Currently, before being able to forward a packet between two 802.11s
nodes, both a PLINK handshake is performed upon receiving a beacon and
then later a PREQ/PREP exchange for path discovery is performed on
demand upon receiving a data frame to forward.
When running a mesh protocol on top of an 802.11s interface, like
batman-adv, we do not need the multi-hop mesh routing capabilities of
802.11s and usually set mesh_fwding=0. However, even with mesh_fwding=0
the PREQ/PREP path discovery is still performed on demand. Even though
in this scenario the next hop PREQ/PREP will determine is always the
direct 11s neighbor node.
The new mesh_nolearn parameter allows to skip the PREQ/PREP exchange in
this scenario, leading to a reduced delay, reduced packet buffering and
simplifies HWMP in general.
mesh_nolearn is still rather conservative in that if the packet destination
is not a direct 11s neighbor, it will fall back to PREQ/PREP path
discovery.
For normal, multi-hop 802.11s mesh routing it is usually not advisable
to enable mesh_nolearn as a transmission to a direct but distant neighbor
might be worse than reaching that same node via a more robust /
higher throughput etc. multi-hop path.
Cc: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <ll@simonwunderlich.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617073034.26149-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue
[fix nl80211 policy to range 0/1 only]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The low level driver adds its own opaque information
in the BSS table in the cfg80211_bss structure.
The low level driver may need to signal that this information
is no longer relevant and needs to be recreated.
Add an API to allow the low level driver to do that.
iwlwifi needs this because it keeps there an information about
the firmware's internal clock. This is kept in mac80211's
struct ieee80211_bss::sync_device_ts.
This information is populated while we scan, we add the
internal firmware's clock to each beacon which allows us to
program the firmware correctly after association so that
it'll know when (in terms of its internal clock) the DTIM
and TBTT will happen.
When the firmware is reset this internal clock is reset as
well and ieee80211_bss::sync_device_ts is no longer accurate.
iwlwifi will call this new API any time the firmware is started.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200625111524.3992-1-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Lockdep reports that we may deadlock because we take the RTNL on
the work struct, but flush it under RTNL. Clearly, it's correct.
In practice, this can happen when doing rfkill on an active device.
Fix this by moving the work struct to the wiphy (registered dev)
layer, and iterate over all the wdevs inside there. This then
means we need to track which one of them has work to do, so we
don't update to the driver for all wdevs all the time.
Also fix a locking bug I noticed while working on this - the
registrations list is iterated as if it was an RCU list, but it
isn't handle that way - and we need to lock now for the update
flag anyway, so remove the RCU.
Fixes: 6cd536fe62 ("cfg80211: change internal management frame registration API")
Reported-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Kenneth R. Crudup <kenny@panix.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200604120420.b1dc540a7e26.I55dcca56bb5bdc5d7ad66a36a0b42afd7034d8be@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:
struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:
"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]
sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507183909.GA12993@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Drivers may wish to report the RX frequency in units of
KHz. Provide cfg80211_rx_mgmt_khz() and wrap it with
cfg80211_rx_mgmt() so exisiting drivers which can't report
KHz anyway don't need to change. Add a similar wrapper for
cfg80211_report_obss_beacon() so the frequency units stay
somewhat consistent.
This doesn't actually change the nl80211 API yet.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200430172554.18383-2-thomas@adapt-ip.com
[fix mac80211 calling the non-khz version of obss beacon report,
drop trace point name changes]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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 <davem@davemloft.net>
- add SPDX header;
- adjust title markup;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some bands (S1G) define channels centered on a non-integer
MHz. Give ieee80211_channel and cfg80211_chan_def a
freq_offset component where the final frequency can be
expressed as:
MHZ_TO_KHZ(chan->center_freq) + chan->freq_offset;
Also provide some helper functions to do the frequency
conversion and test for equality.
Retain the existing interface to frequency and channel
conversion helpers, and expose new ones which handle
frequencies in units of KHz.
Some internal functions (net/wireless/chan.c) pass around
a frequency value. Convert these to units of KHz.
mesh, ibss, wext, etc. are currently ignored.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402011810.22947-3-thomas@adapt-ip.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Almost all drivers below cfg80211 get the API wrong (except for
cfg80211) and are unable to cope with multiple registrations for
the same frame type, which is valid due to the match filter.
