linux-toradex.git/net/wireless/core.h, branch v3.8.3

cfg80211: fix BSS struct IE access races

2012-11-30T12:42:20+00:00

When a BSS struct is updated, the IEs are currently
overwritten or freed. This can lead to races if some
other CPU is accessing the BSS struct and using the
IEs concurrently.

Fix this by always allocating the IEs in a new struct
that holds the data and length and protecting access
to this new struct with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: rework chandef checking and export it

2012-11-27T08:18:25+00:00

Some of the chandef checking that we do in cfg80211
to check if a channel is supported or not is also
needed in mac80211, so rework that a bit and export
the functions that are needed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211/cfg80211: support VHT channel configuration

2012-11-26T11:42:59+00:00

Change nl80211 to support specifying a VHT (or HT)
using the control channel frequency (as before) and
new attributes for the channel width and first and
second center frequency. The old channel type is of
course still supported for HT.

Also change the cfg80211 channel definition struct
to support these by adding the relevant fields to
it (and removing the _type field.)

This also adds new helper functions:
 - cfg80211_chandef_create to create a channel def
   struct given the control channel and channel type,
 - cfg80211_chandef_identical to check if two channel
   definitions are identical
 - cfg80211_chandef_compatible to check if the given
   channel definitions are compatible, and return the
   wider of the two

This isn't entirely complete, but that doesn't matter
until we have a driver using it. In particular, it's
missing
 - regulatory checks on the usable bandwidth (if that
   even makes sense)
 - regulatory TX power (database can't deal with it)
 - a proper channel compatibility calculation for the
   new channel types

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: pass a channel definition struct

2012-11-26T11:42:58+00:00

Instead of passing a channel pointer and channel type
to all functions and driver methods, pass a new channel
definition struct. Right now, this struct contains just
the control channel and channel type, but for VHT this
will change.

Also, add a small inline cfg80211_get_chandef_type() so
that drivers don't need to use the _type field of the
new structure all the time, which will change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: remove remain-on-channel channel type

2012-11-26T11:42:58+00:00

As mwifiex (and mac80211 in the software case) are the
only drivers actually implementing remain-on-channel
with channel type, userspace can't be relying on it.
This is the case, as it's used only for P2P operations
right now.

Rather than adding a flag to tell userspace whether or
not it can actually rely on it, simplify all the code
by removing the ability to use different channel types.
Leave only the validation of the attribute, so that if
we extend it again later (with the needed capability
flag), it can't break userspace sending invalid data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: allow registering more than one beacon listener

2012-11-05T15:33:45+00:00

The commit:

commit 5e760230e42cf759bd923457ca2753aacf2e656e
Author: Johannes Berg 
Date:   Fri Nov 4 11:18:17 2011 +0100

    cfg80211: allow registering to beacons

allowed only a single process to register for beacon events
per wiphy.  This breaks cases where a user may want two or
more VIFs on a wiphy and run a seperate hostapd process on
each vif.

This patch allows multiple beacon listeners, fixing the
regression.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: Allow user space to specify non-IEs to SAE Authentication

2012-10-17T09:02:11+00:00

SAE extends Authentication frames with fields that are not information
elements. NL80211_ATTR_IE is not suitable for these, so introduce a new
attribute that can be used to specify the fields needed for SAE in
station mode.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen 
[change to verify that SAE is only used with authenticate command]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

2012-09-10T19:30:41+00:00

It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
process identifier.  Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.

I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.

I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device

2012-08-06T18:29:58+00:00

libertas currently calls cfg80211_disconnected() when it is being
brought down. This causes an event to be allocated, but since the
wdev is already removed from the rdev by the time that the event
processing work executes, the event is never processed or freed.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/95666

Fix this leak, and other possible situations, by processing the event
queue when a device is being unregistered. Thanks to Johannes Berg for
the suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: reduce monitor interface tracking

2012-07-13T14:16:11+00:00

Revert commit b78e8ceac23655e1e06b30aa95ab11742d1ac7c0
("cfg80211: track monitor channel") and remove the
set_monitor_enabled() callback.

Due to the tracking happening in NETDEV_PRE_UP, it had
introduced bugs because the monitor interface callback
would be called before the device was started. It looks
like there's no way to fix this, and using NETDEV_PRE_UP
is broken anyway (since there's no NETDEV_UP_FAIL), so
remove all that code, track interfaces in NETDEV_UP and
also stop tracking the monitor channel in cfg80211.

This mostly reverts to before the tracking, except that
we keep the interface count tracking so that setting the
monitor channel can be rejected properly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg