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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/wireless/sme.c, branch v3.0.29</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>cfg80211: Use consistent BSS matching between scan and sme</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T14:37:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jouni Malinen</name>
<email>jouni.malinen@atheros.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-16T16:40:15+00:00</published>
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cfg80211 scan code adds separate BSS entries if the same BSS shows up
on multiple channels. However, sme implementation does not use the
frequency when fetching the BSS entry. Fix this by adding channel
information to cfg80211_roamed() and include it in cfg80211_get_bss()
calls.

Please note that drivers using cfg80211_roamed() need to be modified to
fully implement this fix. This commit includes only minimal changes to
avoid compilation issues; it maintains the old (broken) behavior for
most drivers. ath6kl was the only one that I could test, so I updated
it to provide the operating frequency in the roamed event.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni.malinen@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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cfg80211 scan code adds separate BSS entries if the same BSS shows up
on multiple channels. However, sme implementation does not use the
frequency when fetching the BSS entry. Fix this by adding channel
information to cfg80211_roamed() and include it in cfg80211_get_bss()
calls.

Please note that drivers using cfg80211_roamed() need to be modified to
fully implement this fix. This commit includes only minimal changes to
avoid compilation issues; it maintains the old (broken) behavior for
most drivers. ath6kl was the only one that I could test, so I updated
it to provide the operating frequency in the roamed event.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni.malinen@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKs</title>
<updated>2010-10-06T20:30:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-05T17:39:30+00:00</published>
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This adds API to allow adding per-station GTKs,
updates mac80211 to support it, and also allows
drivers to remove a key from hwaccel again when
this may be necessary due to multiple GTKs.

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 adds API to allow adding per-station GTKs,
updates mac80211 to support it, and also allows
drivers to remove a key from hwaccel again when
this may be necessary due to multiple GTKs.

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>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211/nl80211: introduce p2p device types</title>
<updated>2010-09-16T19:46:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-16T12:58:22+00:00</published>
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This adds P2P-STA and P2P-GO as device types so
we can distinguish between those and normal STA
or AP (respectively) type interfaces.

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 adds P2P-STA and P2P-GO as device types so
we can distinguish between those and normal STA
or AP (respectively) type interfaces.

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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wireless: mark cfg80211_is_all_idle as static</title>
<updated>2010-07-20T20:49:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-20T16:32:52+00:00</published>
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  CHECK   net/wireless/sme.c
net/wireless/sme.c:38:6: warning: symbol 'cfg80211_is_all_idle' was not declared. Should it be static?

It is not used elsewhere, so mark it static.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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  CHECK   net/wireless/sme.c
net/wireless/sme.c:38:6: warning: symbol 'cfg80211_is_all_idle' was not declared. Should it be static?

It is not used elsewhere, so mark it static.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem</title>
<updated>2010-05-11T18:24:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-11T18:24:55+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211/mac80211: better channel handling</title>
<updated>2010-05-07T18:55:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-05T13:25:02+00:00</published>
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Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
then adding another virtual interface and making
that associate on another channel -- this will make
the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
the necessary IEs data update.

In order to improve this situation, first make the
configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
change and one API addition. The API change is that
now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
effect for that interface -- luckily all current
users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.

The second userland API change is the introduction
of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
to understand what's going on (it can automatically
detect a kernel with this command).

Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
are affected by this change because they only allow
a single virtual interface.

mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
channel settings are per interface now, and needs
to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
which is another important part of this patch.

One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
has a connection on another virtual interface, as
long as you specify the same channel.

Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
improvement -- not a complete fix):

 * different HT/no-HT modes

   currently you could start an HT AP and then
   connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
   which would configure the hardware for no HT;
   that can be fixed fairly easily

 * CSA

   An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
   might indicate switching channels, and in that
   case we would follow it, regardless of how many
   other interfaces are operating; this requires
   more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
then adding another virtual interface and making
that associate on another channel -- this will make
the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
the necessary IEs data update.

In order to improve this situation, first make the
configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
change and one API addition. The API change is that
now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
effect for that interface -- luckily all current
users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.

The second userland API change is the introduction
of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
to understand what's going on (it can automatically
detect a kernel with this command).

Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
are affected by this change because they only allow
a single virtual interface.

mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
channel settings are per interface now, and needs
to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
which is another important part of this patch.

One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
has a connection on another virtual interface, as
long as you specify the same channel.

Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
improvement -- not a complete fix):

 * different HT/no-HT modes

   currently you could start an HT AP and then
   connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
   which would configure the hardware for no HT;
   that can be fixed fairly easily

 * CSA

   An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
   might indicate switching channels, and in that
   case we would follow it, regardless of how many
   other interfaces are operating; this requires
   more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into for-davem</title>
<updated>2010-04-23T18:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-23T18:43:45+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211: Avoid sending IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE events with NULL event body</title>
<updated>2010-04-16T19:32:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nishant Sarmukadam</name>
<email>nishants@marvell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-15T05:03:02+00:00</published>
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In a scenario, where a cfg80211 driver (station mode) does not send assoc request
and assoc response IEs in cfg80211_connect_result after a successful association
to an AP, cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE to the user space
application with NULL data. This can cause an issue at the event recipient.

An example of this is when cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE
events with NULL event body to wpa_supplicant. The wpa_supplicant overwrites
the assoc request and assoc response IEs for this station with NULL data.
If the association is WPA/WPA2, the wpa_supplicant is not able to generate
EAPOL handshake messages, since the IEs are NULL.

With the patch, req_ie and resp_ie will be NULL by avoiding the
assignment if the driver has not sent the IEs to cfg80211. The event sending
code sends the events only if resp_ie and req_ie are not NULL. This
will ensure that the events are not sent with NULL event body.

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam &lt;nishants@marvell.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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In a scenario, where a cfg80211 driver (station mode) does not send assoc request
and assoc response IEs in cfg80211_connect_result after a successful association
to an AP, cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE to the user space
application with NULL data. This can cause an issue at the event recipient.

An example of this is when cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE
events with NULL event body to wpa_supplicant. The wpa_supplicant overwrites
the assoc request and assoc response IEs for this station with NULL data.
If the association is WPA/WPA2, the wpa_supplicant is not able to generate
EAPOL handshake messages, since the IEs are NULL.

With the patch, req_ie and resp_ie will be NULL by avoiding the
assignment if the driver has not sent the IEs to cfg80211. The event sending
code sends the events only if resp_ie and req_ie are not NULL. This
will ensure that the events are not sent with NULL event body.

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam &lt;nishants@marvell.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem</title>
<updated>2010-04-15T20:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-15T20:21:34+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc</title>
<updated>2010-04-07T18:37:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jouni Malinen</name>
<email>j@w1.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-04T06:37:19+00:00</published>
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cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association
commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements,
user space applications may need to clear authentication or
association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with
deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication
or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to
allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other
deauth/disassoc operations being completed.

Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in
the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange
in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an
authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without
sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication
command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to
indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This
enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;j@w1.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association
commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements,
user space applications may need to clear authentication or
association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with
deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication
or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to
allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other
deauth/disassoc operations being completed.

Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in
the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange
in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an
authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without
sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication
command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to
indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This
enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;j@w1.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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