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David S. Miller 228da6c2e6 mac80211: Fix error introduced in netdev_mc_count() changes.
Commit 4cd24eaf0c
("net: use netdev_mc_count and netdev_mc_empty when appropriate")
added this hunk to net/mac80211/iface.c:

 	__dev_addr_unsync(&local->mc_list, &local->mc_count,
-			  &dev->mc_list, &dev->mc_count);
+			  &dev->mc_list, dev->mc_count);

which is definitely not correct, introduced a warning (reported
by Stephen Rothwell):

net/mac80211/iface.c: In function 'ieee80211_stop':
net/mac80211/iface.c:416: warning: passing argument 4 of '__dev_addr_unsync' makes pointer from integer without a cast
include/linux/netdevice.h:1967: note: expected 'int *' but argument is of type 'int'

and is thus reverted here.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-14 22:49:52 -08:00
David S. Miller 5ecccb74dc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/rate.c
2010-02-14 22:30:54 -08:00
David S. Miller f6f223039c Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-14 17:45:59 -08:00
David S. Miller 3d0beb921f Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-02-14 11:56:38 -08:00
Juuso Oikarinen 5affcd6ba2 mac80211: fix handling of null-rate control in rate_control_get_rate
For hardware with IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL the rate controller is not
initialized. However, calling functions such as ieee80211_beacon_get result
in the rate_control_get_rate function getting called, which is accessing
(in this case uninitialized) rate control structures unconditionally.

Fix by exiting the function before setting the rates for HW with
IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL set. The initialization of the ieee80211_tx_info
struct is intentionally still executed.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-12 14:50:22 -05:00
Jiri Pirko 4cd24eaf0c net: use netdev_mc_count and netdev_mc_empty when appropriate
This patch replaces dev->mc_count in all drivers (hopefully I didn't miss
anything). Used spatch and did small tweaks and conding style changes when
it was suitable.

Jirka

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-12 11:38:58 -08:00
Sujith 4cad6c7c38 mac80211: Deny TX BA session requests during disassociation
In associated state, when bringing an interface down, existing
BA sessions are torn down. When this is in progress, nothing
prevents mac80211 from accepting another BA session start request.

Use a new station flag to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-10 16:36:52 -05:00
David S. Miller 044c18c9f5 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-02-10 12:35:24 -08:00
Vivek Natarajan 375177bf35 mac80211: Retry null data frame for power save.
Even if the null data frame is not acked by the AP, mac80211
goes into power save. This might lead to loss of frames
from the AP.
Prevent this by restarting dynamic_ps_timer when ack is not
received for null data frames.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-09 14:10:05 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan e15276a4b2 mac80211: Reset dynamic ps timer in Rx path.
The current mac80211 implementation enables power save if there
is no Tx traffic for a specific timeout. Hence, PS is triggered
even if there is a continuous Rx only traffic(like UDP) going on.
This makes the drivers to wait on the tim bit in the next beacon
to awake which leads to redundant sleep-wake cycles.
Fix this by restarting the dynamic ps timer on receiving every
data packet.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:03 -05:00
Andres Salomon 209c671db7 mac80211: make rate_control_alloc static
rate_control_alloc is not used by anything outside of
ieee80211_init_rate_ctrl_alg.  Both are in rate.c; there's no reason to make
rate_control_alloc visible outside of it.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:03 -05:00
Kalle Valo 349e6b7289 mac80211: remove get_tx_stats() driver op
get_tx_stats() driver operation is not currently used anywhere in mac80211
and there are no plans to use it in the not-so-near future. So it can go
without anyone missing it.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:01 -05:00
Johannes Berg 29165e4c8b mac80211: fix deauth race
When userspace requests a deauth while the
authentication work is pending in the auth
(not probe) state, we do not properly abort
the work and then things get confused.

Fix that and also improve the checks here
to include the correct virtual interface,
just in case two virtual interfaces would
ever try to connect to the same BSS.

Also fix a bug -- need to use list_del_rcu
instead of just list_del to free a work
item.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:59 -05:00
Johannes Berg 19885c4fbd mac80211: fix bss_conf.dtim_period
In AP mode, the only mode where the parameter
is supposed to be valid, we never assign it!
Fix that to allow drivers to avoid parsing
the TIM IE for the value.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:57 -05:00
Benoit Papillault 199d69f273 mac80211: Added a new debugfs file for reading channel_type
This file helps debugging HT channels since it displays if we are on
ht20 or ht40+/ht40-

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:57 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy 74e2bd1fa3 mac80211: tear down all agg queues when restart/reconfig hw
When there is a need to restart/reconfig hw, tear down all the
aggregation queues and let the mac80211 and driver get in-sync to have
the opportunity to re-establish the aggregation queues again.

