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Adrian Chadd
f1481c8d3b [net80211] Migrate HT/legacy protection mode and preamble calculation to per-VAP flags
The later firmware devices (including iwn!) support multiple configuration
contexts for a lot of things, leaving it up to the firmware to decide
which channel and vap is active.  This allows for things like off-channel
p2p sta/ap operation and other weird things.

However, net80211 is still focused on a "net80211 drives all" when it comes to driving
the NIC, and as part of this history a lot of these options are global and not per-VAP.
This is fine when net80211 drives things and all VAPs share a single channel - these
parameters importantly really reflect the state of the channel! - but it will increasingly
be not fine when we start supporting more weird configurations and more recent NICs.
Yeah, recent like iwn/iwm.

Anyway - so, migrate all of the HT protection, legacy protection and preamble
stuff to be per-VAP.  The global flags are still there; they're now calculated
in a deferred taskqueue that mirrors the old behaviour.  Firmware based drivers
which have per-VAP configuration of these parameters can now just listen to the
per-VAP options.

What do I mean by per-channel? Well, the above configuration parameters really
are about interoperation with other devices on the same channel. Eg, HT protection
mode will flip to legacy/mixed if it hears ANY BSS that supports non-HT stations or
indicates it has non-HT stations associated.  So, these flags really should be
per-channel rather than per-VAP, and then for things like "do i need short preamble
or long preamble?" turn into a "do I need it for this current operating channel".
Then any VAP using it can query the channel that it's on, reflecting the real
required state.

This patch does none of the above paragraph just yet.

I'm also cheating a bit - I'm currently not using separate taskqueues for
the beacon updates and the per-VAP configuration updates.  I can always further
split it later if I need to but I didn't think it was SUPER important here.

So:

* Create vap taskqueue entries for ERP/protection, HT protection and short/long
  preamble;
* Migrate the HT station count, short/long slot station count, etc - into per-VAP
  variables rather than global;
* Fix a bug with my WME work from a while ago which made it per-VAP - do the WME
  beacon update /after/ the WME update taskqueue runs, not before;
* Any time the HT protmode configuration changes or the ERP protection mode
  config changes - schedule the task, which will call the driver without the
  net80211 lock held and all correctly serialised;
* Use the global flags for beacon IEs and VAP flags for probe responses and
  other IE situations.

The primary consumer of this is ath10k.  iwn could use it when sending RXON,
but we don't support IBSS or AP modes on it yet, and I'm not yet sure whether
it's required in STA mode (ie whether the firmware parses beacons to change
protection mode or whether we need to.)

Tested:

* AR9280, STA/AP
* AR9380, DWDS STA+STA/AP
* ath10k work, STA/AP
* Intel 6235, STA
* Various rtwn / run NICs, DWDS STA and STA configurations
2020-07-01 00:23:49 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
bac852bbac [net80211] Add missing commit to previous-1 uapsd commit.
Whoops; somehow my big commit line didn't include this..  cue the tree breakage emails.
2020-06-16 00:28:45 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
d20ff6e680 [net80211] Migrate short slot time configuration into per-vap and deferred taskqueue updates.
The 11b/11g ERP and slot time update handling are two things which weren't
migrated into the per-VAP state when Sam did the initial VAP work.
That makes sense for a lot of setups where net80211 is driving radio state
and the radio only cares about the shared state.

However, as noted by a now deleted comment, the ERP and slot time updates
aren't EXACTLY correct/accurate - they only take into account the most
RECENTLY created VAP, and the state updates when one creates/destroys
VAPs isn't exactly great.

So:

* track the short slot logic per VAP;
* whenever the slot time configuration changes, just push it into a deferred
  task queue update so drivers don't have to serialise it themselves;
* if a driver registers a per-VAP slot time handler then it'll just get the
  per VAP one;
* .. if a driver registers a global one then the legacy behaviour is maintained -
  a single slot time is calculated and pushed out.

Note that the calculated slot time is better than the existing logic - if ANY
of the VAPs require long slot then it's disabled for all VAPs rather than
whatever the last configured VAP did.

Now, this isn't entirely complete - the rest of ERP tracking around short/long
slot capable station tracking needs to be converted into per-VAP, as well
as the preamble/barker flags.  Luckily those also can be done in a similar
fashion - keep per-VAP counters/flags and unify them before doing the driver
update.  I'll defer that work until later.

All the existing drivers can keep doing what they're doing with the global
slot time flags as that is maintained. One driver (iwi) used the per-VAP
flags instead of the ic flags, so now that driver will work properly.

This unblocks some ath10k porting work as the firmware takes the slot time
configuration per-VAP rather than globally, and some firmware handles
STA+AP and STA+STA (on same/different channels) configurations where
the firmware will switch slot time as appropriate.

Tested:

* AR9380, STA/AP mode
* AR9880 (ath10k), STA mode
2020-06-05 06:21:23 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
2c13efdf1c net80211: post RTM_IFINFO notification after toggling IFF_DRV_RUNNING
This is useful when a wireless driver is stopped or started in response
to events like an RF Kill button press.  Applications like
wpa_supplicant depend on such events to have a correct view of interface
state.

Reviewed by:	adrian, cy, melifaro
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24925
2020-05-22 11:25:45 +00:00
Andriy Voskoboinyk
f3f08e16a3 net80211(4): hide casts for 'i_seq' field offset calculation inside
ieee80211_getqos() and reuse it in various places.

Checked with RTL8188EE, HOSTAP mode + RTL8188CUS, STA mode.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2019-02-10 23:58:56 +00:00
Andriy Voskoboinyk
d1b671061b net80211: wrap protection frame allocation into ieee80211_alloc_prot()
Move copy-pasted code for RTS/CTS frame allocation into net80211.
While here, add stat / debug message for allocation failures
(copied from run(4)) + return error here in bwn(4).

Reviewed by:	adrian
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14628
2018-03-09 11:33:56 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
0c6960361b [net80211] add a method for checking if a VAP WME AC has a NOACK policy or not.
A subsequent set of commits will introduce this instead of a whole lot of
gymnastics to check the WME category.
2017-12-09 23:16:02 +00:00
Pedro F. Giffuni
fe267a5590 sys: general adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

No functional change intended.
2017-11-27 15:23:17 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
d03baf3578 [net80211] add methods to fetch the global and per-VAP WME parameters.
For now there isn't any per-VAP WME state.  The eventual aim is to migrate
the driver direct use of WME parameters over to use these methods as
appropriate (global for most devices, per-VAP for firmware NICs that support
it) in preparation for actual per-VAP WME (and other thing) state change
support.
2017-04-22 02:12:07 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
4d3dcce5bb [net80211] quiet IE handling improvements
* on the station side, only call the quiet time IE method if we have a
  quiet IE - otherwise call the NULL method once, and then don't waste
  time calling NULL

* on the beacon generation side - force a beacon regeneration each time
  quiet time is enabled/disabled.  Without this, enabling/disabling quiet
  time IE would cause the beacon contents to be corrupted since none of
  the "move contents around" logic (like for CSA and TIM handling) is implemented.

This changes the size of ieee80211_node so it requires a kernel recompile,
but no userland recompile.

Tested:

* AR9380, AP mode, enabling/disabling quiet time IE
* AR9380, STA mode, with upcoming driver changes.
2017-02-09 04:07:30 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
8e71a4aa83 [net80211] add syncflags methods for the VHT flags configuration.
I missed this in my last commit.  Pointy hat to me.
2017-01-07 07:35:27 +00:00
Andriy Voskoboinyk
bdc7291ec9 net80211: convert all ieee80211_input_mimo*() consumers
to ieee80211_add_rx_params() + drop last (ieee80211_rx_stats) parameter

Note: there is an additional check for ieee80211_get_rx_params()
return value (which does not exist in the original diff).

Reviewed by:	adrian
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8207
2016-10-12 20:50:13 +00:00
Pedro F. Giffuni
a4641f4eaa sys/net*: minor spelling fixes.
No functional change.
2016-05-03 18:05:43 +00:00
Andriy Voskoboinyk
4357a5d1ef net80211: hide subtype mask & shift in function call.
Hide subtype mask/shift (which is used for index calculation
in ieee80211_mgt_subtype_name[] array) in function call.

Tested with RTL8188CUS, STA mode.

Reviewed by:	adrian
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5369
2016-04-20 21:15:55 +00:00
Andriy Voskoboinyk
d72d72d381 net80211: provide descriptions for reason codes
Add text description for deauth/disassoc/etc reason codes
in addition to 'reason: <number>' string.

Reviewed by:	adrian
Obtained from:	IEEE Std 802.11-2012, 8.4.1.7 "Reason Code field"
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5367
2016-04-20 20:30:18 +00:00
Andriy Voskoboinyk
4061c639f0 net80211: add ieee80211_restart_all() call.
This call may be used when device cannot continue to operate normally
(e.g., throws firmware error, watchdog timer expires)
and need to be restarted.

Approved by:	adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3998
2015-10-27 20:40:57 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
d07be335a0 net80211: separate mbuf cleanup from ieee80211_fragment()
* Create ieee80211_free_mbuf() which frees a list of mbufs.
* Use it in the fragment transmit path and ath / uath transmit paths.
* Call it in xmit_pkt() if the transmission fails; otherwise fragments
  may be leaked.

This should be a big no-op.

Submitted by:	<s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3769
2015-10-12 03:27:08 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
210ab3c258 net80211: drop ieee80211_beacon_offsets parameter from ieee80211_beacon_alloc() and ieee80211_beacon_update()
Submitted by:	<s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3659
2015-10-03 22:12:25 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
b86fd7bcea Perform some rather amusing layering violations to add mbuf tags to the
net80211 receive path.  This allows drivers (notably USB right now, but
anything/everything!) to optionally defer bulk RX of 802.11 frames until
/outside/ of the driver lock(s), rather than doing:

UNLOCK(sc);
ieee80211_input*()
LOCK(sc);

.. which is really stupid.

The existing API is maintaned - if ieee80211_input() / ieee80211_input_all()
is called then the RSSI/NF values are used.  If the MIMO versions are called
with a given rx status pointer then it's used. Else, it'll use whatever
is in the RX mbuf tag.
2015-09-26 00:53:37 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
4eadefc260 Expose the wme_info IE method. 2015-09-18 04:01:26 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
7a79cebfba Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless
connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
  the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
  driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
  in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
  driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
  interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
  now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.

Reviewed by:	adrian
Sponsored by:	Netflix
Sponsored by:	Nginx, Inc.
2015-08-27 08:56:39 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
ba2c1fbc03 Revert the wifi ifnet changes until things are more baked and tested.
* 286410
* 286413
* 286416

The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.
2015-08-08 01:10:17 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
79d2c5e857 Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless connectivity interact
with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
  the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
  driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
  in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
  driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
  interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
  now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@,
op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211

Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not
tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances
of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change.
But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this
commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated.

Differential Revision:	D2655, D2740
Sponsored by:	Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by:	Netflix
2015-08-07 11:43:14 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
e14a2a4cf4 Cleanup compat shims for FreeBSD versions that predate 10.0-RELEASE.
There are no plans to merge anything save a trivial bugfix to stable/9.

Discussed with:	adrian
2015-05-25 20:06:49 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
c79f192c09 Begin plumbing ieee80211_rx_stats through the receive path.
Smart NICs with firmware (eg wpi, iwn, the new atheros parts, the intel 7260
series, etc) support doing a lot of things in firmware.  This includes but
isn't limited to things like scanning, sending probe requests and receiving
probe responses.  However, net80211 doesn't know about any of this - it still
drives the whole scan/probe infrastructure itself.

In order to move towards suppoting smart NICs, the receive path needs to
know about the channel/details for each received packet.  In at least
the iwn and 7260 firmware (and I believe wpi, but I haven't tried it yet)
it will do the scanning, power-save and off-channel buffering for you -
all you need to do is handle receiving beacons and probe responses on
channels that aren't what you're currently on.  However the whole receive
path is peppered with ic->ic_curchan and manual scan/powersave handling.
The beacon parsing code also checks ic->ic_curchan to determine if the
received beacon is on the correct channel or not.[1]

So:

* add freq/ieee values to ieee80211_rx_stats;
* change ieee80211_parse_beacon() to accept the 'current' channel
  as an argument;
* modify the iv_input() and iv_recv_mgmt() methods to include the rx_stats;
* add a new method - ieee80211_lookup_channel_rxstats() - that looks up
  a channel based on the contents of ieee80211_rx_stats;
* if it exists, use it in the mgmt path to switch the current channel
  (which still defaults to ic->ic_curchan) over to something determined
  by rx_stats.

This is enough to kick-start scan offload support in the Intel 7260
driver that Rui/I are working on.  It also is a good start for scan
offload support for a handful of existing NICs (wpi, iwn, some USB
parts) and it'll very likely dramatically improve stability/performance
there.  It's not the whole thing - notably, we don't need to do powersave,
we should not scan all channels, and we should leave probe request sending
to the firmware and not do it ourselves.  But, this allows for continued
development on the above features whilst actually having a somewhat
working NIC.

TODO:

* Finish tidying up how the net80211 input path works.
  Right now ieee80211_input / ieee80211_input_all act as the top-level
  that everything feeds into; it should change so the MIMO input routines
  are those and the legacy routines are phased out.

* The band selection should be done by the driver, not by the net80211
  layer.

* ieee80211_lookup_channel_rxstats() only determines 11b or 11g channels
  for now - this is enough for scanning, but not 100% true in all cases.
  If we ever need to handle off-channel scan support for things like
  static-40MHz or static-80MHz, or turbo-G, or half/quarter rates,
  then we should extend this.

[1] This is a side effect of frequency-hopping and CCK modes - you
    can receive beacons when you think you're on a different channel.
    In particular, CCK (which is used by the low 11b rates, eg beacons!)
    is decodable from adjacent channels - just at a low SNR.
    FH is a side effect of having the hardware/firmware do the frequency
    hopping - it may pick up beacons transmitted from other FH networks
    that are in a different phase of hopping frequencies.
2015-05-25 16:37:41 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
de981aecde Make ieee80211_add_ssid() public.
Some drivers use private copies of this.

PR:		kern/196116
Submitted by:	Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
2014-12-19 01:39:58 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
e94527beaf Fix a use-after-free node reference issue when waiting for a return
from a management frame transmission.

This bug is a bit loopy, so here goes.

The underlying cause is pretty easy to understand - the node isn't
referenced before passing into the callout, so if the node is deleted
before the callout fires, it'll dereference free'd memory.

The code path however is slightly more convoluted.

The functions _say_ mgt_tx - ie management transmit - which is partially
true.  Yes, that callback is attached to the mbuf for some management
frames.  However, it's only for frames relating to scanning and
authentication attempts.  It helpfully drives the VAP state back to
"SCAN" if the transmission fails _OR_ (as I subsequently found out!)
if the transmission succeeds but the state machine doesn't make progress
towards being authenticated and active.

Now, the code itself isn't terribly clear about this.

It _looks_ like it's just handling the transmit failure case.

However, when you look at what goes on in the transmit success case, it's
moving the VAP state back to SCAN if it hasn't changed state since
the time the callback was scheduled.  Ie, if it's in ASSOC or AUTH still,
it'll go back to SCAN.  But if it has transitioned to the RUN state,
the comparison will fail and it'll not transition things back to the
SCAN state.

So, to fix this, I decided to leave everything the way it is and merely
fix the locking and remove the node reference.

The _better_ fix would be to turn this callout into a "assoc/auth request"
timeout callback and make the callout locked, thus eliminating all races.
However, until all the drivers have been fixed so that transmit completions
occur outside of any locking that's going on, it's going to be impossible
to do this without introducing LORs.  So, I leave some of the evilness
in there.

Tested:

* AR5212, ath(4), STA mode
* 5100 and 4965 wifi, iwn(4), STA mode
2013-10-24 17:04:16 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
36ee7775f4 Create a new function to complete 802.11 mbuf transmission.
The aim of this function is to eventually be the completion entry point
for all 802.11 encapsulated mbufs.  All the wifi drivers end up doing
what is in this function so it's an easy win to turn it into a net80211
method and abstract out this code.

Ideally the drivers will all eventually be modified to queue up completed
mbufs and call this function with all the driver locks not held.
This will allow for some much more interesting software queue handling
in the future (like net80211 based A-MSDU, fast-frames, A-MPDU aggregation
and retransmission.)

Tested:

* ath(4), iwn(4)
2013-08-27 14:37:13 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
74b4c76e4e Migrate the ff_encap1() routine out into the normal output code.
This will eventually be used by the A-MSDU encapsulation code that
I'm writing - the sub-frame encapsulation requirement is the same.
2013-08-26 09:52:05 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
e7495198d5 Convert net80211 over to using if_transmit for the dispatch from the
upper layer(s).

This eliminates the if_snd queue from net80211. Yay!

This unfortunately has a few side effects:

* It breaks ALTQ to net80211 for now - sorry everyone, but fixing
  parallelism and eliminating the if_snd queue is more important
  than supporting this broken traffic scheduling model. :-)

* There's no VAP and IC flush methods just yet - I think I'll add
  some NULL methods for now just as placeholders.

* It reduces throughput a little because now net80211 will drop packets
  rather than buffer them if the driver doesn't do its own buffering.
  This will be addressed in the future as I implement per-node software
  queues.

Tested:

* ath(4) and iwn(4) in STA operation
2013-08-08 05:09:35 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
cc80eae5cf Allow net80211 to compile on stable/9 and stable/8. 2013-08-07 22:01:43 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
0e20ac3863 Commit the missing header change. 2013-07-28 16:50:45 +00:00
Rui Paulo
d8df5f3d71 Add ieee80211_add_{qos,wpa,rsn}() functions since they are needed by an
OpenBSD driver that is being ported to FreeBSD.

Reviewed by:	adrian
2013-07-25 06:23:26 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
47e8d432d5 Add const qualifier to the dst parameter of the ifnet if_output method. 2013-04-26 12:50:32 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
5cda6006e4 Bring over my initial work from the net80211 TX locking branch.
This patchset implements a new TX lock, covering both the per-VAP (and
thus per-node) TX locking and the serialisation through to the underlying
physical device.

This implements the hard requirement that frames to the underlying physical
device are scheduled to the underlying device in the same order that they
are processed at the VAP layer.  This includes adding extra encapsulation
state (such as sequence numbers and CCMP IV numbers.)  Any order mismatch
here will result in dropped packets at the receiver.

There are multiple transmit contexts from the upper protocol layers as well
as the "raw" interface via the management and BPF transmit paths.
All of these need to be correctly serialised or bad behaviour will result
under load.

The specifics:

* add a new TX IC lock - it will eventually just be used for serialisation
  to the underlying physical device but for now it's used for both the
  VAP encapsulation/serialisation and the physical device dispatch.

  This lock is specifically non-recursive.

* Methodize the parent transmit, vap transmit and ic_raw_xmit function
  pointers; use lock assertions in the parent/vap transmit routines.

* Add a lock assertion in ieee80211_encap() - the TX lock must be held
  here to guarantee sensible behaviour.

* Refactor out the packet sending code from ieee80211_start() - now
  ieee80211_start() is just a loop over the ifnet queue and it dispatches
  each VAP packet send through ieee80211_start_pkt().

  Yes, I will likely rename ieee80211_start_pkt() to something that
  better reflects its status as a VAP packet transmit path.  More on
  that later.

* Add locking around the management and BAR TX sending - to ensure that
  encapsulation and TX are done hand-in-hand.

* Add locking in the mesh code - again, to ensure that encapsulation
  and mesh transmit are done hand-in-hand.

* Add locking around the power save queue and ageq handling, when
  dispatching to the parent interface.

* Add locking around the WDS handoff.

* Add a note in the mesh dispatch code that the TX path needs to be
  re-thought-out - right now it's doing a direct parent device transmit
  rather than going via the vap layer.  It may "work", but it's likely
  incorrect (as it bypasses any possible per-node power save and
  aggregation handling.)

Why not a per-VAP or per-node lock?

Because in order to ensure per-VAP ordering, we'd have to hold the
VAP lock across parent->if_transmit().  There are a few problems
with this:

* There's some state being setup during each driver transmit - specifically,
  the encryption encap / CCMP IV setup.  That should eventually be dragged
  back into the encapsulation phase but for now it lives in the driver TX path.
  This should be locked.

* Two drivers (ath, iwn) re-use the node->ni_txseqs array in order to
  allocate sequence numbers when doing transmit aggregation.  This should
  also be locked.

* Drivers may have multiple frames queued already - so when one calls
  if_transmit(), it may end up dispatching multiple frames for different
  VAPs/nodes, each needing a different lock when handling that particular
  end destination.

So to be "correct" locking-wise, we'd end up needing to grab a VAP or
node lock inside the driver TX path when setting up crypto / AMPDU sequence
numbers, and we may already _have_ a TX lock held - mostly for the same
destination vap/node, but sometimes it'll be for others.  That could lead
to LORs and thus deadlocks.

So for now, I'm sticking with an IC TX lock.  It has the advantage of
papering over the above and it also has the added advantage that I can
assert that it's being held when doing a parent device transmit.
I'll look at splitting the locks out a bit more later on.

General outstanding net80211 TX path issues / TODO:

* Look into separating out the VAP serialisation and the IC handoff.
  It's going to be tricky as parent->if_transmit() doesn't give me the
  opportunity to split queuing from driver dispatch.  See above.

* Work with monthadar to fix up the mesh transmit path so it doesn't go via
  the parent interface when retransmitting frames.

* Push the encryption handling back into the driver, if it's at all
  architectually sane to do so.  I know it's possible - it's what mac80211
  in Linux does.

* Make ieee80211_raw_xmit() queue a frame into VAP or parent queue rather
  than doing a short-cut direct into the driver.  There are QoS issues
  here - you do want your management frames to be encapsulated and pushed
  onto the stack sooner than the (large, bursty) amount of data frames
  that are queued.  But there has to be a saner way to do this.

* Fragments are still broken - drivers need to be upgraded to an if_transmit()
  implementation and then fragmentation handling needs to be properly fixed.

Tested:

* STA - AR5416, AR9280, Intel 5300 abgn wifi
* Hostap - AR5416, AR9160, AR9280
* Mesh - some testing by monthadar@, more to come.
2013-03-08 20:23:55 +00:00
Bernhard Schmidt
5a8801b0ea Remove now redundant mac argument.
Discussed with:	adrian@
2011-12-17 10:32:31 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
957458a836 Modify the ACL code slightly to support a few nifty things:
* 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.
2011-12-15 00:52:30 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
32b0e64b56 Add 802.11h quiet time element support into net80211.
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
2011-11-08 04:00:24 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
864ab11425 Add initial support for MIMO statistics to net80211.
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.
2011-04-08 09:20:45 +00:00
Antoine Brodin
d673ae81ed Remove trailing ";" in struct ieee80211_beacon_offsets declaration
Found by:	phk's FlexeLint in September
Reviewed by:	rpaulo@
MFC after:	1 month
2009-11-11 15:00:56 +00:00
Rui Paulo
d093681c60 Implement the missing support for updating the mesh conf number of
neighbors via ieee80211_beacon_notify().

MFC after:	3 days
2009-10-19 18:46:22 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6778431478 Revert previous commit and add myself to the list of people who should
know better than to commit with a cat in the area.
2009-09-08 13:19:05 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b34421bf9c Add necessary include. 2009-09-08 13:16:55 +00:00
Rui Paulo
59aa14a91d Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.

Authentication and encryption are not implemented.

There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).

A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.

Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.

More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh

Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.

Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.

Reviewed by:	sam
Approved by:	re (kensmith)
Obtained from:	projects/mesh11s
2009-07-11 15:02:45 +00:00
Sam Leffler
32bdd57b9b Correct ieee80211_gettid:
o don't increment extracted tid, this was a vestige of IEEE80211_NONQOS_TID
  being defined as 0 (w/ real tid's +1)
o handle 4-address frames (add IEEE80211_IS_DSTODS to check if an 802.11
  header is DSTODS)

Submitted by:	cbzimmer
Reviewed by:	avatar
2009-06-09 16:32:07 +00:00
Sam Leffler
2bfc8a91c9 iv_flags_ext is full, make room by moving HT-related flags to a new
iv_flags_ht word
2009-06-07 22:00:22 +00:00
Sam Leffler
c70761e6b5 o station mode channel switch support
o IEEE80211_IOC_CHANSWITCH fixups:
  - restrict to hostap vaps
  - return EOPNOTSUPP instead of EINVAL when applied to !hostap vap
    or to a vap w/o 11h enabled
  - interpret count of 0 to mean cancel the current CSA

Reviewed by:	rpaulo, avatar
2009-06-04 15:57:38 +00:00
Sam Leffler
a43cee7009 pad data structures to enable integration of future features w/o abi breakage 2009-06-01 16:36:28 +00:00
Sam Leffler
5463c4a485 Overhaul monitor mode handling:
o replace DLT_IEEE802_11 support in net80211 with DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO
  and remove explicit bpf support from wireless drivers; drivers now
  use ieee80211_radiotap_attach to setup shared data structures that
  hold the radiotap header for each packet tx/rx
o remove rx timestamp from the rx path; it was used only by the tdma support
  for debugging and was mostly useless due to it being 32-bits and mostly
  unavailable
o track DLT_IEEE80211_RADIO bpf attachments and maintain per-vap and
  per-com state when there are active taps
o track the number of monitor mode vaps
o use bpf tap and monitor mode vap state to decide when to collect radiotap
  state and dispatch frames; drivers no longer explicitly directly check
  bpf state or use bpf calls to tap frames
o handle radiotap state updates on channel change in net80211; drivers
  should not do this (unless they bypass net80211 which is almost always
  a mistake)
o update various drivers to be more consistent/correct in handling radiotap
o update ral to include TSF in radiotap'd frames
o add promisc mode callback to wi

Reviewed by:	cbzimmer, rpaulo, thompsa
2009-05-20 20:00:40 +00:00
Kip Macy
279aa3d419 Change if_output to take a struct route as its fourth argument in order
to allow passing a cached struct llentry * down to L2

Reviewed by:	rwatson
2009-04-16 20:30:28 +00:00