Victor Porton reported that the SoftMAC layer had random problem when setting the ESSID :
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8686 After investigation, it turned out to be
worse, the SoftMAC layer is left in an inconsistent state. The fix is pretty trivial.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.df>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cleanup using list_for_each_entry.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Joe Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds missing NULL check and trims a line longer than 80 columns.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Joe Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is a bug in ieee80211softmac that always sets the user rate
to 11Mbs, no matter the capabilities of the device. This bug was
probably beneficial as long as the bcm43xx cards were rate limited;
however, most are now capable of relatively high speeds. This patch
fixes that bug and eliminates an assert that is no longer needed.
Once the cards are capable of full OFDM speeds, the 24 Mbs rate will
be changed to 54 Mbs.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Unconfigured bcm43xx device can hit an assert() during wx_get_rate
queries. This is because bcm43xx calls ieee80211softmac_start late
(i.e. during open instead of probe).
bcm43xx_net_open ->
bcm43xx_init_board ->
bcm43xx_select_wireless_core ->
ieee80211softmac_start
Fix is to check that device is running before completing
ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ieee80211softmac_wx_get_genie locks the associnfo mutex at
function exit. This patch fixes it. The patch is against Linus'
tree (commit af1713e0).
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The signature of work functions changed recently from a context
pointer to the work structure pointer. This caused a problem in
the ieee80211softmac code, because the ieee80211softmac_assox_work
function has been called directly with a parameter explicitly
casted to (void*). This compiled correctly but resulted in a
softlock, because mutex_lock was called with the wrong memory
address. The patch fixes the problem. Another issue was a wrong
call of the schedule_work function. Softmac works again and this
fixes the problem I mentioned earlier in the zd1211rw rx tasklet
patch. The patch is against Linus' tree (commit af1713e0).
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix ieee80211-softmac compile problem where it's using schedule_work() on a
delayed_work struct.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Routine ieee80211softmac_wx_set_mlme has one return that fails
to release a mutex acquired at entry.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Austruy <maxime@tralhalla.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In 2.6.19 a deauthentication from the AP doesn't start a
reassociation by the softmac code. It appears that
mac->associnfo.associating must be set and the
ieee80211softmac_assoc_work function must be scheduled. This patch
fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When scanning in debug mode, softmac is very chatty in that it puts
3 lines in the logs for each time it scans. This patch has only one
line containing all the information previously reported.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
And use kmemdup and kzalloc where applicable
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
SoftMAC contains a number of debug-type messages that continue to print
even when debugging is turned off. This patch substitutes dprintkl for
printkl for those lines.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the scan section of ieee80211softmac, network transmits are
disabled. When SoftMAC re-enables transmits, it may override the
wishes of a driver that may have very good reasons for disabling
transmits. At least one failure in bcm43xx can be traced to this
problem. In addition, several unexplained problems may arise from
the unexpected enabling of transmits. Note that making this change
introduces a new bug that would allow transmits for the current session
to be transmitted on the wrong channel; however, the new bug is much
less severe than the one being fixed, as the new one only leads to
a few retransmits, whereas the old one can bring the interface down.
A fix that will not introduce new bugs is being investigated; however,
the current, more serious one should be fixed now.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix a slab corruption in ieee80211softmac_auth(). The size of a buffer
was miscomputed.
see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7245
Acked-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes some race conditions in the WirelessExtension
handling and association handling code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Patch to make bcm43xx-softmac be compatible with the revised SSID
length of WE-21.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1211 needs this functionality, no point duplicating it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch implements ERP handling in softmac so that the drivers can support
protection and preambles properly.
I added a new struct, ieee80211softmac_bss_info, which is used for
BSS-dependent variables like these.
A new hook has been added (bssinfo_change), which allows the drivers to be
notified when anything in bssinfo changes.
I modified the txrates_change API to match the bssinfo_change API. The
existing one is a little messy and the usefulness of providing the old rates
is questionable (and can be implemented at driver level if really necessary).
