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John W. Linville
e7ab5f1c32 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2011-12-09 14:07:12 -05:00
Johannes Berg
15062e6a85 mac80211: fix another race in aggregation start
Emmanuel noticed that when mac80211 stops the queues
for aggregation that can leave a packet pending. This
packet will be given to the driver after the AMPDU
callback, but as a non-aggregated packet which messes
up the sequence number etc.

I also noticed by looking at the code that if packets
are being processed while we clear the WANT_START bit,
they might see it cleared already and queue up on
tid_tx->pending. If the driver then rejects the new
aggregation session we leak the packet.

Fix both of these issues by changing this code to not
stop the queues at all. Instead, let packets queue up
on the tid_tx->pending queue instead of letting them
get to the driver, and add code to recover properly
in case the driver rejects the session.

(The patch looks large because it has to move two
functions to before their new use.)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-07 15:09:53 -05:00
John W. Linville
cbec0627ef Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2011-12-05 11:05:44 -05:00
John W. Linville
03360c5a40 Revert "mac80211: clear sta.drv_priv on reconfiguration"
This reverts commit f785d83a19.

This was provoking WARNINGs from the iwlegacy drivers.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-01 10:44:17 -05:00
Simon Wunderlich
c72e8d335e mac80211: fill rate filter for internal scan requests
The rates bitmap for internal scan requests shoud be filled,
otherwise there will be probe requests with zero rates supported.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-30 14:20:19 -05:00
John W. Linville
3b95e9c089 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2011-11-30 14:14:42 -05:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
2a1e0fd175 mac80211: fix race between the AGG SM and the Tx data path
When a packet is supposed to sent be as an a-MPDU, mac80211 sets
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU to let the driver know. On the other
hand, mac80211 configures the driver for aggregration with the
ampdu_action callback.
There is race between these two mechanisms since the following
scenario can occur when the BA agreement is torn down:

Tx softIRQ	 			drv configuration
==========				=================

check OPERATIONAL bit
Set the TX_CTL_AMPDU bit in the packet

					clear OPERATIONAL bit
					stop Tx AGG
Pass Tx packet to the driver.

In that case the driver would get a packet with TX_CTL_AMPDU set
although it has already been notified that the BA session has been
torn down.

To fix this, we need to synchronize all the Qdisc activity after we
cleared the OPERATIONAL bit. After that step, all the following
packets will be buffered until the driver reports it is ready to get
new packets for this RA / TID. This buffering allows not to run into
another race that would send packets with TX_CTL_AMPDU unset while
the driver hasn't been requested to tear down the BA session yet.

This race occurs in practice and iwlwifi complains with a WARN_ON
when it happens.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28 13:46:41 -05:00
Nikolay Martynov
d305a6557b mac80211: fix race condition caused by late addBA response
If addBA responses comes in just after addba_resp_timer has
expired mac80211 will still accept it and try to open the
aggregation session. This causes drivers to be confused and
in some cases even crash.

This patch fixes the race condition and makes sure that if
addba_resp_timer has expired addBA response is not longer
accepted and we do not try to open half-closed session.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com>
[some adjustments]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28 13:46:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg
24f50a9d16 mac80211: don't stop a single aggregation session twice
Nikolay noticed (by code review) that mac80211 can
attempt to stop an aggregation session while it is
already being stopped. So to fix it, check whether
stop is already being done and bail out if so.

Also move setting the STOPPING state into the lock
so things are properly atomic.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28 13:46:41 -05:00
John W. Linville
02f1ce35be Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2011-11-22 16:46:55 -05:00
Helmut Schaa
9c8f2c42c9 mac80211: Fix endian bug in radiotap header generation
I intoduced this bug in commit a2fe816674
"mac80211: Build TX radiotap header dynamically"

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 14:45:20 -05:00
Ben Greear
904603f9b7 mac80211: Fix AMSDU rate printout in debugfs.
It was flipped.  See section 7.3.2.56 of the 802.11n
spec for details.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 14:45:19 -05:00
John W. Linville
fb14ca438c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2011-11-11 11:34:47 -05:00
David S. Miller
3b971a7ceb Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless 2011-11-09 16:22:15 -05:00
Johannes Berg
0ecfe806f1 mac80211: fix race between connection monitor & suspend
When the connection monitor timer fires right before
suspend, the following will happen:
 timer fires -> monitor_work gets queued
 suspend calls ieee80211_sta_quiesce
 ieee80211_sta_quiesce:
  - deletes timer
  - cancels monitor_work synchronously, running it
  [note wrong order of these steps]
 monitor_work runs, re-arming the timer
 later, timer fires while system should be quiesced

This causes a warning:

WARNING: at net/mac80211/util.c:540 ieee80211_can_queue_work+0x35/0x40 [mac80211]()

but is otherwise harmless. I'm not completely sure
this is the scenario Thomas stumbled across, but it
is the only way I can right now see the warning in
a scenario like the one he reported.

Reported-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 14:35:56 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5b2bbf75a2 mac80211: fix bug in ieee80211_build_probe_req
ieee80211_probereq_get() can return NULL in
which case we should clean up & return NULL
in ieee80211_build_probe_req() as well.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 14:35:55 -05:00
Johannes Berg
f8d1ccf155 mac80211: fix NULL dereference in radiotap code
When receiving failed PLCP frames is enabled, there
won't be a rate pointer when we add the radiotap
header and thus the kernel will crash. Fix this by
not assuming the rate pointer is always valid. It's
still always valid for frames that have good PLCP
though, and that is checked & enforced.

This was broken by my
commit fc88518916
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 30 13:23:12 2010 +0200

    mac80211: don't check rates on PLCP error frames

where I removed the check in this case but didn't
take into account that the rate info would be used.

Reported-by: Xiaokang Qin <xiaokang.qin@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 14:35:55 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
94956eed14 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits)
  forcedeth: fix a few sparse warnings (variable shadowing)
  forcedeth: Improve stats counters
  forcedeth: remove unneeded stats updates
  forcedeth: Acknowledge only interrupts that are being processed
  forcedeth: fix race when unloading module
  MAINTAINERS/rds: update maintainer
  wanrouter: Remove kernel_lock annotations
  usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit
  ixgbe: Fix compile for kernel without CONFIG_PCI_IOV defined
  etherh: Add MAINTAINERS entry for etherh
  bonding: comparing a u8 with -1 is always false
  sky2: fix regression on Yukon Optima
  netlink: clarify attribute length check documentation
  netlink: validate NLA_MSECS length
  i825xx:xscale:8390:freescale: Fix Kconfig dependancies
  macvlan: receive multicast with local address
  tg3: Update version to 3.121
  tg3: Eliminate timer race with reset_task
  tg3: Schedule at most one tg3_reset_task run
  tg3: Obtain PCI function number from device
  ...
2011-11-07 10:55:33 -08:00
Janusz.Dziedzic@tieto.com
24b9c373ab mac80211: uAPSD - fix IEEE80211_FCTL_MOREDATA bit setting
Set IEEE80211_FCTL_MOREDATA bit also in case we have buffered
frames (more than one) only for one AC.

Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07 13:19:15 -05:00
Eliad Peller
3432f92337 mac80211: use min rate as basic rate for buggy APs
Some buggy APs (and even P2P_GO) don't advertise their
basic rates in the association response.

In such case, use the min supported rate as the
basic rate.

Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07 13:19:13 -05:00
Johannes Berg
05cb910857 mac80211: disable powersave for broken APs
Only AID values 1-2007 are valid, but some APs have been
found to send random bogus values, in the reported case an
AP that was sending the AID field value 0xffff, an AID of
0x3fff (16383).

There isn't much we can do but disable powersave since
there's no way it can work properly in this case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Bill C Riemers <briemers@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-02 15:23:13 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
e3a4cc2f07 mac80211: Fix TDLS support validation in add_station handler
We need to verify whether the command is successful before allocating
the station entry to avoid extra processing. This also fixes a memory
leak on the error path.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-02 15:23:12 -04:00
Eliad Peller
6911bf0453 mac80211: config hw when going back on-channel
When going back on-channel, we should reconfigure
the hw iff the hardware is not already configured
to the operational channel.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-02 15:23:11 -04:00
Eliad Peller
eaa7af2ae5 mac80211: fix remain_off_channel regression
The offchannel code is currently broken - we should
remain_off_channel if the work was started, and
the work's channel and channel_type are the same
as local->tmp_channel and local->tmp_channel_type.

However, if wk->chan_type and local->tmp_channel_type
coexist (e.g. have the same channel type), we won't
remain_off_channel.

This behavior was introduced by commit da2fd1f
("mac80211: Allow work items to use existing
channel type.")

Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-02 15:23:11 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
bc3b2d7fb9 net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules
These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using
the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so
that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence
of module.h from everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
d9b9384215 net: add moduleparam.h for users of module_param/MODULE_PARM_DESC
These files were getting access to these two via the implicit
presence of module.h everywhere.  They aren't modules, so they
don't need the full module.h inclusion though.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:29 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
3a9a231d97 net: Fix files explicitly needing to include module.h
With calls to modular infrastructure, these files really
needs the full module.h header.  Call it out so some of the
cleanups of implicit and unrequired includes elsewhere can be
cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:28 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
7e0bb71e75 Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
  PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
  PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
  ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
  PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
  PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
  PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
  PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
  MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
  PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
  PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
  PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
  PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
  PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
  PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
  ...
2011-10-25 15:18:39 +02:00
John W. Linville
41ebe9cde7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2011-10-17 15:05:26 -04:00
Helmut Schaa
7a72476766 mac80211: Provide station flags to cfg80211
Only station flags that are already defined in nl80211 are added for
now.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14 14:48:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg
59b66255bc mac80211: fix TID for null poll response
The queue mapping/TID for non-QoS null data
responses to is never set, making it default
to BK. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14 14:48:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg
55182e4adf mac80211: reformat TX unauthorised check
Reformat the check, the indentation is completely strange.
Also change the last part of the condition to make the
code shorter.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14 14:48:16 -04:00
Helmut Schaa
7f2a5e214d mac80211: Populate radiotap header with MCS info for TX frames
mac80211 already filled in the MCS rate info for rx'ed frames but tx'ed
frames that are sent to a monitor interface during the status callback
lack this information.

Add the radiotap fields for MCS info to ieee80211_tx_status_rtap_hdr
and populate them when sending tx'ed frames to the monitors.

The needed headroom is only extended by one byte since we don't include
legacy rate information in the rtap header for HT frames.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14 14:48:14 -04:00
Helmut Schaa
a2fe816674 mac80211: Build TX radiotap header dynamically
Get rid of the ieee80211_tx_status_rtap_hdr struct and instead build the
rtap header dynamically. This makes it easier to extend the rtap header
generation in the future.

Add ieee80211_tx_radiotap_len to calculate the expected size of the
rtap header before generating it. Since we can't check if the rtap
header fits into the requested headroom during compile time anymore
add a WARN_ON_ONCE.

Also move the actual rtap header generation into its own function.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14 14:48:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
d5294971f1 mac80211: dont orphan TX skb
This was another workaround for truesize "bugs".
The reason we did this was that when we orphaned
the SKB it wouldn't be truesize-checked later.
Now that the check is gone (and we just charge
the former smaller size to the socket) there's
no longer a reason to orphan the skb here.

Keep the skb charged to the socket until it is
really freed (or orphaned in TX status). This
helps flow control and allows us to get at the
socket later for other purposes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:21 -04:00
Johannes Berg
72267e5cfe mac80211: dont adjust truesize
There's no need to adjust truesize.

The history of this was that we always ran into
skb_truesize_bug (via skb_truesize_check) which
has since been removed in commit 92a0acce18.
skb_truesize_check() checked that truesize  was
bigger or equal to the actual allocation, which
would trigger in mac80211 due to header adding.
The check no longer exists and we shouldn't be
messing with the truesize anwyay.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg
73b9f03a81 mac80211: parse radiotap header earlier
We can now move the radiotap header parsing into
ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(). This moves it out of
the hotpath, and also helps the code since now the
radiotap header will no longer be present in
ieee80211_xmit() etc. which is easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a26eb27ab4 mac80211: move fragment flag to info flag as dont-fragment
The purpose of this is two-fold:
 1) by moving it out of tx_data.flags, we can in
    another patch move the radiotap parsing so it
    no longer is in the hotpath
 2) if a device implements fragmentation but can
    optionally skip it, the radiotap request for
    not doing fragmentation may be honoured

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg
68f2b517bc mac80211: remove tx_data ethertype
It's set, but never used, so kill it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:18 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5d9cf4a5d7 mac80211: optimise monitor xmit
Since the only way the interface can be a monitor
interface in ieee80211_xmit() is because the frame
came from ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit() we can
move all the code there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:17 -04:00
Javier Cardona
97091317aa mac80211: Fix regression that allowed mpaths between non-peers.
Mesh paths should only exist over established peer links.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:12 -04:00
Johannes Berg
28a1bcdb57 mac80211: fix offchannel TX cookie matching
When I introduced in-kernel off-channel TX I
introduced a bug -- the work can't be canceled
again because the code clear the skb pointer.
Fix this by keeping track separately of whether
TX status has already been reported.

Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Tested-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:08 -04:00
Johannes Berg
dcd83976be mac80211: pass no-CCK flag through to HW scan
This is needed so that offloaded scan can do the
right thing. Without this patch, the no_cck flag
contains random values from the kernel heap.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:07 -04:00
John W. Linville
094daf7db7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2011-10-11 15:35:42 -04:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
9696cc9007 Merge branch 'pm-qos' into pm-for-linus
* pm-qos:
  PM / QoS: Update Documentation for the pm_qos and dev_pm_qos frameworks
  PM / QoS: Add function dev_pm_qos_read_value() (v3)
  PM QoS: Add global notification mechanism for device constraints
  PM QoS: Implement per-device PM QoS constraints
  PM QoS: Generalize and export constraints management code
  PM QoS: Reorganize data structs
  PM QoS: Code reorganization
  PM QoS: Minor clean-ups
  PM QoS: Move and rename the implementation files
2011-10-07 23:17:07 +02:00
Eliad Peller
8a3a3c85e4 mac80211: pass vif param to conf_tx() callback
tx params should be configured per interface.
add ieee80211_vif param to the conf_tx callback,
and change all the drivers that use this callback.

The following spatch was used:
@rule1@
struct ieee80211_ops ops;
identifier conf_tx_op;
@@
	ops.conf_tx = conf_tx_op;

@rule2@
identifier rule1.conf_tx_op;
identifier hw, queue, params;
@@
	conf_tx_op (
-		struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+		struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
		u16 queue,
		const struct ieee80211_tx_queue_params *params) {...}

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-03 15:22:41 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
b6f35301ef mac80211: Send nullfunc frames at lower rate during connection monitor
Recently mac80211 was changed to use nullfunc instead of probe
request for connection monitoring for tx ack status reporting
hardwares. Sometimes in congested network, STA got disconnected
quickly after the association. It was observered that the rate
control was not adopted to environment due to minimal transmission.

As the nullfunc are used for monitoring purpose, these frames should
not be sacrificed for rate control updation. So it is better to send
the monitoring null func frames at minimum rate that could help to
retain the connection.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-03 15:22:32 -04:00
Helmut Schaa
893d73f4a1 mac80211: Allow noack flag overwrite for injected frames
Allow injected unicast frames to be sent without having to wait
for an ACK.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-03 15:19:17 -04:00
Johannes Berg
49a59543eb mac80211: dont assign seqno to or aggregate QoS Null frames
802.11 says:
"Sequence numbers for QoS (+)Null frames may be
set to any value."

However, if we use the normal counters then peers
will get confused with aggregation since there'll
be holes in the sequence number sequence.

To avoid that, neither assign a sequence number
to QoS null frames nor put them on aggregation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:25 -04:00
Johannes Berg
37fbd90800 mac80211: allow out-of-band EOSP notification
iwlwifi has a separate EOSP notification from
the device, and to make use of that properly
it needs to be passed to mac80211. To be able
to mix with tx_status_irqsafe and rx_irqsafe
it also needs to be an "_irqsafe" version in
the sense that it goes through the tasklet,
the actual flag clearing would be IRQ-safe
but doing it directly would cause reordering
issues.

This is needed in the case of a P2P GO going
into an absence period without transmitting
any frames that should be driver-released as
in this case there's no other way to inform
mac80211 that the service period ended. Note
that for drivers that don't use the _irqsafe
functions another version of this function
will be required.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:23 -04:00