o add net80211 support for a tdma vap that is built on top of the
existing adhoc-demo support
o add tdma scheduling of frame transmission to the ath driver; it's
conceivable other devices might be capable of this too in which case
they can make use of the 802.11 protocol additions etc.
o add minor bits to user tools that need to know: ifconfig to setup and
configure, new statistics in athstats, and new debug mask bits
While the architecture can support >2 slots in a TDMA BSS the current
design is intended (and tested) for only 2 slots.
Sponsored by: Intel
really was meant to be 256. Adjust usage accordingly and replace
bogus usage of this value in checking IEEE channel #'s.
NB: this causes an ABI change; ifconfig must be recompiled
Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.
Supported by: Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by: many
Obtained from: Atheros (some bits)
o update 11n definitions to D2.0 spec
o add IEEE80211_CAPINFO_SPECTRUM_MGMT for DFS support
o add CSA ie definition for DFS support
o purge some unused definitions
o correct 802.11 reason and status codes
o correct reason code returned when a sta tries to associate to an
ap operating with WPA/RSN but without a WPA/RSN ie
Reviewed by: thompsa, avatar
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)
device and have had the crypto bits stripped from the 802.11 header
o strip mbuf flags in the rx path before passing up the stack
Reviewed by: thompsa, sephe, avatar
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)
operating channel and use this in the scan cache rather than directly using
ic_curchan. Some firmware cards can only do a full scan and so ic_curchan does
not have the correct value.
Also add IEEE80211_CHAN2IEEE to directly dereference ic_ieee from the channel
to be used in the fast path.
Reviewed by: sam, sephe
Approved by: re (kensmith)
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing
Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested
This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others. Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros. The 11n work was supported by Marvell.
station exiting power save mode prepend them to the driver's
send q instead of appending them. This insures the packets
are not misordered wrt any packets already q'd for the station.
This corrects a problem noticed when using a VoIP phone talking
to an ath card in ap mode; the misordered packets caused noise.
Submitted by: "J.R. Oldroyd" <jr@opal.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
o add IEEE80211_F_JOIN flag to ieee80211_fix_rate to indicate a station
is joining a BSS; this is used to control whether or not we over-write
the basic rate bit in the calculated rate set
o fix ieee80211_fix_rate to honor IEEE80211_F_DODEL when IEEE80211_F_DONEGO
is not specified (e.g. when joining an ibss network)
o on sta join always delete unusable rates from the negotiated rate set,
this was being done only ibss networks but is also needed for 11g bss
with mixed stations
o on sta join delete unusable rates from the bss node's rate set, not the
scan table entry's rate set
o when calculating a rate set for new neighbors in an ibss caculate a
negotiated rate set so drivers are not presented with rates they should
not use
Submitted by: Sepherosa Ziehau (w/ modifications)
Obtained from: DragonFly
MFC after: 1 month
m_pkthdr.ether_vlan. The presence of the M_VLANTAG flag on the mbuf
signifies the presence and validity of its content.
Drivers that support hardware VLAN tag stripping fill in the received
VLAN tag (containing both vlan and priority information) into the
ether_vtag mbuf packet header field:
m->m_pkthdr.ether_vtag = vlan_id; /* ntohs()? */
m->m_flags |= M_VLANTAG;
to mark the packet m with the specified VLAN tag.
On output the driver should check the mbuf for the M_VLANTAG flag to
see if a VLAN tag is present and valid:
if (m->m_flags & M_VLANTAG) {
... = m->m_pkthdr.ether_vtag; /* htons()? */
... pass tag to hardware ...
}
VLAN tags are stored in host byte order. Byte swapping may be necessary.
(Note: This driver conversion was mechanic and did not add or remove any
byte swapping in the drivers.)
Remove zone_mtag_vlan UMA zone and MTAG_VLAN definition. No more tag
memory allocation have to be done.
Reviewed by: thompsa, yar
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
o add some missing stats to the global stat structure
o move accounting work for data frame rx into ieee80211_deliver_data
o add per-sta stats for rx ucast/mcast frames
o set rcvif in ieee80211_deliver_data so callers don't need to
MFC after: 2 weeks
touch data outside the packet (previously we might touch 1 byte); it
also has the happy side effect of working around broken orinoco/agere
firmware that sends malformed association response frames
Help by: Vladimir Egorin
(1) bpf peer attaches to interface netif0
(2) Packet is received by netif0
(3) ifp->if_bpf pointer is checked and handed off to bpf
(4) bpf peer detaches from netif0 resulting in ifp->if_bpf being
initialized to NULL.
(5) ifp->if_bpf is dereferenced by bpf machinery
(6) Kaboom
This race condition likely explains the various different kernel panics
reported around sending SIGINT to tcpdump or dhclient processes. But really
this race can result in kernel panics anywhere you have frequent bpf attach
and detach operations with high packet per second load.
Summary of changes:
- Remove the bpf interface's "driverp" member
- When we attach bpf interfaces, we now set the ifp->if_bpf member to the
bpf interface structure. Once this is done, ifp->if_bpf should never be
NULL. [1]
- Introduce bpf_peers_present function, an inline operation which will do
a lockless read bpf peer list associated with the interface. It should
be noted that the bpf code will pickup the bpf_interface lock before adding
or removing bpf peers. This should serialize the access to the bpf descriptor
list, removing the race.
- Expose the bpf_if structure in bpf.h so that the bpf_peers_present function
can use it. This also removes the struct bpf_if; hack that was there.
- Adjust all consumers of the raw if_bpf structure to use bpf_peers_present
Now what happens is:
(1) Packet is received by netif0
(2) Check to see if bpf descriptor list is empty
(3) Pickup the bpf interface lock
(4) Hand packet off to process
From the attach/detach side:
(1) Pickup the bpf interface lock
(2) Add/remove from bpf descriptor list
Now that we are storing the bpf interface structure with the ifnet, there is
is no need to walk the bpf interface list to locate the correct bpf interface.
We now simply look up the interface, and initialize the pointer. This has a
nice side effect of changing a bpf interface attach operation from O(N) (where
N is the number of bpf interfaces), to O(1).
[1] From now on, we can no longer check ifp->if_bpf to tell us whether or
not we have any bpf peers that might be interested in receiving packets.
In collaboration with: sam@
MFC after: 1 month
case if memory allocation failed.
- Remove fourth argument from VLAN_INPUT_TAG(), that was used
incorrectly in almost all drivers. Indicate failure with
mbuf value of NULL.
In collaboration with: yongari, ru, sam
in the 802.11 layer: we send a directed probe request frame to the
current ap bmiss_max times (w/o answer) before scanning for a new ap.
MFC after: 2 weeks
o plug memory leak in adhoc mode: on rx the sender may be the
current master so simply checking against ic_bss is not enough
to identify if the packet comes from an unknown sender; must
also check the mac address
o split neighbor node creation into two routines and fillin state
of nodes faked up on xmit when a beacon or probe response frame
is later received; this ensures important state like the rate set
and advertised capabilities are correct
Obtained from: netbsd
MFC after: 1 week
o add ic_curchan and use it uniformly for specifying the current
channel instead of overloading ic->ic_bss->ni_chan (or in some
drivers ic_ibss_chan)
o add ieee80211_scanparams structure to encapsulate scanning-related
state captured for rx frames
o move rx beacon+probe response frame handling into separate routines
o change beacon+probe response handling to treat the scan table
more like a scan cache--look for an existing entry before adding
a new one; this combined with ic_curchan use corrects handling of
stations that were previously found at a different channel
o move adhoc neighbor discovery by beacon+probe response frames to
a new ieee80211_add_neighbor routine
Reviewed by: avatar
Tested by: avatar, Michal Mertl
MFC after: 2 weeks
o separate configured beacon interval from listen interval; this
avoids potential use of one value for the other (e.g. setting
powersavesleep to 0 clobbers the beacon interval used in hostap
or ibss mode)
o bounds check the beacon interval received in probe response and
beacon frames and drop frames with bogus settings; not clear
if we should instead clamp the value as any alteration would
result in mismatched sta+ap configuration and probably be more
confusing (don't want to log to the console but perhaps ok with
rate limiting)
o while here up max beacon interval to reflect WiFi standard
Noticed by: Martin <nakal@nurfuerspam.de>
MFC after: 1 week
when operating in ap mode. Previously we allocated a node from the
station table, sent the frame (using the node), then released the
reference that "held the frame in the table". But while the frame
was in flight the node might be reclaimed which could lead to
problems. The solution is to add an ieee80211_tmp_node routine
that crafts a node that does exist in a table and so isn't ever
reclaimed; it exists only so long as the associated frame is in flight.
MFC after: 5 days
