drivers/net/can/dev.c
b552766c87 ("can: dev: prevent potential information leak in can_fill_info()")
3e77f70e73 ("can: dev: move driver related infrastructure into separate subdir")
0a042c6ec9 ("can: dev: move netlink related code into seperate file")
Code move.
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c
57ac4a31c4 ("net/mlx5e: Correctly handle changing the number of queues when the interface is down")
214baf2287 ("net/mlx5e: Support HTB offload")
Adjacent code changes
net/switchdev/switchdev.c
20776b465c ("net: switchdev: don't set port_obj_info->handled true when -EOPNOTSUPP")
ffb68fc58e ("net: switchdev: remove the transaction structure from port object notifiers")
bae33f2b5a ("net: switchdev: remove the transaction structure from port attributes")
Transaction parameter gets dropped otherwise keep the fix.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
syzbot reported a crash that happened when changing the interface
type around a lot, and while it might have been easy to fix just
the symptom there, a little deeper investigation found that really
the reason is that we allowed packets to be transmitted while in
the middle of changing the interface type.
Disallow TX by stopping the queues while changing the type.
Fixes: 34d4bc4d41 ("mac80211: support runtime interface type changes")
Reported-by: syzbot+d7a3b15976bf7de2238a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122171115.b321f98f4d4f.I6997841933c17b093535c31d29355be3c0c39628@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Simplifies the code and prepares for a rework of scanning for flows on
overmemory drop.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201218184718.93650-2-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When calculating the minimal channel width for channel context,
the current operation Rx channel width of a station was used and not
the overall channel width capability of the station, i.e., both for
Tx and Rx.
Fix ieee80211_get_sta_bw() to use the maximal channel width the
station is capable. While at it make the function static.
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20201206145305.4387040b99a0.I74bcf19238f75a5960c4098b10e355123d933281@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* injection/radiotap updates for new test capabilities
* remove WDS support - even years ago when we turned
it off by default it was already basically unusable
* support for HE (802.11ax) rates for beacons
* support for some vendor-specific HE rates
* many other small features/cleanups
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Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-net-next-2020-11-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Johannes Berg says:
====================
Some updates:
* injection/radiotap updates for new test capabilities
* remove WDS support - even years ago when we turned
it off by default it was already basically unusable
* support for HE (802.11ax) rates for beacons
* support for some vendor-specific HE rates
* many other small features/cleanups
* tag 'mac80211-next-for-net-next-2020-11-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next: (21 commits)
nl80211: fix kernel-doc warning in the new SAE attribute
cfg80211: remove WDS code
mac80211: remove WDS-related code
rt2x00: remove WDS code
b43legacy: remove WDS code
b43: remove WDS code
carl9170: remove WDS code
ath9k: remove WDS code
wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
mac80211: assure that certain drivers adhere to DONT_REORDER flag
mac80211: don't overwrite QoS TID of injected frames
mac80211: adhere to Tx control flag that prevents frame reordering
mac80211: add radiotap flag to assure frames are not reordered
mac80211: save HE oper info in BSS config for mesh
cfg80211: add support to configure HE MCS for beacon rate
nl80211: fix beacon tx rate mask validation
nl80211/cfg80211: fix potential infinite loop
cfg80211: Add support to calculate and report 4096-QAM HE rates
cfg80211: Add support to configure SAE PWE value to drivers
ieee80211: Add definition for WFA DPP
...
====================
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113101148.25268-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
In preparation for unconditionally passing the
struct tasklet_struct pointer to all tasklet
callbacks, switch to using the new tasklet_setup()
and from_tasklet() to pass the tasklet pointer explicitly.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
last_rate is initialized to zero by sta_info_alloc(), but
this indicates legacy bitrate for the last TX rate (and
invalid for the last RX rate). To avoid a warning when
decoding the last rate as legacy (before a data frame
has been sent), initialize them as S1G MCS.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201005164522.18069-2-thomas@adapt-ip.com
[rename to ieee80211_s1g_sta_rate_init(), seems more appropriate]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The changes required for associating in S1G are:
- apply S1G BSS channel info before assoc
- mark all S1G STAs as QoS STAs
- include and parse AID request element
- handle new Association Response format
- don't fail assoc if supported rates element is missing
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922022818.15855-15-thomas@adapt-ip.com
[pass skb to ieee80211_add_aid_request_ie(), remove unused variable 'bss']
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
S1G beacons are 802.11 Extension Frames, so the fixed
header part differs from regular beacons.
Add a handler to process S1G beacons and abstract out the
fetching of BSSID and element start locations in the
beacon body handler.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922022818.15855-14-thomas@adapt-ip.com
[don't rename, small coding style cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
S1G allows listen interval up to 2^14 * 10000 beacon
intervals. In order to do this listen interval needs a
scaling factor applied to the lower 14 bits. Calculate
this and properly encode the listen interval for S1G STAs.
See IEEE802.11ah-2016 Table 9-44a for reference.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922022818.15855-10-thomas@adapt-ip.com
[move listen_int_usf into function using it]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit finds the correct offset for Information
Elements in S1G beacon frames so they can be reported in
scan results.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922022818.15855-8-thomas@adapt-ip.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Include the S1G Capabilities element in an association
request, and support the cfg80211 capability overrides.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922022818.15855-5-thomas@adapt-ip.com
[pass skb to ieee80211_add_s1g_capab_ie(), small code style edits]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Because we can miss AP wakeup (beacon) while scanning other channels,
it's better go into wakeup state and inform the AP of that upon
returning to the operating channel, rather than staying asleep and
waiting for the next TIM indicating traffic for us.
This saves precious time, especially when we only have 200ms inter-
scan period for monitoring the active connection.
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1593420923-26668-1-git-send-email-loic.poulain@linaro.org
[rewrite commit message a bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This patch adds mac80211 support to configure unsolicited
broadcast probe response transmission for in-band discovery in 6GHz.
Changes include functions to store and retrieve probe response template,
and packet interval (0 - 20 TUs).
Setting interval to 0 disables the unsolicited broadcast probe response
transmission.
Signed-off-by: Aloka Dixit <alokad@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/010101747a946b35-ad25858a-1f1f-48df-909e-dc7bf26d9169-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Calling mod_timer for every rx/tx packet can be quite expensive.
Instead of constantly updating the timer, we can simply let it run out
and check the timestamp of the last ACK or rx packet to re-arm it.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200908123702.88454-9-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The current API (which lets the driver turn on/off per vif directly) has a
number of limitations:
- it does not deal with AP_VLAN
- conditions for enabling (no tkip, no monitor) are only checked at
add_interface time
- no way to indicate 4-addr support
In order to address this, store offload flags in struct ieee80211_vif
(easy to extend for decap offload later). mac80211 initially sets the enable
flag, but gives the driver a chance to modify it before its settings are
applied. In addition to the .add_interface op, a .update_vif_offload op is
introduced, which can be used for runtime changes.
If a driver can't disable encap offload at runtime, or if it has some extra
limitations, it can simply override the flags within those ops.
Support for encap offload with 4-address mode interfaces can be enabled
by setting a flag from .add_interface or .update_vif_offload.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200908123702.88454-6-nbd@nbd.name
[resolved conflict with commit aa2092a9ba ("ath11k: add raw mode and
software crypto support")]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
We want to reuse the functions and structs for other counters such as BSS
color change. Rename them to more generic names.
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200811080107.3615705-2-john@phrozen.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This can be used to run mac80211 rx processing on a batch of frames in NAPI
poll before passing them to the network stack in a large batch.
This can improve icache footprint, or it can be used to pass frames via
netif_receive_skb_list.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200726110611.46886-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Use the IEEE80211_TX_CTRL_NO_SEQNO flag in ieee80211_tx_info to mark
probe requests whose sequence number must not be overwritten. This
provides consistency with the radiotap flag that can be set to indicate
that the sequence number of an injected frame should not be overwritten.
Signed-off-by: Mathy Vanhoef <Mathy.Vanhoef@kuleuven.be>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200723100153.31631-4-Mathy.Vanhoef@kuleuven.be
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
AQL does not take into account that most HT/VHT/HE traffic is A-MPDU aggregated.
Because of that, the per-packet airtime overhead is vastly overestimated.
Improve it by assuming an average aggregation length of 16 for non-legacy
traffic if not using the VO AC queue.
This should improve performance with high data rates, especially with multiple
stations
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200724182816.18678-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If the AP advertises inconsistent data, namely it has CCFS1 or CCFS2,
but doesn't advertise support for 160/80+80 bandwidth or "Extended NSS
BW Support", then we cannot use any MCSes in the the higher bandwidth.
Thus, avoid connecting with higher bandwidth since it's less efficient
that way.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528213443.0e55d40c3ccc.I6fd0b4708ebd087e5e46466c3e91f6efbcbef668@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add support for TX status reporting for the control port
TX API; this will be used by hostapd when it moves to the
control port TX API.
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527160334.19224-1-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
[fix commit message, it was referring to nl80211]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This adds the necessary capabilities in nl80211 to allow drivers to
assign a cookie to control port TX frames (returned via extack in
the netlink ACK message of the command) and then later report the
frame's status.
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200508144202.7678-2-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
[use extack cookie instead of explicit message, recombine patches]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:
struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:
"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]
sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507185907.GA15102@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Use the Beacon frame specific legacy rate configuration, if specified
for AP or mesh, instead of the generic rate mask when selecting the TX
rate for Beacon frames.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200425155713.25687-4-jouni@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Convert a user space registration for processing multicast Action frames
(NL80211_CMD_REGISTER_FRAME with NL80211_ATTR_RECEIVE_MULTICAST) to a
new enum ieee80211_filter_flags bit FIF_MCAST_ACTION so that drivers can
update their RX filter parameters appropriately, if needed.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421144815.19175-1-jouni@codeaurora.org
[rename variables to rx_mcast_action_reg indicating action frames only]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Almost all drivers below cfg80211 get the API wrong (except for
cfg80211) and are unable to cope with multiple registrations for
the same frame type, which is valid due to the match filter.
This seems to indicate the API is wrong, and we should maintain
the full information in cfg80211 instead of the drivers.
Change the API to no longer inform the driver about individual
registrations and unregistrations, but rather every time about
the entire state of the entire wiphy and single wdev, whenever
it may have changed. This also simplifies the code in cfg80211
as it no longer has to track exactly what was unregistered and
can free things immediately.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200417124300.f47f3828afc8.I7f81ef59c2c5a340d7075fb3c6d0e08e8aeffe07@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Maintain the connection AID only in sdata->vif.bss_conf.aid, not
also in sdata->u.mgd.aid.
Keep setting that where we set ifmgd->aid before, which has the
side effect of exposing the AID to the driver before the station
entry (AP) is marked associated, in case it needs it then.
Requested-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200417123802.085d4a322b0c.I2e7a2ceceea8c6880219f9e9ee4d4ac985fd295a@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This patch adds support for disabling pre-auth rx over the nl80211 control
port for mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200312091055.54257-3-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
[fix indentation slightly, squash feature enablement]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Extend mac80211 key configuration to support the new BIGTK with key
index values 6 and 7. Support for actually protecting Beacon frames
(adding the MME in AP mode and checking it in STA mode) is covered in
separate commits.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222132548.20835-3-jouni@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This reverts commit 8c3ed7aa2b.
As Jouni points out, there's really no need for this, since the
RSN pre-authentication frames are normal data frames, not port
control frames (locally).
We can still revert this now since it hasn't actually gone beyond
-next.