No drivers are using this API (yet), so this should be safe.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johann Uhrmann reported a bcm43xx crash and Michael Buesch tracked
it down to a problem with the new shared key auth code (recursive
calls into the driver)
This patch (effectively Michael's patch with a couple of small
modifications) solves the problem by sending the authentication
challenge response frame from a workqueue entry.
I also removed a lone \n from the bcm43xx messages relating to
authentication mode - this small change was previously discussed but
not patched in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ieee80211softmac_call_events function, when called with event type
IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_ASSOCIATE_TIMEOUT should pass the network as the
third parameter. This patch does that.
Signed-off-by: Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch addresses the "No queue exists" messages commonly seen during
authentication and associating. These appear due to scheduling multiple
authentication attempts on the same network. To prevent this, I added a
flag to stop multiple authentication attempts by the association layer.
I also added a check to the wx handler to see if we're connecting to a
different network than the one already in progress. This scenario was
causing multiple requests on the same network because the network BSSID
was not being updated despite the fact that the ESSID changed.
Signed-off-by: Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In commit ba9b28d19a, routine
ieee80211softmac_capabilities was added to ieee80211softmac_io.c. As
denoted by its name, it completes the capabilities IE that is
needed in the associate and reassociate requests sent to the
AP. For at least one AP, the Linksys WRT54G V5, the capabilities
field must set the 'short preamble' bit or the AP refuses to
associate. In the commit noted above, there is a call to the
new routine from ieee80211softmac_reassoc_req, but not from
ieee80211softmac_assoc_req. This patch fixes that oversight.
As noted in the subject, v2.6.17 is affected. My bcm43xx card had been
unable to associate since I was forced to buy a new AP. I finally was
able to get a packet dump and traced the problem to the capabilities
info. Although I had heard that a patch was "floating around", I had
not seen it before 2.6.17 was released. As this bug does not affect
security and I seem to have the only AP affected by it, there should
be no problem in leaving it for 2.6.18.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c, there is a bug that
prints extended sign information whenever the byte value exceeds
0x7f. The following patch changes the printk to use a u8 cast to limit
the output to 2 digits. This bug was first noticed by Dan Williams
<dcbw@redhat.com>. This patch applies to the current master branch
of the Linville tree.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves the capabilities field computation to a function for clarity
and adds some previously unimplemented bits.
Signed off by Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-By: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
My router blew up earlier, but exhibited some interesting behaviour during
its dying moments. It was broadcasting beacons but wouldn't respond to
any authentication requests.
I noticed that softmac wasn't playing nice with this, as I couldn't make it try
to connect to other networks after it had timed out authenticating to my ill
router.
To resolve this, I modified the softmac event/notify API to pass the event
code to the callback, so that callbacks being notified from
IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_ANY masks can make some judgement. In this case, the
ieee80211softmac_assoc callback needs to make a decision based upon whether
the association passed or failed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch finishes of the partially-complete shared key authentication
implementation in softmac.
The complication here is that we need to encrypt a management frame during
the authentication process. I don't think there are any other scenarios where
this would have to happen.
To get around this without causing too many headaches, we decided to just use
software encryption for this frame. The softmac config option now selects
IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP so that we can ensure this available. This also involved
a modification to some otherwise unused ieee80211 API.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Got this compiler warning and Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
wrote:
Yeah, known 'bug', we have that code there but never use it. Feel free
to submit a patch (to John Linville, CC netdev and softmac-dev) to
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Toralf Foerster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch is the first step towards rate control inside softmac.
The txrates substructure has been extended to provide
different fields for different types of packets (management/data,
unicast/multicast). These fields are updated on association to values
compatible with the access point we are associating to.
Drivers can then use the new ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate() function
call when deciding which rate to transmit each frame at. This is
immensely useful for ZD1211, and bcm can use it too.