This seems to indicate the API is wrong, and we should maintain
the full information in cfg80211 instead of the drivers.
Change the API to no longer inform the driver about individual
registrations and unregistrations, but rather every time about
the entire state of the entire wiphy and single wdev, whenever
it may have changed. This also simplifies the code in cfg80211
as it no longer has to track exactly what was unregistered and
can free things immediately.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200417124300.f47f3828afc8.I7f81ef59c2c5a340d7075fb3c6d0e08e8aeffe07@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Extend cfg80211_rx_unprot_mlme_mgmt() to cover indication of unprotected
Beacon frames in addition to the previously used Deauthentication and
Disassociation frames. The Beacon frame case is quite similar, but has
couple of exceptions: this is used both with fully unprotected and also
incorrectly protected frames and there is a rate limit on the events to
avoid unnecessary flooding netlink events in case something goes wrong.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200401142548.6990-1-jouni@codeaurora.org
[add missing kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Drivers that trigger roaming need to know the lifetime of the configured
PMKSA for deciding whether to trigger the full or PMKSA cache based
authentication. The configured PMKSA is invalid after the PMK lifetime
has expired and must not be used after that and the STA needs to
disassociate if the PMK expires. Hence the STA is expected to refresh
the PMK with a full authentication before this happens (e.g., when
reassociating to a new BSS the next time or by performing EAPOL
reauthentication depending on the AKM) to avoid unnecessary
disconnection.
The PMK reauthentication threshold is the percentage of the PMK lifetime
value and indicates to the driver to trigger a full authentication roam
(without PMKSA caching) after the reauthentication threshold time, but
before the PMK timer has expired. Authentication methods like SAE need
to be able to generate a new PMKSA entry without having to force a
disconnection after this threshold timeout. If no roaming occurs between
the reauthentication threshold time and PMK lifetime expiration,
disassociation is still forced.
The new attributes for providing these values correspond to the dot11
MIB variables dot11RSNAConfigPMKLifetime and
dot11RSNAConfigPMKReauthThreshold.
This type of functionality is already available in cases where user
space component is in control of roaming. This commit extends that same
capability into cases where parts or all of this functionality is
offloaded to the driver.
Signed-off-by: Veerendranath Jakkam <vjakkam@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200312235903.18462-1-jouni@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This patch adds support to configure per TID retry configuration
through the NL80211_TID_CONFIG_ATTR_RETRY_SHORT and
NL80211_TID_CONFIG_ATTR_RETRY_LONG attributes. This TID specific
retry configuration will have more precedence than phy level
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Tamizh chelvam <tamizhr@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1579506687-18296-3-git-send-email-tamizhr@codeaurora.org
[rebase completely on top of my previous API changes]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Make some changes to the TID-config API:
* use u16 in nl80211 (only, and restrict to using 8 bits for now),
to avoid issues in the future if we ever want to use higher TIDs.
* reject empty TIDs mask (via netlink policy)
* change feature advertising to not use extended feature flags but
have own mechanism for this, which simplifies the code
* fix all variable names from 'tid' to 'tids' since it's a mask
* change to cfg80211_ name prefixes, not ieee80211_
* fix some minor docs/spelling things.
Change-Id: Ia234d464b3f914cdeab82f540e018855be580dce
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
IEEE P802.11-REVmd/D3.0 adds support for protecting Beacon frames using
a new set of keys (BIGTK; key index 6..7) similarly to the way
group-addressed Robust Management frames are protected (IGTK; key index
4..5). Extend cfg80211 and nl80211 to allow the new BIGTK to be
configured. Add an extended feature flag to indicate driver support for
the new key index values to avoid array overflows in driver
implementations and also to indicate to user space when this
functionality is available.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222132548.20835-2-jouni@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg says:
====================
A few big new things:
* 802.11 frame encapsulation offload support
* more HE (802.11ax) support, including some for 6 GHz band
* powersave in hwsim, for better testing
Of course as usual there are various cleanups and small fixes.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
