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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>wifi: cfg80211: fix the order of arguments for trace events of the tx_rx_evt class</title>
<updated>2024-06-16T11:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Igor Artemiev</name>
<email>Igor.A.Artemiev@mcst.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-05T15:24:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9ef369973cd2c97cce3388d2c0c7e3c056656e8a ]

The declarations of the tx_rx_evt class and the rdev_set_antenna event
use the wrong order of arguments in the TP_ARGS macro.

Fix the order of arguments in the TP_ARGS macro.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Signed-off-by: Igor Artemiev &lt;Igor.A.Artemiev@mcst.ru&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240405152431.270267-1-Igor.A.Artemiev@mcst.ru
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9ef369973cd2c97cce3388d2c0c7e3c056656e8a ]

The declarations of the tx_rx_evt class and the rdev_set_antenna event
use the wrong order of arguments in the TP_ARGS macro.

Fix the order of arguments in the TP_ARGS macro.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Signed-off-by: Igor Artemiev &lt;Igor.A.Artemiev@mcst.ru&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240405152431.270267-1-Igor.A.Artemiev@mcst.ru
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211: Fix radar event during another phy CAC</title>
<updated>2020-02-05T14:43:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Orr Mazor</name>
<email>orr.mazor@tandemg.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-22T14:55:31+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 26ec17a1dc5ecdd8d91aba63ead6f8b5ad5dea0d ]

In case a radar event of CAC_FINISHED or RADAR_DETECTED
happens during another phy is during CAC we might need
to cancel that CAC.

If we got a radar in a channel that another phy is now
doing CAC on then the CAC should be canceled there.

If, for example, 2 phys doing CAC on the same channels,
or on comptable channels, once on of them will finish his
CAC the other might need to cancel his CAC, since it is no
longer relevant.

To fix that the commit adds an callback and implement it in
mac80211 to end CAC.
This commit also adds a call to said callback if after a radar
event we see the CAC is no longer relevant

Signed-off-by: Orr Mazor &lt;Orr.Mazor@tandemg.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191222145449.15792-1-Orr.Mazor@tandemg.com
[slightly reformat/reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 26ec17a1dc5ecdd8d91aba63ead6f8b5ad5dea0d ]

In case a radar event of CAC_FINISHED or RADAR_DETECTED
happens during another phy is during CAC we might need
to cancel that CAC.

If we got a radar in a channel that another phy is now
doing CAC on then the CAC should be canceled there.

If, for example, 2 phys doing CAC on the same channels,
or on comptable channels, once on of them will finish his
CAC the other might need to cancel his CAC, since it is no
longer relevant.

To fix that the commit adds an callback and implement it in
mac80211 to end CAC.
This commit also adds a call to said callback if after a radar
event we see the CAC is no longer relevant

Signed-off-by: Orr Mazor &lt;Orr.Mazor@tandemg.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191222145449.15792-1-Orr.Mazor@tandemg.com
[slightly reformat/reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nl80211/mac80211: allow non-linear skb in rx_control_port</title>
<updated>2018-07-06T12:34:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Kenzior</name>
<email>denkenz@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-03T20:05:48+00:00</published>
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The current implementation of cfg80211_rx_control_port assumed that the
caller could provide a contiguous region of memory for the control port
frame to be sent up to userspace.  Unfortunately, many drivers produce
non-linear skbs, especially for data frames.  This resulted in userspace
getting notified of control port frames with correct metadata (from
address, port, etc) yet garbage / nonsense contents, resulting in bad
handshakes, disconnections, etc.

mac80211 linearizes skbs containing management frames.  But it didn't
seem worthwhile to do this for control port frames.  Thus the signature
of cfg80211_rx_control_port was changed to take the skb directly.
nl80211 then takes care of obtaining control port frame data directly
from the (linear | non-linear) skb.

The caller is still responsible for freeing the skb,
cfg80211_rx_control_port does not take ownership of it.

Fixes: 6a671a50f819 ("nl80211: Add CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME API")
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
[fix some kernel-doc formatting, add fixes tag]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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The current implementation of cfg80211_rx_control_port assumed that the
caller could provide a contiguous region of memory for the control port
frame to be sent up to userspace.  Unfortunately, many drivers produce
non-linear skbs, especially for data frames.  This resulted in userspace
getting notified of control port frames with correct metadata (from
address, port, etc) yet garbage / nonsense contents, resulting in bad
handshakes, disconnections, etc.

mac80211 linearizes skbs containing management frames.  But it didn't
seem worthwhile to do this for control port frames.  Thus the signature
of cfg80211_rx_control_port was changed to take the skb directly.
nl80211 then takes care of obtaining control port frame data directly
from the (linear | non-linear) skb.

The caller is still responsible for freeing the skb,
cfg80211_rx_control_port does not take ownership of it.

Fixes: 6a671a50f819 ("nl80211: Add CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME API")
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
[fix some kernel-doc formatting, add fixes tag]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211: Expose TXQ stats and parameters to userspace</title>
<updated>2018-05-08T11:19:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
<email>toke@toke.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-08T11:03:50+00:00</published>
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This adds support for exporting the mac80211 TXQ stats via nl80211 by
way of a nested TXQ stats attribute, as well as for configuring the
quantum and limits that were previously only changeable through debugfs.

This commit adds just the nl80211 API, a subsequent commit adds support to
mac80211 itself.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@toke.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This adds support for exporting the mac80211 TXQ stats via nl80211 by
way of a nested TXQ stats attribute, as well as for configuring the
quantum and limits that were previously only changeable through debugfs.

This commit adds just the nl80211 API, a subsequent commit adds support to
mac80211 itself.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@toke.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2018-04-01T03:33:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-01T03:33:04+00:00</published>
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2018-03-31

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.

The main changes are:

1) Add raw BPF tracepoint API in order to have a BPF program type that
   can access kernel internal arguments of the tracepoints in their
   raw form similar to kprobes based BPF programs. This infrastructure
   also adds a new BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT_OPEN command to BPF syscall which
   returns an anon-inode backed fd for the tracepoint object that allows
   for automatic detach of the BPF program resp. unregistering of the
   tracepoint probe on fd release, from Alexei.

2) Add new BPF cgroup hooks at bind() and connect() entry in order to
   allow BPF programs to reject, inspect or modify user space passed
   struct sockaddr, and as well a hook at post bind time once the port
   has been allocated. They are used in FB's container management engine
   for implementing policy, replacing fragile LD_PRELOAD wrapper
   intercepting bind() and connect() calls that only works in limited
   scenarios like glibc based apps but not for other runtimes in
   containerized applications, from Andrey.

3) BPF_F_INGRESS flag support has been added to sockmap programs for
   their redirect helper call bringing it in line with cls_bpf based
   programs. Support is added for both variants of sockmap programs,
   meaning for tx ULP hooks as well as recv skb hooks, from John.

4) Various improvements on BPF side for the nfp driver, besides others
   this work adds BPF map update and delete helper call support from
   the datapath, JITing of 32 and 64 bit XADD instructions as well as
   offload support of bpf_get_prandom_u32() call. Initial implementation
   of nfp packet cache has been tackled that optimizes memory access
   (see merge commit for further details), from Jakub and Jiong.

5) Removal of struct bpf_verifier_env argument from the print_bpf_insn()
   API has been done in order to prepare to use print_bpf_insn() soon
   out of perf tool directly. This makes the print_bpf_insn() API more
   generic and pushes the env into private data. bpftool is adjusted
   as well with the print_bpf_insn() argument removal, from Jiri.

6) Couple of cleanups and prep work for the upcoming BTF (BPF Type
   Format). The latter will reuse the current BPF verifier log as
   well, thus bpf_verifier_log() is further generalized, from Martin.

7) For bpf_getsockopt() and bpf_setsockopt() helpers, IPv4 IP_TOS read
   and write support has been added in similar fashion to existing
   IPv6 IPV6_TCLASS socket option we already have, from Nikita.

8) Fixes in recent sockmap scatterlist API usage, which did not use
   sg_init_table() for initialization thus triggering a BUG_ON() in
   scatterlist API when CONFIG_DEBUG_SG was enabled. This adds and
   uses a small helper sg_init_marker() to properly handle the affected
   cases, from Prashant.

9) Let the BPF core follow IDR code convention and therefore use the
   idr_preload() and idr_preload_end() helpers, which would also help
   idr_alloc_cyclic() under GFP_ATOMIC to better succeed under memory
   pressure, from Shaohua.

10) Last but not least, a spelling fix in an error message for the
    BPF cookie UID helper under BPF sample code, from Colin.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2018-03-31

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.

The main changes are:

1) Add raw BPF tracepoint API in order to have a BPF program type that
   can access kernel internal arguments of the tracepoints in their
   raw form similar to kprobes based BPF programs. This infrastructure
   also adds a new BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT_OPEN command to BPF syscall which
   returns an anon-inode backed fd for the tracepoint object that allows
   for automatic detach of the BPF program resp. unregistering of the
   tracepoint probe on fd release, from Alexei.

2) Add new BPF cgroup hooks at bind() and connect() entry in order to
   allow BPF programs to reject, inspect or modify user space passed
   struct sockaddr, and as well a hook at post bind time once the port
   has been allocated. They are used in FB's container management engine
   for implementing policy, replacing fragile LD_PRELOAD wrapper
   intercepting bind() and connect() calls that only works in limited
   scenarios like glibc based apps but not for other runtimes in
   containerized applications, from Andrey.

3) BPF_F_INGRESS flag support has been added to sockmap programs for
   their redirect helper call bringing it in line with cls_bpf based
   programs. Support is added for both variants of sockmap programs,
   meaning for tx ULP hooks as well as recv skb hooks, from John.

4) Various improvements on BPF side for the nfp driver, besides others
   this work adds BPF map update and delete helper call support from
   the datapath, JITing of 32 and 64 bit XADD instructions as well as
   offload support of bpf_get_prandom_u32() call. Initial implementation
   of nfp packet cache has been tackled that optimizes memory access
   (see merge commit for further details), from Jakub and Jiong.

5) Removal of struct bpf_verifier_env argument from the print_bpf_insn()
   API has been done in order to prepare to use print_bpf_insn() soon
   out of perf tool directly. This makes the print_bpf_insn() API more
   generic and pushes the env into private data. bpftool is adjusted
   as well with the print_bpf_insn() argument removal, from Jiri.

6) Couple of cleanups and prep work for the upcoming BTF (BPF Type
   Format). The latter will reuse the current BPF verifier log as
   well, thus bpf_verifier_log() is further generalized, from Martin.

7) For bpf_getsockopt() and bpf_setsockopt() helpers, IPv4 IP_TOS read
   and write support has been added in similar fashion to existing
   IPv6 IPV6_TCLASS socket option we already have, from Nikita.

8) Fixes in recent sockmap scatterlist API usage, which did not use
   sg_init_table() for initialization thus triggering a BUG_ON() in
   scatterlist API when CONFIG_DEBUG_SG was enabled. This adds and
   uses a small helper sg_init_marker() to properly handle the affected
   cases, from Prashant.

9) Let the BPF core follow IDR code convention and therefore use the
   idr_preload() and idr_preload_end() helpers, which would also help
   idr_alloc_cyclic() under GFP_ATOMIC to better succeed under memory
   pressure, from Shaohua.

10) Last but not least, a spelling fix in an error message for the
    BPF cookie UID helper under BPF sample code, from Colin.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nl80211: Implement TX of control port frames</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T11:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Kenzior</name>
<email>denkenz@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-26T17:52:42+00:00</published>
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This commit implements the TX side of NL80211_CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME.
Userspace provides the raw EAPoL frame using NL80211_ATTR_FRAME.
Userspace should also provide the destination address and the protocol
type to use when sending the frame.  This is used to implement TX of
Pre-authentication frames.  If CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE_NO_ENCRYPT is
specified, then the driver will be asked not to encrypt the outgoing
frame.

A new EXT_FEATURE flag is introduced so that nl80211 code can check
whether a given wiphy has capability to pass EAPoL frames over nl80211.

Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This commit implements the TX side of NL80211_CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME.
Userspace provides the raw EAPoL frame using NL80211_ATTR_FRAME.
Userspace should also provide the destination address and the protocol
type to use when sending the frame.  This is used to implement TX of
Pre-authentication frames.  If CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE_NO_ENCRYPT is
specified, then the driver will be asked not to encrypt the outgoing
frame.

A new EXT_FEATURE flag is introduced so that nl80211 code can check
whether a given wiphy has capability to pass EAPoL frames over nl80211.

Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nl80211: Add CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME API</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T11:44:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Kenzior</name>
<email>denkenz@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-26T17:52:41+00:00</published>
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This commit also adds cfg80211_rx_control_port function.  This is used
to generate a CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME event out to userspace.  The
conn_owner_nlportid is used as the unicast destination.  This means that
userspace must specify NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER flag if control port
over nl80211 routing is requested in NL80211_CMD_CONNECT,
NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE, NL80211_CMD_START_AP or IBSS/mesh join.

Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
[johannes: fix return value of cfg80211_rx_control_port()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This commit also adds cfg80211_rx_control_port function.  This is used
to generate a CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME event out to userspace.  The
conn_owner_nlportid is used as the unicast destination.  This means that
userspace must specify NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER flag if control port
over nl80211 routing is requested in NL80211_CMD_CONNECT,
NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE, NL80211_CMD_START_AP or IBSS/mesh join.

Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
[johannes: fix return value of cfg80211_rx_control_port()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: remove large struct-pass-by-value from tracepoint arguments</title>
<updated>2018-03-28T20:55:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-28T19:05:32+00:00</published>
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- fix trace_hfi1_ctxt_info() to pass large struct by reference instead of by value
- convert 'type array[]' tracepoint arguments into 'type *array',
  since compiler will warn that sizeof('type array[]') == sizeof('type *array')
  and later should be used instead

The CAST_TO_U64 macro in the later patch will enforce that tracepoint
arguments can only be integers, pointers, or less than 8 byte structures.
Larger structures should be passed by reference.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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- fix trace_hfi1_ctxt_info() to pass large struct by reference instead of by value
- convert 'type array[]' tracepoint arguments into 'type *array',
  since compiler will warn that sizeof('type array[]') == sizeof('type *array')
  and later should be used instead

The CAST_TO_U64 macro in the later patch will enforce that tracepoint
arguments can only be integers, pointers, or less than 8 byte structures.
Larger structures should be passed by reference.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211/nl80211: Optional authentication offload to userspace</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:56:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srinivas Dasari</name>
<email>dasaris@qti.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-25T15:13:38+00:00</published>
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This interface allows the host driver to offload the authentication to
user space. This is exclusively defined for host drivers that do not
define separate commands for authentication and association, but rely on
userspace SME (e.g., in wpa_supplicant for the ~WPA_DRIVER_FLAGS_SME
case) for the authentication to happen. This can be used to implement
SAE without full implementation in the kernel/firmware while still being
able to use NL80211_CMD_CONNECT with driver-based BSS selection.

Host driver sends NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH event to start/abort
authentication to the port on which connect is triggered and status
of authentication is further indicated by user space to host
driver through the same command response interface.

User space entities advertise this capability through the
NL80211_ATTR_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPP flag in the NL80211_CMD_CONNECT request.
Host drivers shall look at this capability to offload the authentication.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Dasari &lt;dasaris@qti.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
[add socket connection ownership check]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This interface allows the host driver to offload the authentication to
user space. This is exclusively defined for host drivers that do not
define separate commands for authentication and association, but rely on
userspace SME (e.g., in wpa_supplicant for the ~WPA_DRIVER_FLAGS_SME
case) for the authentication to happen. This can be used to implement
SAE without full implementation in the kernel/firmware while still being
able to use NL80211_CMD_CONNECT with driver-based BSS selection.

Host driver sends NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH event to start/abort
authentication to the port on which connect is triggered and status
of authentication is further indicated by user space to host
driver through the same command response interface.

User space entities advertise this capability through the
NL80211_ATTR_EXTERNAL_AUTH_SUPP flag in the NL80211_CMD_CONNECT request.
Host drivers shall look at this capability to offload the authentication.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Dasari &lt;dasaris@qti.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
[add socket connection ownership check]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211: cleanup signal strength units notation</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T11:19:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Matyukevich</name>
<email>sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-09T11:46:30+00:00</published>
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Both cfg80211_rx_mgmt and cfg80211_report_obss_beacon functions send
reports to userspace using NL80211_ATTR_RX_SIGNAL_DBM attribute w/o
any processing of their input signal values. Which means that in
order to match userspace tools expectations, input signal values
for those functions are supposed to be in dBm units.

This patch cleans up comments, variable names, and trace reports
for those functions, replacing confusing 'mBm' by 'dBm'.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Both cfg80211_rx_mgmt and cfg80211_report_obss_beacon functions send
reports to userspace using NL80211_ATTR_RX_SIGNAL_DBM attribute w/o
any processing of their input signal values. Which means that in
order to match userspace tools expectations, input signal values
for those functions are supposed to be in dBm units.

This patch cleans up comments, variable names, and trace reports
for those functions, replacing confusing 'mBm' by 'dBm'.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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