* 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 quiet time counter update is happening each time the IE is added,
which also means it happens for each quiet time IE addition to the probe
response.
Only update the countdown if we request ie (ie, beacon updates.)
After some digging and looking at packet traces, it looks like the
sequence number allocation being done by net80211 doesn't meet
802.11-2012.
Specifically, group addressed frames (broadcast, multicast) have
sequence numbers allocated from a separate pool, even if they're
QoS frames.
This patch starts to try and address this, both on transmit and
receive.
* When receiving, don't throw away multicast frames for now.
It's sub-optimal, but until we correctly track group addressed
frames via another TID counter, this is the best we can do.
* When doing A-MPDU checks, don't include group addressed frames
in the sequence number checks.
* When transmitting, don't allocate group frame sequence numbers
from the TID, instead use the NONQOS TID for allocation.
This may fix iwn(4) 11n because I /think/ this was one of the
handful of places where ni_txseqs[] was being assigned /outside/
of the driver itself.
This however doesn't completely fix things - notably the way that
TID assignment versus WME assignment for driver hardware queues
will mess up multicast ordering. For example, if all multicast
QoS frames come from one sequence number space but they're
expected to obey the QoS value assigned, they'll end up in
different queues in the hardware and go out in different
orders.
I can't fix that right now and indeed fixing it will require some
pretty heavy lifting of both the WME<->TID QoS assignment, as well
as figuring out what the correct way for drivers to behave.
For example, both iwn(4) and ath(4) shouldn't put QoS multicast
traffic into the same output queue as aggregate traffic, because
the sequence numbers are all wrong. So perhaps the correct thing
to do there is ignore the WME/TID for QoS traffic and map it all
to the best effort queue or something, and ensure it doesn't
muck up the TID/blockack window tracking. However, I'm /pretty/
sure that is still going to happen.
.. maybe I should disable multicast QoS frames in general as well,
but I don't know what that'll do for whatever the current state
of 802.11s mesh support is.
Tested:
* STA mode, ath10k NIC
* AP mode, AR9344/AR9580 AP
* iperf tcp/udp tests with concurrent multicast QoS traffic.
Before this, iperfs would fail pretty quickly because the sending
AP would start sending out QoS multicast frames that would be
out of order from the rest of the TID traffic, causing the blockack
window to get way, way out of sync.
This now doesn't occur.
TODO:
* verify which QoS frames SHOULD be tagged as M_AMPDU_MPDU.
For example, QoS NULL frames shouldn't be tagged!
Reviewed by: avos
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9357
This is the bulk of the magic to start enabling VHT channel negotiation.
It is absolutely, positively not yet even a complete VHT wave-1 implementation.
* parse IEs in scan, assoc req/resp, probe req/resp;
* break apart the channel upgrade from the HT IE parsing - do it after the
VHT IEs are parsed;
* (dirty! sigh) add channel width decision making in ieee80211_ht.c htinfo_update_chw().
This is the main bit where negotiated channel promotion through IEs occur.
* Shoehorn in VHT node init ,teardown, rate control, etc calls like the HT
versions;
* Do VHT channel adjustment where appropriate
Tested:
* monitor mode, ath10k port
* STA mode, ath10k port - VHT20, VHT40, VHT80 modes
TODO:
* IBSS;
* hostap;
* (ignore mesh, wds for now);
* finish 11n state engine - channel width change, opmode notifications, SMPS, etc;
* VHT basic rate negotiation and acceptance criteria when scanning, associating, etc;
* VHT control/management frame handling (group managment and operating mode being
the two big ones);
* Verify TX/RX VHT rate negotiation is actually working correctly.
Whilst here, add some comments about seqno allocation and locking. To achieve
the full VHT rates I need to push seqno allocation into the drivers and
finally remove the IEEE80211_TX_LOCK() I added years ago to fix issues. :/
The 802.11-2012 specification notes that a subset of IEs should be present
in IBSS probe requests. This is what (initially) allows nodes to discover
that other nodes are 11n capable. Notably - HTCAP, but not HTINFO.
This isn't everything required to reliably enable 11n between net80211
peers; there's more work to come.
Tested:
* AR9380, IBSS+11n mode
Do not try to pass such frames; a correct frame cannot be smaller than
(the corresponding) header size.
(for wpi(4) an additional check was added in r289012).
PR: 144987
Remove 'if_inc_counter(ifp, IFCOUNTER_OPACKETS, 1);' from raw xmit
and apbridge path; it will be incremented by ieee80211_tx_complete()
after packet transmission.
Noticed by: Imre Vadasz <imre@vdsz.com>
again hopefully.
Rather than blindly removing a supposedly unused variable as reported by
the Clang Static Analyzer, inspect the code and hide them with proper
#ifdefs as they are used in certain conditional parts of the code.
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
le*dec / le*enc functions.
Replace net80211 specific macros with system-wide bytestream
encoding/decoding functions:
- LE_READ_2 -> le16dec
- LE_READ_4 -> le32dec
- LE_WRITE_2 -> le16enc
- LE_WRITE_4 -> le32enc
+ drop ieee80211_input.h include, where it was included for these
operations only.
