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
U-APSD (unscheduled automatic power save delivery) is a power save method
that's a bit better than legacy PS-POLL - stations can mark frames with
an extra flag that tells the AP to leak out more frames after it sends
its own frames rather than needing to send a PS-POLL to get another frame
from the AP.
Now, this code just handles the negotiation bits; it doesn't actually
implement U-APSD. That's up to drivers, and nothing in the tree yet
implements this. I /may/ implement this for ath(4) if I eventually care
enough but right now I plan on just implementing it for firmware offload
based NICs that handle this in the NIC.
I'll commit the ifconfig bit after this and I may have some follow-up
commits as this gets used more by me in local testing.
This should be a glorious no-op for everyone else. If things change
for anyone that isn't fixed by a complete recompile then please reach out
to me.
Replace in-place implementation with system-wide one; since it
guarantees non-zero result drop all less-than-one checks from
drivers and net80211.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Since r287197 ieee80211com is a part of drivers softc; as a result,
after detach all pointers to it (iv_ic, ni_ic) are invalid. Most
possible users (tasks, interrupt handlers) are blocked / removed
when device is stopped; however, ioctl handlers were not tracked
and may crash if ieee80211com structure is accessed.
Since ieee80211com pointer access from ieee80211vap structure is not
protected by lock (constant after interface creation) and used in
many other places just use reference counting for ioctl handlers;
on detach set 'detached' flag and wait until reference counter goes to 0.
For HEAD ieee80211vap size was changed (__FreeBSD_version bumped);
however, in stable branches I'm going to split / reuse the last
iv_spare field for KBI stability.
Tested with:
- rsu(4), SIOCSIFCAP (-rxcsum) ioctl;
- rtwn_pci(4), SIOCG80211 / IEEE80211_IOC_HTPROTMODE ioctl.
MFC after: 1 week
if_dead() is called during device detach - check if interface is
still exists before trying to refresh vap MAC address
(IF_LLADDR will trigger page fault otherwise).
MFC after: 5 days
This fixes 32-bit compat (no ioctl command defintions are required
as struct ifreq is the same size). This is believed to be sufficent to
fully support ifconfig on 32-bit systems.
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: CheriBSD
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14900
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.
ucast/mcast/mgmt HT rate.
- Init global ieee80211_htrateset only once; neither ic_htcaps nor
ic_txstream is changed when device is attached;
- Move global ieee80211_htrateset structure to ieee80211com;
there was a possible data race when more than 1 wireless device is
used simultaneously;
- Discard unsupported rates in ieee80211_ioctl_settxparams(); otherwise,
an unsupported value may break connectivity (actually,
'ifconfig wlan0 ucastrate 8' for RTL8188EU results in immediate
disconnect + infinite 'device timeout's after it).
Tested with:
- Intel 6205, STA mode.
- RTL8821AU, STA mode.
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9871
* Add the VHT capability element to the driver capabilities so ifconfig
can see if VHT is available
* Add ioctl plumbing for enabling/disabling VHT and each of the VHT
widths.
Note: this DOES change the ABI (the driver caps ioctl struct size, sigh)
so this will require a recompile of at least ifconfig.
The ath10k firmware supports hardware WEP offload, and in native wifi mode
(or 802.3 ethernet mode, for that matter) the WEP key isn't actually included
in the TX payload from net80211. Instead, a separate firmware command is issued
that sets the default TX key to be the specified key.
However, net80211 doesn't at all inform the driver layer that this is
occuring - it just "expects" to be inserting WEP header information
when doing WEP TX, even with hardware encryption.
So, to better support the newer world order, turn the default TX key assignment
into a VAP method that can be overridden by the driver and ensure its wrapped
in a crypto begin/end set. That way it should be correctly atomic from the
point of view of keychanges (as long as the driver does the right thing.)
It'd be nice if we passed through to the key_set call a flag that says
"also make this the default key" - that's captured here by calling the
deftxkey method after the key_set method. Maybe I can do that later.
Note: this is a net80211 ABI change, and will require a kernel+modules
recompile. Happy Holidays, etc.
Tested:
* ath10k driver port
* rtwn_usb, WEP station
Do not try to start a scan when interface is not running.
How-to-reproduce:
1) ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev urtwn0
2) wlandebug -i wlan0 state
3) ifconfig wlan0 scan
- Allow to enable/disable promiscuous mode when:
* interface is not a member of bridge, or;
* request was issued by user (ifconfig wlan0 promisc), or;
* interface is in MONITOR or AHDEMO mode.
- Drop local workarounds in mwl(4) and malo(4).
Tested with:
- Intel 3945BG, STA mode;
- RTL8188CUS, MONITOR mode;
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5472
Although we correctly (now!) calculate the right A-MPDU parameters, the
ioctl() has some faulty logic for choosing which to display. The BSS
params are what were advertised to us, and we would have chosen the
lower of theirs/ours when advertising the HT bits back at them.
So, we /should/ track and fix that so we display the correct A-MPDU
density and size.
However, since I'm a forgetful type, and I don't want to have to re-learn
that this is wrong, drop in a comment so I or someone else fixes it.
Or, when I discover this again in 4 years, I don't have to go digging
too much to remember.
Use malloc(9) for
- struct ieee80211req_wpaie2 (518 bytes, used in
ieee80211_ioctl_getwpaie())
- struct ieee80211_scan_req (128 bytes, used in setmlme_assoc_adhoc()
and ieee80211_ioctl_scanreq())
Also, drop __noinline workarounds; stack overflow is not reproducible
with recent compilers.
Tested with Clang 3.7.1, GCC 4.2.1 (from 9.3-RELEASE) and 4.9.4
(with -fstack-usage flag)
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5041
Do not duplicate code between IEEE80211_IOC_WPAIE and IEEE80211_IOC_WPAIE2
switch cases.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: D5041 (part)
wpa_supplicant actually calls the wpa ioctl with cipher 0 as part
of the teardown process and this returns an ioctl error.
It's required as part of the (hopefully!) upcoming encrypted
IBSS support which does indeed do the above as part of interface
setup and then exits ungracefully when it gets an ioctl error.
(I'll fix wpa_supplicant in a later commit as part of other work.)
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.
* 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.
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
DragonflyBSD uses the FreeBSD wireless stack and drivers. Their malloc()
API is named differently, so they don't have userland/kernel symbol
clashes like we do (think libuinet.)
So, to make it easier for them and to port to other BSDs/other operating
systems, start hiding the malloc specific bits behind defines in
ieee80211_freebsd.h.
DragonflyBSD can now put these portability defines in their local
ieee80211_dragonflybsd.h.
This should be a great big no-op for everyone running wifi.
TODO:
* kill M_WAITOK - some platforms just don't want you to use it
* .. and/or handle it returning NULL rather than waiting forever.
* MALLOC_DEFINE() ?
* Migrate the well-known malloc names (eg M_TEMP) to net80211
namespace defines.
SLEEP rather than RUN.
Without this things like 'ifconfig wlan0 list sta' don't work when the
NIC is power save.
Tested:
* AR5212, STA mode (with powersave)
* AR5416, STA mode (with powersave)
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
The "find node" function call will increase the node reference anyway;
so there's no reason to hold the node table lock during the MLME change.
The only reason I could think of is to stop overlapping mlme ioctls
from causing issues, but this should be fixed a different way.
This fixes a whole class of LORs that creep up when nodes are being
timed out or removed by hostapd.
Tested:
* AR5416, hostap, with nodes coming and going. No LORs or stability
issues were observed.
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
* 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
ifmultiaddr structures' reference to the parent interface, unless the parent
interface is really detaching. While here, program only link layer multicast
filters to a wlan's hardware parent interface.
PR: kern/142391, kern/142392
Reviewed by: sam, rpaolo, bms
MFC after: 1 week
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
