linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/mlme.c, branch v4.9.60

cfg80211/mac80211: fix BSS leaks when abandoning assoc attempts

2017-01-09T07:32:17+00:00

commit e6f462df9acd2a3295e5d34eb29e2823220cf129 upstream.

When mac80211 abandons an association attempt, it may free
all the data structures, but inform cfg80211 and userspace
about it only by sending the deauth frame it received, in
which case cfg80211 has no link to the BSS struct that was
used and will not cfg80211_unhold_bss() it.

Fix this by providing a way to inform cfg80211 of this with
the BSS entry passed, so that it can clean up properly, and
use this ability in the appropriate places in mac80211.

This isn't ideal: some code is more or less duplicated and
tracing is missing. However, it's a fairly small change and
it's thus easier to backport - cleanups can come later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mac80211: fix possible out-of-bounds access

2016-09-15T14:46:16+00:00

In the unlikely situation that the supplicant has negotiated
admission for the background AC (which it has no reason to as
it's not supposed to be requiring admission control to start
with, and we'd ignore such a requirement anyway), the loop
here may terminate with non_acm_ac == 4, which leads to an
array overrun.

Check this explicitly just for completeness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove disconnected APs from BSS table

2016-05-12T09:14:23+00:00

In some cases, after a sudden AP disappearing and reconnection to
another AP in the same ESS, user space gets the old AP in scan
results (cached). User space may decide to roam to that old AP
which will cause a disconnection and longer recovery.
Remove APs that are probably out of range from BSS table.

Signed-off-by: David Spinadel 
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_band

2016-04-12T13:56:15+00:00

This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: add fast-rx path

2016-04-06T11:18:18+00:00

The regular RX path has a lot of code, but with a few
assumptions on the hardware it's possible to reduce the
amount of code significantly. Currently the assumptions
on the driver are the following:
 * hardware/driver reordering buffer (if supporting aggregation)
 * hardware/driver decryption & PN checking (if using encryption)
 * hardware/driver did de-duplication
 * hardware/driver did A-MSDU deaggregation
 * AP_LINK_PS is used (in AP mode)
 * no client powersave handling in mac80211 (in client mode)

of which some are actually checked per packet:
 * de-duplication
 * PN checking
 * decryption
and additionally packets must
 * not be A-MSDU (have been deaggregated by driver/device)
 * be data packets
 * not be fragmented
 * be unicast
 * have RFC 1042 header

Additionally dynamically we assume:
 * no encryption or CCMP/GCMP, TKIP/WEP/other not allowed
 * station must be authorized
 * 4-addr format not enabled

Some data needed for the RX path is cached in a new per-station
"fast_rx" structure, so that we only need to look at this and
the packet, no other memory when processing packets on the fast
RX path.

After doing the above per-packet checks, the data path collapses
down to a pretty simple conversion function taking advantage of
the data cached in the small fast_rx struct.

This should speed up the RX processing, and will make it easier
to reason about parallelizing RX (for which statistics will need
to be per-CPU still.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: avoid useless memory write on each frame RX

2016-04-05T19:34:21+00:00

In the likely case that probe_count is 0, don't write to the
memory there.

Also use ifmgd consistently in the function, instead of using
sdata->u.mgd as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2016-02-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2016-03-01T22:03:27+00:00

Johannes Berg says:

====================
Here's another round of updates for -next:
 * big A-MSDU RX performance improvement (avoid linearize of paged RX)
 * rfkill changes: cleanups, documentation, platform properties
 * basic PBSS support in cfg80211
 * MU-MIMO action frame processing support
 * BlockAck reordering & duplicate detection offload support
 * various cleanups & little fixes
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: move MU_MIMO_OWNER flag to ieee80211_vif

2016-02-24T08:04:40+00:00

Drivers may need to track which vif is using VHT MU-MIMO.
Move the flag indicationg the ownership of MU_MIMO to
ieee80211_vif.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon 
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: always print a message when disconnecting

2016-02-24T08:04:28+00:00

Make sure there's at least a debug message whenever the
connection to the AP is terminated.

Also change one message from wiphy_debug() to the common
mlme_dbg().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: refactor HT/VHT to chandef code

2016-02-24T08:04:21+00:00

The station MLME and IBSS/mesh ones use entirely different
code for interpreting HT and VHT operation elements. Change
the code that interprets them a bit - it now modifies an
existing chandef - and use it also in the MLME code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg