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>
Softmac scanning fails because the stop flag is not cleared before
scanning is started. The attached one-line patch fixes this.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes ieee80211softmac_reassoc which is neither implemented
nor used nor necessary.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds handling of reassociation to softmac when the AP
requests it. Patch from Larry Finger.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Recently the deauth packet handler was updated to use a deauth packet
struct (identical to the auth packet struct) and this now gives a
warning. This patch updates the code to properly use a deauth struct and
deauth variable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes a blank line that shouldn't be there and fixes a
spelling error in softmac.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch updates the copyright statements in softmac that I
erroneously added for 2005 only (when we already had 2006).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Properly check return value of ieee80211softmac_alloc_mgt
in ieee80211softmac_disassoc_deauth (patch by Denis Vlasenko)
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Toralf Förster
Daniel Drake
John W. Linville
Johannes Berg
Michael Buesch
Randy Dunlap
David Woodhouse
Larry Finger