linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/b43, branch linux-3.12.y

b43: fix frequency reported on G-PHY with /new/ firmware

2014-07-18T13:51:03+00:00

commit 2fc68eb122c7ea6cd5be1fe7d6650c0beb2f4f40 upstream.

Support for firmware rev 508+ was added years ago, but we never noticed
it reports channel in a different way for G-PHY devices. Instead of
offset from 2400 MHz it simply passes channel id (AKA hw_value).

So far it was (most probably) affecting monitor mode users only, but
the following recent commit made it noticeable for quite everybody:

commit 3afc2167f60a327a2c1e1e2600ef209a3c2b75b7
Author: Emmanuel Grumbach 
Date:   Tue Mar 4 16:50:13 2014 +0200

    cfg80211/mac80211: ignore signal if the frame was heard on wrong channel

Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen 
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

b43: Fix machine check error due to improper access of B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR

2014-05-15T07:55:59+00:00

commit 12cd43c6ed6da7bf7c5afbd74da6959cda6d056b upstream.

Register B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR is 16 bit one, so accessing it with 32b
functions isn't safe. On my machine it causes delayed (!) CPU exception:

Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 4: b200000000070f0f
mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 164083803dc
mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:20fc2 TIME 1396650505 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 0
mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii'
mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Processor context corrupt
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal machine check on current CPU
Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff)

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
Acked-by: Larry Finger 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

b43: fix the wrong assignment of status.freq in b43_rx()

2014-02-06T19:22:16+00:00

commit 64e5acb09ca6b50c97299cff9ef51299470b29f2 upstream.

Use the right function to update frequency value.

If rx skb is probe response or beacon, the wrong frequency value can
cause problem that bss info can't be updated when it should be.

Fixes: 8318d78a44d4 ("cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion")
Signed-off-by: ZHAO Gang 
Acked-by: Larry Finger 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

b43: Fix unload oops if firmware is not available

2014-02-06T19:22:16+00:00

commit 0673effd41dba323d6a280ef37b5ef29f3f5a653 upstream.

The asyncronous firmware load uses a completion struct to hold firmware
processing until the user-space routines are up and running. There is.
however, a problem in that the waiter is nevered canceled during teardown.
As a result, unloading the driver when firmware is not available causes an oops.

To be able to access the completion structure at teardown, it had to be moved
into the b43_wldev structure.

This patch also fixes a typo in a comment.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

b43: Fix lockdep splat

2014-02-06T19:22:16+00:00

commit 09164043f63c947a49797750a09ca1cd7c31108e upstream.

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67561, a locking dependency is reported
when b43 is used with hostapd, and rfkill is used to kill the radio output.

The lockdep splat (in part) is as follows:

======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
3.12.0 #1 Not tainted
-------------------------------------------------------
rfkill/10040 is trying to acquire lock:
 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x20

but task is already holding lock:
 (rfkill_global_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] rfkill_fop_write+0x6a/0x170 [rfkill]

--snip--

Chain exists of:
  rtnl_mutex --> misc_mtx --> rfkill_global_mutex

The fix is to move the initialization of the hardware random number generator
outside the code range covered by the rtnl_mutex.

Reported-by: yury 
Tested-by: yury 
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next

2013-09-04T01:45:31+00:00

John W. Linville says:

====================
Please accept this batch of updates intended for the 3.12 stream.

For the mac80211 bits, Johannes says this:

"This time I have various improvements all over the place: IBSS, mesh,
testmode, AP client powersave handling, one of the rare rfkill patches
and some code cleanup."

Also for mac80211:

"And I also have some more changes for -next, just a few small fixes and
improvements, nothing really stands out."

And for iwlwifi:

"This time I have some powersave work (notably uAPSD support), CQM
offloads, support for a new firmware API and various code cleanups."

Regarding the Bluetooth bits, Gustavo says:

"Patches to 3.12, here we have:

* implementation of a proper tty_port for RFCOMM devices, this fixes some
issues people were seeing lately in the kernel.
* Add voice_setting option for SCO, it is used for SCO Codec selection
* bugfixes, small improvements and clean ups"

For the NFC bits, Samuel says:

"With this one we have:

- A few pn533 improvements and minor fixes. Testing our pn533 driver
  against Google's NCI stack triggered a few issues that we fixed now.
  We also added Tx fragmentation support to this driver.

- More NFC secure element handling. We added a GET_SE netlink command
  for getting all the discovered secure elements, and we defined 2
  additional secure element netlink event (transaction and connectivity).
  We also fixed a couple of typos and copy-paste bugs from the secure
  element handling code.

- Firmware download support for the pn544 driver. This chipset can enter a
  special mode where it's waiting for firmware blobs to replace the
  already flashed one. We now support that mode."

With repect to the ath tree, Kalle says:

"New features in ath10k are rx/tx checsumming in hw and survey scan
implemented by Michal. Also he made fixes to different areas of the
driver, most notable being fixing the case when using two streams and
reducing the number of interface combinations to avoid firmware crashes.
Bartosz did a clean related to how we handle SoC power save in PCI
layer.

For ath6kl Mohammed and Vasanth sent each a patch to fix two infrequent
crashes."

I also pulled the wireless tree into wireless-next to support a
request from Johannes.  On top of all that, there are the usual
sort of driver updates.  The mwifiex, brcmfmac, brcmsmac, ath9k,
and rt2x00 drivers all get some attention, as does the bcma bus and
a few other random bits here and there.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers:net: Convert dma_alloc_coherent(...__GFP_ZERO) to dma_zalloc_coherent

2013-08-30T01:55:23+00:00

__GFP_ZERO is an uncommon flag and perhaps is better
not used.  static inline dma_zalloc_coherent exists
so convert the uses of dma_alloc_coherent with __GFP_ZERO
to the more common kernel style with zalloc.

Remove memset from the static inline dma_zalloc_coherent
and add just one use of __GFP_ZERO instead.

Trivially reduces the size of the existing uses of
dma_zalloc_coherent.

Realign arguments as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: Neil Horman 
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg 
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

b43: call PCIe up and down functions

2013-08-26T18:09:04+00:00

Tell the PCIe host core when the wifi is activated.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

b43: replace B43_BCMA_EXTRA with modparam allhwsupport

2013-06-27T17:42:15+00:00

This allows enabling support for extra hardware with just a module
param, without kernel/module recompilation.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

b43: activate N-PHY and HT-PHY support by default

2013-06-12T19:06:54+00:00

N-PHY and HT-PHY support is more or less stable and should be activated
by default.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville