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I'm not really sure exactly _why_ I've been carrying a note
for what's probably _years_ to check that we don't do this,
but we clearly do reflect frames back to the station itself
if it sends such.
One way or the other, it's useless since the station doesn't
really need the AP to talk to itself, so suppress it.
While at it, clarify some of the logic by removing skb->data
references in favour of the destination address (pointer) we
already have separately.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Merge net-next, which pulled in net, so I can merge a few more
patches that would otherwise conflict.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Minor conflict in net/core/rtnetlink.c, David Ahern's bug fix in 'net'
overlapped the renaming of a netlink attribute in net-next.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The variable j will be initialized at trailing step.
Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Fix to return a negative error code -ENOMEM from the kmemdup
error handling case instead of 0.
Fixes: 09b4a4faf9d0 ("mac80211: introduce capability flags for VHT EXT NSS support")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Drivers that do not have the BUFF_MMPDU_TXQ flag set will not have a
TXQ for the special TID = 16.
In this case, the last member in the *struct ieee80211_sta* txq array
will be NULL.
We must check this in order not to get a NULL pointer dereference when
iterating the txq array.
Signed-off-by: Erik Stromdahl <erik.stromdahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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key->sta is only valid after ieee80211_key_link, which is called later
in this function. Because of that, the IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_RX_MGMT is
never set when management frame protection is enabled.
Fixes: e548c49e6dc6b ("mac80211: add key flag for management keys")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Monitor mode interfaces with the active flag are passed down to the driver.
Drivers using TXQ expect that all interfaces have allocated TXQs before
they get added.
Fixes: 79af1f866193d ("mac80211: avoid allocating TXQs that won't be used")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Catrinel Catrinescu <cc@80211.de>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Use __skb_peek() instead.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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TX status reporting to ieee80211s is through ieee80211s_update_metric.
There are two problems about ieee80211s_update_metric:
1. The purpose is to estimate the fail probability
to a specific link. No need to restrict to data frame.
2. Current implementation does not work if wireless driver does not
pass tx_status with skb.
Fix this by removing ieee80211_is_data condition, passing
ieee80211_tx_status directly to ieee80211s_update_metric, and
putting it in both __ieee80211_tx_status and ieee80211_tx_status_ext.
Signed-off-by: Yuan-Chi Pang <fu3mo6goo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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If the TDLS setup happens over a connection to an AP that
doesn't have QoS, we nevertheless assign a non-zero TID
(skb->priority) and queue mapping, which may confuse us or
drivers later.
Fix it by just assigning the special skb->priority and then
using ieee80211_select_queue() just like other data frames
would go through.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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In our environment running lots of mesh nodes, we are seeing the
pending queue hang periodically, with the debugfs queues file showing
lines such as:
00: 0x00000000/348
i.e. there are a large number of frames but no stop reason set.
One way this could happen is if queue processing from the pending
tasklet exited early without processing all frames, and without having
some future event (incoming frame, stop reason flag, ...) to reschedule
it.
Exactly this can occur today if ieee80211_tx() returns false due to
packet drops or power-save buffering in the tx handlers. In the
past, this function would return true in such cases, and the change
to false doesn't seem to be intentional. Fix this case by reverting
to the previous behavior.
Fixes: bb42f2d13ffc ("mac80211: Move reorder-sensitive TX handlers to after TXQ dequeue")
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <bobcopeland@fb.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Both old and new cannot be NULL at the same time, hence checking
new when old is not NULL is unnecessary.
Also, notice that new is being dereferenced before it is checked:
idx = new->conf.keyidx;
The above triggers a static code analysis warning.
Address this by removing the NULL check on new and adding a code
comment based on the following piece of code:
387 /* caller must provide at least one old/new */
388 if (WARN_ON(!new && !old))
389 return 0;
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1473176 ("Dereference before null check")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Some hardwares have limitations on the packets' type in AMSDU.
Add an optional driver callback to determine if two skbs can
be used in the same AMSDU or not.
Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Some drivers may have AMSDU size limitation per TID, due to
HW constrains. Add an option to set this limit.
Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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We have a TXQ abstraction for non-data packets that need
powersave buffering. Since the AP cannot sleep, in case
of station we can use this TXQ for all management frames,
regardless if they are bufferable. Add HW flag to allow
that.
Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Align to new 11ax draft D3.0. Change/add new MAC and PHY capabilities
and update drivers' 11ax capabilities and mac80211's debugfs
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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After masking the he_oper_params, to get the requested values as
integers one must rshift and not lshift. Fix that by using the
le32_get_bits() macro.
Fixes: 41cbb0f5a295 ("mac80211: add support for HE")
Signed-off-by: Naftali Goldstein <naftali.goldstein@intel.com>
[converted to use le32_get_bits()]
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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For certain sounding frames, it may be useful to report them
to userspace even though they don't have a PSDU in order to
determine the PHY parameters (e.g. VHT rate/stream config.)
Add support for this to mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Otherwise the offchannel frame might be queued due to
IEEE80211_QUEUE_STOP_REASON_PS and later dropped (in
ieee80211_tx_frags()). Anyway, it doesn't make much sense to wake up
the device during ROC.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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If a frame is dropped for any reason, mac80211 wouldn't report the TX
status back to user space.
As the user space may rely on the TX_STATUS to kick its state
machines, resends etc, it's better to just report this frame as not
acked instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Rekeying PTK keys without "Extended Key ID for Individually Addressed
Frames" did use a procedure not suitable to replace in-use keys and
could caused the following issues:
1) Freeze caused by incoming frames:
If the local STA installed the key prior to the remote STA we still
had the old key active in the hardware when mac80211 switched over
to the new key.
Therefore there was a window where the card could hand over frames
decoded with the old key to mac80211 and bump the new PN (IV) value
to an incorrect high number. When it happened the local replay
detection silently started to drop all frames sent with the new key.
2) Freeze caused by outgoing frames:
If mac80211 was providing the PN (IV) and handed over a clear text
frame for encryption to the hardware prior to a key change the
driver/card could have processed the queued frame after switching
to the new key. This bumped the PN value on the remote STA to an
incorrect high number, tricking the remote STA to discard all frames
we sent later.
3) Freeze caused by RX aggregation reorder buffer:
An aggregation session started with the old key and ending after the
switch to the new key also bumped the PN to an incorrect high number,
freezing the connection quite similar to 1).
4) Freeze caused by repeating lost frames in an aggregation session:
A driver could repeat a lost frame and encrypt it with the new key
while in a TX aggregation session without updating the PN for the
new key. This also could freeze connections similar to 2).
5) Clear text leak:
Removing encryption offload from the card cleared the encryption
offload flag only after the card had deleted the key and we did not
stop TX during the rekey. The driver/card could therefore get
unencrypted frames from mac80211 while no longer be instructed to
encrypt them.
To prevent those issues the key install logic has been changed:
- Mac80211 divers known to be able to rekey PTK0 keys have to set
@NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0,
- mac80211 stops queuing frames depending on the key during the replace
- the key is first replaced in the hardware and after that in mac80211
- and mac80211 stops/blocks new aggregation sessions during the rekey.
For drivers not setting
@NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0 the user space must avoid PTK
rekeys if "Extended Key ID for Individually Addressed Frames" is not
being used. Rekeys for mac80211 drivers without this flag will generate a
warning and use an extra call to ieee80211_flush_queues() to both
highlight and try to prevent the issues with not updated drivers.
The core of the fix changes the key install procedure from:
- atomic switch over to the new key in mac80211
- remove the old key in the hardware (stops encryption offloading, fall
back to software encryption with a potential clear text packet leak
in between)
- delete the inactive old key in mac80211
- enable hardware encryption offloading for the new key
to:
- if it's a PTK mark the old key as tainted to drop TX frames with the
outgoing key
- replace the key in hardware with the new one
- atomic switch over to the new (not marked as tainted) key in
mac80211 (which also resumes TX)
- delete the inactive old key in mac80211
With the new sequence the hardware will be unable to decrypt frames
encrypted with the old key prior to switching to the new key in mac80211
and thus prevent PNs from packets decrypted with the old key to be
accounted against the new key.
For that to work the drivers have to provide a clear boundary.
Mac80211 drivers setting @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CAN_REPLACE_PTK0 confirm
to provide it and mac80211 will then be able to correctly rekey in-use
PTK keys with those drivers.
The mac80211 requirements for drivers to set the flag have been added to
the "Hardware crypto acceleration" documentation section. It drills down
to:
The drivers must not hand over frames decrypted with the old key to
mac80211 once the call to set_key() with %DISABLE_KEY has been
completed. It's allowed to either drop or continue to use the old key
for any outgoing frames which are already in the queues, but it must not
send out any of them unencrypted or encrypted with the new key.
Even with the new boundary in place aggregation sessions with the
reorder buffer are problematic:
RX aggregation session started prior and completed after the rekey could
still dump frames received with the old key at mac80211 after it
switched over to the new key. This is side stepped by stopping all (RX
and TX) aggregation sessions when replacing a PTK key and hardware key
offloading.
Stopping TX aggregation sessions avoids the need to get
the PNs (IVs) updated in frames prepared for the old key and
(re)transmitted after the switch to the new key. As a bonus it improves
the compatibility when the remote STA is not handling rekeys as it
should.
When using software crypto aggregation sessions are not stopped.
Mac80211 won't be able to decode the dangerous frames and discard them
without special handling.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
[trim overly long rekey warning]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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As before with HE, the data needs to be provided by the
driver in the skb head, since there's not enough space
in the skb CB.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Make it possibly for drivers to adjust the default skb_pacing_shift
by storing it in the hardware struct.
Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>
[adjust commit log, move & adjust comment]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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When taking VHT capabilities for a station, copy the new
fields if we support them as a transmitter. Also adjust
the maximum bandwidth the station supports appropriately.
Also, since it was missing, copy tx_highest and rx_highest.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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With newer VHT implementations, it's necessary to look at the
HT operation's CCFS2 field to identify the actual bandwidth
used.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Depending on whether or not rate control supports selecting
rates depending on the bandwidth, we can use VHT extended
NSS support. In essence, this is dot11VHTExtendedNSSBWCapable
from the spec, since depending on that we'll need to parse
the bandwidth.
If needed, also set/clear the VHT Capability Element bit for
this capability so that we don't advertise it erroneously or
don't advertise it when we actually use it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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In AP mode, If AP advertises HE capabilities, set to true
bss_conf::he_supported so that the Driver knows about it.
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Some drivers may want to also use the TXQ abstraction with
non-data packets that need powersave buffering, so add a
hardware flag to allow this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Instead of open-coding the equivalent of le16_encode_bits(),
just use that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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These checks aren't necessary, cfg80211 never passes NULL.
Some static checkers complain about the missing checks on
the next line, but really the NULL checks are unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Export HE capabilities information via debugfs, similar to HT & VHT.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <idox.yariv@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211
Johannes Berg says:
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Here are quite a large number of fixes, notably:
* various A-MSDU building fixes (currently only affects mt76)
* syzkaller & spectre fixes in hwsim
* TXQ vs. teardown fix that was causing crashes
* embed WMM info in reg rule, bad code here had been causing crashes
* one compilation issue with fix from Arnd (rfkill-gpio includes)
* fixes for a race and bad data during/after channel switch
* nl80211: a validation fix, attribute type & unit fixes
along with other small fixes.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When tracing is enabled, all the debug messages are recorded and must
not exceed MAX_MSG_LEN (100) columns. Longer debug messages grant the
user with:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 32642 at /tmp/wifi-core-20180806094828/src/iwlwifi-stack-dev/net/mac80211/./trace_msg.h:32 trace_event_raw_event_mac80211_msg_event+0xab/0xc0 [mac80211]
Workqueue: phy1 ieee80211_iface_work [mac80211]
RIP: 0010:trace_event_raw_event_mac80211_msg_event+0xab/0xc0 [mac80211]
Call Trace:
__sdata_dbg+0xbd/0x120 [mac80211]
ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt+0x15f/0x510 [mac80211]
ieee80211_iface_work+0x21d/0x320 [mac80211]
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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If the driver fails to properly prepare for the channel
switch, mac80211 will disconnect. If the CSA IE had mode
set to 1, it means that the clients are not allowed to send
any Tx on the current channel, and that includes the
deauthentication frame.
Make sure that we don't send the deauthentication frame in
this case.
In iwlwifi, this caused a failure to flush queues since the
firmware already closed the queues after having parsed the
CSA IE. Then mac80211 would wait until the deauthentication
frame would go out (drv_flush(drop=false)) and that would
never happen.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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When performing a channel switch flow for a managed interface, the
flow did not update the bandwidth of the AP station and the rate
scale algorithm. In case of a channel width downgrade, this would
result with the rate scale algorithm using a bandwidth that does not
match the interface channel configuration.
Fix this by updating the AP station bandwidth and rate scaling algorithm
before the actual channel change in case of a bandwidth downgrade, or
after the actual channel change in case of a bandwidth upgrade.
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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We hit a problem with iwlwifi that was caused by a bug in
mac80211. A bug in iwlwifi caused the firwmare to crash in
certain cases in channel switch. Because of that bug,
drv_pre_channel_switch would fail and trigger the restart
flow.
