially be too
short if the beacon interval is relatively large.

For drivers that report TX status we can do better.
Instead of starting the timeout directly, start it
only when the frame status arrives. Since then the
frame was out on the air, we can wait shorter (the
typical response time is supposed to be 30ms, wait
100ms.) Also, if the frame failed to be transmitted
try again right away instead of waiting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:28:43 +01:00
Johannes Berg d6a8322882 mac80211: track enable_beacon explicitly
Instead of calculating in ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify()
whether beaconing should be enabled or not, set it in the
correct places in the callers. This simplifies the logic in
this function at the expense of offchannel, but is also more
robust.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:35 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach d45c41722a mac82011: use frame control to differentiate probe resp/beacon
The probe response/beacon management frame RX code passes a
bool parameter to differentiate beacons and probe responses.
This is useless since we have the frame and can thus use its
frame control field. Moreover it is buggy since there is one
call to ieee80211_rx_bss_info with a beacon frame that is
indicated as a probe response, which is also fixed by using
the frame control field, so do that.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:33 +01:00
Johannes Berg b998e8bb3e mac80211: remove final sta_info_flush()
When all interfaces have been removed, there can't
be any stations left over, so there's no need to
flush again. Remove this, and all code associated
with it, which also simplifies the function.

Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:16 +01:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 34bcf71502 mac80211: fix ibss scanning
Do not scan on no-IBSS and disabled channels in IBSS mode. Doing this
can trigger Microcode errors on iwlwifi and iwlegacy drivers.

Also rename ieee80211_request_internal_scan() function since it is only
used in IBSS mode and simplify calling it from ieee80211_sta_find_ibss().

This patch should address:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883414
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49411

Reported-by: Jesse Kahtava <jesse_kahtava@f-m.fm>
Reported-by: Mikko Rapeli  <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 12:59:57 +01:00
John W. Linville c66cfd5325 Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.sipsolutions.net/mac80211-next 2012-12-11 16:04:03 -05:00
Simon Wunderlich 2f91a96799 mac80211: adapt slot time in IBSS mode
In 5GHz/802.11a, we are allowed to use short slot times. Doing this
may increases performance by 20% for legacy connections (54 MBit/s).
I can confirm this in my tests (27% more throughput using iperf), and
also have a small positive effect (5% more throughput) for HT rates,
tested on 1 stream.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-04 15:54:43 +01:00
John W. Linville 62c8003ecb Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2012-11-26 14:46:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg 4bf88530be mac80211: convert to channel definition struct
Convert mac80211 (and where necessary, some drivers a
little bit) to the new channel definition struct.

This will allow extending mac80211 for VHT, which is
currently restricted to channel contexts since there
are no drivers using that which makes it easier. As
I also don't care about VHT for drivers not using the
channel context API, I won't convert the previous API
to VHT support.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg 3d9d1d6656 nl80211/cfg80211: support VHT channel configuration
Change nl80211 to support specifying a VHT (or HT)
using the control channel frequency (as before) and
new attributes for the channel width and first and
second center frequency. The old channel type is of
course still supported for HT.

Also change the cfg80211 channel definition struct
to support these by adding the relevant fields to
it (and removing the _type field.)

This also adds new helper functions:
 - cfg80211_chandef_create to create a channel def
   struct given the control channel and channel type,
 - cfg80211_chandef_identical to check if two channel
   definitions are identical
 - cfg80211_chandef_compatible to check if the given
   channel definitions are compatible, and return the
   wider of the two

This isn't entirely complete, but that doesn't matter
until we have a driver using it. In particular, it's
missing
 - regulatory checks on the usable bandwidth (if that
   even makes sense)
 - regulatory TX power (database can't deal with it)
 - a proper channel compatibility calculation for the
   new channel types

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg 683b6d3b31 cfg80211: pass a channel definition struct
Instead of passing a channel pointer and channel type
to all functions and driver methods, pass a new channel
definition struct. Right now, this struct contains just
the control channel and channel type, but for VHT this
will change.

Also, add a small inline cfg80211_get_chandef_type() so
that drivers don't need to use the _type field of the
new structure all the time, which will change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:58 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli 7bed20503f mac80211: in ADHOC print debug message for every Auth message
The debug message has to be printed also for an Auth message with
auth_sequence != 1. This helps understanding whether the two Auth
messages are exchanged correctly or not.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 11:32:42 +01:00
John W. Linville 75c8ec71fb Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2012-11-21 14:43:51 -05:00
John W. Linville b311749477 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
2012-11-21 12:57:56 -05:00
Thomas Pedersen f4bda337bb mac80211: support RX_FLAG_MACTIME_END
Allow drivers to indicate their mactime is at RX completion and adjust
for this in mac80211. Also rename the existing RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU to
RX_FLAG_MACTIME_START to clarify its intent. Based on similar code by
Johannes Berg.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
[fix docs, atheros drivers]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-13 21:43:55 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich b78a4932f5 mac80211: deinitialize ibss-internals after emptiness check
The check whether the IBSS is active and can be removed should be
performed before deinitializing the fields used for the check/search.
Otherwise, the configured BSS will not be found and removed properly.

To make it more clear for the future, rename sdata->u.ibss to the
local pointer ifibss which is used within the checks.

This behaviour was introduced by
f3209bea11
("mac80211: fix IBSS teardown race")

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ignacy Gawedzki <i@lri.fr>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-13 21:35:07 +01:00
John W. Linville ab3d59d265 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
2012-10-29 16:05:51 -04:00
Antonio Quartulli badecb001a mac80211: fix SSID copy on IBSS JOIN
The 'ssid' field of the cfg80211_ibss_params is a u8 pointer and
its length is likely to be less than IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN most
of the time.

This patch fixes the ssid copy in ieee80211_ibss_join() by using
the SSID length to prevent it from reading beyond the string.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
[rewrapped commit message, small rewording]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-26 22:52:18 +02:00
Sujith Manoharan c13a765bd9 mac80211: Notify new IBSS network creation
Initialization of beacon transmission in IBSS mode depends
on whether a new BSS is being created or joined. When joining
an existing IBSS network, beaconing has to start only after
a TSF-sync has happened - this is explained in 11.1.4.

Introduce a new parameter in the BSS information structure to
indicate creator/joiner mode.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 09:01:53 +02:00
Jouni Malinen 700e8ea677 mac80211: Take status code as parameter to ieee80211_send_auth
Non-zero status code may be needed for Authentication frames, e.g.,
when using SAE.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:10 +02:00
Johannes Berg 04ecd2578e mac80211: track needed RX chains for channel contexts
On each channel that the device is operating on, it
may need to listen using one or more chains depending
on the SMPS settings of the interfaces using it. The
previous channel context changes completely removed
this ability (before, it was available as the SMPS
mode).

Add per-context tracking of the required static and
dynamic RX chains and notify the driver on changes.
To achieve this, track the chains and SMPS mode used
on each virtual interface and update the channel
context whenever this changes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:09 +02:00
Johannes Berg 55de908ab2 mac80211: use channel contexts
Instead of operating on a single channel only,
use the new channel context infrastructure in
all mac80211 code.

This enables drivers that want to use the new
channel context infrastructure to use multiple
channels, while nothing should change for all
the other drivers that don't support it.

Right now this disables both TX power settings
and spatial multiplexing powersave. Both need
to be re-enabled on a channel context basis.

Additionally, when channel contexts are used
drop the connection when channel switch is
received rather than trying to handle it. This
will have to be improved later.

[With fixes from Eliad and Emmanuel incorporated]
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:09 +02:00
Sylvain Roger Rieunier 2514ec8653 mac80211: fix IBSS auth TX debug message
In the IBSS auth TX debug message the BSSID and DA
address are reversed, fix that.

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Roger Rieunier <sylvain.roger.rieunier@gmail.com>
[reword commit message and make it fit 72 cols]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-20 10:31:34 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 2cc59e784b mac80211: reply to AUTH with DEAUTH if sta allocation fails in IBSS
Whenever a host gets an AUTH frame it first allocates a new
station and then replies with another AUTH frame. However,
if sta allocations fails the host should send a DEAUTH frame
instead to tell the other end that something went wrong.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
[reword commit message a bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-07 13:50:47 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli e687f61eed mac80211: add supported rates change notification in IBSS
In IBSS it is possible that the supported rates set for a station changes over
time (e.g. it gets first initialised as an empty set because of no available
information about rates and updated later). In this case the driver has to be
notified about the change in order to update its internal table accordingly (if
needed).

This behaviour is needed by all those drivers that handle rc internally but
leave stations management to mac80211

Reported-by: Gui Iribarren <gui@altermundi.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
[Johannes - add docs, validate IBSS mode only, fix compilation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-20 13:31:43 +02:00
Johannes Berg e83e6541ce mac80211: use eth_broadcast_addr
Instead of memset().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-31 16:19:51 +02:00
Johannes Berg 273686d664 mac80211: use oper_channel in ibss
Using hw.conf.channel is wrong as it could be the
temporary channel if any function like the beacon
get function is called while scanning or during
other temporary out-of-channel activities.

Use oper_channel instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-31 16:18:52 +02:00
Johannes Berg bdcbd8e0e3 mac80211: clean up debugging
There are a few things that make the logging and
debugging in mac80211 less useful than it should
be right now:
 * a lot of messages should be pr_info, not pr_debug
 * wholesale use of pr_debug makes it require *both*
   Kconfig and dynamic configuration
 * there are still a lot of ifdefs
 * the style is very inconsistent, sometimes the
   sdata->name is printed in front

Clean up everything, introducing new macros and
separating out the station MLME debugging into
a new Kconfig symbol.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-24 11:32:29 +02:00
Johannes Berg 08ce5abe3d mac80211: two small verbose debug cleanups
Two instances of CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG
should be different, fix them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-22 12:53:05 +02:00
Will Hawkins 452a6d2261 mac80211: send auth in IBSS only if userspace isn't handling it
Check the auth frame registration count before sending
"open system" authentication messages when a new station
registers on a particular IBSS network. This stops us
from sending out multiple authentication messages with
different authentication algorithms.

Signed-off-by: Will Hawkins <hawkinsw@opentechinstitute.org>
[reword commit message a bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-20 20:03:42 +02:00
Johannes Berg d58e7e37aa cfg80211: simplify cfg80211_can_beacon_sec_chan API
Change cfg80211_can_beacon_sec_chan() to return true
if there is no secondary channel to simplify all the
current users of it. They all check the channel type
before calling the function because it returns false
if there's no secondary channel.

Also actually document the return value.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-05 15:32:16 -04:00
Joe Perches 499f42bb03 net: mac80211: Add and use ibss_vdbg debugging macro
Simplify the use of #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG/#endif
by adding a logging macro to encapsulate the test.

Convert the appropriate uses too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-05 15:32:10 -04:00
Joe Perches f0d232080f net: mac80211: Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug
Standardize the debugging to be able to use dynamic_debug.

Coalesce formats, align arguments.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-05 15:27:16 -04:00
John W. Linville a0d0d1685f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next 2012-05-22 15:18:06 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan 0d894ec501 mac80211: Push the deleted comment to correct place
This comment is deleted in the patch "mac80211: Advertise HT protection mode in
IEs". Moving the comment to the now corrected place.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-16 13:24:24 -04:00
Joe Perches e87cc4728f net: Convert net_ratelimit uses to net_<level>_ratelimited
Standardize the net core ratelimited logging functions.