Need to wait until driver re-establish all the station information before tear
down the aggregation queues, driver(at least iwlwifi driver) will reject the
stop aggregation queue request if station is not ready. But also need to make
sure the aggregation queues are tear down before waking up the queues, so
mac80211 will not sending frames with aggregation bit set.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:54 -05:00
Johannes Berg 34e895075e mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleep
Many drivers would like to sleep during station
addition and removal, and currently have a high
complexity there from not being able to.

This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and
sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead
of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and
the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to
fail.

The reason we didn't do this previously is that
the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the
RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep.
This patch will keep the station allocation in
that path, but moves adding the station to the
driver out of line. Since the addition can now
fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver
rejected -- in that case we still talk to the
station but never tell the driver about it in
the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be
a driver that has a low limit on the number of
stations and that cannot talk to any stations
that are not known to it, we need to do come up
with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs,
maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:53 -05:00
Johannes Berg 070bb5477f mac80211: don't probe if we have probe response
We can now easily determine whether we already
have probe response information for the BSS we
are asked to connect to, in which case there's
little point in probing the BSS again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:53 -05:00
Johannes Berg 33e5a2f776 wireless: update radiotap parser
Upstream radiotap has adopted the namespace
proposal David Young made and I then took care
of, for which I had adapted the radiotap parser
as a library outside the kernel. This brings
the in-kernel parser up to speed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:53 -05:00
John W. Linville 6e7e6213e4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-02-08 16:38:38 -05:00
Johannes Berg c0ce77b832 mac80211: fix deferred hardware scan requests
Reinette found the reason for the warnings that
happened occasionally when a hw-offloaded scan
finished; her description of the problem:

  mac80211 will defer the handling of scan requests if it is
  busy with management work at the time. The scan requests
  are deferred and run after the work has completed. When
  this occurs there are currently two problems.

  * The scan request for hardware scan is not fully populated
    with the band and channels to scan not initialized.

  * When the scan is queued the state is not correctly updated
    to reflect that a scan is in progress. The problem here is
    that when the driver completes the scan and calls
    ieee80211_scan_completed() a warning will be triggered
    since mac80211 was not aware that a scan was in progress.

The reason is that the queued scan work will start
the hw scan right away when the hw_scan_req struct
has already been allocated. However, in the first
pass it will not have been filled, which happens
at the same time as setting the bits. To fix this,
simply move the allocation after the pending work
test as well, so that the first iteration of the
scan work will call __ieee80211_start_scan() even
in the hardware scan case.

Bug-identified-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:07:23 -05:00
Benoit Papillault 0da780c269 mac80211: Fix probe request filtering in IBSS mode
We only reply to probe request if either the requested SSID is the
broadcast SSID or if the requested SSID matches our own SSID. This
latter case was not properly handled since we were replying to different
SSID with the same length as our own SSID.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:07:22 -05:00
David S. Miller 10be7eb36b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-04 08:58:14 -08:00
Vasanthakumar 3c384053ce mac80211: Don't call rate control when HW handles it
Rate control should not be called to update the tx status
when HW does the RC.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:09 -05:00
Felix Fietkau b4d57adb72 mac80211: fix sta lookup with AP VLAN interfaces and injected frames
When injecting frames, mac80211 currently looks for the first AP
interface that matches the source address of the injected frame.
This breaks when such a frame is directed at a STA that has been moved
to a VLAN. This patch fixes it by using sta_info_get_bss instead of
sta_info_get, which also finds stations belonging to a VLAN interface
of the same BSS as the AP interface.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:08 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 17ad353b8d mac80211: fix monitor mode tx radiotap header handling
When an injected frame gets buffered for a powersave STA or filtered
and retransmitted, mac80211 attempts to parse the radiotap header
again, which doesn't work because it's gone at that point.
This patch adds a new flag for checking the availability of a radiotap
header, so that it only attempts to parse it once, reusing the tx info
on the next call to ieee80211_tx().
This fixes severe issues with rekeying in AP mode.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:08 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 4754ffd68b mac80211: fix sta lookup for received action frames on an AP VLAN
When looking for a matching interface, __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet
loops over all active interfaces, looking for matching stations.
Because AP VLAN interfaces are not processed as part of this loop, it
needs to use sta_info_get_bss instead of sta_info_get in order to find
a STA that has been moved to a VLAN.
This fixes issues with aggregation setup/teardown.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:08 -05:00
Pavel Roskin e0b20f1c67 mac80211: reduce stack usage in sta_agg_status_read()
Use a more compact and readable format for "agg_status" to reduce the
stack frame to less than 1024 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:07 -05:00
Pavel Roskin 4c82bf8e56 mac80211: reduce stack usage in sta_ht_capa_read()
The maximal size of the "ht_capa" file is 430 bytes.  In most cases,
it's much shorter.  Use a 512 byte long buffer.  1024 bytes is too much
and causes a warning with CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:07 -05:00
David S. Miller 05ba712d7e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-01-28 06:12:38 -08:00
David S. Miller 744595c847 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-01-28 05:42:33 -08:00
Johannes Berg 56007a028c mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersave
Because DTIM information is required for powersave
but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon
before enabling powersave, and change the way the
information is conveyed to the driver accordingly.

mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but
requires the DTIM period in a different way; after
talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do
the parsing itself in the finalize_join work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-26 11:53:21 -05:00
Zhu Yi 3092ad0544 mac80211: fix NULL pointer dereference when ftrace is enabled
I got below kernel oops when I try to bring down the network interface if
ftrace is enabled. The root cause is drv_ampdu_action() is passed with a
NULL ssn pointer in the BA session tear down case. We need to check and
avoid dereferencing it in trace entry assignment.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
Modules linked in: at (null)
IP: [<f98fe02a>] ftrace_raw_event_drv_ampdu_action+0x10a/0x160 [mac80211]
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[...]
Call Trace:
 [<f98fdf20>] ? ftrace_raw_event_drv_ampdu_action+0x0/0x160 [mac80211]
 [<f98dac4c>] ? __ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session+0xfc/0x220 [mac80211]
 [<f98d97fb>] ? ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions+0x3b/0x50 [mac80211]
 [<f98dc6f6>] ? ieee80211_set_disassoc+0xe6/0x230 [mac80211]
 [<f98dc6ac>] ? ieee80211_set_disassoc+0x9c/0x230 [mac80211]
 [<f98dcbb8>] ? ieee80211_mgd_deauth+0x158/0x170 [mac80211]
 [<f98e4bdb>] ? ieee80211_deauth+0x1b/0x20 [mac80211]
 [<f8987f49>] ? __cfg80211_mlme_deauth+0xe9/0x120 [cfg80211]
 [<f898b870>] ? __cfg80211_disconnect+0x170/0x1d0 [cfg80211]

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-26 11:52:13 -05:00
Johannes Berg 18c949070b mac80211: fill jiffies/vif on filtered frames
Filtered frames not only need their control information
cleared to avoid wrong checks, but also need to have
jiffies and vif assigned so they can be processed or
expired.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:40:49 -05:00
Johannes Berg 723bae7ee4 mac80211: track work started through callbacks
Currently, the remain_on_channel work callback needs
to track in its own data structure whether the work
was just started or not. By reordering some code this
becomes unnecessary, the generic wk->started variable
can still be 'false' on the first invocation and only
be 'true' on actual timeout invocations, so that the
extra variable can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:29 -05:00
Johannes Berg 382b16559d mac80211: fix sw crypto
What a stupid mistake. In

    commit 813d766940
    Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
    Date:   Sun Jan 17 01:47:58 2010 +0100

        mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment

I inserted code testing the wrong flags field,
which means that the test is almost always true
(it's really testing for the peer's WMM support)
and thus the later parts of the stack assume hw
crypto will be done even if that's not true.

Obviously, that broke software crypto. Maxim
said so specifically, and Jochen probably uses
some cipher that iwl3945 doesn't support in
hardware, which might also explain that Maxim
reports that even hw crypto is broken.

Fix this to test the right flags field.

Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:29 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 1396b231b0 mac80211: fix WARN_ON in the new work code
ieee80211_work_rx_mgmt currently enqueues various management frames,
including deauth and disassoc frames, however the function
ieee80211_work_rx_queued_mgmt does not handle these, as they should
only occur if the AP is buggy. It does emit a WARN_ON when this happens
though, and several users have reported such instances.
Fix the WARN_ON by not queueing such frames in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:28 -05:00
Kalle Valo eb807fb238 mac80211: fix update_tkip_key() documentation about the context
Johannes noticed that I had incorrectly documented the context of
update_tkip_key() driver operation. It must be atomic because all
RX code is run inside rcu critical section.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:28 -05:00
Kalle Valo 3b43a18743 mac80211: fix tx select key null pointer crash with hostapd
Pavel Roskin reported a crash in ieee80211_tx_h_select_key():

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=126419655108528&w=2

This is a regression from patch "mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment".
Fix it as suggested by Johannes, adding an else statement to make sure
that tx->key is not accessed when it's null.