The user can still specify a rate through iwconfig, which is matched
for all transmissions (assuming the rate they have specified is in
the rate set required by the AP).
At a later date, we can incorporate automatic rate management into
the ieee80211softmac_recalc_txrates() function.
This patch also removes the mcast_fallback field. Sam Leffler pointed
out that this field is meaningless, because no driver will ever be
retransmitting mcast frames (they are not acked).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 802.11 specs state that deauthenticating also implies
disassociating. This patch implements that, which improve the behaviour
of SIOCSIWMLME.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1211 with softmac and wpa_supplicant revealed an issue with softmac
and the use of workqueues. Some of the work functions actually
reschedule themselves, so this meant that there could still be
pending work after flush_scheduled_work() had been called during
ieee80211softmac_stop().
This patch introduces a "running" flag which is used to ensure that
rescheduling does not happen in this situation.
I also used this flag to ensure that softmac's hooks into ieee80211 are
non-operational once the stop operation has been started. This simply
makes softmac a little more robust, because I could crash it easily
by receiving frames in the short timeframe after shutting down softmac
and before turning off the ZD1211 radio. (ZD1211 is now fixed as well!)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When wpa_supplicant exits, it uses SIOCSIWMLME to request
deauthentication. softmac then tries to reassociate without any user
intervention, which isn't the desired behaviour of this signal.
This change makes softmac only attempt reassociation if the remote
network itself deauthenticated us.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch cleans up the event handling code in ieee80211softmac_event.c and
makes the module slightly smaller by removing some strings that are not used
any more and consolidating some code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds the SIOCSIWMLME wext to softmac, this functionality
appears to be used by wpa_supplicant and is softmac-specific.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are some bugs in the current implementation of the SIOCSIWAP wext,
for example that when you do it twice and it fails, it may still try
another access point for some reason. This patch fixes this by introducing
a new flag that tells the association code that the bssid that is in use
was fixed by the user and shouldn't be deviated from.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make softmac report a scan event when scanning has finished, that way
userspace can wait for the event to happen instead of polling for the
results.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Softmac is sending custom events to userspace already, but it
should _really_ be sending the right WEXT events instead. This
patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Below patch allows using iw_mode auto with softmac. bcm43xx forces managed
so this bug wasn't noticed earlier, but this was one of the problems why
zd1211 didn't work earlier.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Seems we forgot to stop the queue while scanning. Better do that so we
don't transmit packets all the time during background scanning.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Below patch was developed after discussion with Daniel Drake who
mentioned to me that wireless tools expect an EAGAIN return from getscan
so that they can wait for the scan to finish before printing out the
results.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes a spinlock recursion on receiving a reassoc request.
On reassoc, the softmac calls back into the driver. This results in a
driver lock recursion. This schedules the assoc workqueue, instead
of calling it directly.
Probably, we should defer the _whole_ management frame processing
to a tasklet or workqueue, because it does several callbacks into the driver.
That is dangerous.
This fix should go into linus's tree, before 2.6.17 is released, because it
is remote exploitable (DoS by crash).
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
softmac uses wireless extensions, so let it SELECT that config option;
WARNING: "wireless_send_event" [net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac.ko] undefined!
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We don't make much of an attempt to fall back to lower rates, and 54M
just isn't reliable enough for many people. In fact, it's not clear we
even set it to 11M if we're trying to associate with an 802.11b AP.
This patch makes us default to 11M, which ought to work for most people.
When we actually handle dynamic rate adjustment, we can reconsider the
defaults -- but even then, probably it makes as much sense to start at
11M and adjust it upwards as it does to start at 54M and reduce it.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It currently takes something like 8 seconds to do a scan, because we
spend half a second on each channel. Reduce that time to 20ms per
channel.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After a scan, we weren't switching back to the original channel if we
were associated with an AP. So NetworkManager's periodic scans would
disrupt connectivity until the ESSID was manually set again. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jean Tourrilhes