linux.git/net/mac80211/debugfs.c, branch v6.16

wifi: mac80211: add strict mode disabling workarounds

2025-02-11T10:59:06+00:00

Add a strict mode where we disable certain workarounds and have
additional checks such as, for now, that VHT capabilities from
association response match those from beacon/probe response. We
can extend the checks in the future.

Make it an opt-in setting by the driver so it can be set there
in some driver-specific way, for example. Also allow setting
this one hw flag through the hwflags debugfs, by writing a new
strict=0 or strict=1 value.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Reviewed-by: Ilan Peer 
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250205110958.5cecb0469479.I4a69617dc60ba0d6308416ffbc3102cfd08ba068@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: use wiphy guard

2024-12-04T15:10:52+00:00

The wiphy guard simplifies some code here, so use it.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Johnson 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241122094225.cea65b2d2fd4.Icc168c4bbeddec98ea096aee9077211a7b88b69e@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: convert debugfs files to short fops

2024-10-23T14:47:07+00:00

Given the large size of the regular struct file_operations, save
a lot of space with the newly added short fops for debugfs.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241022151838.2f6de3ea3ecc.I45657e6a8415d796ec95c95becc9efb377ee3be6@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: add flag to opt out of virtual monitor support

2024-10-23T14:45:43+00:00

This is useful for multi-radio devices that are capable of monitoring on
multiple channels simultanenously. When this flag is set, each monitor
interface is passed to the driver individually and can have a configured
channel.
The vif mac address for non-active monitor interfaces is cleared, in order
to allow the driver to tell them apart from active ones.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/3c55505ee0cf0a5f141fbcb30d1e8be8d9f40373.1728462320.git-series.nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: remove DEAUTH_NEED_MGD_TX_PREP

2024-06-28T07:56:30+00:00

This flag is annoying because it puts a lot of logic into mac80211
that could just as well be in the driver (only iwlmvm uses it) and
the implementation is also broken for MLO.

Remove the flag in favour of calling drv_mgd_prepare_tx() without
any conditions even for the deauth-while-assoc case. The drivers
that implement it can take the appropriate actions, which for the
only user of DEAUTH_NEED_MGD_TX_PREP (iwlmvm) is a bit more tricky
than the implementation in mac80211 is anyway, and all others have
no need and can just exit if info->was_assoc is set.

Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240627132527.94924bcc9c9e.I328a219e45f2e2724cd52e75bb9feee3bf21a463@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: add flag to disallow puncturing in 5 GHz

2024-03-25T14:38:13+00:00

Some devices may not be capable of handling puncturing in 5 GHz
only (vs. the current flag that just removes puncturing support
completely). Add a flag to support such devices: check and then
downgrade the channel width if needed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit 
Link: https://msgid.link/20240318184907.49759510da7d.I12c5a61f0be512e0c4e574c2f794ef4b37ecaf6b@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: introduce a feature flag for quiet in CSA

2024-03-04T13:33:58+00:00

When doing CSA in multi-link, there really isn't a need to
stop transmissions entirely. Add a feature flag for drivers
to indicate they can handle quiet in CSA (be it by parsing
themselves, or by implementing drv_pre_channel_switch()),
to make that possible.

Also clean up the csa_block_tx handling: it clearly cannot
handle multi-link due to the way queues are stopped, move
it to the sdata. Drivers should be doing it themselves for
working properly during CSA in MLO anyway. Also rename it
to indicate that it reflects TX was blocked at mac80211.

Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit 
Link: https://msgid.link/20240228095719.258439191541.I2469d206e2bf5cb244cfde2b4bbc2ae6d1cd3dd9@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: add a flag to disallow puncturing

2023-12-12T09:37:00+00:00

There may be cases where puncturing isn't possible, and
a connection needs to be downgraded. Add a hardware flag
to support this.

This is likely temporary: it seems we will need to move
puncturing to the chandef/channel context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Reviewed-by: Gregory Greenman 
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit 
Link: https://msgid.link/20231211085121.c1e89ea55e93.I37b8ca0ee64d5d7699e351785a9010afc106da3c@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: remove sta_mtx

2023-09-11T09:27:22+00:00

We now hold the wiphy mutex everywhere that we use or
needed the sta_mtx, so we don't need this mutex any
more. Remove it.

Most of this change was done automatically with spatch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: debugfs: lock wiphy instead of RTNL

2023-09-11T09:27:18+00:00

Since we no longer really use the RTNL, there's no point
in locking it here. Most drivers don't really need to
have any locks here anyway, and the rest are probably
completely broken, but it's a debugfs-only callback so
it really doesn't matter much.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg