compliance testing.
In order to allow for radar pattern matching to occur, the DFS CAC/NOL
handling needs to be made configurable. This commit introduces a new
sysctl, "net.wlan.dfs_debug", which controls which DFS debug mode
net80211 is in.
* 0 = default, CSA/NOL handling as per normal.
* 1 = announce a CSA, but don't add the channel to the non-occupy list
(NOL.)
* 2 = disable both CSA and NOL - only print that a radar event occured.
This code is not compiled/enabled by default as it breaks regulatory
handling. A user must enable IEEE80211_DFS_DEBUG in their kernel
configuration file for this option to become available.
Obtained from: Atheros
This makes it much easier to determine whether an event occurs in the
net80211 taskqueue (which was called "ath0 taskq") or the ath driver
taskqueue (which is also called "ath0 taskq".)
For example, this particular topology didn't work correctly from all
nodes:
[A] - [B] - [C] - [D]
Submitted by: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: bschmidt, adrian
This allows for multiple MAC addresses to be printed on the same
debugging line. ether_sprintf() uses a static char buffer and
thus isn't very useful here.
Submitted by: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com>
is used.
Although the module _builds_, it fails to load because of a missing symbol from
ieee80211_tdma.c.
Specifics:
* Always build ieee80211_tdma.c in the module;
* only compile in the code if IEEE80211_SUPPORT_TDMA is defined.
* Call it before sending probe responses, so the ACL code has the
chance to reject sending them.
* Pass the whole frame to the ACL code now, rather than just the
destination MAC - that way the ACL module can look at the frame
contents to determine what the response should be.
This is part of some uncommitted work to support band steering.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
Some hardware (eg the AR9160 in STA mode) seems to "leak" unicast FROMDS
frames which aren't destined to itself. This angers the net80211 stack -
the existing code would fail to find an address in the node table and try
passing the frame up to each vap BSS. It would then be accepted in the
input routine and its contents would update the local crypto and sequence
number state.
If the sequence number / crypto IV replay counters from the leaked frame
were greater than the "real" state, subsequent "real" frames would be
rejected due to out of sequence / IV replay conditions.
This is also likely helpful if/when multi-STA modes are added to net80211.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
This supports both station and hostap modes:
* Station mode quiet time element support listens to quiet time
IE's and modifies the local quiet time configuration as appropriate;
* Hostap mode both obeys the locally configured quiet time period
and includes it in beacon frames so stations also can obey as needed.
Submitted by: Himali Patel <himali.patel@sibridgetech.com>
Sponsored by: Sibridge Technologies
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
I found this useful when trying to debug the AR9160 STA RX filter issue -
I'd get crypto reply errors but it wasn't entirely clear which TID it
was for.
The ieee80211_swbmiss() callout is not called with the ic lock held, so it's
quite possible the scheduler will run the callout during a state change.
This patch:
* changes the swbmiss callout to be locked by the ic lock
* enforces the ic lock being held across the beacon vap functions
by grabbing it inside beacon_miss() and beacon_swmiss().
This ensures that the ic lock is held (and thus the VAP state
stays constant) during beacon miss and software miss processing.
Since the callout is removed whilst the ic lock is held, it also
ensures that the ic lock can't be called during a state change
or exhibit any race conditions seen above.
Both Edgar and Joel report that this patch fixes the crash and
doesn't introduce new issues.
Reported by: Edgar Martinez <emartinez@kbcnetworks.com>
Reported by: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se>
Reported by: emaste
didn't set a sequence number; it didn't show up earlier because the
hardware most people use for hostap (ie, AR5212 series stuff) sets the
sequence numbers up in hardware. Later hardware (AR5416, etc) which
can do 11n and aggregation require sequence numbers to be generated in
software.
Submitted by: paradyse@gmail.com
Approved by: re (kib)
On a TX failure, ic_raw_xmit will still call ieee80211_node_free().
There's no need to call it here.
Submitted by: moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca
Approved by: re (kib)
channel list ends up with 2 entries, the HT and the legacy channel.
The scan itself is currently always done at legacy rates so we end
up receiving scan results for legacy networks on the HT channel and
erroneously assigning the BSS to the 11n channel. As the channel's
capabilities are used to setup the adapter we might end up with
non-working settings and/or firmware crashes.
Fix this by ensuring that scan results received on a HT channel
are only assigned to that channel if the htcap IE is available,
else use the legacy channel equivalent.
Tested by: Pawel Worach, Raoul Megelas, Maciej Milewski,
Andrei <az at azsupport dot com>
Approved by: re (kib)
TX for the given TID needs to be paused during ADDBA requests (and unpaused
once the session is established.) Since net80211 currently doesn't implement
software aggregation, if this pause/unpause is done in the driver (as it
is in my development branch) then it will need to be unpaused both on
ADDBA response and on ADDBA timeout.
This callback allows the driver to unpause TX for the relevant TID.
Reviewed by: bschmidt
Intel 4965 devices for example have HT40 on 2GHz completely disabled
but it is still supported for 5GHz. To handle that in sta mode we
need to check if we can "upgrade" to a HT40 channel after the
association, if that is not possible but we are still announcing
support to the remote side we are left with a very flabby connection.
Reviewed by: adrian
too. In that case don't fiddle with the seqno as drivers are supposed
to handle that.
Currently only the powersave feature does sent QoS-null-data frames
before and after a background scan which must be handled correctly. Due
to this being quite rare we don't fiddle around with starting of aggr
sessions.
* revert a local path change that shouldn't have made it to the commit
* fix some indenting/wrapping
* Fix the ale data copy - i should be copying into the ale data pointer,
not over the ale entry itself.
handling.
The current sequence number code does a few things incorrectly:
* It didn't try eliminating duplications from HT nodes. I guess it's assumed
that out of order / retransmission handling would be handled by the AMPDU RX
routines. If a HT node isn't doing AMPDU RX, then retransmissions need to
be eliminated. Since most of my debugging is based on this (as AMPDU TX
software packet aggregation isn't yet handled), handle this corner case.
* When a sequence number of 4095 was received, any subsequent sequence number
is going to be (by definition) less than 4095. So if the following sequence
number (0) doesn't initially occur and the retransmit is received, it's
incorrectly eliminated by the IEEE80211_FC1_RETRY && SEQ_LEQ() check.
Try to handle this better.
This almost completely eliminates out of order TCP statistics showing up during
iperf testing for the 11a, 11g and non-aggregate 11n AMPDU RX case. The only
other packet loss conditions leading to this are due to baseband resets or
heavy interference.
defines struct in6_addr, which is needed by ip6_hdr used in here.
Reviewed by: gnn
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
MFC after: 5 days
This is destined to be a lightweight and optional set of ALQ
probes for debugging events which are just impossible to debug
with printf/log (eg packet TX/RX handling; AMPDU handling.)
The probes and operations themselves will appear in subsequent
commits.
This introduces struct ieee80211_rx_stats - which stores the various kinds
of RX statistics which a MIMO and non-MIMO 802.11 device can export.
It also fleshes out the mimo export to userland (node_getmimoinfo()).
It assumes that MIMO radios (for now) export both ctl and ext channels.
Non-11n MIMO radios are possible (and I believe Atheros made at least
one), so if that chipset support is added, extra flags to the
struct ieee80211_rx_stats can be added to extend this support.
Two new input functions have been added - ieee80211_input_mimo() and
ieee80211_input_mimo_all() - which MIMO-aware devices can call with
MIMO specific statistics.
802.11 devices calling the non-MIMO input functions will still function.
The symptom: sometimes 11n (and non-11n) throughput is great.
Sometimes it isn't. Much teeth gnashing occured, and much kernel
bisecting happened, until someone figured out it was the order
of which things were rebooted, not the kernel versions.
(Which was great news to me, it meant that I hadn't broken if_ath.)
What we found was that sometimes the WME parameters for the best-effort
queue had a burst window ("txop") in which the station would be allowed
to TX as many packets as it could fit inside that particular burst
window. This improved throughput.
