linux-stable.git/net/mac80211, branch v3.13.2

net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding

2014-01-10T18:23:08+00:00

Currently, the tx queue were selected implicitly in ndo_dfwd_start_xmit(). The
will cause several issues:

- NETIF_F_LLTX were removed for macvlan, so txq lock were done for macvlan
  instead of lower device which misses the necessary txq synchronization for
  lower device such as txq stopping or frozen required by dev watchdog or
  control path.
- dev_hard_start_xmit() was called with NULL txq which bypasses the net device
  watchdog.
- dev_hard_start_xmit() does not check txq everywhere which will lead a crash
  when tso is disabled for lower device.

Fix this by explicitly introducing a new param for .ndo_select_queue() for just
selecting queues in the case of l2 forwarding offload. netdev_pick_tx() was also
extended to accept this parameter and dev_queue_xmit_accel() was used to do l2
forwarding transmission.

With this fixes, NETIF_F_LLTX could be preserved for macvlan and there's no need
to check txq against NULL in dev_hard_start_xmit(). Also there's no need to keep
a dedicated ndo_dfwd_start_xmit() and we can just reuse the code of
dev_queue_xmit() to do the transmission.

In the future, it was also required for macvtap l2 forwarding support since it
provides a necessary synchronization method.

Cc: John Fastabend 
Cc: Neil Horman 
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang 
Acked-by: Neil Horman 
Acked-by: John Fastabend 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan

2013-12-16T20:44:05+00:00

The check needs to apply to both multicast and unicast packets,
otherwise probe requests on AP mode scans are sent through the multicast
buffer queue, which adds long delays (often longer than the scanning
interval).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: check csa wiphy flag in ibss before switching

2013-12-02T10:54:13+00:00

When external CSA IEs are received (beacons or action messages), a
channel switch is triggered as well. This should only be allowed on
devices which actually support channel switches, otherwise disconnect.
(For the corresponding userspace invocation, the wiphy flag is checked
in nl80211).

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: set hw initial idle state

2013-11-25T15:56:54+00:00

ATM, the first call of ieee80211_do_open will configure the hw as
non-idle, even if the interface being brought up is not a monitor, and
this leads to inconsistent sequences like:

register_hw()
	do_open(sta)
		hw_config(non-idle)
(.. sta is non-idle ..)
scan(sta)
	hw_config(idle) (after scan finishes)
do_stop(sta)
do_open(sta)
(.. sta is idle ..)

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: use capped prob when computing throughputs

2013-11-25T15:56:17+00:00

Commit 3e8b1eb "mac80211/minstrel_ht: improve rate selection stability"
introduced a local capped prob in minstrel_ht_calc_tp but omitted to use
it to compute the per rate throughput.

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan 
Cc: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix connection polling

2013-11-25T15:50:14+00:00

Commit 392b9ff ("mac80211: change beacon/connection polling")
removed the IEEE80211_STA_BEACON_POLL flag.

However, it accidentally removed the setting of
IEEE80211_STA_CONNECTION_POLL, making the connection polling
completely useless (the flag is always clear, so the result
is never being checked). Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller 
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix the mesh channel switch support

2013-11-25T15:50:13+00:00

Mesh STA receiving the mesh CSA action frame is not able to trigger
the mesh channel switch due to the incorrect handling and comparison
of mesh channel switch parameters element (MCSP)'s TTL. Make sure
the MCSP's TTL is updated accordingly before calling the
ieee80211_mesh_process_chnswitch. Also, we update the beacon before
forwarding the CSA action frame, so MCSP's precedence value and
initiator flag need to be updated prior to this.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: don't attempt to reorder multicast frames

2013-11-25T15:50:12+00:00

Multicast frames can't be transmitted as part of an aggregation
session (such a session couldn't even be set up) so don't try to
reorder them. Trying to do so would cause the reorder to stop
working correctly since multicast QoS frames (as transmitted by
the Aruba APs this was found with) would cause sequence number
confusion in the buffer.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Blaise Gassend 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: minstrel_ht: fix rates selection

2013-11-25T15:50:10+00:00

When initializing rates selections starting indexes upon stats update,
the minstrel_sta->max_* rates should be 'group * MCS_GROUP_RATES + i'
not 'i'. This affects settings where one of the peers does not support
any of the rates of the group 0 (i.e. when ht_cap.mcs.rx_mask[0] == 0).

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan 
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix for mesh beacon update on powersave

2013-11-25T15:50:09+00:00

Mesh beacon was not being rebuild after user triggered a mesh
powersave change.

To solve this issue use ieee80211_mbss_info_change_notify instead
of ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify. This helper function forces
mesh beacon to be rebuild and then notifies the driver about the
beacon change.

Signed-off-by: Javier Lopez 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg