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.
years for head. However, it is continuously misused as the mpsafe argument
for callout_init(9). Deprecate the flag and clean up callout_init() calls
to make them more consistent.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2613
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
The origin of WEP comes from IEEE Std 802.11-1997 where it defines
whether the frame body of MAC frame has been encrypted using WEP
algorithm or not.
IEEE Std. 802.11-2007 changes WEP to Protected Frame, indicates
whether the frame is protected by a cryptographic encapsulation
algorithm.
Reviewed by: adrian, rpaulo
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.
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
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
processing. For if_transmit() style hardware drivers (which none publicly
exist yet, for wireless) they will need to still implement if_start()
but only to re-start the TX queue.
parameters in IBSSes.
IBSS was just being plainly ignored here even though aggressive mode
was 'on'.
This still doesn't fix the "why are the WME parameters reset upon
interface down/up" issue.
PR: kern/165969
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
comlock, I'd like to find and analyse these cases to see if they
really are valid.
So, throw in a lock here and wait for the (hopefully!) inevitable
complaints.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
and xmit parameters. This makes it possible to use tdma on fractional
channels.
o add IEEE80211_MODE_HALF and IEEE80211_MODE_QUARTER; note these are
band-agnostic (may need revisiting)
o setup all default rates in ic_sup_rates instead of doing it only
for active modes; we need these to calculate the default tx parameters
which are not recalculated after a regulatory update (can't just
recalculate after installing a new channel list because we might
clobber user settings)
o remove special case code in ieee80211_get_suprates; this is now
a candidate for an inline or removal
o add various entries for new modes (roaming+tx params, wme, rate
mapping, scan set setup, country ie construction, tdma, basic rates)
Note these modes are intentionally not visible through if_media.
parent interface tasks to complete. This had been added to the ioctl path but
it is also need elsewhere like detach so its safe to teardown.
Reported by: Hans Petter Selasky
Submitted by: sam
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)
don't do this right; instead go to the scan cache so we pass through
auth state (if the cache is warm we can do this w/o an actual scan)
MFC after: 1 week
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)
through wpa_supplcant. If a sta is deauth'd (e.g. due to inactivity)
with roaming mode set to manual then a subsequent MLME assoc request
will be incorrectly handled and the station will never reauthenticate.
To fix this interpret a reason code of zero as sufficient to send an
auth request frame.
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.