Now we had the hw restart worker which runs on the system's
workqueue and the csa_connection_drop_work worker that runs
on mac80211's workqueue that can run together. This is
obviously problematic since the restart work wants to
reconfigure the connection, while the csa_connection_drop_work
worker does the exact opposite: it tries to disconnect.
Fix this by cancelling the csa_connection_drop_work worker
in the restart worker.
Note that this can sound racy: we could have:
driver iface_work CSA_work restart_work
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<FW CRASH!>
-CS FAILED-->
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Race between those 2
But this is not possible because we flush the workqueue
in the restart worker before we cancel the CSA worker.
That would be bullet proof if we could guarantee that
we schedule the CSA worker only from the iface_work
which runs on the workqueue (and not on the system's
workqueue), but unfortunately we do have an instance
in which we schedule the CSA work outside the context
of the workqueue (ieee80211_chswitch_done).
Note also that we should probably cancel other workers
like beacon_connection_loss_work and possibly others
for different types of interfaces, at the very least,
IBSS should suffer from the exact same problem, but for
now, do the minimum to fix the actual bug that was actually
experienced and reproduced.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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In commit 9236c4523e5b ("mac80211: limit wmm params to comply
with ETSI requirements"), we have limited the WMM parameters to
comply with 802.11 and ETSI standard. Mistakenly the TXOP value
was caluclated wrong. Fix it by taking the minimum between
802.11 to ETSI to make sure we are not violating both.
Fixes: e552af058148 ("mac80211: limit wmm params to comply with ETSI requirements")
Signed-off-by: Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Initialize 'n' to 2 in order to take into account also the first
packet in the estimation of max_subframe limit for a given A-MSDU
since frag_tail pointer is NULL when ieee80211_amsdu_aggregate
routine analyzes the second frame.
Fixes: 6e0456b54545 ("mac80211: add A-MSDU tx support")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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In the error path of changing the SKB headroom of the second
A-MSDU subframe, we would not account for the already-changed
length of the first frame that just got converted to be in
A-MSDU format and thus is a bit longer now.
Fix this by doing the necessary accounting.
It would be possible to reorder the operations, but that would
make the code more complex (to calculate the necessary pad),
and the headroom expansion should not fail frequently enough
to make that worthwhile.
Fixes: 6e0456b54545 ("mac80211: add A-MSDU tx support")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Do not start to aggregate packets in a A-MSDU frame (converting the
first subframe to A-MSDU, adding the header) if max_tx_fragments or
max_amsdu_subframes limits are already exceeded by it. In particular,
this happens when drivers set the limit to 1 to avoid A-MSDUs at all.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>
[reword commit message to be more precise]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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When building building AMSDU from non-linear SKB, we hit a
kernel panic when trying to push the padding to the tail.
Instead, put the padding at the head of the next subframe.
This also fixes the A-MSDU subframes to not have the padding
accounted in the length field and not have pad at all for
the last subframe, both required by the spec.
Fixes: 6e0456b54545 ("mac80211: add A-MSDU tx support")
Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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IEEE 802.11-2016 14.10.8.3 HWMP sequence numbering says:
If it is a target mesh STA, it shall update its own HWMP SN to
maximum (current HWMP SN, target HWMP SN in the PREQ element) + 1
immediately before it generates a PREP element in response to a
PREQ element.
Signed-off-by: Yuan-Chi Pang <fu3mo6goo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Modify the API to include all ACK frames in average ACK
signal strength reporting, not just ACKs for data frames.
Make exposing the data conditional on implementing the
extended feature flag.
This is how it was really implemented in mac80211, update
the code there to use the new defines and clean up some of
the setting code.
Keep nl80211.h source compatibility by keeping the old names.
Signed-off-by: Balaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@codeaurora.org>
[rewrite commit log, change compatibility to be old=new
instead of the other way around, update kernel-doc,
roll in mac80211 changes, make mac80211 depend on valid
bit instead of HW flag]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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The current mac80211 WDS (4-address mode) can be used to cover most of the
Multi-AP requirements for Data frames per the WFA Multi-AP Specification v1.0.
When configuring AP/STA interfaces in 4-address mode, they are able to function
as fronthaul AP/backhaul STA of Multi-AP device complying below
Tx, Rx requirements except one missing STA Rx requirement added by this patch.
Multi-AP specification section 14.1 describes the following requirements:
Transmitter requirements
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1. Fronthaul AP
i) When DA!=RA of backhaul STA, must use 4-address format
ii) When DA==RA of backhaul STA, shall use either 3-address
or 4-address format with RA updated with STA MAC
(mac80211 support 4-address format via AP/VLAN interface)
2. Backhaul STA
i) When SA!=TA of backhaul STA, must use 4-address format
ii) When SA==TA of backhaul STA, shall use either 3-address
or 4-address format with RA updated with AP MAC
(mac80211 support 4-address format via use_4addr)
Receiver requirements
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1. Fronthaul AP
i) When SA!=TA of backhaul STA, must support receiving 4-address
format frames
ii) When SA==TA of backhaul STA, must support receiving both
3-address and 4-address format frames
(mac80211 support both 3-addr & 4-addr via AP/VLAN interface)
2. Backhaul STA
i) When DA!=RA of backhaul STA, must support receiving 4-address
format frames
ii) When DA==RA of backhaul STA, must support receiving both
3-address and 4-address format frames
(mac80211 support only receiving 4-address format via
use_4addr)
This patch addresses the above Rx requirement (ii) for backhaul STA to receive
unicast (DA==RA) 3-address frames in addition to 4-address frames.
The current design doesn't accept 3-address frames when configured in 4-address
mode (use_4addr). Hence add a check to allow 3-address frames when DA==RA of
backhaul STA (adhering to Table 9-26 of IEEE Std 802.11™-2016).
This case was tested with a bridged station interface when associated with
a non-mac80211 based vendor AP implementation using 3-address frames for WDS.
STA was able to support the Multi-AP Rx requirement when DA==RA. No issues,
no loops seen when tested with mac80211 based AP as well.
Verified and confirmed all other Tx and Rx requirements of AP and STA for
Multi-AP respectively. They all work using the current mac80211-WDS design.
Signed-off-by: Sathishkumar Muruganandam <murugana@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Sometimes, it is required to stop the transmissions momentarily and
resume it later; stopping the txqs becomes very critical in scenarios where
the packet transmission has to be ceased completely. For example, during
the hardware restart, during off channel operations,
when initiating CSA(upon detecting a radar on the DFS channel), etc.
The TX queue stop/start logic in mac80211 works well in stopping the TX
when drivers make use of netdev queues, i.e, when Qdiscs in network layer
take care of traffic scheduling. Since the devices implementing
wake_tx_queue can run without Qdiscs, packets will be handed to mac80211
directly without queueing them in the netdev queues.
Also, mac80211 does not invoke any of the
netif_stop_*/netif_wake_* APIs if wake_tx_queue is implemented.
Since the queues are not stopped in this case, transmissions can continue
and this will impact negatively on the operation of the wireless device.
For example,
During hardware restart, we stop the netdev queues so that packets are
not sent to the driver. Since ath10k implements wake_tx_queue,
TX queues will not be stopped and packets might reach the hardware while
it is restarting; this can make hardware unresponsive and the only
possible option for recovery is to reboot the entire system.
There is another problem to this, it is observed that the packets
were sent on the DFS channel for a prolonged duration after radar
detection impacting the channel closing time.
We can still invoke netif stop/wake APIs when wake_tx_queue is implemented
but this could lead to packet drops in network layer; adding stop/start
logic for software TXQs in mac80211 instead makes more sense; the change
proposed adds the same in mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <mpubbise@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Make ieee80211_send_layer2_update() a common function so other drivers
can re-use it.
Signed-off-by: Dedy Lansky <dlansky@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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I changed the way mac80211 updates the PM state of the peer.
I forgot that we could also have multicast frames from the
peer and that those frame should of course not change the
PM state of the peer: A peer goes to power save when it
needs to scan, but it won't send the broadcast Probe Request
with the PM bit set.
This made us mark the peer as awake when it wasn't and then
Intel's firmware would fail to transmit because the peer is
asleep according to its database. The driver warned about
this and it looked like this:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 184 at /usr/src/linux-4.16.14/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c:1369 iwl_mvm_rx_tx_cmd+0x53b/0x860
CPU: 0 PID: 184 Comm: irq/124-iwlwifi Not tainted 4.16.14 #1
RIP: 0010:iwl_mvm_rx_tx_cmd+0x53b/0x860
Call Trace:
iwl_pcie_rx_handle+0x220/0x880
iwl_pcie_irq_handler+0x6c9/0xa20
? irq_forced_thread_fn+0x60/0x60
? irq_thread_dtor+0x90/0x90
The relevant code that spits the WARNING is:
case TX_STATUS_FAIL_DEST_PS:
/* the FW should have stopped the queue and not
* return this status
*/
WARN_ON(1);
info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_TX_FILTERED;
This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199967.
Fixes: 9fef65443388 ("mac80211: always update the PM state of a peer on MGMT / DATA frames")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.16+
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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