linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/scan.c, branch v3.0.17

mac80211: fix ie memory allocation for scheduled scans

2011-07-07T17:06:08+00:00

We were not allocating memory for the IEs passed in the scheduled_scan
request and this was causing memory corruption (buffer overflow).

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: Remove duplicate linux/slab.h include from net/mac80211/scan.c

2011-05-27T16:53:47+00:00

Commit 79f460ca49d8d5700756ab7071c951311c7f29cc add a duplicate
linux/slab.h include to net/mac80211/scan.c - remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl 
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: abort scan_work immediately when the device goes down

2011-05-16T18:25:29+00:00

As long as no delay is required b/w channel change, scan work
is proceeding without scheduling a new work. In such case, we
can not abort scan work when the card was unplugged. This patch
completes the scanning immediately whenever the device goes down.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211/mac80211: avoid bounce back mac->cfg->mac on sched_scan_stopped

2011-05-12T18:10:55+00:00

When sched_scan_stopped was called by the driver, mac80211 calls
cfg80211, which in turn was calling mac80211 back with a flag
"driver_initiated".  This flag was used so that mac80211 would do the
necessary cleanup but would not call the driver.  This was enough to
prevent the bounce back between the driver and mac80211, but not
between mac80211 and cfg80211.

To fix this, we now do the cleanup in mac80211 before calling
cfg80211.  To help with locking issues, the workqueue was moved from
cfg80211 to mac80211.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: add support for HW scheduled scan

2011-05-11T19:12:27+00:00

Implement support for HW scheduled scan.  The mac80211 code doesn't perform
scheduled scans itself, but calls the driver to start and stop scheduled
scans.

This patch also creates a trace event class to be used by drv_hw_scan
and the new drv_sched_scan_start and drv_sched_stop functions, in
order to avoid duplicate code.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: don't drop frames where skb->len < 24 in ieee80211_scan_rx()

2011-05-10T19:54:54+00:00

This seems to be a leftover from the old days, when we didn't support
any frames that didn't contain the full ieee802.11 header.  This is
not the case anymore.  It does not cause problems now, because they
are only dropped during scan.  But when scheduled scans get merged,
this would become a problem because we would drop all small frames
while scheduled scan is running.

To fix this, return RX_CONTINUE instead of RX_DROP_MONITOR.

Cc: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: fix scan race, simplify code

2011-03-07T18:51:04+00:00

The scan code has a race that Michael reported
he ran into, but it's easy to fix while at the
same time simplifying the code.

The race resulted in the following warning:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at net/mac80211/scan.c:310 ieee80211_rx_bss_free+0x20c/0x4b8 [mac80211]()
Modules linked in: [...]
[] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from [] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x64)
[... backtrace wasn't useful ...]

Reported-by: Michael Buesch 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: Ensure power-level set properly for scanning.

2011-02-09T21:09:48+00:00

My previous patch to optimize scanning on operating channel
accidentally removed the code that would ensure power was
set to maximum for scanning.

This patch re-adds that functionality.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: Allow scanning on existing channel-type.

2011-02-09T21:09:46+00:00

Previous code set the channel type to NO_HT, but it
appears that NO_HT packets can be sent on any channel
type, so we do not need to change the channel type
as long as the channel is correct.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: Optimize scans on current operating channel.

2011-02-04T21:30:32+00:00

This should decrease un-necessary flushes, on/off channel work,
and channel changes in cases where the only scanned channel is
the current operating channel.

* Removes SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL flag, uses SDATA_STATE_OFFCHANNEL
  and is-scanning flags instead.

* Add helper method to determine if we are currently configured
  for the operating channel.

* Do no blindly go off/on channel in work.c  Instead, only call
  appropriate on/off code when we really need to change channels.
  Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting work,
  and disable it when we are done.

* Consolidate ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station and
  ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing, call it
  ieee80211_offchannel_stop_vifs instead.

* Accept non-beacon frames when scanning on operating channel.

* Scan state machine optimized to minimize on/off channel
  transitions.  Also, when going on-channel, go ahead and
  re-enable beaconing.  We're going to be there for 200ms,
  so seems like some useful beaconing could happen.
  Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting software
  scan, and disable it when we are done.

* Grab local->mtx earlier in __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish
  so that we are protected when calling hw_config(), etc.

* Pass probe-responses up the stack if scanning on local
  channel, so that mlme can take a look.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville