<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/net/mac80211, branch v4.13</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: add api to start ba session timer expired flow</title>
<updated>2017-08-09T06:49:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naftali Goldstein</name>
<email>naftali.goldstein@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-11T07:07:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=04c2cf34362f133be09878bd752f8b014318b59a'/>
<id>04c2cf34362f133be09878bd752f8b014318b59a</id>
<content type='text'>
Some drivers handle rx buffer reordering internally (and by extension
handle also the rx ba session timer internally), but do not ofload the
addba/delba negotiation.
Add an api for these drivers to properly tear-down the ba session,
including sending a delba.

Signed-off-by: Naftali Goldstein &lt;naftali.goldstein@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Some drivers handle rx buffer reordering internally (and by extension
handle also the rx ba session timer internally), but do not ofload the
addba/delba negotiation.
Add an api for these drivers to properly tear-down the ba session,
including sending a delba.

Signed-off-by: Naftali Goldstein &lt;naftali.goldstein@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: manual clean code which call skb_put_[data:zero]</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T17:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>yuan linyu</name>
<email>Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-18T14:52:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b952f4dff2751252db073c27c0f8a16a416a2ddc'/>
<id>b952f4dff2751252db073c27c0f8a16a416a2ddc</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: yuan linyu &lt;Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: yuan linyu &lt;Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_push &amp; __skb_push return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d58ff35122847a83ba55394e2ae3a1527b6febf5'/>
<id>d58ff35122847a83ba55394e2ae3a1527b6febf5</id>
<content type='text'>
It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
    @@
    - fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_put &amp; friends return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4df864c1d9afb46e2461a9f808d9f11a42d31bad'/>
<id>4df864c1d9afb46e2461a9f808d9f11a42d31bad</id>
<content type='text'>
It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) return void *
and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only
where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the
following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three
users overall.

A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many
instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also
had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) return void *
and remove all the casts across the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only
where the unsigned char pointer was used directly, all done with the
following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three
users overall.

A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many
instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also
had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: introduce and use skb_put_data()</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=59ae1d127ac0ae404baf414c434ba2651b793f46'/>
<id>59ae1d127ac0ae404baf414c434ba2651b793f46</id>
<content type='text'>
A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy()
some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for
this.

An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many
of the places using it:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len, skb, data;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, len);
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb, data;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len, data;
    @@
    -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
    +skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

(again, manually post-processed to retain some comments)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
A common pattern with skb_put() is to just want to memcpy()
some data into the new space, introduce skb_put_data() for
this.

An spatch similar to the one for skb_put_zero() converts many
of the places using it:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len, skb, data;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, len);
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, len);
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb, data;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_data(skb, data, sizeof(t));
    )
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memcpy(p2, data, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memcpy(p, data, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len, data;
    @@
    -memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
    +skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

(again, manually post-processed to retain some comments)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: convert many more places to skb_put_zero()</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b080db585384b9f037e015c0c28d1ad33be41dfc'/>
<id>b080db585384b9f037e015c0c28d1ad33be41dfc</id>
<content type='text'>
There were many places that my previous spatch didn't find,
as pointed out by yuan linyu in various patches.

The following spatch found many more and also removes the
now unnecessary casts:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len;
    expression skb;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
    )
    ... when != p
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memset(p2, 0, len);
    |
    -memset(p, 0, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
    )
    ... when != p
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memset(p2, 0, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len;
    @@
    -memset(skb_put(skb, len), 0, len);
    +skb_put_zero(skb, len);

Apply it to the tree (with one manual fixup to keep the
comment in vxlan.c, which spatch removed.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
There were many places that my previous spatch didn't find,
as pointed out by yuan linyu in various patches.

The following spatch found many more and also removes the
now unnecessary casts:

    @@
    identifier p, p2;
    expression len;
    expression skb;
    type t, t2;
    @@
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
    |
    -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
    )
    ... when != p
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memset(p2, 0, len);
    |
    -memset(p, 0, len);
    )

    @@
    type t, t2;
    identifier p, p2;
    expression skb;
    @@
    t *p;
    ...
    (
    -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
    |
    -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
    +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
    )
    ... when != p
    (
    p2 = (t2)p;
    -memset(p2, 0, sizeof(*p));
    |
    -memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
    )

    @@
    expression skb, len;
    @@
    -memset(skb_put(skb, len), 0, len);
    +skb_put_zero(skb, len);

Apply it to the tree (with one manual fixup to keep the
comment in vxlan.c, which spatch removed.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T15:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-15T15:31:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddead90b223faae475f3296a50bf574b7f7c69a'/>
<id>0ddead90b223faae475f3296a50bf574b7f7c69a</id>
<content type='text'>
The conflicts were two cases of overlapping changes in
batman-adv and the qed driver.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The conflicts were two cases of overlapping changes in
batman-adv and the qed driver.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mac80211-for-davem-2017-06-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211</title>
<updated>2017-06-13T17:34:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-13T17:34:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c5549ee40112f2511a794c9aad7eb6ac5f18b0eb'/>
<id>c5549ee40112f2511a794c9aad7eb6ac5f18b0eb</id>
<content type='text'>
Johannes Berg says:

