- May 11, 2011
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Luciano Coelho authored
Implement new functionality for scheduled scan offload. With this feature we can scan automatically at certain intervals. The idea is that the hardware can perform scan automatically and filter on desired results without waking up the host unnecessarily. Add NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN commands to the nl80211 interface. When results are available they are reported by NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_RESULTS events. The userspace is informed when the scheduled scan has stopped with a NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_STOPPED event, which can be triggered either by the driver or by a call to NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN. Signed-off-by:
Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- May 05, 2011
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Johannes Berg authored
This is based on (but now quite far from) the original work from Luis and Eliad. Add support for configuring WoWLAN triggers, and getting the configuration out again. Changes from the original patchset are too numerous to list, but one important change needs highlighting: the suspend() callback is passed NULL for the trigger configuration if userspace has not configured WoWLAN at all. Signed-off-by:
Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by:
Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Apr 25, 2011
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Amitkumar Karwar authored
Currently mac80211 uses ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz module parameter to allow disabling 40MHz operation in the 2.4GHz band. Move this handling from mac80211 to cfg80211 so that the feature will be more generic. Signed-off-by:
Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by:
Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Reviewed-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Feb 03, 2011
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Juuso Oikarinen authored
Currently cfg80211 only configures the PSM state to the driver upon creation of a new virtual interface, but not after interface type change. The mac80211 on the other hand reinitializes its sdata structure every time the interface type is changed, losing the PSM configuration. Hence, if the interface type is changed to, say, ad-hoc and then back to managed, "iw wlan0 get power_save" will claim that PSM is enabled, when in fact on mac80211 level it is not. Fix this in cfg80211 by configuring the PSM state to the driver each time the interface is brought up instead of just when the interface is created. Signed-off-by:
Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Dec 20, 2010
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Javier Cardona authored
Userspace will now be allowed to toggle between the default path selection algorithm (HWMP, implemented in the kernel), and a vendor specific alternative. Also in the same patch, allow userspace to add information elements to mesh beacons. This is accordance with the Extensible Path Selection Framework specified in version 7.0 of the 802.11s draft. Signed-off-by:
Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Dec 06, 2010
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Johannes Berg authored
Instead of tying mesh activity to interface up, add join and leave commands for mesh. Since we must be backward compatible, let cfg80211 handle joining a mesh if a mesh ID was pre-configured when the device goes up. Note that this therefore must modify mac80211 as well since mac80211 needs to lose the logic to start the mesh on interface up. We now allow querying mesh parameters before the mesh is connected, which simply returns defaults. Setting them (internally renamed to "update") is only allowed while connected. Specify them with the new mesh join command instead where needed. In mac80211, beaconing must now also follow the mesh enabled/not enabled state, which is done by testing the mesh ID. Signed-off-by:
Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Nov 24, 2010
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Joe Perches authored
No change in output for pr_<level> prefixes. netdev_<level> output is different, arguably improved. Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Oct 11, 2010
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Johannes Berg authored
This reverts commit 5a254ffe. The commit failed to take into account that allocated wireless devices (wiphys) are not added into the device list upon allocation, but only when they are registered. Therefore, it opened up a race between allocating and registering a name, so that if two processes allocate and register concurrently ("alloc, alloc, register, register" rather than "alloc, register, alloc, register") the code will attempt to use the same name twice. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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- Oct 05, 2010
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Ben Greear authored
Choose first available phyX name when creating phy devices. This means that reloading a wifi driver will not cause a change in the name of it's phy device. Also, allow users to rename a phy to any un-used name, including phy%d. Signed-off-by:
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Sep 16, 2010
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Johannes Berg authored
This adds P2P-STA and P2P-GO as device types so we can distinguish between those and normal STA or AP (respectively) type interfaces. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Joe Perches authored
The output becomes: [ 41.261941] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht' Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Aug 31, 2010
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John W. Linville authored
Otherwise lockdep complains... https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17311 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.36-rc2-git4 #12 ------------------------------------------------------- kworker/0:3/3630 is trying to acquire lock: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff813396c7>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x14 but task is already holding lock: (rfkill_global_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa014b129>] rfkill_switch_all+0x24/0x49 [rfkill] which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (rfkill_global_mutex){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff81079ad7>] lock_acquire+0x120/0x15b [<ffffffff813ae869>] __mutex_lock_common+0x54/0x52e [<ffffffff813aede9>] mutex_lock_nested+0x34/0x39 [<ffffffffa014b4ab>] rfkill_register+0x2b/0x29c [rfkill] [<ffffffffa0185ba0>] wiphy_register+0x1ae/0x270 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0206f01>] ieee80211_register_hw+0x1b4/0x3cf [mac80211] [<ffffffffa0292e98>] iwl_ucode_callback+0x9e9/0xae3 [iwlagn] [<ffffffff812d3e9d>] request_firmware_work_func+0x54/0x6f [<ffffffff81065d15>] kthread+0x8c/0x94 [<ffffffff8100ac24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 -> #1 (cfg80211_mutex){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff81079ad7>] lock_acquire+0x120/0x15b [<ffffffff813ae869>] __mutex_lock_common+0x54/0x52e [<ffffffff813aede9>] mutex_lock_nested+0x34/0x39 [<ffffffffa018605e>] cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex+0x1b/0x7c [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0189f36>] cfg80211_wext_giwscan+0x58/0x990 [cfg80211] [<ffffffff8139a3ce>] ioctl_standard_iw_point+0x1a8/0x272 [<ffffffff8139a529>] ioctl_standard_call+0x91/0xa7 [<ffffffff8139a687>] T.723+0xbd/0x12c [<ffffffff8139a727>] wext_handle_ioctl+0x31/0x6d [<ffffffff8133014e>] dev_ioctl+0x63d/0x67a [<ffffffff8131afd9>] sock_ioctl+0x48/0x21d [<ffffffff81102abd>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x4ba/0x509 [<ffffffff81102b5d>] sys_ioctl+0x51/0x74 [<ffffffff81009e02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -> #0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff810796b0>] __lock_acquire+0xa93/0xd9a [<ffffffff81079ad7>] lock_acquire+0x120/0x15b [<ffffffff813ae869>] __mutex_lock_common+0x54/0x52e [<ffffffff813aede9>] mutex_lock_nested+0x34/0x39 [<ffffffff813396c7>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x14 [<ffffffffa0185cb5>] cfg80211_rfkill_set_block+0x1a/0x7b [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa014aed0>] rfkill_set_block+0x80/0xd5 [rfkill] [<ffffffffa014b07e>] __rfkill_switch_all+0x3f/0x6f [rfkill] [<ffffffffa014b13d>] rfkill_switch_all+0x38/0x49 [rfkill] [<ffffffffa014b821>] rfkill_op_handler+0x105/0x136 [rfkill] [<ffffffff81060708>] process_one_work+0x248/0x403 [<ffffffff81062620>] worker_thread+0x139/0x214 [<ffffffff81065d15>] kthread+0x8c/0x94 [<ffffffff8100ac24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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- Aug 24, 2010
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Johannes Berg authored
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>
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- Aug 16, 2010
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Johannes Berg authored
Enable using network namespaces with wireless devices even when sysfs is enabled using the same infrastructure that was built for netdevs. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by:
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Jul 27, 2010
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Joe Perches authored
Save a few bytes of text (allyesconfig) $ size drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o* text data bss dec hex filename 3924568 100548 871056 4896172 4ab5ac drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o.new 3926520 100548 871464 4898532 4abee4 drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o.old $ size net/wireless/core.o* text data bss dec hex filename 12843 216 3768 16827 41bb net/wireless/core.o.new 12328 216 3656 16200 3f48 net/wireless/core.o Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Jul 21, 2010
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Maxime Bizon authored
device_add() is called before adding the phy to the cfg80211 device list. So if a userspace program uses sysfs uevents to detect new phy devices, and queries nl80211 to get phy info, it can get ENODEV even though the phy exists in sysfs. An easy workaround is to hold the cfg80211 mutex until the phy is present in sysfs/cfg80211/debugfs. Signed-off-by:
Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Jun 18, 2010
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
cfg80211_exit is only used as module_exit function, so it can go to .exit.text saving a few bytes when CONFIG_CFG80211=y. Signed-off-by:
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Apr 27, 2010
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Juuso Oikarinen authored
Now that the mac80211 is choosing dynamic ps timeouts based on the ps-qos network latency configuration, configure a default value of -1 as the dynamic ps timeout in cfg80211. This value allows the mac80211 to determine the value to be used. Signed-off-by:
Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Mar 30, 2010
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Tejun Heo authored
include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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- Feb 19, 2010
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Kalle Valo authored
The most needed command from nl80211, which Wireless Extensions had, is support for power save mode. Add a simple command to make it possible to enable and disable power save via nl80211. I was also planning about extending the interface, for example adding the timeout value, but after thinking more about this I decided not to do it. Basically there were three reasons: Firstly, the parameters for power save are very much hardware dependent. Trying to find a unified interface which would work with all hardware, and still make sense to users, will be very difficult. Secondly, IEEE 802.11 power save implementation in Linux is still in state of flux. We have a long way to still to go and there is no way to predict what kind of implementation we will have after few years. And because we need to support nl80211 interface a long time, practically forever, adding now parameters to nl80211 might create maintenance problems later on. Third issue are the users. Power save parameters are mostly used for debugging, so debugfs is better, more flexible, interface for this. For example, wpa_supplicant currently doesn't configure anything related to power save mode. It's better to strive that kernel can automatically optimise the power save parameters, like with help of pm qos network and other traffic parameters. Later on, when we have better understanding of power save, we can extend this command with more features, if there's a need for that. Signed-off-by:
Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Feb 15, 2010
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Jouni Malinen authored
This implements a new command to register for action frames that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but the socket can be closed for that. Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the cfg80211 API helps implementing that. Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be used either to exchange action frames on the current operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public Action frames with the remain-on-channel command. Signed-off-by:
Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Jan 22, 2010
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Johannes Berg authored
If a device has multiple MAC addresses, userspace will need to know about that. Similarly, if it allows the MAC addresses to vary by a bitmask. If a driver exports multiple addresses, it is assumed that it will be able to deal with that many different addresses, which need not necessarily match the ones programmed into the device; if a mask is set then the device should deal addresses within that mask based on an arbitrary "base address". To test it all and show how it is used, add support to hwsim even though it can't actually deal with addresses different from the default. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Jan 19, 2010
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Johannes Berg authored
Future code will need to look up rdev and wdev within atomic sections, but currently we need to lock a mutex for such lookups. Change the list handling for both to be RCU-safe so that we can look them up in rcu sections instead in the future. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Jan 12, 2010
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Lukáš Turek authored
The new attribute NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS sets IEEE 802.11 Coverage Class, which depends on maximum distance of nodes in a wireless network. It's required for long distance links (more than a few hundred meters). The attribute is now ignored by two non-mac80211 drivers, rndis and iwmc3200wifi, together with WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_SHORT and WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_LONG. If it turns out to be a problem, we could split set_wiphy_params callback or add new capability bits. Signed-off-by:
Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
When CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set, there is a refcount imbalance with rdev->opencount, fix that by moving it out of the ifdef. Reported-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Nov 28, 2009
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Alban Browaeys authored
This patch moves the works cleanup, scan and events to a cfg80211 dedicated workqueue. Platform driver like eeepc-laptop ought to use works to rfkill (as new rfkill does lock in rfkill_unregister and the platform driver is called from rfkill_switch_all which also lock the same mutex). This raise a new issue in itself that the work scheduled by the platform driver to the global worqueue calls wiphy_unregister which flush_work scan and event works (which thus flush works on the global workqueue inside a work on the global workqueue) and also put on hold the wdev_cleanup_work (which prevents the dev_put on netdev thus indefinite Usage count error on wifi device). Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Nov 19, 2009
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Johannes Berg authored
A number of people have tried to add a wireless interface (in managed mode) to a bridge and then complained that it doesn't work. It cannot work, however, because in 802.11 networks all packets need to be acknowledged and as such need to be sent to the right address. Promiscuous doesn't help here. The wireless address format used for these links has only space for three addresses, the * transmitter, which must be equal to the sender (origin) * receiver (on the wireless medium), which is the AP in the case of managed mode * the recipient (destination), which is on the APs local network segment In an IBSS, it is similar, but the receiver and recipient must match and the third address is used as the BSSID. To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a wireless interface to a bridge. Felix has recently added a four-address mode to the AP and client side that can be used (after negotiating that it is possible, which must happen out-of-band by setting up both sides) for bridging, so allow that case. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by:
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
We've accumulated a number of options for wiphys which make more sense as flags as we keep adding more. Convert the existing ones. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Oct 30, 2009
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Johannes Berg authored
We can save a lot of code and pointers in the structs by using debugfs_remove_recursive(). First, change cfg80211 to use debugfs_remove_recursive() so that drivers do not need to clean up any files they added to the per-wiphy debugfs (if and only if they are ok to be accessed until after wiphy_unregister!). Then also make mac80211 use debugfs_remove_recursive() where necessary -- it need not remove per-wiphy files as cfg80211 now removes those, but netdev etc. files still need to be handled but can now be removed without needing struct dentry pointers to all of them. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Oct 11, 2009
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current, it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k! Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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- Oct 07, 2009
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John W. Linville authored
Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
Refactor wext to * split out iwpriv handling * split out iwspy handling * split out procfs support * allow cfg80211 to have wireless extensions compat code w/o CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT After this, drivers need to - select WIRELESS_EXT - for wext support - select WEXT_PRIV - for iwpriv support - select WEXT_SPY - for iwspy support except cfg80211 -- which gets new hooks in wext-core.c and can then get wext handlers without CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT. Wireless extensions procfs support is auto-selected based on PROC_FS and anything that requires the wext core (i.e. WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT). Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Oct 05, 2009
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Marcel Holtmann authored
Instead of having to modify every non-mac80211 for device type assignment, do this inside the netdev notifier callback of cfg80211. So all drivers that integrate with cfg80211 will export a proper device type. Signed-off-by:
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- Aug 28, 2009
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Johannes Berg authored
When the interface type changes while connected, and the driver does not require the interface to be down for a type change, it is currently possible to get very strange results unless the driver takes special care, which it shouldn't have to. To fix this, take care to disconnect/leave IBSS when changing the interface type -- even if the driver may fail the call. Also process all events that may be pending to avoid running into a situation where an event is reported but only processed after the type has already changed, which would lead to missing events and warnings. A side effect of this is that you will have disconnected or left the IBSS even if the mode change ultimately fails, but since the intention was to change it and thus leave or disconnect, this is not a problem. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
When we lose a scan, cfg80211 tries to clean up after the driver. However, it currently does this too early, it does this in GOING_DOWN already instead of DOWN, so it may happen with mac80211. Besides fixing this, also make it more robust by leaking the scan request so if the driver later actually finishes the scan, it won't crash. Also check in ___cfg80211_scan_done whether a scan request is still pending and exit if not. Reported-by:
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by:
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Aug 20, 2009
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Zhu Yi authored
In case of connection failure, the bssid info is not a must have. Signed-off-by:
Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
My patch "cfg80211: fix deadlock" broke the code it was supposed to fix, the scan request checking. But it's not trivial to put it back the way it was, since the original patch had a deadlock. Now do it in a completely new way: queue the check off to a work struct, where we can freely lock. But that has some more complications, like needing to wait for it to be done before the wiphy/rdev can be destroyed, so some code is required to handle that. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
When removing an interface with nl80211, cfg80211 will deadlock in the netdev notifier because we're already holding rdev->mtx and try to acquire it again to verify the scan has been done. This bug was introduced by my patch "cfg80211: check for and abort dangling scan requests". To fix this, move the dangling scan request check into wiphy_unregister(). This will not be able to catch all cases right away, but if the scan problem happens with a manual ifdown or so it will be possible to remedy it by removing the module/device. Additionally, add comments about the deadlock scenario. Reported-by:
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by:
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Tested-by:
Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- Aug 14, 2009
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Johannes Berg authored
Sometimes drivers might have a good reason to override the PS default, like iwlwifi right now where it affects RX performance significantly at this point. This will allow them to override the default, if desired, in a way that users can still change it according to their trade-off choices, not the driver's, like would happen if the driver just disabled PS completely then. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
If you trigger a scan request on an interface and then take it down, or rmmod the module or unplug the device the driver might "forget" to cancel the scan request. That is a bug in the driver, but the current behaviour is that we just hang endlessly waiting for the netdev refcount to become 0 which it never will. To improve robustness, check for this situation in cfg80211, warn about it and clean up behind the driver. I don't just clean up silently because it's likely that the driver also has some internal state it has now leaked. Additionally, this fixes a locking bug, clearing the scan_req pointer should be done under the rdev lock. Finally, we also need to _wait_ for the scan work and not just abort it since it might be pending and wanting to do a cleanup. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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