After initially thinking it was a bug - the WME parameters for the
best-effort queue -should- have a txop of 0, Bernard and I discovered
"aggressive mode" in net80211 - where the WME BE queue parameters
are changed if there's not a lot of high priority traffic going on.
The WME parameters announced in the association response and beacon
frames just "change" based on what the current traffic levels are.
So in fact yes, the STA was acutally supposed to be doing this higher
throughput stuff as it's just meant to be configuring things based on
the WME parameters - but it wasn't.
What was eventually happening was this:
* at startup, the wme qosinfo count field would be 0;
* it'd be parsed in ieee80211_parse_wmeparams();
* and it would be bumped (to say 10);
* .. and the WME queue parameters would be correctly parsed and set.
But then, when you restarted the assocation (eg hostap goes away and
comes back with the same qosinfo count field of 10, or if you
destroy the sta VIF and re-create it), the WME qosinfo count field -
which is associated not to the VIF, but to the main interface -
wouldn't be cleared, so the queue default parameters would be used
(which include no burst setting for the BE queue) and would remain
that way until the hostap qosinfo count field changed, or the STA
was actually rebooted.
This fix simply cleares the wme capability field (which has the count
field) to 0, forcing it to be reset by the next received beacon.
Thanks go to Milu for finding it and helping me track down what was
going on, and Bernard Schmidt for working through the net80211 and
WME specific magic.
uses of ic_curchan occur. Due to the nature of a scan, switching
channels constantly and all this happening without any kind of locks
held, it might happen that ic_curchan points to nowhere leading to
panics. Fix this by not allowing frame injections while in SCAN state.
Tested by: Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>
If multiple networks are available the max bandwidth is one
condition used for selecting the "best" BSS. To achieve that
we should consider all parameters which affect the max RX rate.
This includes 20/40MHz, SGI and the of course the MCS set.
If the TX MCS parameters are available we should use those,
because an AP announcing support for receiving frames at 450Mbps
might only be able to transmit at 150Mbps (1T3R). I haven't seen
devices with support for transmitting at higher rates then
receiving, so prefering TX over RX information should be safe.
While here, remove the hardcoded assumption that MCS15 is the max
possible MCS rate, use MCS31 instead which really is the highest
rate (according to the 802.11n std). Also, fix a mismatch of an
40MHz/SGI check.
Contrary to the rateset information in legacy frames the MCS Set
field also contains TX capability information in cases where the
number of available TX and RX spartial streams differ. Because a
rateset doesn't contain that information we have to pull the
those directly from the hardware capabilities.
Get rid of the assumption that every device is capable of 40MHz,
SGI and 2 spartial streams. Instead of printing, in the worst case,
8 times 76 MCS rates, print logically connect ranges and the
support RX/TX streams.
A device without 40MHz and SGI support looks like:
ath0: 2T2R
ath0: 11na MCS 20Mhz
ath0: MCS 0-7: 6.5Mbps - 65Mbps
ath0: MCS 8-15: 13Mbps - 130Mbps
ath0: 11ng MCS 20Mhz
ath0: MCS 0-7: 6.5Mbps - 65Mbps
ath0: MCS 8-15: 13Mbps - 130Mbps
Initialize ic_rxstream/ic_txstream with 2, for compatibility reasons.
Introduce 4 new HTC flags, which are used in addition to ic_rxstream
and ic_txstream to compute the hc_mcsset content and also for initializing
ni_htrates. The number of spatial streams is enough to determine support
for MCS0-31 but not for MCS32-76 as well as some TX parameters in the
hc_mcsset field.
adjust the IEEE80211_HTRATE_MAXSIZE constant, only MCS0 - 76 are valid
the other bits in the mcsset IE (77 - 127) are either reserved or used
for TX parameters.
clean up parts of the *_recv_mgmt() functions.
- make sure appropriate counters are bumped and debug messages are printed
- order the unhandled subtypes by value and add a few missing ones
- fix some whitespace nits
- remove duplicate code in adhoc_recv_mgmt()
- remove a useless comment, probably left in while c&p
The current code transmits management and multicast frames at MCS 0.
What it should do is check whether the negotiated basic set is zero (and
the MCS set is not) before making this decision.
