trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
the wireless extensions.
this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.
for signal:
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW
for noise we currently only have dBm:
IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW
if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
to make sense of the signal values.
i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
the hardware flags of the driver.
DRIVER SIGNAL MAX NOISE QUAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------
adm8211 unspec(?) 100 n/a missing
at76_usb unspec(?) (?) unused missing
ath5k dBm dBm percent rssi
b43legacy dBm dBm percent jssi(?)
b43 dBm dBm percent jssi(?)
iwl-3945 dBm dBm percent snr+more
iwl-4965 dBm dBm percent snr+more
p54 unspec 127 n/a missing
rt2x00 dBm n/a percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
rt2400 dBm n/a
rt2500pci dBm n/a
rt2500usb dBm n/a
rt61pci dBm n/a
rt73usb dBm n/a
rtl8180 unspec(?) 65 n/a (?)
rtl8187 unspec(?) 65 (?) noise(?)
zd1211 dB(?) 100 n/a percent
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After the bcm43xx removal ieee80211_wx_{get,set}_auth() were no longer
used.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After the softmac removal ieee80211_tx_frame() was no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If print_mac() is used inside of a pr_debug() the compiler
can't see that the call is redundant so still performs it
even of pr_debug() ends up being a nop.
So don't use print_mac() in such cases in hot code paths,
use MAC_FMT et al. instead.
As noted by Joe Perches, pr_debug() could be modified to
handle this better, but that is a change to an interface
used by the entire kernel and thus needs to be validated
carefully. This here is thus the less risky fix for
2.6.25
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It's only a debugging printk, so it went unnoticed; still, the
fix is trivial, so...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The struct ieee8021_auth * passed to it comes straight from skb->data
without any conversions; members of the struct are little-endian, so
we'd better take that into account when doing switch by auth->algorithm,
etc.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
on some codepaths we forgot to convert to little-endian as we do on the
rest of them and as the caller expects from us.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make it match the on-the-wire endianness, eliminate byteswapping.
The only driver that used this sucker (ipw2200) updated.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Schedule softmac for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function
and timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There
is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code.
The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter
(98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is no guarantee that data+SNAP_SIZE will reside on an even numbered
address, so doing a 16 bit read will cause an unaligned access in some
situations. Based on a patch from Jun Sun.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
if (net_ratelimit())
IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP(...)
can pollute the logs with messages like:
printk: 1 messages suppressed.
printk: 2 messages suppressed.
printk: 7 messages suppressed.
if debugging information is disabled. These messages are printed by
net_ratelimit(). Add a wrapper to net_ratelimit() that takes into account
the log level, so that net_ratelimit() is called only when we really want
to print something.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The MLME request reason code is host-endian and our passing
it to the low level functions is host-endian as well since
they do the swapping. I noticed that the reason code 768 was
sent (0x300) rather than 3 when wpa_supplicant terminates.
This removes the superfluous cpu_to_le16() call.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Not architecture specific code should not #include <asm/scatterlist.h>.
This patch therefore either replaces them with
#include <linux/scatterlist.h> or simply removes them if they were
unused.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Most drivers need to set length and offset as well, so may as well fold
those three lines into one.
Add sg_assign_page() for those two locations that only needed to set
the page, where the offset/length is set outside of the function context.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Commits
58b053e4ce ("Update arch/ to use sg helpers")
45711f1af6 ("[SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers")
fa05f1286b ("Update net/ to use sg helpers")
converted many files to use the scatter gather helpers without ensuring
that the necessary headerfile <linux/scatterlist> is included. This
happened to work for ia64, powerpc, sparc64 and x86 because they
happened to drag in that file via their <asm/dma-mapping.h>.
On most of the others this probably broke.
Instead of increasing the header file spider web I choose to include
<linux/scatterlist.h> directly into the affectes files.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The commit 65b6a277 titled "ieee80211: Fix header->qos_ctl endian issue"
*introduced* an endianness bug. Partially revert it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It seems I was actually able to hit this deadlock, on my quad G5 softmac
locks up more often than not. This fixes it by using an own workqueue
that can safely be flushed under RTNL.
Not sure if the patch is correct with the workqueue naming. And don't
think with the patch it doesn't continually lock up. It still does, just
doesn't invoke lockdep warnings all the time.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace. It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.
Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Hopefully captured all single statement cases under net/. I'm
not too sure if there is some policy about #includes that are
"guaranteed" (ie., in the current tree) to be available through
some other #included header, so I just added linux/kernel.h to
each changed file that didn't #include it previously.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.o
/home/kernel/src/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c: In function âieee80211softmac_wx_set_essidâ:
/home/kernel/src/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:117: warning: label âoutâ defined but not used
due to commit: efe870f9f4. Removing the label.
Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reported by Chris Evans <scarybeasts@gmail.com>:
> The summary is that an evil 80211 frame can crash out a victim's
> machine. It only applies to drivers using the 80211 wireless code, and
> only then to certain drivers (and even then depends on a card's
> firmware not dropping a dubious packet). I must confess I'm not
> keeping track of Linux wireless support, and the different protocol
> stacks etc.
>
> Details are as follows:
>
> ieee80211_rx() does not explicitly check that "skb->len >= hdrlen".
> There are other skb->len checks, but not enough to prevent a subtle
> off-by-two error if the frame has the IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA flag
> set.
>
> This leads to integer underflow and crash here:
>
> if (frag != 0)
> flen -= hdrlen;
>
> (flen is subsequently used as a memcpy length parameter).
How about this?
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 4cf92a3c was submitted as a fix for bug #8686 at bugzilla.kernel.org
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8686). Unfortunately, the fix led to
a new bug, reported by Yoshifuji Hideaki, that prevented association for WEP
encrypted networks that use ifconfig to control the device. This patch effectively
reverts the earlier commit and does a proper fix for bug #8686.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The essid wireless extension does deadlock against the assoc mutex,
as we don't unlock the assoc mutex when flushing the workqueue, which
also holds the lock.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
SoftMAC outputs the channel twice in the scan output. It should
display frequency and channel, but only once for each.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
Fix error message:
Unable to network device. --> Unable to allocate network device.
Cc: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In ieee80211, the output of scan results lists channels, but not
frequencies, which are needed by NetworkManager. This patch uses
the new ieee80211_channel_to_freq routine to add the frequency to the output.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The routines that interrogate the ieee80211_geo struct are missing a
channel to frequency entry. This patch adds it.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using any of the IEEE80211_DEBUG_XXXX macros in any ieee80211_crypt
routine built as a module results in a missing global for
'ieee80211_debug_level'. The fix is to export the symbol in ieee80211.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are messages arising from ieee80211_crypt that spam the logs
of casual users. These are changed to be logged only if the user
specifically requests the IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP messages. In either
case, the error/drop count is incremented.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After 13 years of use, it looks like my email address is finally going
to disappear. While this is likely to drop the amount of incoming spam
greatly ;-), it may also affect more appropriate messages, so let's
update my email address in various places. In addition, Host AP mailing
list is subscribers-only and linux-wireless can also be used for
discussing issues related to this driver which is now shown in
MAINTAINERS.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch refactors the wireless Kconfig all over and already
introduces net/wireless/Kconfig with just the WEXT bit for now,
the cfg80211 patch will add to that as well.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To clearly state the intent of copying to linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Bruno Randolf
Adrian Bunk
David S. Miller
Harvey Harrison
Al Viro
Roel Kluin
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
John W. Linville
Pavel Emelyanov
Herbert Xu
Daniel Drake
Guillaume Chazarain
Johannes Berg
Jiri Olsa
Jens Axboe
Geert Uytterhoeven
Ralf Baechle
Jean Delvare
Joe Perches
Eric W. Biederman
Ilpo Järvinen
Jeff Garzik
Richard Knutsson
Larry Finger
Michael Buesch
Jean Tourrilhes
Akinobu Mita
Jouni Malinen
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo