When an interface is configured in the AP mode, the mac80211
implementation doesn't inform the driver to receive PS Poll frames.
It leads to inability to communicate with power-saving stations
reliably.
The FIF_CONTROL flag isn't passed by mac80211 to
ieee80211_ops.configure_filter when an interface is in the AP mode.
And it's ok, because we don't want to receive ACK frames and other
control ones, but only PS Poll ones.

This patch introduces the FIF_PSPOLL filter flag in addition to
FIF_CONTROL, which means for the driver "pass PS Poll frames".

This flag is passed to the driver:
A) When an interface is configured in the AP mode.
B) In all cases, when the FIF_CONTROL flag was passed earlier (in
addition to it).
Signed-off-by: NIgor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Do a probe request every 30 seconds, and wait for probe response,
half a second This should lower the traffic that card sends, thus save
power Wainting longer for response makes probe more robust against
'slow' access points
Signed-off-by: NMaxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Retry 5 times  (chosen arbitary ), before assuming
that station is out of range.

Fixes frequent disassociations while connected to weak,
and sometimes even strong access points.
Signed-off-by: NMaxim Levitky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Since the bss is always set now once we are connected, if the
bss has its own information element we refer to it and pass that
instead of relying on mac80211's parsing.

Now all cfg80211 drivers get country IE support, automatically and
we reduce the call overhead that we had on mac80211 which called this
upon every beacon and instead now call this only upon a successfull
connection by a STA on cfg80211.
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Some of the recent MLME rework I did broke powersave
because the ps_sdata isn't assigned at the right time,
and the work item wasn't removed from the list before
calling ieee80211_recalc_ps(). To be more specific,
this broke the case where you'd enabled PS before
associating, either automatically or with iwconfig.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The mac80211 workqueue exists to enable mac80211 and drivers
to queue their own work on a single threaded workqueue. mac80211
takes care to flush the workqueue during suspend but we never
really had requirements on drivers for how they should use
the workqueue in consideration for suspend.

We extend mac80211 to document how the mac80211 workqueue should
be used, how it should not be used and finally move raw access to
the workqueue to mac80211 only. Drivers and mac80211 use helpers
to queue work onto the mac80211 workqueue:

  * ieee80211_queue_work()
  * ieee80211_queue_delayed_work()

These helpers will now warn if mac80211 already completed its
suspend cycle and someone is trying to queue work. mac80211
flushes the mac80211 workqueue prior to suspend a few times,
but we haven't taken the care to ensure drivers won't add more
work after suspend. To help with this we add a warning when
someone tries to add work and mac80211 already completed the
suspend cycle.

Drivers should ensure they cancel any work or delayed work
in the mac80211 stop() callback.
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

sparse complains about a shadowed variable, which
we can just rename, and lots of stuff if the API
tracer is enabled, so kick out the tracer code in
a sparse run -- the macros just confuse it.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When downing interfaces, it's a good idea to tell the driver to
stop sending beacons; that way the driver doesn't need special
code in ops->remove_interface() when it should already handle the
case in bss_info_changed().

This fixes a potential crash with at least ath5k since the vif
pointer will be nullified while beacon interrupts are still active.
Signed-off-by: NBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Pavel Roskin reported a problem that seems to be due to
software retry of already transmitted frames. It turns
out that we've never done that correctly, but due to
some recent changes it now crashes in the TX code. I've
added a comment in the patch that explains the problem
better and also points to possible solutions -- which
I can't implement right now.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Finally! This is what you've all been waiting for!

This patch makes cfg80211 take care of wext emulation
_completely_ by itself, drivers that don't need things
cfg80211 doesn't do yet don't even need to be aware of
wireless extensions.
This means we can also clean up mac80211's and iwm's
Kconfig and make it possible to build them w/o wext
now!

		RIP wext.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Since we now have handlers IWESSID for all modes, we can
combine them into one.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Since we now have IWAP handlers for all modes, we can
combine them into one.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Until now we implemented iwfreq for managed mode, we
needed to keep the implementations separate, but now
that we have all versions implemented we can combine
them and export just one handler.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When enqueuing packets on the internal packet queue, we
need to ensure that we have a valid vif pointer since
that is required since the net namespace work. Add some
assertions to verify this, but also don't crash is for
some reason we don't end up with a vif pointer -- warn
and drop the packet in all these cases.

Since this code touches a number of hotpaths, it is
intended to be temporary, or maybe configurable in the
future, at least the bit that is in the path that gets
hit for every packet, ieee80211_tx_pending().
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Fix an oops in ieee80211_scan_state_set_channel which was triggered
if the last scanned channel was skipped (for example due to regulatory
restrictions) by returning to the decision state after each skipped
channel.
Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Marcel reported a warning, which quite obviously comes
from an oversight in the code handling deauth frames,
and which resulted in multiple follow-up warnings due
to this missing handling. This patch adds the missing
deauth handling (telling cfg80211 about it) and also
removes the follow-up warnings since they could happen
due to races even if nothing is wrong. I've explained
the races in the comments.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Tested-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Jan reported that his b43-based laptop hangs during suspend.
The problem turned out to be mac80211 asking the driver to
stop the hardware before removing interfaces, and interface
removal caused b43 to touch the hardware (while down, which
causes the hang).

This patch fixes mac80211 to do reorder these operations to
have them in the correct order -- first remove interfaces
and then stop the hardware. Some more code is necessary to
be able to do so in a race-free manner, in particular it is
necessary to not process frames received during quiescing.

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13337.
Reported-by: NJan Scholz <scholz@fias.uni-frankfurt.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This was caused by patch:

"mac80211: cooperate more with network namespaces"

The version of the patch applied doesn't match Johannes' latest:

http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/NNN-mac80211-netns.patch

The skb->cb virtual interface data wasn't being reset for
reuse so ath9k pooped out when trying to dereference the
private rate control info from the skb.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0258173>] ath_tx_rc_status+0x33/0x150 [ath9k]
<-- snip etc -->
Reported-by: NDavide Pesavento <davidepesa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When a station queries us for a PS-poll response, we wrongly
queue the frame on the virtual interface's queue rather than
the pending queue.

Additionally, fix a race condition where we could potentially
send multiple frames to the sleeping station due to using a
station flag rather than a packet flag. When converting to a
packet flag, we can also convert p54 and remove the filter
clearing we added for it.

(Also remove a now dead function)
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-by: NBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Tested-by: NBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

We were issuing probe requests to the associated AP on the wrong
band by having our beacon timer loss trigger while we are scanning.
When we would scan the timer could hit and force us to send a
probe request to the AP but with a chance we'd be on the wrong band.

This leads to finding no usable bitrate but we should not get so
far on the xmit path. We should not be trying to send these probe
request frames so prevent ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap() from sending
these.

As it turns out all callers of ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap() need this
check so we just move the scan check there. This means we can remove
the recenlty added check during ieee80211_sta_monitor_work().

Additionally we now fix a race condition added by the patch
"mac80211: do not monitor the connection while scanning" which
had the same check in ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer(). The race
happens because the timer routine *does* a valid check for
scanning but after it queues work into the mac80211 workqueue
the work callback can kick off with scanning enabled and cause
the same issue we were trying to avoid.

The more appropriate solution would be to disable the respective
timers during scan and re-enable them after scan but requires more
complex code and testing.

Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-by: NFabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When a new MLME work is created, its timeout is initialised
to 0. This is wrong, it could then be thought of as having
an actual timeout in the future (time_is_after_jiffies() can
return true). Instead, it should be initialised to jiffies
so that it will run right away as soon as the mlme work is
executed.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-by: NLuciano Roth Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Reported-by: NAlban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Rename scan_state to next_scan_state to better reflect
what it is used for.
Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Introduce a new scan flag "SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL" which basically tells us
that we are currently on a different channel for scanning and cannot
RX/TX. "SCAN_SW_SCANNING" tells us that we are currently running a
software scan but we might as well be on the operating channel to RX/TX.
While "SCAN_SW_SCANNING" is set during the whole scan "SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL"
is set when leaving the operating channel and unset when coming back.

Introduce two new scan states "SCAN_LEAVE_OPER_CHANNEL" and
"SCAN_ENTER_OPER_CHANNEL" which basically implement the functionality we
need to leave the operating channel (send a nullfunc to the AP and stop
the queues) and enter it again (send a nullfunc to the AP and start the
queues again).

Enhance the scan state "SCAN_DECISION" to switch back to the operating
channel after each scanned channel. In the future it sould be simple
to enhance the decision state to scan as much channels in a row as the
qos latency allows us.
Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Use a bitfield to store the current scan mode instead of two boolean
variables {sw,hw}_scanning. This patch does not introduce functional
changes but allows us to enhance the scan flags later (for example
for background scanning).
Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Introduce a new scan state "decision" which is entered after
every completed scan operation and decides about the next steps.
At first the decision is in any case to scan the next channel.
This shouldn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Instead of queueing the scan work again without delay just process the
next state immediately.
Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Move the processing of each scan state into its own functions for better
readability. This patch does not introduce functional changes.
Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This finally opens up the ability to put mac80211 devices
into different network namespaces. As long as you don't
have sysfs, that is.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In order to make cfg80211/nl80211 aware of network namespaces,
we have to do the following things:

 * del_virtual_intf method takes an interface index rather
   than a netdev pointer - simply change this

 * nl80211 uses init_net a lot, it changes to use the sender's
   network namespace

 * scan requests use the interface index, hold a netdev pointer
   and reference instead

 * we want a wiphy and its associated virtual interfaces to be
   in one netns together, so
    - we need to be able to change ns for a given interface, so
      export dev_change_net_namespace()
    - for each virtual interface set the NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL
      flag, and clear that flag only when the wiphy changes ns,
      to disallow breaking this invariant

 * when a network namespace goes away, we need to reparent the
   wiphy to init_net

 * cfg80211 users that support creating virtual interfaces must
   create them in the wiphy's namespace, currently this affects
   only mac80211

The end result is that you can now switch an entire wiphy into
a different network namespace with the new command
	iw phy#<idx> set netns <pid>
and all virtual interfaces will follow (or the operation fails).
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

There are still two places in mac80211 that hardcode
the initial net namespace (init_net). One of them is
mandated by cfg80211 and will be removed by a separate
patch, the other one is used for finding the network
device of a pending packet via its ifindex.

Remove the latter use by keeping track of the device
pointer itself, via the vif pointer, and avoid it
going stale by dropping pending frames for a given
interface when the interface is removed.

To keep track of the vif pointer for the correct
interface, change the info->control.vif pointer's
internal use to always be the correct vif, and only
move it to the vif the driver expects (or NULL for
monitor interfaces and injected packets) right before
giving the packet to the driver.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The removal of the master netdev broke the mesh forwarding path.  This patch
fixes it by using the new internal 'pending' queue.

As a result of this change, mesh forwarding no longer does the inefficient
802.11 -> 802.3 -> 802.11 conversion that was done before.

[Changes since v1]
Suggested by Johannes:
 - Select queue before adding to mpath queue
 - ieee80211_add_pending_skb -> ieee80211_add_pending_skbs
 - Remove unnecessary header wme.h
Signed-off-by: NJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

ieee80211_xmit() cannot be called with tasklets enabled
because it is normally called from within a tasklet.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

With the internal 'pending' queue system in place, we can simply
put packets there instead of pushing them off to the master dev,
getting rid of the master interface completely.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch fixes the following errors:

driver-trace.h:148:1: error: cannot size expression
driver-trace.h:148:1: error: cannot size expression
[...]
driver-trace.h:222:1: error: cannot size expression
driver-trace.h:71:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:71:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:71:1:    right side has type int
driver-trace.h:99:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:99:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:99:1:    right side has type int
driver-trace.h:148:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:148:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:148:1:    right side has type int
driver-trace.h:222:1: error: cannot size expression
driver-trace.h:248:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:248:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:248:1:    right side has type int
driver-trace.h:446:1: error: incompatible types for operation (<)
driver-trace.h:446:1:    left side has type void *<noident>
driver-trace.h:446:1:    right side has type int
Signed-off-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

mac80211 constantly monitors the connection to the associated AP
in order to check if it is out of reach/dead.

This is absolutely fine most of the time.
Except when there is a scheduled scan for the whole neighborhood.
After all this path could trigger while scanning on different channel.
Or even worse: this AP probing triggers a WARN_ON in rate_lowest_index
when the scan code did a band transition!
( http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=449304 )
Reported-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: NChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Tested-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack
frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta
and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211
for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code.

Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms
are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their
gate_rate() mac80211 callback.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: NReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When we're associated we should be able to send data to
target sta. If we cannot we may be trying to use the incorrect
band to talk to the sta. Lets catch any such cases, warn, and
drop the frames to not invalidate assumptions being made on
rate control algorithms when they have a valid sta to
communicate with. Any such cases should be handled and fixed.
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In "mac80211: monitor the connection" I forgot to
add code to cancel the new timers & work when the
interface is brought down, which isn't a problem
if you just bring it down, but _is_ a problem when
you destroy the interface. Correct this lapse.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>