kernel/git/stable/linux.git/net/mac80211/main.c, branch linux-5.9.y

mac80211: support control port TX status reporting

2020-05-28T07:02:14+00:00

Add support for TX status reporting for the control port TX API; this will be used by hostapd when it moves to the control port TX API. Signed-off-by: Markus Theil Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527160334.19224-1-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de [fix commit message, it was referring to nl80211] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211: support scan frequencies in KHz

2020-05-27T08:02:03+00:00

If the driver advertises NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_SCAN_FREQ_KHZ userspace can omit NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FREQUENCIES in favor of an NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FREQ_KHZ. To get scan results in KHz userspace must also set the NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_FREQ_KHZ. This lets nl80211 remain compatible with older userspaces while not requring and sending redundant (and potentially incorrect) scan frequency sets. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200430172554.18383-4-thomas@adapt-ip.com [use just nla_nest_start() (not _noflag) for NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FREQ_KHZ] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-net-next-2020-04-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2020-05-27T03:17:35+00:00

Johannes Berg says: ==================== One batch of changes, containing: * hwsim improvements from Jouni and myself, to be able to test more scenarios easily * some more HE (802.11ax) support * some initial S1G (sub 1 GHz) work for fractional MHz channels * some (action) frame registration updates to help DPP support * along with other various improvements/fixes ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: handle channel frequency offset

2020-04-24T10:33:43+00:00

cfg80211_chan_def and ieee80211_channel recently gained a frequency offset component. Handle this where it makes sense (potentially required by S1G channels). For IBSS, TDLS, CSA, and ROC we return -EOPNOTSUPP if a channel with frequency offset is passed, since they may or may not work. Once someone tests and verifies these commands work on thos types of channels, we can remove that error. join_ocb and join_mesh look harmless because they use a simple ieee80211_vif_use_channel(), which is using an already verified channel, so we let those through. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402011810.22947-4-thomas@adapt-ip.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Process multicast RX registration for Action frames

2020-04-24T10:33:41+00:00

Convert a user space registration for processing multicast Action frames (NL80211_CMD_REGISTER_FRAME with NL80211_ATTR_RECEIVE_MULTICAST) to a new enum ieee80211_filter_flags bit FIF_MCAST_ACTION so that drivers can update their RX filter parameters appropriately, if needed. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421144815.19175-1-jouni@codeaurora.org [rename variables to rx_mcast_action_reg indicating action frames only] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: populate debugfs only after cfg80211 init

2020-04-24T09:30:13+00:00

When fixing the initialization race, we neglected to account for the fact that debugfs is initialized in wiphy_register(), and some debugfs things went missing (or rather were rerooted to the global debugfs root). Fix this by adding debugfs entries only after wiphy_register(). This requires some changes in the rate control code since it currently adds debugfs at alloc time, which can no longer be done after the reordering. Reported-by: Jouni Malinen Reported-by: kernel test robot Reported-by: Hauke Mehrtens Reported-by: Felix Fietkau Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 52e04b4ce5d0 ("mac80211: fix race in ieee80211_register_hw()") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Sumit Garg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200423111344.0e00d3346f12.Iadc76a03a55093d94391fc672e996a458702875d@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix race in ieee80211_register_hw()

2020-04-15T07:31:58+00:00

A race condition leading to a kernel crash is observed during invocation of ieee80211_register_hw() on a dragonboard410c device having wcn36xx driver built as a loadable module along with a wifi manager in user-space waiting for a wifi device (wlanX) to be active. Sequence diagram for a particular kernel crash scenario: user-space ieee80211_register_hw() ieee80211_tasklet_handler() ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | | | |<---phy0----wiphy_register() | |-----iwd if_add---->| | | |<---IRQ----(RX packet) | Kernel crash | | due to unallocated | | workqueue. | | | | | alloc_ordered_workqueue() | | | | | Misc wiphy init. | | | | | ieee80211_if_add() | | | | As evident from above sequence diagram, this race condition isn't specific to a particular wifi driver but rather the initialization sequence in ieee80211_register_hw() needs to be fixed. So re-order the initialization sequence and the updated sequence diagram would look like: user-space ieee80211_register_hw() ieee80211_tasklet_handler() ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | | | | alloc_ordered_workqueue() | | | | | Misc wiphy init. | | | | |<---phy0----wiphy_register() | |-----iwd if_add---->| | | |<---IRQ----(RX packet) | | | | ieee80211_if_add() | | | | Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1586254255-28713-1-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org [Johannes: fix rtnl imbalances] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: driver can remain on channel if not using chan_ctx

2020-03-20T13:42:21+00:00

Some of the drivers are not using channel context, but let the stack to control/switch channels instead. For such cases, driver can still remain on channel because the mac80211 stack actually supports it. The stack will check if the driver is using chan_ctx and has ops->remain_on_channel been hooked. Otherwise it will start its ROC work to remain on channel. So, even if the driver is not using chan_ctx, the driver is still capable of doing remain on channel. Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200312074337.16198-1-yhchuang@realtek.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Allow deleting stations in ibss mode to reset their state

2020-03-20T13:42:20+00:00

Set the NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DEL_IBSS_STA if the interface support IBSS mode, so that stations can be reset from user space. mac80211 already deletes stations by itself, so mac80211 drivers must already support this. This has been successfully tested with ath9k. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305135754.12094-2-cavallar@lri.fr Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: handle no-preauth flag for control port

2020-03-20T13:42:19+00:00

This patch adds support for disabling pre-auth rx over the nl80211 control port for mac80211. Signed-off-by: Markus Theil Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200312091055.54257-3-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de [fix indentation slightly, squash feature enablement] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg