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  1. May 11, 2011
    • Luciano Coelho's avatar
      cfg80211/nl80211: add support for scheduled scans · 807f8a8c
      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: default avatarLuciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      807f8a8c
  2. May 05, 2011
  3. Apr 25, 2011
  4. Feb 03, 2011
    • Juuso Oikarinen's avatar
      cfg80211: Fix power save state after interface type change · bf6a0579
      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: default avatarJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      bf6a0579
  5. Dec 20, 2010
  6. Dec 06, 2010
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh join/leave commands · 29cbe68c
      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: default avatarJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      29cbe68c
  7. Nov 24, 2010
  8. Oct 11, 2010
  9. Oct 05, 2010
  10. Sep 16, 2010
  11. Aug 31, 2010
    • John W. Linville's avatar
      wireless: register wiphy rfkill w/o holding cfg80211_mutex · c3d34d5d
      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: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      c3d34d5d
  12. Aug 24, 2010
  13. Aug 16, 2010
  14. Jul 27, 2010
    • Joe Perches's avatar
      wireless: Convert wiphy_debug macro to function · 073730d7
      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: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      073730d7
  15. Jul 21, 2010
  16. Jun 18, 2010
  17. Apr 27, 2010
  18. Mar 30, 2010
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      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: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  19. Feb 19, 2010
    • Kalle Valo's avatar
      nl80211: add power save commands · ffb9eb3d
      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: default avatarKalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      ffb9eb3d
  20. Feb 15, 2010
    • Jouni Malinen's avatar
      cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames · 026331c4
      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: default avatarJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      026331c4
  21. Jan 22, 2010
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211: export multiple MAC addresses in sysfs · ef15aac6
      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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      ef15aac6
  22. Jan 19, 2010
  23. Jan 12, 2010
  24. Nov 28, 2009
    • Alban Browaeys's avatar
      wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211. · e60d7443
      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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      e60d7443
  25. Nov 19, 2009
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces · ad4bb6f8
      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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Acked-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      ad4bb6f8
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211: convert bools into flags · 5be83de5
      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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      5be83de5
  26. Oct 30, 2009
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursive · 7bcfaf2f
      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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      7bcfaf2f
  27. Oct 11, 2009
  28. Oct 07, 2009
  29. Oct 05, 2009
  30. Aug 28, 2009
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211: clean up properly on interface type change · 3d54d255
      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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      3d54d255
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211: check lost scans later, fix bug · 01a0ac41
      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: default avatarFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Tested-by: default avatarFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      01a0ac41
  31. Aug 20, 2009
  32. Aug 14, 2009
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211: allow driver to override PS default · 16cb9d42
      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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      16cb9d42
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211: check for and abort dangling scan requests · 36e6fea8
      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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      36e6fea8
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