* 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.
The VHT operational element (VHTOPMODE) isn't a uint32_t - it's
the MCS sets, freq1/freq2 parameters and channel width.
So, store the channel width too in lieu of just storing the
IE struct.
This changes the VHT parameter layout in ieee80211_node but it
doesn't change ABI at all.
This is a work in progress and some of this stuff may change;
but hopefully I'm laying down enough stuff and space in fields
to allow it to grow without another major recompile.
We'll see!
* Add a net80211 PHY type for VHT 2G and VHT 5G.
Note - yes, VHT is supposed to be for 5GHZ, however some vendors
(*cough* most of them) support some subset of VHT rate support
in 2GHz. No - not 80MHz wide channels, but at least some MCS8-9
support, maybe some beamforming, and maybe some longer A-MPDU
aggregates. I don't want to even think about MU-MIMO on 2GHz.
* Add an ifmedia placeholder type for VHT rates.
* Add channel flags for VHT, VHT20/40U/40D/80/80+80/160
* Add channel macros for the above
* Add ieee80211_channel fields for the VHT information and flags,
along with some padding (so this struct definitely grows.)
* Add a phy type flag for VHT - 'v'
* Bump the number of channels to a much higher amount - until we get
something like the linux mac80211 chanctx abstraction (where the
stack provides a current channel configuration via callbacks,
versus the driver ever checking ic->ic_curchan or similar) we'll
have to populate VHT+HT combinations.
Eg, there'll likely be a full set of duplicate VHT20/40 channels to match
HT channels. There will also be a full set of duplicate VHT80 channels -
note that for VHT80, its assumed you're doing VHT40 as a base, so we
don't need a duplicate of VHT80 + 20MHz only primary channels, only
a duplicate of all the VHT40 combinations.
I don't want to think about VHT80+80 or VHT160 for now - and I won't,
as the current device I'm doing 11ac bringup on (QCA9880) only does
VHT80.
I'll likely revisit the channel configuration and scanning related
stuff after I get VHT20/40 up.
* Add vht flags and the basic MCS rate setup to ieee80211com, ieee80211vap
and ieee80211_node in preparation for 11ac configuration.
There is zero code that uses this right now.
* Whilst here, add some more placeholders in case I need to extend
out things by some uint32_t flag sized fields. Hopefully I won't!
What I haven't yet done:
* any of the code that uses this
* any of the beamforming related fields
* any of the MU-MIMO fields required for STA/AP operation
* any of the IE fields in beacon frame / probe request/response handling
and the calculations required for shifting beacon contents around
when the TIM grows/shrinks
This will require a full rebuild of net80211 related programs -
ifconfig, hostapd, wpa_supplicant.
This just stores pointers to the IE; it doesn't yet parse anything.
Note: it blows out the size of ieee80211_node, so this will require
ye olde kernel/modules recompile.
- Add a counter into 'struct ieee80211_node_table' to save current number
of allocated nodes.
(allows to remove array overflow checking in ieee80211_iterate_nodes()).
- Add ieee80211_iterate_nodes_vap() function; unlike non-vap version,
it iterates on nodes for specified vap only.
In addition to the above:
- Remove ieee80211_iterate_nt(); it is not used by drivers / net80211
outside ieee80211_iterate_nodes() function + cannot be separated due
to structural changes in code.
Since size of 'struct ieee80211_node_table' (part of ieee80211com,
which is a part of driver's softc) is changed all wireless drivers /
kernel need to be recompiled.
Tested with wpi(4), STA mode.
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7996
The adhoc probe/beacon input path was creating nodes for all SSIDs.
This wasn't a problem when the NICs were configured to only process
frames for the current BSSID, but that didn't allow IBSS merges.
Once avos and I flipped on "beacons from all BSSIDs" to allow for
correct IBSS merging, we found this interesting behaviour.
This adds a check against the current SSID.
* If there's no VAP SSID, allow anything
* If there's a VAP SSID, check if the incoming frame has a suitable
SSID and if so, allow it.
This prevents nodes being created for other SSIDs in probe and beacon
frames - ie, beacons overlapping IBSSes with different SSIDs, and
probe requests from arbitrary devices.
Tested:
* AR9380, IBSS mode, both local and other IBSSes.
Reviewed by: avos
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7959
Drop scan generation number and node table scan lock - the only place
where ni_scangen is checked is in ieee80211_timeout_stations() (and it
is used to prevent duplicate checking of the same node); node scan lock
protects only this variable + node table scan generation number.
This will fix (at least) next LOR (hostap mode):
lock order reversal:
1st 0xc175f84c urtwm0_scan_loc (urtwm0_scan_loc) @ /usr/src/sys/modules/wlan/../../net80211/ieee80211_node.c:2019
2nd 0xc175e018 urtwm0_com_lock (urtwm0_com_lock) @ /usr/src/sys/modules/wlan/../../net80211/ieee80211_node.c:2693
stack backtrace:
#0 0xa070d1c5 at witness_debugger+0x75
#1 0xa070d0f6 at witness_checkorder+0xd46
#2 0xa0694cce at __mtx_lock_flags+0x9e
#3 0xb03ad9ef at ieee80211_node_leave+0x12f
#4 0xb03afd13 at ieee80211_timeout_stations+0x483
#5 0xb03aa1c2 at ieee80211_node_timeout+0x42
#6 0xa06c6fa1 at softclock_call_cc+0x1e1
#7 0xa06c7518 at softclock+0xc8
#8 0xa06789ae at intr_event_execute_handlers+0x8e
#9 0xa0678fa0 at ithread_loop+0x90
#10 0xa0675fbe at fork_exit+0x7e
#11 0xa08af910 at fork_trampoline+0x8
In addition to the above:
* switch to ieee80211_iterate_nodes();
* do not assert that node table lock is held, while calling node_age();
that's not really needed (there are no resources, which can be protected
by this lock) + this fixes LOR/deadlock between ieee80211_timeout_stations()
and ieee80211_set_tim() (easy to reproduce in HOSTAP mode while
sending something to an STA with enabled power management).
Tested:
* (avos) urtwn0, hostap mode
* (adrian) AR9380, STA mode
* (adrian) AR9380, AR9331, AR9580, hostap mode
Notes:
* This changes the net80211 internals, so you have to recompile all of it
and the wifi drivers.
Submitted by: avos
Approved by: re (delphij)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6833
The ath(4) driver now sees beacons and management frames for different
BSSIDs in IBSS mode, which is a problem when you're in a very busy
IBSS environment.
So, expose this function so drivers can use it to check if the current
RX node is actually for a BSS we need to pay attention to or not.
PR: kern/208644
Sponsored by: Eva Automation. Inc.
field and into a separate fast-frames staging pointer in ieee80211_node.
The A-MPDU TX path allows txa_private to be used by drivers. So it will
clash with any attempt to use fast-frames. Now, fast-frames is not really
anything special - it's just a custom ethernet frame type that contains
two MSDUs into one MPDU. So all the NIC has to support doing is transmitting
up to a 4KiB frame with an arbitrary ethertype and bam! Fast-frames.
However, using txa_private means we can /either/ do fast-frames or A-MPDU TX,
so fast frames has been turned off in the Atheros HAL for 11n chipsets.
This is a bit silly - it actually means that 802.11 performance to/from
11abg Atheros chips is actually better than between an 11abg atheros device
and an 11n Atheros device.
So:
* create a new mbuf staging queue for fast frames. It only queues a single
frame in the staging queue (and there's a top-level ic staging queue
used for expiry/tracking) so it's just an mbuf pointer per TID.
* Still use the ampdu TX packet counter to determine whether to do
aggregation or not. It'll double count if we start doing both A-MPDU TX
and fast frames, but that's not all that important right now.
* Initialise the pps tracker so ticks isn't zero. This ensures that
fast-frames actually gets used - without it, the ticks math overflows
and the pps math always sets txa_pps=0. This is the same bug that
plagued A-MPDU TX starting logic.
This actually allows fast-frames transmit to occur between the AR9331
(in 11n HT/20 mode) and AR9170 (if_otus) in 11bg mode.
Now, this is a great big no-op on atheros 11n hardware, so don't worry.
It may mean you start seeing more reliable fast-frames transmission on
11abg hardware which may expose some more amusing bugs.
TODO:
* further testing and debugging of all of this before flipping on
fast-frames in if_ath (for 11n) and if_otus.
This problem happens when using ACL policy to filter mesh STA
but two nodes have different policy. Then one of them will try to
peer all the time. This can also help if for any reason one of the
peering mesh STA have problems sending/receiving peer frames.
* Modified struct ieee80211_node to include two new fields:
+ struct callout ni_mlhtimer /* link mesh backoff timer */
+ uint8_t ni_mlhcnt /* link mesh holding counter */
* Added two new sysctl (check sysctl -d for more info):
+ net.wlan.mesh.backofftimeout=5000
+ net.wlan.mesh.maxholding=2;
* When receiving a beacon and we are in IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_IDLE
check if ni_mlhcnt >= ieee80211_mesh_maxholding, if so do not do anything;
* In mesh_peer_timeout_cb when transitioning from IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_HOLDING
to IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_IDLE increment ni_mlhcnt, and eventually start
ieee80211_mesh_backofftimeout;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
iterate lock.
This causes LORs and deadlocks as some code paths will have the com lock
held when calling ieee80211_iterate_nodes().
Here, the comlock isn't held during the node table and node iteration
locks; and the callback isn't called with any (extra) lock held.
PR: kern/170098
Submitted by: moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca
MFC after: 4 weeks
Currently, a channel width change updates the 802.11n HT info data in
net80211 but it doesn't trigger any device changes. So the device
driver may decide that HT40 frames can be transmitted but the last
device channel set only had HT20 set.
Now, a task is scheduled so a hardware reset or change isn't done
during any active ongoing RX. It also means that it's serialised
with the other task operations (eg channel change.)
This isn't the final incantation of this work, see below.
For now, any unmodified drivers will simply receive a channel
change log entry. A subsequent patch to ath(4) will introduce
some basic channel change handling (by resetting the NIC.)
Other NICs may need to update their rate control information.
TODO:
* There's still a small window at the present moment where the
channel width has been updated but the task hasn't been fired.
The final version of this should likely pass in a channel width
field to the driver and let the driver atomically do whatever
it needs to before changing the channel.
PR: kern/166286
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.
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
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
long-term work before they can be serviced. Packets are tagged and
assigned an age (in seconds) at the point they are added to the
queue. If a packet is not retrieved before it's age expires it is
reclaimed. Tagging can take two forms: a reference to an ieee80211_node
(as happens in the tx path) or an opaque token in cases where there
is no reference or the node structure is not stable (i.e. it's going
to be destroyed).
o add ic_stageq to replace the per-node wds staging queue used for
dynamic wds
o add ieee80211_mac_hash for building ageq tokens; this computes a
32-bit hash from an 802.11 mac address (copied from the bridge)
o while here fix a stray ';' noticed in IEEE80211_PSQ_INIT
Reviewed by: rpaulo
Approved by: re (kensmith)
we receive the AssocResp, so we can only set ni_txparms properly
at that point. To make this possible make node_setuptxparms public
as ieee80211_node_setuptxparms.
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
sleepable context for net80211 driver callbacks. This removes the need for USB
and firmware based drivers to roll their own code to defer the chip programming
for state changes, scan requests, channel changes and mcast/promisc updates.
When a driver callback completes the hardware state is now guaranteed to have
been updated and is in sync with net80211 layer.
This nukes around 1300 lines of code from the wireless device drivers making
them more readable and less race prone.
The net80211 layer has been updated as follows
- all state/channel changes are serialised on the taskqueue.
- ieee80211_new_state() always queues and can now be called from any context
- scanning runs from a single taskq function and executes to completion. driver
callbacks are synchronous so the channel, phy mode and rx filters are
guaranteed to be set in hardware before probe request frames are
transmitted.
Help and contributions from Sam Leffler.
Reviewed by: sam
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
indicates if an association id is required before outbound traffic
is permitted. This cleans up the previous change that broke mcast
traffic "to the stack" in ap mode as a side effect.
Reviewed by: sephe, thompsa, weongyo
don't duplicate this. These are setup according to the role of the
node--the bss node for ap and adhoc modes need to use parameters
that are the least common denomimator of all nodes in the bss;
otherwise we are setting up params for a station joining a bss and
we select those according to the capabilities of the station.
This stuff needs more work as we do extra work due to having setup
in common code paths shared by nodes using both roles.
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 add driver callback to handle notification of beacon changes;
this is required for devices that manage beacon frames themselves
(devices must override the default handler which does nothing)
o move beacon update-related flags from ieee80211com to the beacon
offsets storage (or handle however a driver wants)
o expand beacon offsets structure with members needed for 11h/dfs
and appie's
o change calling convention for ieee80211_beacon_alloc and
ieee80211_beacon_update
o add overlapping bss support for 11g; requires driver to pass
beacon frames from overlapping bss up to net80211 which is not
presently done by any driver
o move HT beacon contents update to a routine in the HT code area
Reviewed by: avatar, thompsa, sephe
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)
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.
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
