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Zhao, Gang f26cbf401b cfg80211: change wiphy_to_dev function name
Name wiphy_to_rdev is more accurate to describe what the function
does, i.e., return a pointer pointing to struct
cfg80211_registered_device.

Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-04-25 17:33:04 +02:00
Luciano Coelho 73de86a389 cfg80211/mac80211: move interface counting for combination check to mac80211
Move the counting part of the interface combination check from
cfg80211 to mac80211.

This is needed to simplify locking when the driver has to perform a
combination check by itself (eg. with channel-switch).

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-04-09 10:55:43 +02:00
Janusz Dziedzic 31559f35c5 cfg80211: DFS get CAC time from regulatory database
Send Channel Availability Check time as a parameter
of start_radar_detection() callback.
Get CAC time from regulatory database.

Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-25 17:32:54 +01:00
Michal Kazior 9e0e29615a cfg80211: consider existing DFS interfaces
It was possible to break interface combinations in
the following way:

 combo 1: iftype = AP, num_ifaces = 2, num_chans = 2,
 combo 2: iftype = AP, num_ifaces = 1, num_chans = 1, radar = HT20

With the above interface combinations it was
possible to:

 step 1. start AP on DFS channel by matching combo 2
 step 2. start AP on non-DFS channel by matching combo 1

This was possible beacuse (step 2) did not consider
if other interfaces require radar detection.

The patch changes how cfg80211 tracks channels -
instead of channel itself now a complete chandef
is stored.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:58:17 +01:00
Andrei Otcheretianski b176e62940 cfg80211: aggregate mgmt_tx parameters into a struct
Change cfg80211 and mac80211 to use cfg80211_mgmt_tx_params
struct to aggregate parameters for mgmt_tx functions.
This makes the functions' signatures less clumsy and allows
less painful parameters extension.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
[fix all other drivers]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-02 11:51:52 +01:00
Janusz Dziedzic d2859df5e7 cfg80211/mac80211: DFS setup chandef for cac event
To report channel width correctly we have
to send correct channel parameters from
mac80211 when calling cfg80211_cac_event().

This is required in case of using channel width
higher than 20MHz and we have to set correct
dfs channel state after CAC (NL80211_DFS_AVAILABLE).

Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25 20:50:46 +01:00
Michal Kazior bbe09bbcf4 cfg80211: update dfs_state_entered upon dfs_state change
The timestamp wasn't updated after transitioning
to the NL80211_DFS_USABLE state after NOP time.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-21 14:50:27 +02:00
Michal Kazior c532a58b0f cfg80211: fix DFS channel recovery timeout
The timeout was not properly converted from msecs
to jiffies. As a result channel transition to
NL80211_DFS_USABLE was delayed depending on
CONFIG_HZ configuration, e.g. HZ=100 would delay
the NOP from 30 minutes to 300 minutes.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-21 14:50:27 +02:00
Vladimir Kondratiev 19504cf5f3 cfg80211: add flags to cfg80211_rx_mgmt()
Add flags intended to report various auxiliary information
and introduce the NL80211_RXMGMT_FLAG_ANSWERED flag to report
that the frame was already answered by the device.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
[REPLIED->ANSWERED, reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-08-23 16:06:03 +02:00
Johannes Berg f1940c5730 cfg80211: hold BSS over association process
This fixes the potential issue that the BSS struct that we use
and later assign to wdev->current_bss is removed from the scan
list while associating.

Also warn when we don't have a BSS struct in connect_result
unless it's from a driver that only has the connect() API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-19 18:55:39 +02:00
Johannes Berg 959867fa55 cfg80211: require passing BSS struct back to cfg80211_assoc_timeout
Doing so will allow us to hold the BSS (not just ref it) over the
association process, thus ensuring that it doesn't time out and
gets invisible to the user (e.g. in 'iw wlan0 link'.)

