Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events
are multicast netlink messages, and are not independent of
pointer size. Thus, currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms
cannot properly receive events and fail with all kinds of
strange problems, for instance wpa_supplicant never notices
disassociations, due to the way the 64-bit event looks (to a
32-bit process), the fact that the address is all zeroes is
lost, it thinks instead it is 00:00:00:00:01:00.
The same problem existed with the ioctls, until David Miller
fixed those some time ago in an heroic effort.
A different problem caused by this is that we cannot send the
ASSOCREQIE/ASSOCRESPIE events because sending them causes a
32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system to overwrite its
internal information, which is worse than it not getting the
information at all -- so we currently resort to sending a
custom string event that it then parses. This, however, has a
severe size limitation we are frequently hitting with modern
access points; this limitation would can be lifted after this
patch by sending the correct binary, not custom, event.
A similar problem apparently happens for some other netlink
users on x86_64 with 32-bit tasks due to the alignment for
64-bit quantities.
In order to fix these problems, I have implemented a way to
send compat messages to tasks. When sending an event, we send
the non-compat event data together with a compat event data in
skb_shinfo(main_skb)->frag_list. Then, when the event is read
from the socket, the netlink code makes sure to pass out only
the skb that is compatible with the task. This approach was
suggested by David Miller, my original approach required
always sending two skbs but that had various small problems.
To determine whether compat is needed or not, I have used the
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag, and adjusted the call path for recv and
recvfrom to include it, even if those calls do not have a cmsg
parameter.
I have not solved one small part of the problem, and I don't
think it is necessary to: if a 32-bit application uses read()
rather than any form of recvmsg() it will still get the wrong
(64-bit) event. However, neither do applications actually do
this, nor would it be a regression.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the correct function call for skb_reserve in the comment for
NET_IP_ALIGN.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <klto@zhaw.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove duplicated #include('s) in
include/linux/net_dropmon.h
Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since we don't really know that well in the kernel,
let's let the SME control whether it wants to use
reassociation or not, by allowing it to give the
previous BSSID in the associate() parameters.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We've designed the /dev/rfkill API in a way that we
can increase the event struct by adding members at
the end, should it become necessary. To validate the
events, userspace and the kernel need to have the
proper event size to check for -- when reading from
the other end they need to verify that it's at least
version 1 of the event API, with the current struct
size, so define a constant for that and make the
code a little more 'future proof'.
Not that I expect that we'll have to change the event
size any time soon, but it's better to write the code
in a way that lends itself to extending.
Due to the current size of the event struct, the code
is currently equivalent, but should the event struct
ever need to be increased the new code might not need
changing.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch introduces the cfg80211 connect/disconnect API.
The goal here is to run the AUTH and ASSOC steps in one call.
This is needed for some fullmac cards that run both steps
directly from the target, after the host driver sends a
connect command.
Additionally, all the new crypto parameters for connect()
are now also valid for associate() -- although associate
requires the IEs to be used, the information can be useful
for drivers and should be given.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We'll need these values for some drivers using connect API
and for wext compat code, so let's define them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This introduces a new NL80211_CMD_TESTMODE for testing
and calibration use with nl80211. There's no multiplexing
like like iwpriv had, and the command is not available by
default, it needs to be explicitly enabled in Kconfig and
shouldn't be enabled in most kernels.
The command requires a wiphy index or interface index to
identify the device to operate on, and the new TESTDATA
attribute. There also is API for sending replies to the
command, and testmode multicast messages (on a testmode
multicast group).
I've also updated mac80211 to be able to pass through the
command to the driver, since it itself doesn't implement
the testmode command.
Additionally, to give people an idea of how to use the
command, I've added a little code to hwsim that makes use
of the new command to set the powersave mode, this is
currently done via debugfs and should remain there, and
the testmode command only serves as an example of how to
use this best -- with nested netlink attributes in the
TESTDATA attribute. A hwsim testmode tool can be found at
http://git.sipsolutions.net/hwsim.git/. This tool is BSD
licensed so people can easily use it as a basis for their
own internal fabrication and validation tools.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Adding smp_mb__after_lock define to be used as a smp_mb call after
a lock.
Making it nop for x86, since {read|write|spin}_lock() on x86 are
full memory barriers.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
include/linux/rfkill.h: linux/types.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch allows a TIPC application to determine the number of messages
currently waiting in a socket's receive queue (TIPC_SOCK_RECVQ_DEPTH) or
in all TIPC socket receive queues (TIPC_NODE_RECVQ_DEPTH).
Signed-off-by: Oscar Medina <oscar.medina@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
almost no users in the tree; and the few that use them treat them
like NET_RX_DROP.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
kbuild: finally remove the obsolete variable $TOPDIR
gitignore: ignore scripts/ihex2fw
Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag
gitignore: ignore gcov output files
kbuild: deb-pkg ship changelog
Add new __init_task_data macro to be used in arch init_task.c files.
asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: shuffle INIT_TASK* macro names in vmlinux.lds.h
Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections.
asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: Fix up RW_DATA_SECTION definition.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: invalidation reverse calls
fuse: allow umask processing in userspace
fuse: fix bad return value in fuse_file_poll()
fuse: fix return value of fuse_dev_write()
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cfq-iosched: remove redundant check for NULL cfqq in cfq_set_request()
blocK: Restore barrier support for md and probably other virtual devices.
block: get rid of queue-private command filter
block: Create bip slabs with embedded integrity vectors
cfq-iosched: get rid of the need for __GFP_NOFAIL in cfq_find_alloc_queue()
cfq-iosched: move cfqq initialization out of cfq_find_alloc_queue()
Trivial typo fixes in Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt.
The initial patches to support this through sysfs export were broken
and have been if 0'ed out in any release. So lets just kill the code
and reclaim some space in struct request_queue, if anyone would later
like to fixup the sysfs bits, the git history can easily restore
the removed bits.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch restores stacking ability to the block layer integrity
infrastructure by creating a set of dedicated bip slabs. Each bip slab
has an embedded bio_vec array at the end. This cuts down on memory
allocations and also simplifies the code compared to the original bvec
version. Only the largest bip slab is backed by a mempool. The pool is
contained in the bio_set so stacking drivers can ensure forward
progress.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (47 commits)
perf report: Add --symbols parameter
perf report: Add --comms parameter
perf report: Add --dsos parameter
perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses
perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skew
perf stat: Use percentages for scaling output
perf_counter, x86: Update x86_pmu after WARN()
perf stat: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is selected and !null_run
perf stat: Improve output
perf stat: Fix multi-run stats
perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters
perf_counter tools: Remove dead code
perf_counter: Complete counter swap
perf report: Print sorted callchains per histogram entries
perf_counter tools: Prepare a small callchain framework
perf record: Fix unhandled io return value
perf_counter tools: Add alias for 'l1d' and 'l1i'
perf-report: Add bare minimum PERF_EVENT_READ parsing
perf-report: Add modes for inherited stats and no-samples
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