Coalesce formats, align arguments.
Change a printk then vprintk sequence to use printf extension %pV.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-15 13:45:03 -04:00
David S. Miller c597f6653d Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next 2012-05-14 18:00:48 -04:00
Joe Perches b203ca3912 mac80211: Convert compare_ether_addr to ether_addr_equal
Use the new bool function ether_addr_equal to add
some clarity and reduce the likelihood for misuse
of compare_ether_addr for sorting.

Done via cocci script:

$ cat compare_ether_addr.cocci
@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!compare_ether_addr(a, b)
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	compare_ether_addr(a, b)
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!ether_addr_equal(a, b) == 0
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!ether_addr_equal(a, b) != 0
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	ether_addr_equal(a, b) == 0
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	ether_addr_equal(a, b) != 0
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!!ether_addr_equal(a, b)
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-09 20:49:18 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan 431e315423 mac80211: Advertise HT protection mode in IEs
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-08 21:53:57 -04:00
David S. Miller f24001941c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Fix merge between commit 3adadc08cc ("net ax25: Reorder ax25_exit to
remove races") and commit 0ca7a4c87d ("net ax25: Simplify and
cleanup the ax25 sysctl handling")

The former moved around the sysctl register/unregister calls, the
later simply removed them.

With help from Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-23 23:15:17 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 6741e7f048 mac80211: fix logic error in ibss channel type check
The broken check leads to rate control attempting to use HT40 while
the driver is configured for HT20. This leads to interesting hardware
issues.

HT40 can only be used if the channel type is either HT40- or HT40+
and if the channel type of the cell matches the local type.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-17 14:17:04 -04:00
Ashok Nagarajan 9ebb61a23d mac80211: Modify sta_get_rates to give basic rates
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11 16:23:47 -04:00
Johannes Berg 32c5057b22 mac80211: use IEEE80211_NUM_ACS
When comparing hw->queues to determine if the
device is QoS capable, use IEEE80211_NUM_ACS
instead of just 4.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10 14:56:10 -04:00
Johannes Berg 074d46d1d2 wireless: rename ht_info to ht_operation
Since some of the HT code pre-dates 802.11n-2009
some names are wrong. The one that bothers me most
is that "HT operation" is called "HT information"
in our code and that causes confusion.

Rename "HT information" to "HT operation" and also
the control_chan field to primary_chan to match
the name used in the spec.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-09 16:05:55 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 888d04dfbe mac80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmp
Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline
compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-05 15:38:31 -05:00
Johannes Berg d26ad3771f mac80211: clean up asm/unaligned.h inclusion
Some files implicitly get this via mesh.h
which itself doesn't need it, so move the
inclusion into the right files. Some other
files don't need it at all but include it,
so remove it from there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-27 14:06:32 -05:00
Antonio Quartulli 267335d63b cfg80211/mac80211: userspace peer authorization in IBSS
If the IBSS network is RSN-protected, let userspace authorize the stations
instead of adding them as AUTHORIZED by default.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06 14:53:10 -05:00
John W. Linville 874239f51f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless 2012-02-01 10:48:50 -05:00
Johannes Berg 83d5cc0124 mac80211: station state transition error handling
In the future, when we start notifying drivers,
state transitions could potentially fail. To make
it easier to distinguish between programming bugs
and driver failures:
 * rename sta_info_move_state() to
   sta_info_pre_move_state() which can only be
   called before the station is inserted (and
   check this with a new station flag).
 * rename sta_info_move_state_checked() to just
   plain sta_info_move_state(), as it will be
   the regular function that can fail for more
   than just one reason (bad transition or an
   error from the driver)

This makes the programming model easier -- one of
the functions can only be called before insertion
and can't fail, the other can fail.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-30 15:41:25 -05:00
John W. Linville c037b8367c Revert "mac80211: Do not scan for IBSS merge with a fixed BSSID."
This reverts commit f1e3be1561.