This also fixes a leak in mac80211 where it doesn't always release
the BSS struct properly in all cases where calling this function.
This leak was reported by Ben Greear.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-19 18:55:39 +02:00
Johannes Berg ceca7b7121 cfg80211: separate internal SME implementation
The current internal SME implementation in cfg80211 is
very mixed up with the MLME handling, which has been
causing issues for a long time. There are three things
that the implementation has to provide:
 * a basic SME implementation for nl80211's connect()
   call (for drivers implementing auth/assoc, which is
   really just mac80211) and wireless extensions
 * MLME events for the userspace SME
 * SME events (connected, disconnected etc.) for all
   different SME implementation possibilities (driver,
   cfg80211 and userspace)

To achieve these goals it isn't necessary to track the
software SME's connection status outside of it's state
(which is the part that caused many issues.) Instead,
track it only in the SME data (wdev->conn) and in the
general case only track whether the wdev is connected
or not (via wdev->current_bss.)

Also separate the internal implementation to not have
callbacks from the SME events, but rather call it from
the API functions that the driver (or rather mac80211)
calls. This separates the code better.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-04 13:03:11 +02:00
Johannes Berg 6ff57cf888 cfg80211/mac80211: clean up cfg80211 SME APIs
Do some cleanups in the cfg80211 SME APIs, which are
only used by mac80211.

Most of these functions get a frame passed, and there
isn't really any reason to export multiple functions
as cfg80211 can check the frame type instead, do that.

Additionally, the API functions have confusing names
like cfg80211_send_...() which was meant to indicate
that it sends an event to userspace, but gets a bit
confusing when there's both TX and RX and they're not
all clearly labeled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-04 13:03:10 +02:00
Johannes Berg 91bf9b26fc cfg80211: remove some locked wrappers from mlme API
By making all the API functions require wdev locking we
can clean up the API a bit, getting rid of the locking
version of each function. This also decreases the size
of cfg80211 by a small amount.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:20 +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
Johannes Berg 5fe231e873 cfg80211: vastly simplify locking
Virtually all code paths in cfg80211 already (need to) hold
the RTNL. As such, there's little point in having another
four mutexes for various parts of the code, they just cause
lock ordering issues (and much of the time, the RTNL and a
few of the others need thus be held.)

Simplify all this by getting rid of the extra four mutexes
and just use the RTNL throughout. Only a few code changes
were needed to do this and we can get rid of a work struct
for bonus points.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:15 +02:00
Johannes Berg 7ade703604 cfg80211: use C99 initialisers to simplify code a bit
Use C99 initialisers for the auth, deauth and disassoc
requests to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-16 22:39:42 +02:00
Arend van Spriel 5de1798489 cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space
Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.

There can be only on critical protocol session started per
registered cfg80211 device.

The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
.crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
alter coexistence schemes.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-22 15:48:00 +02:00
Johannes Berg f62fab735e cfg80211: refactor association parameters
cfg80211_mlme_assoc() has grown far too many arguments,
make the caller build almost all of the driver struct
and pass that to the function instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:35:49 +01:00
Johannes Berg ee2aca343c cfg80211: add ability to override VHT capabilities
For testing it's sometimes useful to be able to
override certain VHT capability advertisement,
add the ability to do that in cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:35:47 +01:00
Johannes Berg 947add36ca cfg80211: move exported event functions into nl80211
This is the sort of thing gcc's LTO could do, but since
we don't have that yet we can also do it manually. The
advantage is reduced code, both source and binary, e.g.
on x86-64

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 442825	  56230	    776	 499831	  7a077	cfg80211.ko (before)
 441585	  56230	    776	 498591	  79b9f	cfg80211.ko (after)

a reduction of ~1k.

But in order to not complicate the code move only those
functions that are simple wrappers, not those that have
functionality of their own.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06 16:35:46 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 04f39047af nl80211/cfg80211: add radar detection command/event
Add new NL80211_CMD_RADAR_DETECT, which starts the Channel
Availability Check (CAC). This command will also notify the
usermode about events (CAC finished, CAC aborted, radar
detected, NOP finished).
Once radar detection has started it should continuously
monitor for radars as long as the channel is active.

