When we return to the home channel we were never reseting our beacon
timers, this was casued by the fact that the scanning flag was still
on even after we returned to our home channel. There are also other
reasons why we would get a reset and if we are not off channel
we always need to resynch our beacon timers, because a reset will
clear them.
This bug is a regression introduced on 2.6.36. The order of the
changes are as follows:
5ee08656 - Sat Jul 31 - ath9k: prevent calibration during off-channel activity
a0daa0e7 - Tue Jul 27 - Revert "mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing"
543708be - Fri Jun 18 - mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing
mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
--contains 5ee0865615
v2.6.36-rc1~43^2~34^2~22
mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
--contains a0daa0e759
v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~64^2~13
mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
--contains 543708be32
v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~107^2~187
So 5ee08656 would have worked if a0daa0e7 was not committed but
it was so this means 5ee08656 was broken since it assumed that
when we were in the channel change routine the scan flag would
be lifted. As it turns out the scan flag will be set when we
are already on the home channel.
For more details refer to:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5715
These issues will need to be considered for our solution on
reshifting the scan complete callback location on mac80211 on
current development kernel work.
This patch has stable fixes which apply down to [2.6.36+]
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k has a race on putting the chip into network sleep and
having registers read from hardware. The race occurs because
although ath9k_ps_restore() locks its own callers it makes use
of some variables which get altered in the driver at different
code paths. The variables are the ps_enabled and ps_flags.
This is easily reprodicible in large network environments when
roaming with the wpa_supplicant simple bgscan. You'd get some
0xdeadbeef read out on certain registers such as:
ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x806c: 0xdeadbeef & 0x01f00000 != 0x00000000
ath: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xdeadbeef
ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7000: 0xdeadbeef & 0x00000003 != 0x00000000
ath: Chip reset failed
The fix is to protect the ath9k_config(hw, IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_PS)
calls with a spin_lock_irqsave() which will disable contendors for
these variables from interrupt context, timers, re-entry from mac80211
on the same callback, and most importantly from ath9k_ps_restore()
which is the only call which will put the device into network sleep.
There are quite a few threads and bug reports on these a few of them are:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/+bug/407040http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5709http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5943
Stable fixes apply to [2.6.32+]
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To optimize register read/write operations, the HTC firmwares were patched
to change EP3 and EP4 pipe types from Interrupt to Bulk. So register writes
are submitted as bulk urbs, but register reads are not. Also changing the
register read endpoint pipe as bulk type when URBs are filled improves the
register reads considerably which results in reduced scan time and CPU
utilization.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes following warning
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom_def.c: In function 'ath9k_hw_def_get_num_ant_config'
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom_def.c:1425:47: warning: comparison
between 'enum ath9k_hal_freq_band' and 'enum ieee80211_band'
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:1341:6: warning: symbol 'ath_ant_div_conf_fast_divbias' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Print raw and decoded rxfilter in debufs 'wiphy' file.
Also, move variable-length printouts to bottom of file to
make bounds checking easier.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When there is more than one VIF, listen for all beacons
and ensure ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL is set.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use key management functions which have been moved to ath/key.c and remove
ath9k copies of these functions and other now unused definitions.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Replace ah_aes_support and ah_combined_mic with common ath_crypt_caps
ATH_CRYPT_CAP_CIPHER_AESCCM and ATH_CRYPT_CAP_MIC_COMBINED.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Replace common->splitmic with ATH_CRYPT_CAP_MIC_COMBINED flag.
splitmic has to be used when the ATH_CRYPT_CAP_MIC_COMBINED capability flag is
not set.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove the old ath5k key handling functions, since we now use the key
management in ath common.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use common ath key management functions in ath5k. This fixes problems with HW
encryption in AP mode, which was broken in the ath5k implementation.
Before (with the ath5k implementation) only one client could connect to the AP
using HW encryption and WPA. When a second client connected, the first client
was not able to send/receive any more packets. Because of the problems with HW
encryption, software encryption was always used in AP mode, which resulted in a
high CPU load (and/or low thruput) on embedded devices. Instead of trying to
fix the implementation in ath5k it makes more sense to share the code with
ath9k.
This also enables HW encryption for AP mode again.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Copied the key cache management functions from ath9k (common.c and hw.c) to
ath/key.c so we can use them from ath5k, later.
Minor changes have been made:
- renamed ath9k_* to ath_*
- replaced ah->caps.keycache_size with common->keymax
- removed ATH9K_IS_MIC_ENABLED since it is always true.
- the AR_PCU_MIC_NEW_LOC_ENA flag is replaced with (splitmic == 0).
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If AR_KeyMiss is set in the rx descriptor and AR_RxFrameOK is unset,
the hardware could not locate a valid key during a decryption attempt.
In this case, the frame must not be reported as decrypted, otherwise
mac80211 sees only random garbage.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
At the time the .add_interface driver op is called, the interface has not
been marked as running yet, so ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces will
not pass it to the iterator function.
Because of this, the calculated BSSID mask is wrong, which breaks multi-BSS
operation.
Additionally, the current way of comparing all addresses against each other
is pointless, as the hardware only uses the hardware MAC address and the BSSID
mask for matching the destination address, so all the address array
reallocation is completely unnecessary.
This patch simplifies the logic by setting the initial mask bytes to 0xff
and removing all bits in the iterator call that don't match the hardware MAC
address. It also calls the iterator for the vif that was passed to
add_interface()
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The CPU consumption during the scan period is high, since
the register write go over Interrupt endpoint. On downloading
the firmware to the target, the USB descriptors are
'patched' to change the type of the endpoints from Interrupt
to Bulk.
With this fix, the CPU usage during a scan run comes down to
acceptable levels.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx is racy with ath9k_wmi_tasklet on event notification
due to which the wmi_skb may be overwritten which leads to memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Replace (sizeof(ofdm_level_table)/sizeof(ofdm_level_table[0]) with
ARRAY_SIZE(ofdm_level_table), and (sizeof(cck_level_table)/
sizeof(cck_level_table[0]) with ARRAY_SIZE(cck_level_table) in
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ani.c
Signed-off-by: Nikitas Angelinas <nikitasangelinas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To reduce scan time, enable fastcc for AR7010
(fastcc == fast channel change -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For AR9271 chips, if partial reset is done while scanning, the cycpwrThr1
will be set to maximum. This causes the degrade in DL throughput.
So restore the ANI registers to default during the partial reset.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This algorithm chooses the best main and alt lna out of
LNA1, LNA2, LNA1+LNA2 and LNA1-LNA2 to improve rx for single
chain chips(AR9285). This would greatly improve rx when there
is only one antenna is connected with AR9285.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 5 GHz CTL indexes were not being read for all hardware
devices due to the masking out through the CTL_MODE_M mask
being one bit too short. Without this the calibrated regulatory
maximum values were not being picked up when devices operate
on 5 GHz in HT40 mode. The final output power used for Atheros
devices is the minimum between the calibrated CTL values and
what CRDA provides.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.27+]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The EEPROM is compressed on AR9003, upon decompression
the wrong upper limit was being used for the block which
prevented the 5 GHz CTL indexes from being used, which are
stored towards the end of the EEPROM block. This fix allows
the actual intended regulatory limits to be used on AR9003
hardware.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.36+]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to the hardware documentation, the MIC failure bit is only
valid if the frame was decrypted using a valid TKIP key and is not a
fragment.
In some setups I've seen hardware-reported MIC failures on an AP that
was configured for CCMP only, so it's clear that additional checks are
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While scanning, ANI is triggered unnecessarily where sta is in
unassociated state. And cancelling ani work in ath9k_htc_stop
is not required.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All major Atheros customers require the led to be in continuous
ON state rather than the blinking pattern.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the symbol offset is 46, it will be counted in both
the third and fourth bytes of the mask, and in this
case the shift will be negative which can pollute
high order bits in the mask. This may negatively impact
OFDM symbol detection.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There was a small misordering here. In the original code, if we were to
go to err_free_ah then it wouldn't free the irq.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Descriptors are currently logged with ATH5K_DEBUG_RESET,
which isn't really apt, and also means we can't see just
the descriptor setup or just the resets. Add a new
debug level just for that.
Acked-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix some comments:
s/transmition/transmission/
s/puting/putting/
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR5K_RX_FILTER_PROBEREQ enables reception of probe requests,
but the filter flag FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC is actually about
receiving beacons and probe _responses_, so we shouldn't
turn on the filter when scanning.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Monitor interfaces are never seen by the driver so these
cases are never reached.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Monitor interfaces are never seen by the driver, so tests based on
that opmode don't make sense. Also, we already pass all mic
failure packets.
Consequently this code is actually accepting any frames with just
crypto errors and rejecting those with CRC, FIFO, and PHY errors for
all interface types. Adjust the code and comment accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes a few misspellings, word repetitions, and some grammar
nits in ath5k comments. No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
