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<title>wifi: mac80211: do not abuse fq.lock in ieee80211_do_stop()</title>
<updated>2022-07-26T20:23:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp</email>
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<published>2022-07-17T12:21:52+00:00</published>
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lockdep complains use of uninitialized spinlock at ieee80211_do_stop() [1],
for commit f856373e2f31ffd3 ("wifi: mac80211: do not wake queues on a vif
that is being stopped") guards clear_bit() using fq.lock even before
fq_init() from ieee80211_txq_setup_flows() initializes this spinlock.

According to discussion [2], Toke was not happy with expanding usage of
fq.lock. Since __ieee80211_wake_txqs() is called under RCU read lock, we
can instead use synchronize_rcu() for flushing ieee80211_wake_txqs().

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=eceab52db7c4b961e9d6 [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/874k0zowh2.fsf@toke.dk [2]
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+eceab52db7c4b961e9d6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Fixes: f856373e2f31ffd3 ("wifi: mac80211: do not wake queues on a vif that is being stopped")
Tested-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+eceab52db7c4b961e9d6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9cc9b81d-75a3-3925-b612-9d0ad3cab82b@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
[ pick up commit 3598cb6e1862 ("wifi: mac80211: do not abuse fq.lock in ieee80211_do_stop()") from -next]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87o7xcq6qt.fsf@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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lockdep complains use of uninitialized spinlock at ieee80211_do_stop() [1],
for commit f856373e2f31ffd3 ("wifi: mac80211: do not wake queues on a vif
that is being stopped") guards clear_bit() using fq.lock even before
fq_init() from ieee80211_txq_setup_flows() initializes this spinlock.

According to discussion [2], Toke was not happy with expanding usage of
fq.lock. Since __ieee80211_wake_txqs() is called under RCU read lock, we
can instead use synchronize_rcu() for flushing ieee80211_wake_txqs().

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=eceab52db7c4b961e9d6 [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/874k0zowh2.fsf@toke.dk [2]
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+eceab52db7c4b961e9d6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Fixes: f856373e2f31ffd3 ("wifi: mac80211: do not wake queues on a vif that is being stopped")
Tested-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+eceab52db7c4b961e9d6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9cc9b81d-75a3-3925-b612-9d0ad3cab82b@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
[ pick up commit 3598cb6e1862 ("wifi: mac80211: do not abuse fq.lock in ieee80211_do_stop()") from -next]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87o7xcq6qt.fsf@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: fix queue selection for mesh/OCB interfaces</title>
<updated>2022-07-11T08:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@nbd.name</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-02T14:52:27+00:00</published>
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When using iTXQ, the code assumes that there is only one vif queue for
broadcast packets, using the BE queue. Allowing non-BE queue marking
violates that assumption and txq-&gt;ac == skb_queue_mapping is no longer
guaranteed. This can cause issues with queue handling in the driver and
also causes issues with the recent ATF change, resulting in an AQL
underflow warning.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@nbd.name&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220702145227.39356-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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When using iTXQ, the code assumes that there is only one vif queue for
broadcast packets, using the BE queue. Allowing non-BE queue marking
violates that assumption and txq-&gt;ac == skb_queue_mapping is no longer
guaranteed. This can cause issues with queue handling in the driver and
also causes issues with the recent ATF change, resulting in an AQL
underflow warning.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@nbd.name&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220702145227.39356-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>wifi: mac80211: do not wake queues on a vif that is being stopped</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T09:43:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@nbd.name</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-31T19:08:24+00:00</published>
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When a vif is being removed and sdata-&gt;bss is cleared, __ieee80211_wake_txqs
can still be called on it, which crashes as soon as sdata-&gt;bss is being
dereferenced.
To fix this properly, check for SDATA_STATE_RUNNING before waking queues,
and take the fq lock when setting it (to ensure that __ieee80211_wake_txqs
observes the change when running on a different CPU)

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@nbd.name&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220531190824.60019-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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When a vif is being removed and sdata-&gt;bss is cleared, __ieee80211_wake_txqs
can still be called on it, which crashes as soon as sdata-&gt;bss is being
dereferenced.
To fix this properly, check for SDATA_STATE_RUNNING before waking queues,
and take the fq lock when setting it (to ensure that __ieee80211_wake_txqs
observes the change when running on a different CPU)

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@nbd.name&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220531190824.60019-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: check skb_shared in ieee80211_8023_xmit()</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T09:43:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryder Lee</name>
<email>ryder.lee@mediatek.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-26T13:35:32+00:00</published>
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Add a missing skb_shared check into 802.3 path to prevent potential
use-after-free from happening. This also uses skb_share_check()
instead of open-coding in tx path.

Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee &lt;ryder.lee@mediatek.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e7a73aaf7742b17e43421c56625646dfc5c4d2cb.1653571902.git.ryder.lee@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Add a missing skb_shared check into 802.3 path to prevent potential
use-after-free from happening. This also uses skb_share_check()
instead of open-coding in tx path.

Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee &lt;ryder.lee@mediatek.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e7a73aaf7742b17e43421c56625646dfc5c4d2cb.1653571902.git.ryder.lee@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: add gfp_t parameter to ieeee80211_obss_color_collision_notify</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T09:43:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Bianconi</name>
<email>lorenzo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-16T22:42:12+00:00</published>
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Introduce the capability to specify gfp_t parameter to
ieeee80211_obss_color_collision_notify routine since it runs in
interrupt context in ieee80211_rx_check_bss_color_collision().

Fixes: 6d945a33f2b0a ("mac80211: introduce BSS color collision detection")
Co-developed-by: Ryder Lee &lt;ryder.lee@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee &lt;ryder.lee@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/02c990fb3fbd929c8548a656477d20d6c0427a13.1655419135.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Introduce the capability to specify gfp_t parameter to
ieeee80211_obss_color_collision_notify routine since it runs in
interrupt context in ieee80211_rx_check_bss_color_collision().

Fixes: 6d945a33f2b0a ("mac80211: introduce BSS color collision detection")
Co-developed-by: Ryder Lee &lt;ryder.lee@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee &lt;ryder.lee@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/02c990fb3fbd929c8548a656477d20d6c0427a13.1655419135.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: fix use-after-free in chanctx code</title>
<updated>2022-06-01T09:41:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-01T07:19:36+00:00</published>
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In ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_context(), when we have an
old context and the new context's replace_state is set to
IEEE80211_CHANCTX_REPLACE_NONE, we free the old context
in ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_reassign(). Therefore, we
cannot check the old_ctx anymore, so we should set it to
NULL after this point.

However, since the new_ctx replace state is clearly not
IEEE80211_CHANCTX_REPLACES_OTHER, we're not going to do
anything else in this function and can just return to
avoid accessing the freed old_ctx.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5bcae31d9cb1 ("mac80211: implement multi-vif in-place reservations")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220601091926.df419d91b165.I17a9b3894ff0b8323ce2afdb153b101124c821e5@changeid
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In ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_context(), when we have an
old context and the new context's replace_state is set to
IEEE80211_CHANCTX_REPLACE_NONE, we free the old context
in ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_reassign(). Therefore, we
cannot check the old_ctx anymore, so we should set it to
NULL after this point.

However, since the new_ctx replace state is clearly not
IEEE80211_CHANCTX_REPLACES_OTHER, we're not going to do
anything else in this function and can just return to
avoid accessing the freed old_ctx.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5bcae31d9cb1 ("mac80211: implement multi-vif in-place reservations")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220601091926.df419d91b165.I17a9b3894ff0b8323ce2afdb153b101124c821e5@changeid
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'wireless-next-2022-05-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next</title>
<updated>2022-05-19T20:01:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-19T20:01:07+00:00</published>
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Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-next patches for v5.19

Second set of patches for v5.19 and most likely the last one. rtw89
got support for 8852ce devices and mt76 now supports Wireless Ethernet
Dispatch.

Major changes:

cfg80211/mac80211
 - support disabling EHT mode

rtw89
 - add support for Realtek 8852ce devices

mt76
 - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch support for flow offload
 - non-standard VHT MCS10-11 support
 - mt7921 AP mode support
 - mt7921 ipv6 NS offload support

ath11k
 - enable keepalive during WoWLAN suspend
 - implement remain-on-channel support

* tag 'wireless-next-2022-05-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (135 commits)
  iwlwifi: mei: fix potential NULL-ptr deref
  iwlwifi: mei: clear the sap data header before sending
  iwlwifi: mvm: remove vif_count
  iwlwifi: mvm: always tell the firmware to accept MCAST frames in BSS
  iwlwifi: mvm: add OTP info in case of init failure
  iwlwifi: mvm: fix assert 1F04 upon reconfig
  iwlwifi: fw: init SAR GEO table only if data is present
  iwlwifi: mvm: clean up authorized condition
  iwlwifi: mvm: use NULL instead of ERR_PTR when parsing wowlan status
  iwlwifi: pcie: simplify MSI-X cause mapping
  rtw89: pci: only mask out INT indicator register for disable interrupt v1
  rtw89: convert rtw89_band to nl80211_band precisely
  rtw89: 8852c: update txpwr tables to HALRF_027_00_052
  rtw89: cfo: check mac_id to avoid out-of-bounds
  rtw89: 8852c: set TX antenna path
  rtw89: add ieee80211::sta_rc_update ops
  wireless: Fix Makefile to be in alphabetical order
  mac80211: refactor freeing the next_beacon
  cfg80211: fix kernel-doc for cfg80211_beacon_data
  mac80211: minstrel_ht: support ieee80211_rate_status
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220519153334.8D051C385AA@smtp.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-next patches for v5.19

Second set of patches for v5.19 and most likely the last one. rtw89
got support for 8852ce devices and mt76 now supports Wireless Ethernet
Dispatch.

Major changes:

cfg80211/mac80211
 - support disabling EHT mode

rtw89
 - add support for Realtek 8852ce devices

mt76
 - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch support for flow offload
 - non-standard VHT MCS10-11 support
 - mt7921 AP mode support
 - mt7921 ipv6 NS offload support

ath11k
 - enable keepalive during WoWLAN suspend
 - implement remain-on-channel support

* tag 'wireless-next-2022-05-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (135 commits)
  iwlwifi: mei: fix potential NULL-ptr deref
  iwlwifi: mei: clear the sap data header before sending
  iwlwifi: mvm: remove vif_count
  iwlwifi: mvm: always tell the firmware to accept MCAST frames in BSS
  iwlwifi: mvm: add OTP info in case of init failure
  iwlwifi: mvm: fix assert 1F04 upon reconfig
  iwlwifi: fw: init SAR GEO table only if data is present
  iwlwifi: mvm: clean up authorized condition
  iwlwifi: mvm: use NULL instead of ERR_PTR when parsing wowlan status
  iwlwifi: pcie: simplify MSI-X cause mapping
  rtw89: pci: only mask out INT indicator register for disable interrupt v1
  rtw89: convert rtw89_band to nl80211_band precisely
  rtw89: 8852c: update txpwr tables to HALRF_027_00_052
  rtw89: cfo: check mac_id to avoid out-of-bounds
  rtw89: 8852c: set TX antenna path
  rtw89: add ieee80211::sta_rc_update ops
  wireless: Fix Makefile to be in alphabetical order
  mac80211: refactor freeing the next_beacon
  cfg80211: fix kernel-doc for cfg80211_beacon_data
  mac80211: minstrel_ht: support ieee80211_rate_status
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220519153334.8D051C385AA@smtp.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: refactor freeing the next_beacon</title>
<updated>2022-05-17T11:03:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-16T10:57:32+00:00</published>
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We have this code seven times, refactor it into a
separate function.

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We have this code seven times, refactor it into a
separate function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>mac80211: minstrel_ht: support ieee80211_rate_status</title>
<updated>2022-05-16T08:07:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Jelonek</name>
<email>jelonek.jonas@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-09T17:39:58+00:00</published>
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This patch adds support for the new struct ieee80211_rate_status and its
annotation in struct ieee80211_tx_status in minstrel_ht.

In minstrel_ht_tx_status, a check for the presence of instances of the
new struct in ieee80211_tx_status is added. Based on this, minstrel_ht
then gets and updates internal rate stats with either struct
ieee80211_rate_status or ieee80211_tx_info-&gt;status.rates.
Adjusted variants of minstrel_ht_txstat_valid, minstrel_ht_get_stats,
minstrel_{ht/vht}_get_group_idx are added which use struct
ieee80211_rate_status and struct rate_info instead of the legacy structs.

struct rate_info from cfg80211.h does not provide whether short preamble
was used for the transmission. So we retrieve this information from VIF
and STA configuration and cache it in a new flag in struct minstrel_ht_sta
per rate control instance.

Compile-Tested: current wireless-next tree with all flags on
Tested-on: Xiaomi 4A Gigabit (MediaTek MT7603E, MT7612E) with OpenWrt
                Linux 5.10.113

Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek &lt;jelonek.jonas@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509173958.1398201-3-jelonek.jonas@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This patch adds support for the new struct ieee80211_rate_status and its
annotation in struct ieee80211_tx_status in minstrel_ht.

In minstrel_ht_tx_status, a check for the presence of instances of the
new struct in ieee80211_tx_status is added. Based on this, minstrel_ht
then gets and updates internal rate stats with either struct
ieee80211_rate_status or ieee80211_tx_info-&gt;status.rates.
Adjusted variants of minstrel_ht_txstat_valid, minstrel_ht_get_stats,
minstrel_{ht/vht}_get_group_idx are added which use struct
ieee80211_rate_status and struct rate_info instead of the legacy structs.

struct rate_info from cfg80211.h does not provide whether short preamble
was used for the transmission. So we retrieve this information from VIF
and STA configuration and cache it in a new flag in struct minstrel_ht_sta
per rate control instance.

Compile-Tested: current wireless-next tree with all flags on
Tested-on: Xiaomi 4A Gigabit (MediaTek MT7603E, MT7612E) with OpenWrt
                Linux 5.10.113

Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek &lt;jelonek.jonas@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509173958.1398201-3-jelonek.jonas@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>mac80211: extend current rate control tx status API</title>
<updated>2022-05-16T08:05:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Jelonek</name>
<email>jelonek.jonas@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-09T17:39:57+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the new struct ieee80211_rate_status and replaces
'struct rate_info *rate' in ieee80211_tx_status with pointer and length
annotation.

The struct ieee80211_rate_status allows to:
(1)	receive tx power status feedback for transmit power control (TPC)
	per packet or packet retry
(2)	dynamic mapping of wifi chip specific multi-rate retry (mrr)
	chains with different lengths
(3)	increase the limit of annotatable rate indices to support
	IEEE802.11ac rate sets and beyond

ieee80211_tx_info, control and status buffer, and ieee80211_tx_rate
cannot be used to achieve these goals due to fixed size limitations.

Our new struct contains a struct rate_info to annotate the rate that was
used, retry count of the rate and tx power. It is intended for all
information related to RC and TPC that needs to be passed from driver to
mac80211 and its RC/TPC algorithms like Minstrel_HT. It corresponds to
one stage in an mrr. Multiple subsequent instances of this struct can be
included in struct ieee80211_tx_status via a pointer and a length variable.
Those instances can be allocated on-stack. The former reference to a single
instance of struct rate_info is replaced with our new annotation.

An extension is introduced to struct ieee80211_hw. There are two new
members called 'tx_power_levels' and 'max_txpwr_levels_idx' acting as a
tx power level table. When a wifi device is registered, the driver shall
supply all supported power levels in this list. This allows to support
several quirks like differing power steps in power level ranges or
alike. TPC can use this for algorithm and thus be designed more abstract
instead of handling all possible step widths individually.

Further mandatory changes in status.c, mt76 and ath11k drivers due to the
removal of 'struct rate_info *rate' are also included.
status.c already uses the information in ieee80211_tx_status-&gt;rate in
radiotap, this is now changed to use ieee80211_rate_status-&gt;rate_idx.
mt76 driver already uses struct rate_info to pass the tx rate to status
path. The new members of the ieee80211_tx_status are set to NULL and 0
because the previously passed rate is not relevant to rate control and
accurate information is passed via tx_info-&gt;status.rates.
For ath11k, the txrate can be passed via this struct because ath11k uses
firmware RC and thus the information does not interfere with software RC.

Compile-Tested: current wireless-next tree with all flags on
Tested-on: Xiaomi 4A Gigabit (MediaTek MT7603E, MT7612E) with OpenWrt
		Linux 5.10.113

Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek &lt;jelonek.jonas@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509173958.1398201-2-jelonek.jonas@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This patch adds the new struct ieee80211_rate_status and replaces
'struct rate_info *rate' in ieee80211_tx_status with pointer and length
annotation.

The struct ieee80211_rate_status allows to:
(1)	receive tx power status feedback for transmit power control (TPC)
	per packet or packet retry
(2)	dynamic mapping of wifi chip specific multi-rate retry (mrr)
	chains with different lengths
(3)	increase the limit of annotatable rate indices to support
	IEEE802.11ac rate sets and beyond

ieee80211_tx_info, control and status buffer, and ieee80211_tx_rate
cannot be used to achieve these goals due to fixed size limitations.

Our new struct contains a struct rate_info to annotate the rate that was
used, retry count of the rate and tx power. It is intended for all
information related to RC and TPC that needs to be passed from driver to
mac80211 and its RC/TPC algorithms like Minstrel_HT. It corresponds to
one stage in an mrr. Multiple subsequent instances of this struct can be
included in struct ieee80211_tx_status via a pointer and a length variable.
Those instances can be allocated on-stack. The former reference to a single
instance of struct rate_info is replaced with our new annotation.

An extension is introduced to struct ieee80211_hw. There are two new
members called 'tx_power_levels' and 'max_txpwr_levels_idx' acting as a
tx power level table. When a wifi device is registered, the driver shall
supply all supported power levels in this list. This allows to support
several quirks like differing power steps in power level ranges or
alike. TPC can use this for algorithm and thus be designed more abstract
instead of handling all possible step widths individually.

Further mandatory changes in status.c, mt76 and ath11k drivers due to the
removal of 'struct rate_info *rate' are also included.
status.c already uses the information in ieee80211_tx_status-&gt;rate in
radiotap, this is now changed to use ieee80211_rate_status-&gt;rate_idx.
mt76 driver already uses struct rate_info to pass the tx rate to status
path. The new members of the ieee80211_tx_status are set to NULL and 0
because the previously passed rate is not relevant to rate control and
accurate information is passed via tx_info-&gt;status.rates.
For ath11k, the txrate can be passed via this struct because ath11k uses
firmware RC and thus the information does not interfere with software RC.

Compile-Tested: current wireless-next tree with all flags on
Tested-on: Xiaomi 4A Gigabit (MediaTek MT7603E, MT7612E) with OpenWrt
		Linux 5.10.113

Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek &lt;jelonek.jonas@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509173958.1398201-2-jelonek.jonas@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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