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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/debugfs_key.c, branch v2.6.28</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mac80211: share STA information with driver</title>
<updated>2008-09-15T20:48:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
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<published>2008-09-10T22:02:02+00:00</published>
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This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about
stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when
 they get around to updating, and might also help with
implementing rate control algorithms without internals.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Sujith Manoharan &lt;Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about
stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when
 they get around to updating, and might also help with
implementing rate control algorithms without internals.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Sujith Manoharan &lt;Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: Fix debugfs union misuse and pointer corruption</title>
<updated>2008-09-02T21:39:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jouni Malinen</name>
<email>jouni.malinen@atheros.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-28T12:12:06+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;jouni.malinen@atheros.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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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 &lt;jouni.malinen@atheros.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: add a struct to hold tkip context</title>
<updated>2008-05-22T01:47:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-14T23:26:19+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "John W. Linville" &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "John W. Linville" &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: fix debugfs default key oops</title>
<updated>2008-05-13T01:18:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-02T23:04:47+00:00</published>
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Under certain circumstances (in AP mode) the debugfs function
that is supposed to add the default key symlink can encounter
a NULL default_key pointer. This patch makes it handle that
situtation gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Under certain circumstances (in AP mode) the debugfs function
that is supposed to add the default key symlink can encounter
a NULL default_key pointer. This patch makes it handle that
situtation gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: fix key debugfs default_key link</title>
<updated>2008-04-08T20:46:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-08T20:46:36+00:00</published>
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The default_key symlink points to the key index rather than
they key counter, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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The default_key symlink points to the key index rather than
they key counter, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: rename files</title>
<updated>2008-04-08T20:44:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-08T19:14:40+00:00</published>
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This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid
of the useless ieee80211_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid
of the useless ieee80211_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: fix key vs. sta locking problems</title>
<updated>2008-04-08T20:44:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-08T15:56:52+00:00</published>
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Up to now, key manipulation is supposed to run under RTNL to
avoid concurrent manipulations and also allow the set_key()
hardware callback to sleep. This is not feasible because STA
structs are rcu-protected and thus a lot of operations there
cannot take the RTNL. Also, key references are rcu-protected
so we cannot do things atomically.

This patch changes key locking completely:
 * key operations are now atomic
 * hardware crypto offload is enabled and disabled from
   a workqueue, due to that key freeing is also delayed
 * debugfs code is also run from a workqueue
 * keys reference STAs (and vice versa!) so during STA
   unlink the STAs key reference is removed but not the
   keys STA reference, to avoid races key todo work is
   run before STA destruction.
 * fewer STA operations now need the RTNL which was
   required due to key operations

This fixes the locking problems lockdep pointed out and also
makes things more light-weight because the rtnl isn't required
as much.

Note that the key todo lock/key mutex are global locks, this
is not required, of course, they could be per-hardware instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Up to now, key manipulation is supposed to run under RTNL to
avoid concurrent manipulations and also allow the set_key()
hardware callback to sleep. This is not feasible because STA
structs are rcu-protected and thus a lot of operations there
cannot take the RTNL. Also, key references are rcu-protected
so we cannot do things atomically.

This patch changes key locking completely:
 * key operations are now atomic
 * hardware crypto offload is enabled and disabled from
   a workqueue, due to that key freeing is also delayed
 * debugfs code is also run from a workqueue
 * keys reference STAs (and vice versa!) so during STA
   unlink the STAs key reference is removed but not the
   keys STA reference, to avoid races key todo work is
   run before STA destruction.
 * fewer STA operations now need the RTNL which was
   required due to key operations

This fixes the locking problems lockdep pointed out and also
makes things more light-weight because the rtnl isn't required
as much.

Note that the key todo lock/key mutex are global locks, this
is not required, of course, they could be per-hardware instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:51:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-04T00:59:30+00:00</published>
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This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[MAC80211]: add interface index to key debugfs</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:48:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-28T21:01:55+00:00</published>
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Add a new file 'ifindex' to each key's debugfs dir to
allow finding which interface the key was configured on.
This isn't done as a symlink because of possible netdev
name changes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Wu &lt;flamingice@sourmilk.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add a new file 'ifindex' to each key's debugfs dir to
allow finding which interface the key was configured on.
This isn't done as a symlink because of possible netdev
name changes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Wu &lt;flamingice@sourmilk.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[MAC80211]: rework key handling</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:48:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-28T21:01:55+00:00</published>
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This moves all the key handling code out from ieee80211_ioctl.c
into key.c and also does the following changes including documentation
updates in mac80211.h:

 1) Turn off hardware acceleration for keys when the interface
    is down. This is necessary because otherwise monitor
    interfaces could be decrypting frames for other interfaces
    that are down at the moment. Also, it should go some way
    towards better suspend/resume support, in any case the
    routines used here could be used for that as well.
    Additionally, this makes the driver interface nicer, keys
    for a specific local MAC address are only ever present
    while an interface with that MAC address is enabled.

 2) Change driver set_key() callback interface to allow only
    return values of -ENOSPC, -EOPNOTSUPP and 0, warn on all
    other return values. This allows debugging the stack when
    a driver notices it's handed a key while it is down.

 3) Invert the flag meaning to KEY_FLAG_UPLOADED_TO_HARDWARE.

 4) Remove REMOVE_ALL_KEYS command as it isn't used nor do we
    want to use it, we'll use DISABLE_KEY for each key. It is
    hard to use REMOVE_ALL_KEYS because we can handle multiple
    virtual interfaces with different key configuration, so we'd
    have to keep track of a lot of state for this and that isn't
    worth it.

 5) Warn when disabling a key fails, it musn't.

 6) Remove IEEE80211_HW_NO_TKIP_WMM_HWACCEL in favour of per-key
    IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_WMM_STA to let driver sort it out itself.

 7) Tell driver that a (non-WEP) key is used only for transmission
    by using an all-zeroes station MAC address when configuring.

 8) Change the set_key() callback to have access to the local MAC
    address the key is being added for.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Wu &lt;flamingice@sourmilk.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This moves all the key handling code out from ieee80211_ioctl.c
into key.c and also does the following changes including documentation
updates in mac80211.h:

 1) Turn off hardware acceleration for keys when the interface
    is down. This is necessary because otherwise monitor
    interfaces could be decrypting frames for other interfaces
    that are down at the moment. Also, it should go some way
    towards better suspend/resume support, in any case the
    routines used here could be used for that as well.
    Additionally, this makes the driver interface nicer, keys
    for a specific local MAC address are only ever present
    while an interface with that MAC address is enabled.

 2) Change driver set_key() callback interface to allow only
    return values of -ENOSPC, -EOPNOTSUPP and 0, warn on all
    other return values. This allows debugging the stack when
    a driver notices it's handed a key while it is down.

 3) Invert the flag meaning to KEY_FLAG_UPLOADED_TO_HARDWARE.

 4) Remove REMOVE_ALL_KEYS command as it isn't used nor do we
    want to use it, we'll use DISABLE_KEY for each key. It is
    hard to use REMOVE_ALL_KEYS because we can handle multiple
    virtual interfaces with different key configuration, so we'd
    have to keep track of a lot of state for this and that isn't
    worth it.

 5) Warn when disabling a key fails, it musn't.

 6) Remove IEEE80211_HW_NO_TKIP_WMM_HWACCEL in favour of per-key
    IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_WMM_STA to let driver sort it out itself.

 7) Tell driver that a (non-WEP) key is used only for transmission
    by using an all-zeroes station MAC address when configuring.

 8) Change the set_key() callback to have access to the local MAC
    address the key is being added for.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Wu &lt;flamingice@sourmilk.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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