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Luis R. Rodriguez
b2e1b30290 cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatory infrastructure
This adds the new wireless regulatory infrastructure. The
main motiviation behind this was to centralize regulatory
code as each driver was implementing their own regulatory solution,
and to replace the initial centralized code we have where:

* only 3 regulatory domains are supported: US, JP and EU
* regulatory domains can only be changed through module parameter
* all rules were built statically in the kernel

We now have support for regulatory domains for many countries
and regulatory domains are now queried through a userspace agent
through udev allowing distributions to update regulatory rules
without updating the kernel.

Each driver can regulatory_hint() a regulatory domain
based on either their EEPROM mapped regulatory domain value to a
respective ISO/IEC 3166-1 country code or pass an internally built
regulatory domain. We also add support to let the user set the
regulatory domain through userspace in case of faulty EEPROMs to
further help compliance.

Support for world roaming will be added soon for cards capable of
this.

For more information see:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA

For now we leave an option to enable the old module parameter,
ieee80211_regdom, and to build the 3 old regdomains statically
(US, JP and EU). This option is CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY.
These old static definitions and the module parameter is being
scheduled for removal for 2.6.29. Note that if you use this
you won't make use of a world regulatory domain as its pointless.
If you leave this option enabled and if CRDA is present and you
use US or JP we will try to ask CRDA to update us a regulatory
domain for us.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:19 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
aee14ceb52 mac80211: Reorder debugfs calls during netdev deinit
ieee80211_free_keys() must be called before
ieee80211_debugfs_remove_netdev() in order to make sure that the
possible default_key symlink is removed before attempting to
remove the netdev debugfs directory.

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>
2008-09-11 15:53:40 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e50db65c0d mac80211: move frame TX function
The ieee80211_sta_tx function isn't MLME code any more,
it's getting used by a lot of code. Move it to utils and
rename it to ieee80211_tx_skb.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
759ef3eb1e mac80211: make ieee80211_rx_h_mgmt more readable
That function isn't exactly easy to read especially since it
does something in an if branch that continues after the if
because the else returns. Express it in a more readable way.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
39192c0bcf mac80211: move spectrum management code out
Like the HT code, this doesn't depend on the STA-mode implementation
and can be handled entirely independently. There's only stub code
for now, but when it gets filled having it in its own file will be
beneficial.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
de1ede7ac3 mac80211: make BA session handling independent of STA mode
The aggregation handling isn't dependent on anything related to our
STA-mode implementation, and doesn't need to depend on it for frame
processing. This patch moves the relevant code to ht.c and adds a
hook in rx.c. For now, the relevant action frames are only processed
in STA/IBSS modes, but that's now something we can easily change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5825fe100d mac80211: initialise queue QoS parameters at hw start
When hardware is started it might be in a confused state with
respect to queue QoS parameters. This patch changes mac80211
to set sane defaults right after the hardware is brought up.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:39 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3d35f7c687 mac80211: split ieee80211_sta_def_wmm_params
Cleans up the code a bit and prepares for the next patch
that will use the function elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ef422bc0ae mac80211: consolidate deauth/disassoc
deauth and disassoc frames are completely identical so there's
little point in having two functions to send them rather than
one that gets a parameter. This same a bit of code size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9ac19a9084 mac80211: reorder frame code in mlme
This reorders all frame sending functions to be at the top of the
file. When reading the file, I tend to be looking at either the
frame code or the state machine, and having them mixed in the file
is confusing. When all frame sending is at the top the remainder
of the file is more readable, in my opinion.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg
b079ada7dd mac80211: remove useless 'ibss' parameter
Ever since we refactored beaconing to not be controlled by a
fake queue this parameter to ieee80211_sta_def_wmm_params
has been unused.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a0fe8b3349 mac80211: simplify scan start
ieee80211_sta_start_scan() can very well take a non-NULL
ssid pointer with a zero ssid_len.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9116dd0112 mac80211: clarify scan request
When a scan is requested for non-STA interfaces, we simply fire
off a scan, but for STA interfaces we shouldn't because they
could be in the middle of an association. This clarifies the
corresponding code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
bacac545f1 mac80211: move some HT code out of main.c
Now that I've created ht.c, I can move the aggregation
code from main.c into it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
44d414dbff mac80211: move some HT code out of mlme.c
Some of the HT code in mlme.c is misplaced:
 * constants/definitions belong to the ieee80211.h header
 * code being used in other modes as well shouldn't be there

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5484e23749 mac80211: move BSS handling to scan code
This moves all the BSS list handling out of mlme.c to scan.c,
no further changes except fixing kzalloc/atomic_inc/atomic_inc
to kzalloc/atomic_set(2).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
98c8fccfae mac80211: refactor and move scan RX code
This patch refactors some code and moves the scan RX function
to scan.c. More importantly, however, it changes it so that the
MLME's beacon/probe_resp functions aren't invoked when scanning
so that we can remove a "if (scanning)" conditions from two
places.

There's a very slight behavioural change in this patch: now,
when scanning, IBSS and mesh aren't updated even on the same
channel.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
0a51b27e95 mac80211: start moving scan code from mlme
Here's a first patch to move some code from mlme.c to a
new file called scan.c. The end result will hopefully be
a more manageable mlme.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ee96d6ef82 mac80211: remove useless non-NULL tests from scan results code
I'm surprised nobody complained about these before. What a waste.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
491775a507 mac80211: use sdata pointer for scan interface
Since we now use sdata pointers most of the time, using a netdev
pointer here is somewhat artificial, use an sdata pointer instead.
Replace a netdev-prefix in a few messages by a wiphy-prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
60f8b39c94 mac80211: reorder mlme code
This reorders the mlme code a bit so we don't need all the forward
function declarations. It also removes the ERP_INFO_USE_PROTECTION
define that is unused, but otherwise contains no real changes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
24e64622c3 mac80211: stop queues before carrier off
During testing of the disassociation fixes, Tomas noticed that it
was possible to run into a situation where you'd suddenly get a
few "wlan0: dropped frame to <AP> (unauthorized port)" messages
and I found this to be due to the AP's sta_info having been
removed but netif_carrier_off not having removed/stopped traffic
yet. To avoid that, stop the queue for the interface (and avoid
bringing them up when another vif scans when they weren't up.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
f5e5bf258b mac80211: remove disassociation code from ieee80211_set_associated
This patch moves disassociation code from ieee80211_set_associated
to ieee80211_set_disassoc. To reduce code duplication, it introduces
the ieee80211_sta_send_apinfo function. Additionally, it fixes a lapse
where BSS_CHANGED_HT wasn't set when notifying the driver of changes
due to disassociation.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
3b7ee69d0c mac80211: disassociate when moving to new BSS
This patch makes the MLME cleanly disassociate from the current BSS
when leaving it for a new one. This is not just nicer to the old AP
(we're leaving it, might as well tell it!) but also required for some
drivers that keep track of the station we're associated with, they'd
get confused because they'd think we are associated with two APs.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
aa458d1737 mac80211: restructure disassoc/deauth flows
This patch restructure the flow of disassociation and deauthentication
flows to be consistent under all circumstances.
It ensures that BA session is treated down before deauthentication or disassociation,
adds the removal of the obsolete sta form station table and fixes a related bug (sta_info_destroy
without sta_info_unlink) in ieee80211_associated()
and reduce some code duplication

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
37ffc8da80 mac80211: move IE parsing to util file
Since IE parsing is required for the mlme and mesh code, it's
not a static function anyway, and it's much better to have it
in util rather than the overly large mlme.c

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5fd12d4da1 mac80211: fix typo in action frame handling
This says chan_switch.action_code but really means
measurement.action_code, of course the actual offset in
the frame is the same, it's just harder to understand
this way.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9c80d3dc27 mac80211: fix action frame length checks
The action frame length checks are one too small, there's not just
an action code as the comment makes you believe, there's a category
code too, and the category code is required in each action frame
(hence part of IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5bda617576 mac80211: BSS info: check channel first
When we receive information about a BSS we check at some point
whether or not we think we're allowed to use the channel it is
on, but we do that fairly late. I don't think we should do it
that late, so do it earlier to avoid doing IBSS/mesh stuff on
that channel and then getting confused because it's disabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
fe3fa82731 mac80211: make conf_tx non-atomic
The conf_tx callback currently needs to be atomic, this requirement
is just because it can be called from scanning. This rearranges it
slightly to only update while not scanning (which is fine, we'll be
getting beacons when associated) and thus removes the atomic
requirement.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:34 -04:00
Johannes Berg
69e6c010fd mac80211: move some RCU locking into an if branch
The if itself doesn't need to be protected, so move in the RCU
locking to avoid doing anything at all when the condition isn't
true.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:34 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
00c5ae2fa0 mac80211: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS
This patch follows 11n spec naming more rigorously replacing MIMO_PS
with SM_PS (Spatial Multiplexing Power Save).

(Originally submitted as 4 patches, "mac80211: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS",
"iwlwifi: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS", "ath9k: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS",
and "iwlwifi: remove double definition of SM PS". -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:31 -04:00
David S. Miller
17dce5dfe3 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-09-08 16:59:05 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
701b9cb37b mac80211: add missing kernel-doc
Fix mac80211 kernel-doc missing struct field:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-rc1-git2//net/mac80211/sta_info.h:329): No description found for parameter 'tid_seq[IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TID_MASK + 1]'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:23:12 -04:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
8e1535d51b mac80211: Fix rate scale initialization in IBSS
This patch address some IBSS rate issues introduced or not covered
by "mac80211: eliminate IBSS warning in rate_lowest_index()" and
"cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion".

This patch:
1. Moves addition of IBSS station from
prepare_for_handlers to ieee80211_rx_bss_info when triggered from beacon
eliminating bogus supported rates.
2. Initialize properly supported rates also in IBSS merging
3. Ensure that mandatory rates are always added into supported
rates. This is needed in case when station addition is triggered from
non beacon/probe packet. Some management frames need to be sent
4. Remove initialization of supported rates from self rates. This path
was dead code after 6bc37c06bc4 and in general incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:22:46 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
9818babc8f mac80211: Fix low bit rate in IBSS
This patch fixes regression in iwlwifi IBSS rate scaling caused by patch:

    commit 6bc37c06bc424bcf3f944e6a79e2d5bb537e02ed
    Author: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
    Date:   Fri Jun 13 16:50:44 2008 +0200

        mac80211: eliminate IBSS warning in rate_lowest_index()

An IBSS station is added in prepare_for_handlers where the rate scaling was
initialized only with single rate matching the received packet.
The correct rate scale information should be updated only in
ieee80211_rx_bss_info function where beacon is parsed. Because
of coding error the rate info was left untouched.
If a beacon has triggered the connection the rate remined 1Mbps.
This patch fixes this coding error

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:00:18 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
f59ac04816 cfg80211: keep track of supported interface modes
It is obviously good for userspace to know up front which
interface modes a given piece of hardware might support (even
if adding such an interface might fail later because of
concurrency issues), so let's make cfg80211 aware of that.
For good measure, disallow adding interfaces in all other
modes so drivers don't forget to announce support for one mode
when they add it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <tramp.enshrine.stephen@blacksapphire.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:42 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bf7394ccc1 Revert "mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM"
This reverts commit 087d833e5a, which was
reported to break wireless at least in some combinations with 32bit user
space and a 64bit kernel.  Alex Williamnson bisected it to this commit.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-05 12:38:09 -07:00
Jouni Malinen
2b58b20939 mac80211: Fix debugfs union misuse and pointer corruption
debugfs union in struct ieee80211_sub_if_data is misused by including a
common default_key dentry as a union member. This ends occupying the same
memory area with the first dentry in other union members (structures;
usually drop_unencrypted). Consequently, debugfs operations on
default_key symlinks and drop_unencrypted entry are using the same
dentry pointer even though they are supposed to be separate ones. This
can lead to removing entries incorrectly or potentially leaving
something behind since one of the dentry pointers gets lost.

Fix this by moving the default_key dentry to a new struct
(common_debugfs) that contains dentries (more to be added in future)
that are shared by all vif types. The debugfs union must only be used
for vif type-specific entries to avoid this type of pointer corruption.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-02 17:39:50 -04:00
David S. Miller
b171e19ed0 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-08-29 23:06:00 -07:00
Jouni Malinen
36aedc903e mac80211/cfg80211: HT capabilities for NEW_STA
Allow userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set HT capabilities for associated
STAs. This is based on a patch from Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> (only
the NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY for NEW_STA part is included here).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:09 -04:00
Daniel Wagner
2f58bbf27f mac80211: Use only precedence level of DSCP field for frame classification
Bit 4-5 of DSCP should not be considered by classify_d1. The
802.11 QoS Priority field is only depending on the precedence level.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:05 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
43ac2ca384 mac80211: Handle scan result IEs in one block
Clean up and extend scan result processing by storing all the IEs from
Beacon/Probe Response frames in a single block instead of allocating
memory for each specific IE separately. This removes lot of unnecessary
code and automatically supports reporting of new IEs (e.g., IEEE
802.11r) into user space without need to manually extend mac80211
scanning code whenever a new protocol adds IE(s).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:05 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
9f1ba9062e mac80211/cfg80211: Add BSS configuration options for AP mode
This change adds a new cfg80211 command, NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS, to allow
AP mode BSS parameters to be changed from user space (e.g., hostapd).
The drivers using mac80211 are expected to be modified with separate
changes to use the new BSS info parameter for short slot time in the
bss_info_changed() handler.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:23:55 -04:00
Johannes Berg
7f93ea3e24 mac80211: fill start-sequence-number for BA session start
Otherwise, drivers are required to keep track of the sequence numbers
themselves, and they really shouldn't be since we already do it for
them. I'll fix the race once we figure out how this code should work
at all, it's currently disabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:23:55 -04:00
John W. Linville
576fdeaef6 mac80211: quiet chatty IBSS merge message
It seems obvious that this #ifndef should be the opposite polarity...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-26 20:33:34 -04:00
Jan-Espen Pettersen
8ab65b03b7 mac80211: don't send empty extended rates IE
The association request includes a list of supported data rates.

802.11b: 4 supported rates.
802.11g: 12 (8 + 4) supported rates.
802.11a: 8 supported rates.

The rates tag of the assoc request has room for only 8 rates. In case of
802.11g an extended rate tag is appended. However in net/wireless/mlme.c
an extended (empty) rate tag is also appended if the number of rates is
exact 8. This empty (length=0) extended rates tag causes some APs to
deny association with code 18 (unsupported rates). These APs include my
ZyXEL G-570U, and according to Tomas Winkler som Cisco APs.

'If count == 8' has been used to check for the need for an extended rates
tag. But count would also be equal to 8 if the for loop exited because of
no more supported rates. Therefore a check for count being less than
rates_len would seem more correct.

Thanks to:
 * Dan Williams for newbie guidance
 * Tomas Winkler for confirming the problem

Signed-off-by: Jan-Espen Pettersen <sigsegv@radiotube.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-26 20:06:33 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
93015f0f34 mac80211: Fix debugfs file add/del for netdev
Previous version was using incorrect union structures for non-AP
interfaces when adding and removing max_ratectrl_rateidx and
force_unicast_rateidx entries. Depending on the vif type, this ended
up in corrupting debugfs entries since the dentries inside different
union structures ended up going being on top of eachother.. As the
end result, debugfs files were being left behind with references to
freed data (instant kernel oops on access) and directories were not
removed properly when unloading mac80211 drivers. This patch fixes
those issues by using only a single union structure based on the vif
type.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-26 20:06:33 -04:00
Julia Lawall
667d8af9af net/mac80211/mesh.c: correct the argument to __mesh_table_free
In the function mesh_table_grow, it is the new table not the argument table
that should be freed if the function fails (cf commit
bd9b448f4c)

The semantic match that detects this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
expression E,f;
position p1,p2,p3;
identifier l;
statement S;
@@

x = mesh_table_alloc@p1(...)
...
if (x == NULL) S
... when != E = x
    when != mesh_table_free(x)
goto@p2 l;
... when != E = x
    when != f(...,x,...)
    when any
(
return \(0\|x\);
|
return@p3 ...;
)

@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
p3 << r.p3;
@@

print "%s: call on line %s not freed or saved before return on line %s via line %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p3[0].line,p2[0].line)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-26 20:06:32 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
087d833e5a mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM
The previous code was using IWEVCUSTOM to report IEs from AssocReq and
AssocResp frames into user space. This can easily hit the 256 byte
limit (IW_CUSTOM_MAX) with APs that include number of vendor IEs in
AssocResp. This results in the event message not being sent and dmesg
showing "wlan0 (WE) : Wireless Event too big (366)" type of errors.

Convert mac80211 to use IWEVASSOCREQIE/IWEVASSOCRESPIE to avoid the
issue of being unable to send association IEs as wireless events. These
newer event types use binary encoding and larger maximum size
(IW_GENERIC_IE_MAX = 1024), so the likelyhood of not being able to send
the IEs is much smaller than with IWEVCUSTOM. As an extra benefit, the
code is also quite a bit simpler since there is no need to allocate an
extra buffer for hex encoding.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-26 20:06:32 -04:00