For now, simply default to the lowest negotiated rate, rather than
MCS 0. This fixes the behaviour with at least the DLINK DIR-825, which
ACKs but silently ignores block-ack (BA) response frames.
if a scan is running, report if a scan has been started. The return value
itself is not (yet) used anywhere in the tree and it is also not exported
to userspace.
MFC after: 1 month
the element's data length, frm[2] is the first byte of the element's data.
Submitted by: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar at gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 week
This fixes hostap mode for at least ral(4) and run(4), because there is
no sufficient call into drivers which could be used initialize the node
related ratectl variables.
MFC after: 3 days
beacon or probe-response frames. Fix the condition by checking for the
the array's content instead of the always existing array itself.
Reviewed by: rpaulo, stefanf
MFC after: 3 days
its internal data. This has been used to bypass missing calls in drivers
which do not use the ratectl framework correctly. Issue is, not all algos
use that variable, or even have internal data, therefore valid calls are
not done. Fix this by removing the checks, all driver issues should be
resolved.
MFC after: 1 week
the currently selected rate. The calculations of course need a valid
rate. To make that possible before any call to node_rate() is done,
initialize ni_txrate on none_node_init() calls.
MFC after: 1 week
the IEEE80211_C_RATECTL flag set, default to NONE for all drivers. Only if
a driver calls ieee80211_ratectl_init() check if the NONE algo is still
selected and try to use AMRR in that case. Drivers are still free to use
any other algo by calling ieee80211_ratectl_set() prior to the
ieee80211_ratectl_init() call.
After this change it is now safe to assume that a ratectl algo is always
available and selected, which renders the IEEE80211_C_RATECTL flag pretty
much useless. Therefore revert r211314 and 211546.
Reviewed by: rpaulo
MFC after: 2 weeks
This can happen if the algos are built as modules but are not loaded. If
the selected ratectl algo is not available, try to load it (The load
module functions does nothing currently). Add a dummy ratectl algo which
always selects the first available rate. Use that one if the desired algo
is not available.
MFC after: 1 week
802.11 duplicate detection. Upon looking at the standard, we discover
that 802.11-2007 says:
"A receiving QoS STA is also required to keep only the most recent
cache entry per<Address 2, TID, sequence-number> triple, storing only
the most recently received fragment number for that triple. A receiving
STA may omit tuples obtained from broadcast/multicast or ATIM frames
from the cache."
To fix this, we just disable duplicate detection for multicast/broadcast
frames.
Reviewed by: sam
MFC after: 4 weeks
Obtained from: DragonFly
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.
MFC after: 1 month
ratectl_node_init() functions and since ni_rtctls was already
malloc'ed() we will panic. Fix this by using the already malloc'ed
pointer.
Found by: bschmidt
Reviewed by: bschmidt
* WPA-None requires ap_scan=2:
The major difference between ap_scan=1 (default) and 2 is, that no
IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN* ioctls/functions are called, though, there is a
dependency on those. For example the call to wpa_driver_bsd_scan()
sets the interface UP, this never happens, therefore the interface
must be marked up in wpa_driver_bsd_associate(). IEEE80211_IOC_SSID
also is not called, which means that the SSID has not been set prior
to the IEEE80211_MLME_ASSOC call.
* WPA-None has no support for sequence number updates, it doesn't make
sense to check for replay violations..
* I had some crashes right after the switch to RUN state, issue is
that sc->sc_lastrs was not yet defined.
Approved by: rpaulo (mentor)
MFC after: 3 weeks
This framework allows drivers to abstract the rate control algorithm and
just feed the framework with the usable parameters. The rate control
framework will now deal with passing the parameters to the selected
algorithm. Right now we have AMRR (the default) and RSSADAPT but there's
no way to select one with ifconfig, yet.
The objective is to have more rate control algorithms in the net80211
stack so all drivers[0] can use it. Ideally, we'll have the well-known
sample rate control algorithm in the net80211 at some point so all
drivers can use it (not just ath).
[0] all drivers that do rate control in software, that is.
Reviewed by: bschmidt, thompsa, weyongo
MFC after: 1 months
