My previous patch to optimize scanning on operating channel
accidentally removed the code that would ensure power was
set to maximum for scanning.
This patch re-adds that functionality.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Narrow channel types can function within larger channel types.
So, use existing channel type for work items when possible.
This decreases hardware channel changes significantly when
using non NO_HT channel types on the operating channel.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Previous code set the channel type to NO_HT, but it
appears that NO_HT packets can be sent on any channel
type, so we do not need to change the channel type
as long as the channel is correct.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some were indirectly set to NO_HT (zero), but I think
it's better to explicitly set it in case the enum ever
changes. In cfg.c, it seems the channel-type was just
ignored (and thus always set to NO_HT).
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"ap" is the address of sdata->u.ap so it can never be NULL here. Also
we dereferenced it on the previous line. I removed the check.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 now supports passing MCS index to radiotap, so update the
comments regarding this
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since 4-addr frames completely override the source address which will
make it into the converted 802.3 frames, receiving frames for other
4-addr stations will confuse the bridging code.
To be able to handle traffic for all connected devices, the bridge
code will automatically turn on promiscuous mode, which triggers
this problem.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This allows users to tune the connection-loss algorithms
to be more or less lenient. In particular, larger
null-func retries helps when using lots of virtual
stations on a loaded network.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This should decrease un-necessary flushes, on/off channel work,
and channel changes in cases where the only scanned channel is
the current operating channel.
* Removes SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL flag, uses SDATA_STATE_OFFCHANNEL
and is-scanning flags instead.
* Add helper method to determine if we are currently configured
for the operating channel.
* Do no blindly go off/on channel in work.c Instead, only call
appropriate on/off code when we really need to change channels.
Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting work,
and disable it when we are done.
* Consolidate ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station and
ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing, call it
ieee80211_offchannel_stop_vifs instead.
* Accept non-beacon frames when scanning on operating channel.
* Scan state machine optimized to minimize on/off channel
transitions. Also, when going on-channel, go ahead and
re-enable beaconing. We're going to be there for 200ms,
so seems like some useful beaconing could happen.
Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting software
scan, and disable it when we are done.
* Grab local->mtx earlier in __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish
so that we are protected when calling hw_config(), etc.
* Pass probe-responses up the stack if scanning on local
channel, so that mlme can take a look.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I can't think of a valid use case for this aside from debugging (which can
also be done with a real monitor interface), and dropping these frames saves
some precious CPU cycles.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While leaving oper channel, STA informs sleep state to AP to
stop sending data. Till sending ack for the nullfunc, AP
continues to send the data to STA which restarts ps_timer that
is causing unnecessary nullfunc exchange on timer expiry
when the STA was already moved to offchannel. So don't restart ps_timer
on data reception during scan. This issue was identified by
the following warning.
WARNING: at net/mac80211/tx.c:661 invoke_tx_handlers+0xf07/0x1330 [mac80211]
wlan0: Dropped data frame as no usable bitrate found while scanning and
associated. Target station: 00:03:7f:0b:a6:1b on 5 GHz band
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0413ba7>] invoke_tx_handlers+0xf07/0x1330 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa0414056>] ieee80211_tx+0x86/0x2c0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa0414345>] ieee80211_xmit+0xb5/0x1d0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa04037e0>] ieee80211_dynamic_ps_enable_work+0x0/0xb0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa04158cf>] ieee80211_tx_skb+0x4f/0x60 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa04026e6>] ieee80211_send_nullfunc+0x46/0x60 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffa0403885>] ieee80211_dynamic_ps_enable_work+0xa5/0xb0 [mac80211]
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On review of 'zd1211rw: implement beacon fetching and handling
ieee80211_get_buffered_bc()', Christian Lamparter noted that [1]:
Since zd_beacon_done also uploads the next beacon so long in advance,
there could be an equally long race between the outdated state of the
next beacon's DTIM broadcast traffic indicator (802.11-2007 7.3.2.6)
which -in your case- was uploaded almost a beacon interval ago and
the xmit of ieee80211_get_buffered_bc *now*.
The dtim bc/mc bit might be not set, when a mc/bc arrived after the
beacon was uploaded, but before the "beacon done event" from the
hardware. So, dozing stations don't expect the broadcast traffic
and of course, they might miss it completely.
It's probably better to fix this in mac80211 (see the attached hack).
[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=129435041117256&w=2
CC: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
TKIP countermeasures depend on devices being able to detect Michael
MIC failures on received frames and for stations to report errors to
the AP. In order to test that behavior, it is useful to be able to
send out TKIP frames with incorrect Michael MIC. This testing behavior
has minimal effect on the TX path, so it can be added to mac80211 for
convenient use.
The interface for using this functionality is a file in mac80211
netdev debugfs (tkip_mic_test). Writing a MAC address to the file
makes mac80211 generate a dummy data frame that will be sent out using
invalid Michael MIC value. In AP mode, the address needs to be for one
of the associated stations or ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff to use a broadcast
frame. In station mode, the address can be anything, e.g., the current
BSSID. It should be noted that this functionality works correctly only
when associated and using TKIP.
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>
The TKIP implementation was originally prepared to be a bit more
flexible in the way Michael MIC TX/RX keys are configured. However, we
are now taking care of the TX/RX MIC key swapping in user space, so
this code will not be needed. Similarly, there were some remaining WPA
testing code that won't be used in their current form. Remove the
unneeded extra complexity.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There's no point in disallowing scanning for a
GO interface when it's not beaconing yet.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Beacons from external BSSes are required for updating overlapping BSS
info (i.e. ERP protection). Pass them up unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When operating in AP mode the wl1271 hardware filters out null-data
packets as well as management packets. This makes it impossible for
mac80211 to monitor the PS mode by using the PM bit of incoming frames.
Implement a HW flag to indicate that mac80211 should ignore the PM bit.
In addition, expose ieee80211_sta_ps_transition() to make low-level
drivers capable of controlling PS-mode.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When rate-control is performed in HW, we cannot calculate frame
duration as we do not have the skb transmission rate in SW.
ieee80211_tx_h_calculate_duration() should only be called when
ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl() has been called before to initialize data
in skb->cb. This doesn't happen for drivers with HW rate-control.
Fixes the following warning when operating in AP-mode
in a driver with HW rate-control.
WARNING: at net/mac80211/tx.c:57 ieee80211_duration+0x54/0x1d8 [mac80211]()
Modules linked in: wl1271_sdio wl1271 firmware_class crc7 mac80211 cfg80211
[<c0046090>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x124) from [<c0064c10>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x64)
[<c0064c10>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x64) from [<c0064c40>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x1c)
[<c0064c40>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x1c) from [<bf040e34>] (ieee80211_duration+0x54/0x1d8 [mac80211])
[<bf040e34>] (ieee80211_duration+0x54/0x1d8 [mac80211]) from [<bf04200c>] (invoke_tx_handlers+0xfa0/0x1088 [mac80211])
[<bf04200c>] (invoke_tx_handlers+0xfa0/0x1088 [mac80211]) from [<bf042178>] (ieee80211_tx+0x84/0x248 [mac80211])
[<bf042178>] (ieee80211_tx+0x84/0x248 [mac80211]) from [<bf042f44>] (ieee80211_tx_pending+0x12c/0x278 [mac80211])
[<bf042f44>] (ieee80211_tx_pending+0x12c/0x278 [mac80211]) from [<c0069a9c>] (tasklet_action+0x68/0xbc)
[<c0069a9c>] (tasklet_action+0x68/0xbc) from [<c006a044>] (__do_softirq+0x84/0x114)
[<c006a044>] (__do_softirq+0x84/0x114) from [<c006a1b8>] (do_softirq+0x48/0x54)
[<c006a1b8>] (do_softirq+0x48/0x54) from [<c006a4f8>] (local_bh_enable+0x98/0xcc)
[<c006a4f8>] (local_bh_enable+0x98/0xcc) from [<bf074e60>] (wl1271_rx+0x2e8/0x3a4 [wl1271])
[<bf074e60>] (wl1271_rx+0x2e8/0x3a4 [wl1271]) from [<bf071ae4>] (wl1271_irq_work+0x230/0x310 [wl1271])
[<bf071ae4>] (wl1271_irq_work+0x230/0x310 [wl1271]) from [<c0076864>] (process_one_work+0x208/0x350)
[<c0076864>] (process_one_work+0x208/0x350) from [<c0076e14>] (worker_thread+0x1cc/0x300)
[<c0076e14>] (worker_thread+0x1cc/0x300) from [<c007bb88>] (kthread+0x84/0x8c)
[<c007bb88>] (kthread+0x84/0x8c) from [<c0041494>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a vif goes away, it could cause the super-chan
to be recalculated differently, so do that calculation
on iface removal.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I have a netgear WNDR3700 that appears to have an off-by-four
bug in how it fills out the hti->control_chan (I configure the
AP to channel 11, it reports 15 as control_chan).
Poke a message into the kernel logs to give users a
clue as to why they are not getting the expected
channel-type or rate.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If we cannot set the channel type, set the channel back to the
original.
Don't update the driver hardware if nothing actually changed.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
PS should not be enabled if an infra AP vif exists in
the interface list. So while recalculating PS,
AP vif type should be taken into account.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ben Greear
Dan Carpenter
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
Felix Fietkau
Rajkumar Manoharan
Christian Lamparter
Jouni Malinen
Johannes Berg
Arik Nemtsov
John W. Linville