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6030
A-MSDU is another 11n aggregation mechanism where multiple ethernet
frames get LLC encapsulated (so they have a length field), padded,
and put in a single MPDU (802.11 MAC frame.) This means it gets sent
out as a single frame, with a single seqno, it's acked as one frame, etc.
It turns out that, hah, atheros fast frames is almost but not quite
like this, so I'm reusing all of the current superg/fast-frames stuff
in order to actually transmit A-MSDU. Yes, this means that A-MSDU
frames are also only aggregated two at a time, so it's not necessarily
a huge win, but it's better than nothing.
This doesn't do anything by default - the driver needs to say it does
A-MSDU as well as set the AMSDU software TX capability so this code path
gets exercised.
For now, the only driver that enables this is urtwn. I'll enable it
for rsu at some point soon.
Tested:
* Add an amsdu encap path to aggregate two frames, same as the
fast-frames path.
* Always do the superg init/teardown and node init/teardown stuff,
regardless of whether the nodes are doing fast-frames (the ATH
capability stuff.) That way we can reuse it for amsdu.
* Don't do AMSDU for multicast/broadcast and EAPOL frames.
* If we're doing A-MPDU, then don't bother doing FF/A-MSDU.
We can likely do both together, but I don't want to change
behaviour.
* Teach the fast frames approx txtime logic to support the 11n
rates. But, since we don't currently have a full "current rate"
support, assume it's HT20, long-gi, etc. That way we overshoot
on the TX time estimation, so we're always inside the requirements.
(And we only aggregate two frames for now, so we're not really
going to exceed that.)
* Drop the maximum FF age default down to 2ms, otherwise we end up
with some very annoyingly large latencies.
TODO:
* We only aggregate two ethernet frames, so I'm not checking the max
A-MSDU size. But when it comes time to support >2 frames, we should
obey that.
Tested:
* urtwn(4)
transmitted
- Use M_TXCB mechanism to report about null data frame transmission.
- Increase timeout from 1 to 10 ms (the previous one may be not enough
for non-empty queue).
Tested with:
* Intel 3945BG, STA mode.
* RTL8188CUS, STA mode.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5147
This doesn't free the mbuf upon error; the driver ic_raw_xmit method is still
doing that.
Submitted by: <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3774
Move error handling into ieee80211_parent_xmitpkt() instead of spreading it
between functions.
Submitted by: <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3772
* 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
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
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* 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
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with the transmit params.
This allows raw 802.11 frames to be queued in the driver if necessary,
rather than requiring it to be direct-dispatched into the hardware.
Tested:
* ath(4), STA mode
* iwn(4), STA mode
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
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.
ieee80211_pwrsave() can fail due to queue overflow, check its return code
and increment oerrors counter when it fails. Also handle more error cases
and update oerrors counter when we don't send mbuf due to some errors.
Return ENETDOWN when parent interface isn't ready. Update obytes and omcasts
counters in corresponding places.
PR: 184626
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2621
Reviewed by: adrian
MFC after: 1 week
frames to 0
From IEEE Std. 802.11-2012, 8.3.2.1 "Data frame format", p. 415 (513):
"The Sequence Control field for QoS (+)Null frames is ignored by the receiver
upon reception."
At this moment, any <mode>_input() function interprets them as regular QoS data
frames with TID = 0. As a result, stations, that use another TX sequence for
QoS Null frames (e.g. wpi(4), where (QoS) Null frames are generated by the
firmware), may experience significant packet loss with any other NIC in hostap
mode.
Tested:
* wpi(4) (author)
* iwn(4) - Intel 5100, STA mode (me)
PR: kern/200128
Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
configured as 11b.
This came up when debugging other issues surrounding scanning and
channel modes.
What's going on:
* The VAP comes up as an 11b VAP, but on an 11n capable NIC;
* .. it announces HTINFO and MCS rates;
* The AP thinks it's an 11n capable device and transmits 11n frames
to the STA;
* But the STA is in 11b mode, and thus doesn't receive/ACK the frames.
It didn't happen for the ath(4) devices as the AR5416/AR9300 HALs
unconditionally enable MCS frame reception, even if the channel
mode is not 11n. But the Intel NICs are configured in 11b/11a/11g
modes when doing those, even if 11n is enabled and available.
So, don't announce 11n capabilities if the VAP isn't on an 11n
channel when sending management assocation request / reassociation
request frames.
TODO:
* Lots more testing - 11n should be "upgraded" after association,
and I just want to make sure I haven't broken 11n upgrade.
I shouldn't have - this is only happening for /sending/ association
requests, which APs aren't doing.
Tested:
* ath(4) APs (AR9331, AR7161+AR9280, AR934x)
* AR5416, STA mode
* Intel 5100, STA mode
PR: kern/196290
Frames transmitted during SLEEP state should be queued in the
power save queue before waking the unit up. Otherwise DHCP
requests and such will be dropped if the NIC is asleep - the
NIC will wake up but not transmit the frame.
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
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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
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)
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
the normal and the mesh transmit paths can use.
The API is a bit horrible because it both consumes the mbuf and frees
the node reference regardless of whether it succeeds or not.
It's a hold-over from how the code behaves; it'd be nice to have it
not free the node reference / mbuf if TX fails and let the caller
decide what to do.
