linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/tx.c, branch v4.1.10

mac80211: enable assoc check for mesh interfaces

2015-09-29T17:25:57+00:00

commit 3633ebebab2bbe88124388b7620442315c968e8f upstream.

We already set a station to be associated when peering completes, both
in user space and in the kernel.  Thus we should always have an
associated sta before sending data frames to that station.

Failure to check assoc state can cause crashes in the lower-level driver
due to transmitting unicast data frames before driver sta structures
(e.g. ampdu state in ath9k) are initialized.  This occurred when
forwarding in the presence of fixed mesh paths: frames were transmitted
to stations with whom we hadn't yet completed peering.

Reported-by: Alexis Green 
Tested-by: Jesse Jones 
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mac80211: add an intermediate software queue implementation

2015-04-01T18:44:34+00:00

This allows drivers to request per-vif and per-sta-tid queues from which
they can pull frames. This makes it easier to keep the hardware queues
short, and to improve fairness between clients and vifs.

The task of scheduling packet transmission is left up to the driver -
queueing is controlled by mac80211. Drivers can only dequeue packets by
calling ieee80211_tx_dequeue. This makes it possible to add active queue
management later without changing drivers using this code.

This can also be used as a starting point to implement A-MSDU
aggregation in a way that does not add artificially induced latency.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
[resolved minor context conflict, minor changes, endian annotations]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2015-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2015-03-31T20:39:04+00:00

Johannes Berg says:

====================
Lots of updates for net-next; along with the usual flurry
of small fixes, cleanups and internal features we have:
 * VHT support for TDLS and IBSS (conditional on drivers though)
 * first TX performance improvements (the biggest will come later)
 * many suspend/resume (race) fixes
 * name_assign_type support from Tom Gundersen
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: factor out station lookup from ieee80211_build_hdr()

2015-03-30T08:47:19+00:00

In order to look up the RA station earlier to implement a TX
fastpath, factor out the lookup from ieee80211_build_hdr().
To always have a valid station pointer, also move some of the
checks into the new function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: make sta.wme indicate whether QoS is used

2015-03-30T08:47:16+00:00

Indicating just the peer's capability is fairly pointless
if the local device doesn't support it. Make the variable
track both combined, and remove the 'local support' check
in the TX path.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: avoid duplicate TX path station lookup

2015-03-20T15:27:36+00:00

Instead of looking up the destination station twice in the TX path
(first to build the header, and then for control processing), save
it when building the header and use it later in the TX path.

To avoid having to look up the station in the many callers, allow
those to pass %NULL which keeps the existing lookup.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: mesh: avoid pointless station lookup

2015-03-20T15:27:36+00:00

In ieee80211_build_hdr(), the station is looked up to build the
header correctly (QoS field) and to check for authorization. For
mesh, authorization isn't checked here, and QoS capability is
mandatory, so the station lookup can be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: drop 4-addr VLAN frames earlier if not connected

2015-03-20T15:27:35+00:00

If there's no station on the 4-addr VLAN interface, then frames
cannot be transmitted. Drop such frames earlier, before setting
up all the information for them.

We should keep the old check though since that code might be used
for other internally-generated frames.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: don't look up destination station twice

2015-03-20T15:27:34+00:00

There's no need to look up the destination station twice while
building the 802.11 header for a given frame if the frame will
actually be transmitted to the station we initially looked up.

This happens for 4-addr VLAN interfaces and TDLS connections, which
both directly send the frame to the station they looked up, though
in the case of TDLS some station conditions need to be checked.

To avoid that, add a variable indicating that we've looked up the
station that the frame is going to be transmitted to, and avoid the
lookup/flag checking if it already has been done.

In the TDLS case, also move the authorized/wme_sta flag assignment
to the correct place, i.e. only when that station is really used.
Before this change, the new lookup should always have succeeded so
that the potentially erroneous data would be overwritten.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove drop_unencrypted code

2015-03-20T10:37:36+00:00

This mechanism was historic, and only ever used by IBSS, which
also doesn't need to have it as it properly manages station's
802.1X PAE state (or, with WEP, always has a key.)

Remove the mechanism to clean up the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg