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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/sta_info.c, branch v3.4.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mac80211: fix non RCU-safe sta_list manipulation</title>
<updated>2012-06-17T18:21:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arik Nemtsov</name>
<email>arik@wizery.com</email>
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<published>2012-06-03T20:32:32+00:00</published>
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commit 794454ce72a298de6f4536ade597bdcc7dcde7c7 upstream.

sta_info_cleanup locks the sta_list using rcu_read_lock however
the delete operation isn't rcu safe. A race between sta_info_cleanup
timer being called and a STA being removed can occur which leads
to a panic while traversing sta_list. Fix this by switching to the
RCU-safe versions.

Reported-by: Eyal Shapira &lt;eyal@wizery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov &lt;arik@wizery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 794454ce72a298de6f4536ade597bdcc7dcde7c7 upstream.

sta_info_cleanup locks the sta_list using rcu_read_lock however
the delete operation isn't rcu safe. A race between sta_info_cleanup
timer being called and a STA being removed can occur which leads
to a panic while traversing sta_list. Fix this by switching to the
RCU-safe versions.

Reported-by: Eyal Shapira &lt;eyal@wizery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov &lt;arik@wizery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mac80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmp</title>
<updated>2012-03-05T20:38:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@openwrt.org</email>
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<published>2012-03-01T14:22:09+00:00</published>
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Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline
compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&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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Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline
compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&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: handle non-bufferable MMPDUs correctly</title>
<updated>2012-02-29T19:14:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2012-02-27T11:18:30+00:00</published>
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This renames the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE
TX flag to IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER and also
uses it for non-bufferable MMPDUs (all MMPDUs but
deauth, disassoc and action frames.)

Previously, mac80211 would let the MMPDU through
but not set the flag so drivers supporting some
hardware aids for avoiding the PS races would
then reject the frame.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This renames the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE
TX flag to IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER and also
uses it for non-bufferable MMPDUs (all MMPDUs but
deauth, disassoc and action frames.)

Previously, mac80211 would let the MMPDU through
but not set the flag so drivers supporting some
hardware aids for avoiding the PS races would
then reject the frame.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>mac80211: fix sta_info_flush() return value</title>
<updated>2012-02-27T19:06:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-25T20:40:46+00:00</published>
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The comment for sta_info_flush() states
"Returns the number of removed STA entries"
but that isn't actually true. Consequently,
the warning when a station is still around
on interface removal can never trigger and
this delayed finding the timer issue the
previous patch fixed. Fix the return value
here to make that warning useful again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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The comment for sta_info_flush() states
"Returns the number of removed STA entries"
but that isn't actually true. Consequently,
the warning when a station is still around
on interface removal can never trigger and
this delayed finding the timer issue the
previous patch fixed. Fix the return value
here to make that warning useful again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: add #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG for a debug printk</title>
<updated>2012-02-08T20:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-07T11:45:44+00:00</published>
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When not debugging mac80211 code, station state transitions do not need to
show up in the kernel log.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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When not debugging mac80211 code, station state transitions do not need to
show up in the kernel log.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: remove dummy STA support</title>
<updated>2012-02-06T19:50:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-20T12:55:24+00:00</published>
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The dummy STA support was added because I didn't
want to change the driver API at the time. Now
that we have state transitions triggering station
add/remove in the driver, we only call add once a
station reaches ASSOCIATED, so we can remove the
dummy station stuff again.

While at it, tighten the RX check and accept only
port control (EAP) frames from the AP station if
it's not associated yet -- in other cases there's
no race.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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The dummy STA support was added because I didn't
want to change the driver API at the time. Now
that we have state transitions triggering station
add/remove in the driver, we only call add once a
station reaches ASSOCIATED, so we can remove the
dummy station stuff again.

While at it, tighten the RX check and accept only
port control (EAP) frames from the AP station if
it's not associated yet -- in other cases there's
no race.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: implement sta_add/sta_remove in sta_state</title>
<updated>2012-02-06T19:48:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-20T12:55:22+00:00</published>
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Instead of maintaining separate sta_add/sta_remove
callsites, implement it in sta_state when the driver
has no sta_state implementation.

The only behavioural change this should cause is in
secure mesh mode: with this the station entries will
only be created after the stations are set to AUTH.
Given which drivers support mesh, this seems to not
be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Instead of maintaining separate sta_add/sta_remove
callsites, implement it in sta_state when the driver
has no sta_state implementation.

The only behavioural change this should cause is in
secure mesh mode: with this the station entries will
only be created after the stations are set to AUTH.
Given which drivers support mesh, this seems to not
be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: add sta_state callback</title>
<updated>2012-02-06T19:48:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-20T12:55:21+00:00</published>
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(based on Eliad's patch)

Add a callback to notify the low-level driver whenever
the state of a station changes. The driver is only
notified when the station is actually in the mac80211
hash table, not for pre-insert state transitions.

To allow the driver to replace sta_add/remove calls
with this, call extra transitions with the NOTEXIST
state.

This callback can fail, so we need to be careful in
handling it when a station is inserted, particularly
in the IBSS case where we still keep the station entry
around for mac80211 purposes.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller &lt;eliad@wizery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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(based on Eliad's patch)

Add a callback to notify the low-level driver whenever
the state of a station changes. The driver is only
notified when the station is actually in the mac80211
hash table, not for pre-insert state transitions.

To allow the driver to replace sta_add/remove calls
with this, call extra transitions with the NOTEXIST
state.

This callback can fail, so we need to be careful in
handling it when a station is inserted, particularly
in the IBSS case where we still keep the station entry
around for mac80211 purposes.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller &lt;eliad@wizery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>mac80211: add NOTEXIST station state</title>
<updated>2012-02-06T19:48:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-20T12:55:20+00:00</published>
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This will be used by drivers later if they
need to have stations inserted all the time,
in mac80211 has no purpose, is never used
and sta_state starts out in NONE.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This will be used by drivers later if they
need to have stations inserted all the time,
in mac80211 has no purpose, is never used
and sta_state starts out in NONE.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: simplify AP_VLAN handling</title>
<updated>2012-02-06T19:48:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-20T12:55:18+00:00</published>
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Setting keys and updating TKIP keys must use the
BSS sdata (not AP_VLAN), so we translate. Move
the translation into driver-ops wrappers instead
of having it inline in the code to simplify the
normal code flow.

The same can be done for sta_add/remove which
already does the translation in the wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Setting keys and updating TKIP keys must use the
BSS sdata (not AP_VLAN), so we translate. Move
the translation into driver-ops wrappers instead
of having it inline in the code to simplify the
normal code flow.

The same can be done for sta_add/remove which
already does the translation in the wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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