linux-toradex.git/net/wireless, branch v2.6.37.2

cfg80211: fix disabling channels based on hints

2011-02-17T23:14:02+00:00

commit ca4ffe8f2848169a8ded0ea8a60b2d81925564c9 upstream.

After a module loads you will have loaded the world roaming regulatory
domain or a custom regulatory domain. Further regulatory hints are
welcomed and should be respected unless the regulatory hint is coming
from a country IE as the IEEE spec allows for a country IE to be a subset
of what is allowed by the local regulatory agencies.

So disable all channels that do not fit a regulatory domain sent
from a unless the hint is from a country IE and the country IE had
no information about the band we are currently processing.

This fixes a few regulatory issues, for example for drivers that depend
on CRDA and had no 5 GHz freqencies allowed were not properly disabling
5 GHz at all, furthermore it also allows users to restrict devices
further as was intended.

If you recieve a country IE upon association we will also disable the
channels that are not allowed if the country IE had at least one
channel on the respective band we are procesing.

This was the original intention behind this design but it was
completely overlooked...

Cc: David Quan 
Cc: Jouni Malinen 
cc: Easwar Krishnan 
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211: fix allowing country IEs for WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY

2011-02-17T23:14:02+00:00

commit 749b527b21465fb079796c03ffb4302584dc31c1 upstream.

We should be enabling country IE hints for WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY
even if we haven't yet recieved regulatory domain hint for the driver
if it needed one. Without this Country IEs are not passed on to drivers
that have set WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY, today this is just all
Atheros chipset drivers: ath5k, ath9k, ar9170, carl9170.

This was part of the original design, however it was completely
overlooked...

Cc: Easwar Krishnan 
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211: pass the reg hint initiator to helpers

2011-02-17T23:14:02+00:00

commit 7ca43d03b1291481bdf894bbaec5d580e7684e7d upstream.

This is required later.

Cc: Easwar Krishnan 
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211: fix can_beacon_sec_chan, reenable HT40

2010-11-18T16:35:05+00:00

This follows wireless-testing 9236d838c920e90708570d9bbd7bb82d30a38130
("cfg80211: fix extension channel checks to initiate communication") and
fixes accidental case fall-through. Without this fix, HT40 is entirely
blocked.

Signed-off-by: Mark Mentovai 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez

cfg80211: fix extension channel checks to initiate communication

2010-11-16T20:59:39+00:00

When operating in a mode that initiates communication and using
HT40 we should fail if we cannot use both primary and secondary
channels to initiate communication. Our current ht40 allowmap
only covers STA mode of operation, for beaconing modes we need
a check on the fly as the mode of operation is dynamic and
there other flags other than disable which we should read
to check if we can initiate communication.

Do not allow for initiating communication if our secondary HT40
channel has is either disabled, has a passive scan flag, a
no-ibss flag or is a radar channel. Userspace now has similar
checks but this is also needed in-kernel.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: fix a crash in dev lookup on dump commands

2010-11-08T21:53:47+00:00

IS_ERR and PTR_ERR were called with the wrong pointer, leading to a
crash when cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex fails.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Acked-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: fix regression on processing country IEs

2010-10-25T18:43:14+00:00

The patch 4f366c5:

	wireless: only use alpha2 regulatory information from country IE

removed some complex intersection we were always doing between the AP's
country IE info and what we got from CRDA. When CRDA sent us back a
regulatory domain we would do some sanity checks on that regulatory
domain response we just got. Part of these sanity checks included
checking that we already had performed an intersection for the
request of NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE type.

This mean that cfg80211 was only processing country IEs for cases
where we already had an intersection, but since we removed enforcing
this this is no longer required, we should just apply the country
IE country hint with the data received from CRDA.

This patch has fixes intended for kernels >= 2.6.36.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Easwar Krishnan 
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6

2010-10-23T18:47:02+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits)
  bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL.
  vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid.
  tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip
  tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match
  cxgb3: function namespace cleanup
  tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target
  tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core
  be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w
  tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled
  tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer
  tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function
  tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions
  tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module
  l2tp: small cleanup
  nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header
  can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames
  can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set
  can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic
  9p: client code cleanup
  rds: make local functions/variables static
  ...

Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David

Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl

2010-10-22T17:52:56+00:00

* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  vfs: make no_llseek the default
  vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
  llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
  libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
  mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
  lirc: make chardev nonseekable
  viotape: use noop_llseek
  raw: use explicit llseek file operations
  ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
  spufs: use llseek in all file operations
  arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
  lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  drm: use noop_llseek

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem

2010-10-15T20:11:56+00:00