====================
Some fixes:
 * Avi fixes some fallout from my mac80211 RX flags changes
 * Emmanuel fixes an issue with adhering to the spec, and
   an oversight in the SMPS management code
 * Jason's patch makes mac80211 use constant-time memory
   comparisons for message authentication, to avoid having
   potentially observable timing differences
 * my fix makes mac80211 set the basic rates bitmap before
   the channel so the next update to the driver has more
   consistent data - this required another rework patch to
   remove some useless 5/10 MHz code that can never be hit
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Johannes Berg says:

====================
Some fixes:
 * Avi fixes some fallout from my mac80211 RX flags changes
 * Emmanuel fixes an issue with adhering to the spec, and
   an oversight in the SMPS management code
 * Jason's patch makes mac80211 use constant-time memory
   comparisons for message authentication, to avoid having
   potentially observable timing differences
 * my fix makes mac80211 set the basic rates bitmap before
   the channel so the next update to the driver has more
   consistent data - this required another rework patch to
   remove some useless 5/10 MHz code that can never be hit
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: add the action to the drv_ampdu_action tracepoint</title>
<updated>2017-06-13T09:06:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emmanuel Grumbach</name>
<email>emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-10T10:52:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6dad28ae197037d8c027f214046c2bbf159bc075'/>
<id>6dad28ae197037d8c027f214046c2bbf159bc075</id>
<content type='text'>
It is very useful to know what ampdu action is currently
happening. Add this information to the tracepoint.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
It is very useful to know what ampdu action is currently
happening. Add this information to the tracepoint.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: don't send SMPS action frame in AP mode when not needed</title>
<updated>2017-06-13T08:24:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emmanuel Grumbach</name>
<email>emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-10T10:52:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b3dd8279659f14f3624bb32559782d699fa6f7d1'/>
<id>b3dd8279659f14f3624bb32559782d699fa6f7d1</id>
<content type='text'>
mac80211 allows to modify the SMPS state of an AP both,
when it is started, and after it has been started. Such a
change will trigger an action frame to all the peers that
are currently connected, and will be remembered so that
new peers will get notified as soon as they connect (since
the SMPS setting in the beacon may not be the right one).

This means that we need to remember the SMPS state
currently requested as well as the SMPS state that was
configured initially (and advertised in the beacon).
The former is bss-&gt;req_smps and the latter is
sdata-&gt;smps_mode.

Initially, the AP interface could only be started with
SMPS_OFF, which means that sdata-&gt;smps_mode was SMPS_OFF
always. Later, a nl80211 API was added to be able to start
an AP with a different AP mode. That code forgot to update
bss-&gt;req_smps and because of that, if the AP interface was
started with SMPS_DYNAMIC, we had:
   sdata-&gt;smps_mode = SMPS_DYNAMIC
   bss-&gt;req_smps = SMPS_OFF

That configuration made mac80211 think it needs to fire off
an action frame to any new station connecting to the AP in
order to let it know that the actual SMPS configuration is
SMPS_OFF.

Fix that by properly setting bss-&gt;req_smps in
ieee80211_start_ap.

Fixes: f69931748730 ("mac80211: set smps_mode according to ap params")
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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mac80211 allows to modify the SMPS state of an AP both,
when it is started, and after it has been started. Such a
change will trigger an action frame to all the peers that
are currently connected, and will be remembered so that
new peers will get notified as soon as they connect (since
the SMPS setting in the beacon may not be the right one).

This means that we need to remember the SMPS state
currently requested as well as the SMPS state that was
configured initially (and advertised in the beacon).
The former is bss-&gt;req_smps and the latter is
sdata-&gt;smps_mode.

Initially, the AP interface could only be started with
SMPS_OFF, which means that sdata-&gt;smps_mode was SMPS_OFF
always. Later, a nl80211 API was added to be able to start
an AP with a different AP mode. That code forgot to update
bss-&gt;req_smps and because of that, if the AP interface was
started with SMPS_DYNAMIC, we had:
   sdata-&gt;smps_mode = SMPS_DYNAMIC
   bss-&gt;req_smps = SMPS_OFF

That configuration made mac80211 think it needs to fire off
an action frame to any new station connecting to the AP in
order to let it know that the actual SMPS configuration is
SMPS_OFF.

Fix that by properly setting bss-&gt;req_smps in
ieee80211_start_ap.

Fixes: f69931748730 ("mac80211: set smps_mode according to ap params")
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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