commit 95a6ccbb46c70cff376684c752831c014c87029d
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 12 15:38:38 2010 +0200

    cfg80211/mac80211: extensible frame processing

introduced a netlink bug that caused parsing errors
in userspace because it forgot to close a nesting,
which would advertise a nesting length of zero to
userspace, which then completely threw off parsing
and led to

	Illegal nla->nla_type == 0

being printed by libnl.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This function analyses only its single, value-passed
argument, and has no side effects. Thus it can be
const, which makes mac80211 smaller, for example:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 362518	  16720	    884	 380122	  5ccda	mac80211.ko (before)
 362358	  16720	    884	 379962	  5cc3a	mac80211.ko (after)

a 160 byte saving in text size, and an optimisation
because the function won't be called as often.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When shared key auth is requested, cfg80211
should verify that the device is capable of
WEP crypto which is required.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Enable using network namespaces with
wireless devices even when sysfs is
enabled using the same infrastructure
that was built for netdevs.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When an AP sends a deauth frame, or we send one
to an AP, that only means we lost our connection
if we were actually connected to that AP. Check
this to avoid sending spurious "disconnected"
events and breaking "iw ... link" reporting.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This provides a little more flexibility for human users, and it allows
us to use isalpha rather than the custom is_alpha_upper.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Accesses to "wdev->current_bss" must be
locked with the wdev lock, which action
frame transmission is missing.

Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.33+]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In some cases there could be possible dereferencing freed pointer. The
update is intended to avoid this issue.
Signed-off-by: NYuri Ershov <ext-yuri.ershov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In case of errors during message composing msg should be freed after canceling.
Signed-off-by: NYuri Kululin <ext-yuri.kululin@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NYuri Ershov <ext-yuri.ershov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When wireless extensions are used to control
an encrypted IBSS, we erroneously can try to
set the default management key. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The "rd" variable isn't needed any more since 4f366c5d
"wireless: only use alpha2 regulatory information from country IE"
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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: NMaxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

"Might as well remove  reg_same_country_ie_hint() completely since we
already dealt with suspend/resume through the regulatory hint
disconnect." -- Luis
Reported-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

  CHECK   net/wireless/sme.c
net/wireless/sme.c:38:6: warning: symbol 'cfg80211_is_all_idle' was not declared. Should it be static?

It is not used elsewhere, so mark it static.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

  CHECK   net/wireless/regdb.c
net/wireless/regdb.c:8:34: warning: symbol 'reg_regdb' was not declared.  Should it be static?
net/wireless/regdb.c:11:5: warning: symbol 'reg_regdb_size' was not declared. Should it be static?

Simply include the also generated regdb.h.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

  CHECK   net/wireless/wext-compat.c
net/wireless/wext-compat.c:1434:5: warning: symbol 'cfg80211_wext_siwpmksa' was not declared. Should it be static?

Add declaration in cfg80211.h.  Also add an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, since all
the peer functions have it.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

  CHECK   net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.c
net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.c:581:27: warning: cast to restricted __le16

Caused by dereferencing a "u8 *" and passing it to le16_to_cpu...
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The meaning and/or usage of the country IE is somewhat poorly defined.
In practice, this means that regulatory rulesets in a country IE are
often incomplete and might be untrustworthy.  This removes the code
associated with interpreting those rulesets while preserving respect
for country "alpha2" codes also contained in the country IE.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When kernel-internal users use cfg80211_get_bss()
to get a reference to a BSS struct, they may end
up getting one that would have been removed from
the list if there had been any userspace access
to the list. This leads to inconsistencies and
problems.

Fix it by making cfg80211_get_bss() ignore BSSes
that cfg80211_bss_expire() would remove.

Fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2180

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: NJiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com>
Tested-by: NJiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Ever since mac80211/drivers are no longer
fully in charge of keeping track of the
auth status, trying to make them do so will
fail. Instead of warning and reporting the
deauthentication to userspace, cfg80211 must
simply ignore it so that spurious
deauthentications, e.g. before starting
authentication, aren't seen by userspace as
actual deauthentications.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: NPaul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Stanse found that nl80211_set_wiphy imporperly handles a lock and netdev
reference and contains unreachable code. It is because there return statement
isntead of assignment to result variable. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch adds transmit power setting type and transmit power level attributes
to NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY in order to facilitate adjusting of the transmit power
level of the device.

The added attributes allow selection of automatic, limited or fixed transmit
power level, with the level definable in signed mBm format.
Signed-off-by: NJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In preparation for a TX power setting interface in the nl80211, change the
.set_tx_power function to use mBm units instead of dBm for greater accuracy and
smaller power levels.

Also, already in advance move the tx_power_setting enumeration to nl80211.

This change affects the .tx_set_power function prototype. As a result, the
corresponding changes are needed to modules using it. These are mac80211,
iwmc3200wifi and rndis_wlan.

Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Cc: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Acked-by: NSamuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Acked-by: NJussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

regulatory_init is only called by cfg80211_init which is in .init.text,
too.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Register net_bridge_port pointer as rx_handler data pointer. As br_port is
removed from struct net_device, another netdev priv_flag is added to indicate
the device serves as a bridge port. Also rcuized pointers are now correctly
dereferenced in br_fdb.c and in netfilter parts.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds support to nl80211 and mac80211 to set basic rates when
joining/creating ibss network.

Original patch was posted by Johannes Berg on the linux-wireless posting list.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTeemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When in IBSS mode, currently action frame TX and RX
cannot be used. Allow using it to talk to any peer,
or for public action frames. Also, while at it,
restructure the code in mac80211 to make it easier
to add this for other interface types in the future.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When sending action frames, we want to verify
that we do that on the correct channel. However,
checking the channel type in addition can get in
the way, since the channel type could change on
the fly during an association, and it's not
useful to have the channel type anyway since it
has no effect on the transmission. Therefore,
make it optional to specify so that if wanted,
it can still be checked, but is not required.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Don't refuse HT20 channels on devices that don't support HT40.
Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Specifying a valid channel type will get
goto out rather than continuing, due to
missing braces. This affects both remain
on channel and action frame TX commands.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Since wdev can be NULL, check it before dereferencing it
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

signal_type is enum cfg80211_signal_type.

This fixes the gcc warning:

scan.c: In function `cfg80211_inform_bss':
scan.c:518:6: warning: comparison between `enum cfg80211_signal_type' and `enum nl80211_bss'
scan.c: In function `cfg80211_inform_bss_frame':
scan.c:574:6: warning: comparison between `enum cfg80211_signal_type' and `enum nl80211_bss'
Signed-off-by: NSujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
then adding another virtual interface and making
that associate on another channel -- this will make
the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
the necessary IEs data update.

In order to improve this situation, first make the
configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
change and one API addition. The API change is that
now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
effect for that interface -- luckily all current
users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.

The second userland API change is the introduction
of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
to understand what's going on (it can automatically
detect a kernel with this command).

Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
are affected by this change because they only allow
a single virtual interface.

mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
channel settings are per interface now, and needs
to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
which is another important part of this patch.

One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
has a connection on another virtual interface, as
long as you specify the same channel.

Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
improvement -- not a complete fix):

 * different HT/no-HT modes

   currently you could start an HT AP and then
   connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
   which would configure the hardware for no HT;
   that can be fixed fairly easily

 * CSA

   An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
   might indicate switching channels, and in that
   case we would follow it, regardless of how many
   other interfaces are operating; this requires
   more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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: NJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This is used to configure APs to not bridge traffic between connected stations.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>