Compile-tested only.

Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Tested-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-23 16:47:00 -05:00
David S. Miller 51c24aaaca Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-01-23 00:31:06 -08:00
Johannes Berg f12553ebe0 mac80211: add missing key check
ieee80211_tx_h_select_key might decide that a frame
need not be encrypted at all, in which case it will
clear tx->key. In that case it may crash if a key
was previously selected, e.g. as the default key.

This is also due to my patch
"mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:33:28 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 4bb29f8c39 mac80211: fix rx data handling for non-data frames on multiple vifs
The loop that passes non-data frames to all relevant vifs inside the
__ieee80211_rx_handle_packet keeps a pointer to the previous sdata to
avoid having to make unnecessary copies of the frame it's handling.
This led to a bug that caused it to apply the ieee80211_rx_data state
to the wrong interface, thereby either missing the rx.sta pointer or
having it assigned where it shouldn't be.
This breaks (among other things) aggregation on some vifs, as action
frame exchages are dropped to the cooked monitor interface due to
rx->sta being NULL.
Fix this by restructuring the loop so that it prepares the rx data just
before making the skb copy and calling the rx handlers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:11:33 -05:00
Johannes Berg b3fbdcf49f mac80211: pass vif and station to update_tkip_key
When a TKIP key is updated, we should pass the station
pointer instead of just the address, since drivers can
use that to store their own data. We also need to pass
the virtual interface pointer.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:08:55 -05:00
John W. Linville e4fca007b0 mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when using WEP
"mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment" changed an if-else into two
separate if statments, but the if-else is needed to prevent
dereferencing a null info->control.hw_key.  This fixes avoids a lock-up
during association on my machine when using WEP.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 12:39:14 -05:00
Benoit Papillault a98bfec298 mac80211: Fixed a bug in IBSS merge
First, both beacons and probe responses can be used for IBSS merge.
Next, sdata->u.ibss.bssid was always true (and thus IBSS merge was
disabled). We should use sdata->u.ibss.fixed_bssid instead.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:43:10 -05:00
Benoit Papillault ce9058aedd mac80211: removed useless code in IBSS management
ieee82011_sta_find_ibss() and ieee80211_sta_merge_ibss() are always
called with a defined state. So it's useless to check it or set it in
those function.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:43:10 -05:00
Johannes Berg c6fcf6bcfc mac80211: re-enable re-transmission of filtered frames
In an earlier commit,

    mac80211: disable software retry for now

    Pavel Roskin reported a problem that seems to be due to
    software retry of already transmitted frames. It turns
    out that we've never done that correctly, but due to
    some recent changes it now crashes in the TX code. I've
    added a comment in the patch that explains the problem
    better and also points to possible solutions -- which
    I can't implement right now.

I disabled software retry of failed/filtered frames
because it was broken. With the work of the previous
patches, it now becomes fairly easy to re-enable it
by adding a flag indicating that the frame shouldn't
be modified, but still running it through the transmit
handlers to populate the control information.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:21 -05:00
Johannes Berg 813d766940 mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment
When mac80211 asks a driver to encrypt a frame, it
must assign the control.hw_key pointer for it to
know which key to use etc. Currently, mac80211 does
this whenever it would software-encrypt a frame.

Change the logic of this code to assign the hw_key
pointer when selecting the key, and later check it
when deciding whether to encrypt the frame or let
it be encrypted by the hardware. This allows us to
later simply skip the encryption function since it
no longer modifies the TX control.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:19 -05:00
Johannes Berg a6bae9e7ab mac80211: remove useless setting of IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT
There's no value in setting a flag that will
never be checked after this point, this seems
to be legacy code -- I think previously the
flag was used to check whether to encrypt the
frame or not. Now, however, the flag need not
be set, and setting it actually interferes if
the frame will be processed again later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:17 -05:00
Johannes Berg 697e6a0fb0 mac80211: clear TX control on filtered frames
When an skb survived a round-trip through the driver
and needs to be re-used, its control information is
definitely not valid any more, the driver will have
overwritten it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:16 -05:00