This patch enables DFS for AP mode in nl80211/cfg80211.

Based on original patch by Victor Goldenshtein <victorg@ti.com>

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
[remove WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_RADAR_DETECT again -- my mistake]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:40:18 +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 8dcf011ab0 cfg80211: add SME state to warning in __cfg80211_mlme_disassoc
The warning here occasionally triggers but we haven't
found the cause yet. It's a valid warning since if it
triggers the SME state got confused, so add the SME
state to it to help narrow it down in the future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-29 12:16:35 +01:00
Johannes Berg dfa674da18 cfg80211: move some AP code to right file
Some AP code ended up in mlme.c as ap.c didn't
exist when it was written, move it now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:40 +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
Johannes Berg 42d97a599e cfg80211: remove remain-on-channel channel type
As mwifiex (and mac80211 in the software case) are the
only drivers actually implementing remain-on-channel
with channel type, userspace can't be relying on it.
This is the case, as it's used only for P2P operations
right now.

Rather than adding a flag to tell userspace whether or
not it can actually rely on it, simplify all the code
by removing the ability to use different channel types.
Leave only the validation of the attribute, so that if
we extend it again later (with the needed capability
flag), it can't break userspace sending invalid data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:58 +01:00
John W. Linville 9b34f40c20 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2012-10-23 11:41:46 -04:00
Beni Lev 4ee3e063f1 cfg80211: add cfg80211 exported function tracing
Also add tracing to the API functions that drivers
(and mac80211) can call in cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Beni Lev <beni.lev@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 10:53:38 +02:00
Hila Gonen e35e4d28b6 cfg80211: add wrappers for registered_device_ops
This will allow adding central tracing like in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Hila Gonen <hila.gonen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 10:53:37 +02:00
Jouni Malinen e39e5b5e72 cfg80211: Allow user space to specify non-IEs to SAE Authentication
SAE extends Authentication frames with fields that are not information
elements. NL80211_ATTR_IE is not suitable for these, so introduce a new
attribute that can be used to specify the fields needed for SAE in
station mode.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
[change to verify that SAE is only used with authenticate command]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:11 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 6863255bd0 cfg80211/mac80211: avoid state mishmash on deauth
Avoid situation when we are on associate state in mac80211 and
on disassociate state in cfg80211. This can results on crash
during modules unload (like showed on this thread:
http://marc.info/?t=134373976300001&r=1&w=2) and possibly other
problems.

Reported-by: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-15 17:21:34 +02:00
John W. Linville c487606f83 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Conflicts:
	net/nfc/netlink.c

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-09-28 11:11:16 -04:00
Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu ed44a951c7 cfg80211/nl80211: Notify connection request failure in AP mode
In AP mode, when a station requests connection to an AP and if the
request is failed for particular reason, userspace is notified about the
failure through NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED command. Reason for the failure
is sent through the attribute NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON.

Signed-off-by: Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu <c_ppitch@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-18 19:54:06 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman 15e473046c netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
process identifier.  Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.

I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.

I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-10 15:30:41 -04:00
Johannes Berg 98104fdeda cfg80211: add P2P Device abstraction
In order to support using a different MAC address
for the P2P Device address we must first have a
P2P Device abstraction that can be assigned a MAC
address.

This abstraction will also be useful to support
offloading P2P operations to the device, e.g.
periodic listen for discoverability.

Currently, the driver is responsible for assigning
a MAC address to the P2P Device, but this could be
changed by allowing a MAC address to be given to
the NEW_INTERFACE command.

As it has no associated netdev, a P2P Device can
only be identified by its wdev identifier but the
previous patches allowed using the wdev identifier
in various APIs, e.g. remain-on-channel.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-20 13:58:21 +02:00
Thomas Pedersen 84f10708f7 cfg80211: support TX error rate CQM
Let the user configure serveral TX error conection quality monitoring
parameters: % error rate, survey interval, and # of attempted packets.

On exceeding the TX failure rate over the given interval, the driver
will send a CQM notify event with the actual TX failure rate and
packets attempted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 11:57:23 +02:00
Johannes Berg 71bbc99438 cfg80211: use wdev in mgmt-tx/ROC APIs
The management frame and remain-on-channel APIs will be
needed in the P2P device abstraction, so move them over
to the new wdev-based APIs. Userspace can still use both
the interface index and wdev identifier for them so it's
backward compatible, but for the P2P Device wdev it will
be able to use the wdev identifier only.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:51:47 +02:00
Michal Kazior e4e32459c2 cfg80211: respect iface combinations when starting operation
devlist_mtx locking is changed to accomodate changes.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29 13:39:19 +02:00
Michal Kazior f4489ebeff cfg80211: add channel tracking for AP and mesh
We need to know which channel is used by a running
AP and mesh for channel context accounting and
finding matching/active interface combination.

STA/IBSS have current_bss already which allows us
to check which channel a vif is tuned to.
Non-fixed channel IBSS can be handled with
additional changes.

Monitor mode is going to be handled differently.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29 13:39:15 +02:00
Johannes Berg e8c9bd5b8d cfg80211: clarify set_channel APIs
Now that we've removed all uses of the set_channel
API except for the monitor channel and in libertas,
clarify this. Split the libertas mesh use into a
new libertas_set_mesh_channel() operation, just to
keep backward compatibility, and rename the normal
set_channel() to set_monitor_channel().

Also describe the desired set_monitor_channel()
semantics more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-06 15:18:17 -04:00
Joe Perches ac422d3cc2 wireless: 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.

I removed a conversion from scan.c/cmp_bss_core
that appears to be a sorting function.

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 20:49:19 -04:00
Thomas Pedersen 5314526b17 cfg80211: add channel switch notify event
The firmware may decide to switch channels while already beaconing, e.g.
in response to a cfg80211 connect request on a different vif. Add this
event to notify userspace when an AP or GO interface has successfully
migrated to a new channel, so it can update its configuration
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11 16:23:59 -04:00
Felix Fietkau c6fb08aaa8 cfg80211: 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>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-09 16:09:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg 804483e907 cfg80211/mac80211: report signal strength for mgmt frames
Add the signal strength (in dBm only for now) to
frames that are received via nl80211's various
frame APIs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-06 15:16:05 -05:00
Johannes Berg 63c9c5e77c cfg80211: remove cookies from callbacks
In "cfg80211: no cookies in cfg80211_send_XXX()"
Holger Schurig removed the cookies in the calls
from mac80211 to cfg80211, but the ones in the
other direction were left in. Remove them now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-29 14:11:33 -05:00
Johannes Berg 95de817b90 cfg80211: stop tracking authenticated state
To track authenticated state seems to have been
a design mistake in cfg80211. It is possible to
have out of band authentication (FT), tracking
multiple authentications caused more problems
than it ever helped, and the implementation in
mac80211 is too complex.

Remove all this complexity, and let userspace
do whatever it wants to, mac80211 can deal with
that just fine. Association is still tracked of
course, but authentication no longer is. Local
auth state changes are thus no longer of value,
so ignore them completely.

This will also help implement SAE -- asking the
driver to do an authentication is now almost
equivalent to sending an authentication frame,
with the exception of shared key authentication
which is still handled completely.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06 14:50:37 -05:00
Ben Greear 7e7c8926b2 wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides.
This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40,
and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for
drivers that support it.

The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are
are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask.

Attemping to disable features that are not supported will
take no affect, but will not return errors.  This is to aid
backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be
clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask.

This patch only enables the infrastructure.  An additional
patch will enable the feature in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 16:22:06 -05:00
Johannes Berg e247bd9068 cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACK
For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to
avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is
already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request
not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag.

Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function
prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a
few lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:13:54 -05:00
Johannes Berg b92ab5d86d cfg80211: add event for unexpected 4addr frames
The frames are used by AP/STA WDS mode, and hostapd
needs to know when such a frame was received to set
up the VLAN appropriately to allow using it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:13:52 -05:00