Fixes: 8c3ed7aa2b ("nl80211: add src and dst addr attributes for control port tx/rx")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224101910.b746e263287a.I9eb15d6895515179d50964dec3550c9dc784bb93@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When using control port over nl80211 in AP mode with
pre-authentication, APs need to forward frames to other
APs defined by their MAC address. Before this patch,
pre-auth frames reaching user space over nl80211 control
port have no longer any information about the dest attached,
which can be used for forwarding to a controller or injecting
the frame back to a ethernet interface over a AF_PACKET
socket.
Analog problems exist, when forwarding pre-auth frames from
AP -> STA.
This patch therefore adds the NL80211_ATTR_DST_MAC and
NL80211_ATTR_SRC_MAC attributes to provide more context
information when forwarding.
The respective arguments are optional on tx and included on rx.
Therefore unaware existing software is not affected.
Software which wants to detect this feature, can do so
by checking against:
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_MAC_ADDRS
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115125522.3755-1-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
[split into separate cfg80211/mac80211 patches]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Parse also the RSN Extension IE when parsing the rest of the IEs.
It will be used in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200131111300.891737-21-luca@coelho.fi
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The SMPS feature is defined in the specification only to be
used by non-AP stations and not by APs, so remove the support
for changing the AP's SMPS mode dynamically.
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200131111300.891737-20-luca@coelho.fi
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Set ndev->hw_features as well as ndev->features to allow
changing the TX-related features with ethtool.
We cannot (yet) change RX-related features since that
requires telling the driver about it and we have no API
for that yet.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200131111300.891737-10-luca@coelho.fi
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This patch adds a new transmit path for hardware that supports 802.11
encapsulation offloading. In those cases 802.3 frames get passed
directly to the driver allowing the hardware to handle the encapsulation.
Some features such as monitor mode and TKIP would break when encapsulation
offloading is enabled. If any of these get enabled, the code will alwyas
fallback to the normal sw encapsulation data path.
The patch defines a secondary netdev_ops struct that the device gets
assigned if 802.11 encap support is available and enabled. The driver
needs to enable the support on a per vif basis if it finds that all
pre-reqs are meet.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191125100438.16539-1-john@phrozen.org
[reword comments, remove SUPPORTS_80211_ENCAP HW flag, minor cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
In order for the Fq_CoDel algorithm integrated in mac80211 layer to operate
effectively to control excessive queueing latency, the CoDel algorithm
requires an accurate measure of how long packets stays in the queue, AKA
sojourn time. The sojourn time measured at the mac80211 layer doesn't
include queueing latency in the lower layer (firmware/hardware) and CoDel
expects lower layer to have a short queue. However, most 802.11ac chipsets
offload tasks such TX aggregation to firmware or hardware, thus have a deep
lower layer queue.
Without a mechanism to control the lower layer queue size, packets only
stay in mac80211 layer transiently before being sent to firmware queue.
As a result, the sojourn time measured by CoDel in the mac80211 layer is
almost always lower than the CoDel latency target, hence CoDel does little
to control the latency, even when the lower layer queue causes excessive
latency.
The Byte Queue Limits (BQL) mechanism is commonly used to address the
similar issue with wired network interface. However, this method cannot be
applied directly to the wireless network interface. "Bytes" is not a
suitable measure of queue depth in the wireless network, as the data rate
can vary dramatically from station to station in the same network, from a
few Mbps to over Gbps.
This patch implements an Airtime-based Queue Limit (AQL) to make CoDel work
effectively with wireless drivers that utilized firmware/hardware
offloading. AQL allows each txq to release just enough packets to the lower
layer to form 1-2 large aggregations to keep hardware fully utilized and
retains the rest of the frames in mac80211 layer to be controlled by the
CoDel algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Kan Yan <kyan@google.com>
[ Toke: Keep API to set pending airtime internal, fix nits in commit msg ]
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119060610.76681-4-kyan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