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> thinks that this patch is
incorrect.  I'll defer to his judgment.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-30 15:28:11 -05:00
Nicolas Cavallari f1e3be1561 mac80211: Do not scan for IBSS merge with a fixed BSSID.
Currently, when we are on an IBSS network with no active station,
we would scan for other BSSID, even if fixed_bssid is on,  due to
a bug in ibss.c,  where fixed_channel would be checked instead of
fixed_bssid.  This would trigger useless scans where scan results
would not be used anyway.

This patch also reverts commit 39d02a7d90,
which assumed that the ifibss->fixed_channel check was legitimate
to disable single-channel scans.  IBSS single-channel scan should
now be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <cavallar@lri.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-27 14:57:06 -05:00
Eliad Peller ba1960257c mac80211: update oper_channel on ibss join
Commit 13c40c5 ("mac80211: Add HT operation modes for IBSS") broke
ibss operation by mistakenly removing the local->oper_channel
update (causing ibss to start on the wrong channel). fix it.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-24 14:47:09 -05:00
Antonio Quartulli 6d810f1032 mac80211: in IBSS use the Auth frame to trigger STA reinsertion
In case of a node re-joining the cell the sta_info structure belonging to it is
first destroyed and then reinserted. In this way its internal state is reset.

The joining operation is recognised thank the Auth frame being received.

This operation is helpful in case of a node being rebooted that is joining the
ad-hoc cell again, before its purge timeout on other nodes expires.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-24 14:32:27 -05:00
Antonio Quartulli 24dd0dd74e mac80211: add a 2-way Authentication challenge to IBSS mode
In IBSS mode, whenever a new station is added a 2-way authentication challenge
is performed. Actually this event can be used to recognise a new station joining
the cell even if its sta_info entry is already in the list.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-24 14:32:26 -05:00
Antonio Quartulli f1249700f5 mac80211: remove useless DA checking in ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp()
Actually the DA field has already been checked along the rx path (in
prepare_for_handlers()) and this check is therefore useless at this point.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-24 14:21:12 -05:00
Antonio Quartulli efa6a09db6 mac80211: In IBSS the DA field of auth frames is different from BSSID
In case of authentication frame exchange between two IBSS STAs, the
DA field must contain the destinatioin address (instead of the BSSID).

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-24 14:08:39 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan 39d02a7d90 mac80211: minor cleanup
we would have bailed out if 'ifibss->fixed_channel'
is valid i.e. we had used 'fixed-freq' parameter in iw ibss
join command. this is with the state 'IEEE80211_IBSS_MLME_JOINED'
so no need to check for it

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-24 14:08:36 -05:00
Eric Dumazet cf778b00e9 net: reintroduce missing rcu_assign_pointer() calls
commit a9b3cd7f32 (rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to
RCU_INIT_POINTER) did a lot of incorrect changes, since it did a
complete conversion of rcu_assign_pointer(x, y) to RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,
y).

We miss needed barriers, even on x86, when y is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-12 12:26:56 -08:00
Johannes Berg 8bf11d8d08 mac80211: delay IBSS station insertion
In order to notify drivers and simplify the station
management code, defer IBSS station insertion to a
work item and don't do it directly while receiving
a frame.

This increases the complexity in IBSS a little bit,
but it's pretty straight forward and it allows us
to reduce the station management complexity (next
patch) considerably.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15 14:46:34 -05:00
Johannes Berg d9a7ddb05e mac80211: refactor station state transitions
Station entries can have various states, the most
important ones being auth, assoc and authorized.
This patch prepares us for telling the driver about
these states, we don't want to confuse drivers with
strange transitions, so with this we enforce that
they move in the right order between them (back and
forth); some transitions might happen before the
driver even knows about the station, but at least
runtime transitions will be ordered correctly.

As a consequence, IBSS and MESH stations will now
have the ASSOC flag set (so they can transition to
AUTHORIZED), and we can get rid of a special case
in TX processing.

When freeing a station, unwind the state so that
other parts of the code (or drivers later) can rely
on the transitions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15 14:46:34 -05:00