linux.git/net/mac80211/rate.c, branch v5.3

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2019-06-22T12:59:24+00:00

Minor SPDX change conflict.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500

2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt 
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mac80211: extend __rate_control_send_low warning

2019-06-14T12:18:05+00:00

This appears to happen occasionally, and if it does we
really want even more information than we have now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fill low rate even for HAS_RATE_CONTROL

2019-06-14T12:17:55+00:00

If HW advertises it has rate control, we skip all of the
rate control assignments, but sometimes the data we have
here is useful, especially so that we don't have to do
the lookups again on which rates are configured and are
supported.

So do the low rate assignment anyway to help out drivers
that might need it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: use STA info in rate_control_send_low()

2019-06-14T12:17:37+00:00

Even if we have a station, we currently call rate_control_send_low()
with the NULL station unless further rate control (driver, minstrel)
has been initialized.

Change this so we can use more information about the station to use
a better rate. For example, when we associate with an AP, we will
now use the lowest rate it advertised as supported (that we can)
rather than the lowest mandatory rate. This aligns our behaviour
with most other 802.11 implementations.

To make this possible, we need to also ensure that we have non-zero
rates at all times, so in case we really have *nothing* pre-fill
the supp_rates bitmap with the very lowest mandatory bitmap (11b
and 11a on 2.4 and 5 GHz respectively).

Additionally, hostapd appears to be giving us an empty supported
rates bitmap (it can and should do better, since the STA must have
supported for at least the basic rates in the BSS), so ignore any
such bitmaps that would actually zero out the supp_rates, and in
that case just keep the pre-filled mandatory rates.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: call rate_control_send_low() internally

2019-06-14T12:17:37+00:00

There's no rate control algorithm that *doesn't* want to call
it internally, and calling it internally will let us modify
its behaviour in the future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Dynamically set CoDel parameters per station

2017-05-17T14:03:40+00:00

CoDel can be too aggressive if a station sends at a very low rate,
leading reduced throughput. This gets worse the more stations are
present, as each station gets more bursty the longer the round-robin
scheduling between stations takes.

This adds dynamic adjustment of CoDel parameters per station. It uses
the rate selection information to estimate throughput and sets more
lenient CoDel parameters if the estimated throughput is below a
threshold (modified by the number of active stations).

A new callback is added that drivers can use to notify mac80211 about
changes in expected throughput, so the same adjustment can be made for
cards that implement rate control in firmware. Drivers that don't use
this will just get the default parameters.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 
[remove currently unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL, fix kernel-doc, remove
inline annotation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Fix possible sband related NULL pointer de-reference

2017-04-28T10:28:44+00:00

Existing API 'ieee80211_get_sdata_band' returns default 2 GHz band even
if the channel context configuration is NULL. This crashes for chipsets
which support 5 Ghz alone when it tries to access members of 'sband'.
Channel context configuration can be NULL in multivif case and when
channel switch is in progress (or) when it fails. Fix this by replacing
the API 'ieee80211_get_sdata_band' with  'ieee80211_get_sband' which
returns a NULL pointer for sband when the channel configuration is NULL.

An example scenario is as below:

In multivif mode (AP + STA) with drivers like ath10k, when we do a
channel switch in the AP vif (which has a number of clients connected)
and a STA vif which is connected to some other AP, when the channel
switch in AP vif fails, while the STA vifs tries to connect to the
other AP, there is a window where the channel context is NULL/invalid
and this results in a crash  while the clients connected to the AP vif
tries to reconnect and this race is very similar to the one investigated
by Michal in https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3788161/ and this does
happens with hardware that supports 5Ghz alone after long hours of
testing with continuous channel switch on the AP vif

ieee80211 phy0: channel context reservation cannot be finalized because
some interfaces aren't switching
wlan0: failed to finalize CSA, disconnecting
wlan0-1: deauthenticating from 8c:fd:f0:01:54:9c by local choice
	(Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)

	WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 19032 at net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:1013 sta_info_alloc+0x374/0x3fc [mac80211]
	[] (sta_info_alloc [mac80211])
	[] (ieee80211_add_station [mac80211]))
	[] (nl80211_new_station [cfg80211])

	Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
	address 00000014
	pgd = d5f4c000
	Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
	PC is at sta_info_alloc+0x380/0x3fc [mac80211]
	LR is at sta_info_alloc+0x37c/0x3fc [mac80211]
	[] (sta_info_alloc [mac80211])
	[] (ieee80211_add_station [mac80211])
	[] (nl80211_new_station [cfg80211]))

Cc: Michal Kazior 
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: make rate control tx status API more extensible

2017-04-28T08:57:33+00:00

Rename .tx_status_noskb to .tx_status_ext and pass a new on-stack
struct ieee80211_tx_status instead of struct ieee80211_tx_info.

This struct can be used to pass extra information, e.g. for dynamic tx
power control

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Fix clang warning about constant operand in logical operation

2017-04-13T06:27:02+00:00

When clang detects a non-boolean constant in a logical operation it
generates a 'constant-logical-operand' warning. In
ieee80211_try_rate_control_ops_get() the result of strlen()
is used in a logical operation, clang resolves the expression to an
(integer) constant at compile time when clang's builtin strlen function
is used.

Change the condition to check for strlen() > 0 to make the constant
operand boolean and thus avoid the warning.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg