do software A-MSDU encapsulation.
Right now there's AMSDU TX/RX capability bits and they're mostly
unused, however I'd like to maintain those as the general configuration,
not also "please software encap AMSDU." For platforms that can do
A-MSDU in firmware (iwn, iwm, etc) then their init paths can read
this flag to configure A-MSDU.
It turns out that these will clash very annoyingly with the linux
macros in the linuxkpi layer, so let the wookie^Wlinux win.
The only user that I can find is ath(4), so fix it there too.
It turns out that madwifi actually has the basics for uAPSD implemented
but it was never ported to FreeBSD. I may eventually port most of the
pieces; I'll see how it goes!
Obtained from: Madwifi
This is a subset of what's in the linux 802.11ac implementation.
I've verified that the bits that mention an 802.11ac draft are
still the same in 802.11ac-2013 and noted it accordingly.
This is for the most part one big no-op.
Obtained from: 802.11ac-2013.pdf
* Implement a new ratectl method, which defaults to returning nothing;
* Add a top level sysctl (net.wlan.X.rate_stats) to extract it;
* Add ratectl info for the 'amrr' module.
Tested:
* urtwn(4), STA mode
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5630
This displays the IE names in ifconfig but it doesn't yet decode things.
Submitted by: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3782
For hz=1000 any number, greater than 4194 causes integer overflow;
this change casts the number to uint64_t before operating with it.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5268
This warning is irrelevant, since user can execute
'ifconfig wlan0 down' (or turn off card via rfkill switch) at any time.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5511
m is not guaranteed to be valid after m_cat() returns. The effects of this
are most noticeable when INVARIANTS is enabled, since m's header length
field is given a value of 0xdeadc0de by the trash dtor.
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5497
Drivers should set their own filters via ic_scan_start()/ic_scan_end()
callbacks; and we don't need frames other than beacons or probe responses.
(Note: this was a noop since r287197 due to promiscuous mode with bridge
workaround)
Tested with Intel 3945BG, RTL8188EU and WUSB54GC in HOSTAP mode.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5474
- In case, when we are doing <smth> -> INIT (FEXT_REINIT) -> <smth2>
state transition, cancel_scan() may be called in the first transition.
Reenqueue second state transition, so things will be executed in order.
- Discard any AUTH+ state transition request when INIT -> SCAN
transition is not done.
- Allow to track discarded state transitions via 'state' debugging
category.
Tested with:
* RTL8188EU, HOSTAP mode.
* RTL8188CUS, STA mode.
* Intel 3945BG, IBSS and STA modes.
PR: 197498
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5482
- Pass scan state and additional internal flags as a parameters.
- Add locked version.
Tested with:
* Intel 3945BG, STA mode.
* RTL8188EU, STA mode.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5148
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
scan_curchan_task() functions)
(This part should fix the problem, described in
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2016-January/006420.html)
- Rename ss_scan_task into ss_scan_start (better describes it's
current purpose)
- Utilize taskqueue_*_timeout() functions instead of current mechanism:
* reschedule scan_curchan_task() via taskqueue_enqueue_timeout()
for every 'maxdwell' msecs (will replace infinite loop + sleeping
for 'maxdwell' period via cv_wait());
* rerun the task immediately when an external event occurs
(instead of waking it up via cv_signal())
Also, use mtx_sleep() to wait for null frame transmission
(allows to drop conditional variable).
Tested with:
* Intel 3945BG, STA mode;
* RTL8188EU, STA mode.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5145
All callers of ieee80211_promisc()/ieee80211_allmulti()
(ieee80211_vap_detach(), ieee80211_ioctl(), ap_start() and ap_end())
already hold the com_lock while calling them.
Tested with RTL8188EU, STA mode.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5475
Remove duplicate 'ni->ni_associd = 0' assignment from
ieee80211_node_leave(), since it breaks iv_set_tim() in
ic->ic_node_cleanup() (associd is cleared right after this call).
Tested with RTL8188EU (HOSTAP mode) and
WUSB54GC (STA mode, with powersaving enabled).
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5398
- Add definitions for Timing Advertisement and Control Wrapper frames.
- Refresh ieee80211_mgt_subtype_name and ieee80211_ctl_subtype_name
arrays.
- Count Timing Advertisement frames as discarded management frames in all
modes.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5331
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)
we're assuming hz=1000 and not gracefully handling when it isn't.
The math involved will return 0 for hz < 1000, which it is on some
platforms and on DragonflyBSD.
This doesn't fix it, it:
* converts one manual use over to use the macro, and
* comments where it needs some thought/fixing.
I'll think about this a bit more before fixing it.
Submitted by: imre@vdsz.com
- Add IEEE80211_GET_SLOTTIME(ic) macro.
- Use predefined macroses to set slot time.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4044
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.)
I've seen some cases where we get stuck in a loop constantly trying to
negotiate A-MPDU TX which is definitely not supposed to happen.
This will let me see if it's something funky with the retry count or
not.
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
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
The MAC can be fetched from the key struct.
I added the ndis updates to make it compile.
Submitted by: <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3657
This can be used to update IV state for the caller without adding
information to the mbuf. Some hardware (eg rum) apparently requires
bits of this.
Submitted by: <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3638
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.
in the superg fast-frames code.
This harks back to an earlier commit (r280349) where I found that
initialising the pps code with ticks=0 would cause hilariously bad
hz ticks wraparound failures, leading to never actually aggregating
traffic. This is still true for the superg path and so I have to
do the same thing there.
This is a big no-op; a subsequent commit will flip this on so it
works with the fast-frames transmit path.
Tested:
* AR9170, otus(4) - STA mode, 11bg operation
* AR9331, AP mode
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.
Some fullmac devices may rely on the stack starting it but not doing it.
Whilst here, remove a duplicate LE_* macro definition, thanks to
Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>.
for re-ordering.
Devices like if_rsu don't pass through action/management frames but do send
firmware commands to inform us of things. One of those notifications is
the RX A-MPDU negotiated parameters.
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.
is configured on a channel that isn't valid in the new operating mode.
This isn't strictly true - it should find the first channel that is
available for the given operating mode.
However, I think defaulting to the first channel is fine - it's typically
available for all modes.
If someone would like to correctly implement this feature - try to
find a channel that is valid for the given operating mode and error
out if we can't find one.
This prevents various NICs (eg wpi(4)) from throwing a firmware error.
Tested:
* ath(4), STA/AP mode
* iwn(4), STA/adhoc mode
PR: kern/202502
Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
* 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
In order for drivers to provide an alternate set of scan methods,
these have to finally use an indirection table and all of the calls
in ieee80211_scan.c need to use said table.
For all existing drivers - this is basically a glorified, KBI-breaking
functional no-op.
This is also not the final form - too much functionality is currently
hiding in ieee80211_scan_sw.c that should be in ieee80211_scan.c.
That'll be the target of some follow-up commits.
Note:
* You have to recompile your kernel/drivers after this - the net80211 KBI has
changed.
* I'm not yet planning on bumping any versioning - I have a few more things
to shuffle around.
Tested:
* urtwn(4) - STA mode
* Intel 7260 in local repo - overriding the methods and table at
attach time has the desired effect (ie, all the methods are called,
but nothing is ever performed.)
The intel 7260 driver under development requires this - the scans come
in as normal frames but with the frequency provided. The correct method
is to have the driver provide flags (so we can determine if it's 11b
or 11g); this will have to do in the meantime.
Without this, the channel found is 11b, and no ERP (ie "11g") bits
are negotiated with the AP.
This allows the 7260 in 2ghz mode to operate in 11bg, rather than
just 11b.
Tested:
* intel 7260 driver, 11bg channels
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.
802.11 mbufs.
The raw transmit path currently doesn't make it easy to queue
these frames:
* there's no node reference stored in the mbuf, like for the normal
path, and
* the bpf supplied raw transmit parameters (rate, rts/cts, etc)
are passed in as an argument, not as an mbuf tag.
In order to support driver queuing of these frames, we need to
be able to put the above into the mbuf before the driver gets it,
so the driver /can/ put it into a queue if needed.
Use an mbuf tag and for now just verbatim copy the bpf parameters
into it. Later on it may grow to include more options but this
will do for now.
Why would you want to queue raw frames? Well, in the case of
iwn(4), we can't send the firmware frames to transmit before
we hear a beacon - the firmware will consider passive channels
as unavailable until it hears a beacon. The firmware "passive"
channel state is cleared upon each RXON command, which is sent to
update association status. So, when we attempt association and
authorisation, the RXON command causes the firmware to clear out
what it's already seen, and so we have to wait for a beacon before
we can transmit.
Before people get overly excited - this alone doesn't "fix" 5GHz
operation - it just makes it (more) possible.
The aim here is to convert all the drivers over to use a raw_xmit()
API that doesn't include the node and params - instead they'd get
those from the mbuf. Then raw_xmit() becomes just a side-channel
version of the normal transmit path for management traffic.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
RTM_IEEE80211_RADIO routing messages, broadcast them on all vap interfaces
instead of sending them on parent.
Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, 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.
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.
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
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
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>
results.
Right now the scan infrastructure assumes the channel is under net80211
control, and that when receiving beacon frames for scanning, the
current channel is indeed what ic_curchan is set to.
But firmware NICs with firmware scan support need more than this -
they can do background scans whilst hiding the off-channel behaviour
from net80211. Ie, net80211 still thinks everything is associated
and on the main channel, but it's getting scan results from all the
background traffic.
However sta_add() pays attention to ic_curchan and discards scan
results that aren't on the right channel. CCK beacon frames can be
decoded from adjacent channels so the receive path and sta_add
discard these as appropriate. This is fine for software scanning
like for ath(4), but not for firmware NICs. So with those, the
whole concept of background firmware scanning won't work without
major hacks (eg, overriding ic_curchan before calling the beacon
input / scan add.)
As part of my scan overhaul, modify sta_add() and the scan_add()
APIs to take an explicit current channel. The normal RX path
will set it to ic_curchan so it's a no-op. However, drivers may
decide to (eventually!) override the scan method to set the
"right" current channel based on what the firmware reports the
scan state is.
So for example, iwn, rsu and other NICs will eventually do this:
* driver issues scan start firmware command;
* firmware sends a "scan start on channel X" notify;
* firmware sends a bunch of beacon RX's as part of
the scan results;
* .. and the driver will replace scan_add() curchan with channel X,
so scan results are correct.
* firmware sends a "scan start on channel Y" notify;
* firmware sends more beacons...
* .. the driver replaces scan_add() curchan with channel Y.
Note:
* Eventually, net80211 should eventually grow the idea of a per-packet
current channel. It's possible in various modes (eg WAVE, P2P, etc)
that individual frames can come in from different channels and that
is under firmware control rather than driver/net80211 control, so
we should support that.
It turns out that ieee80211_start_scan_locked() is only ever called by
the swscan code and it won't likely be required by firmware scanning
implementations.
So, don't bother keeping it in ieee80211_scan.c and it likely won't
become an API call.
Tested:
* Intel 5100, STA mode
* AR5416, STA mode
to us. Instead, advertise what we can do based on what the AP says and what
we're capped at by the VAP settings.
For non-STA modes we still advertise what our VAP settings are.
It may be that I've over-complicated this and instead of capping things
we can just always announce what we're capable of. But this should at least
stop the blatantly wrong handling of A-MPDU parameters.
(I'll happily simplify things if someone can dig up a replacement, better
compliant behaviour.)
PR: kern/176201
However, IBSS merge will be performed only if a driver calls
ieee80211_ibss_merge(); so, this applicable to the ath(4) only.
Also, this should fix bug 167870.
PR: kern/199632
Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
This may happen on RUN -> SCAN -> RUN -> SCAN state transition:
1. RUN -> SCAN: in ieee80211_sta_join1(): iv_bss will be moved to obss,
refcnt will be reduced by 2 (default minimum).
Now, if old iv_bss have some extra references (for example, from
unacknowledged probe responses), it will not be freed and will stay
in the node table.
2. SCAN -> RUN.
3. If old iv_bss will not be deleted by the time when the next RUN -> SCAN
state transition occurs, then sta_leave() will reduce it's reference
counter once more. As a result, two last users will free it -> this will
lead to kernel panic.
In this patch old iv_bss entry is explicitly removed from the node table in
ieee80211_sta_join1() (as a result, it will not be processed by sta_leave()).
PR: kern/199676
Differential Revision: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
There's a bug in the ticks handling where when initialised at '0', once
the ticks counter wrapped the comparison math would never trigger.
The pps calculation would never happen, and thus aggregation was never
enabled.
It manifests itself as "oh you only get 11n transmit aggregation for the
first 10 minutes of uptime."
I'm sure there are other ticks related issues lurking in net80211.
Tested:
* ath / iwn, both with 'wlandebug +11n' and a little bit of iperf to
kick off the transmit A-MPDU negotiation once the pps gets high enough.
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
of the scan API.
The eventual aim is to have 'ieee80211_scan.c' have the net80211 and
driver facing scan API to start, finish and continue doing scanning
while 'ieee80211_swscan.c' implements the software scanner that
runs the scan task, handles probe request/reply bits, configures
the VAP off-channel, changes channel and does the scanning bits.
For NICs that do no scanning at all, the existing code is needed.
ath(4) and most of the other NICs (dumb USB ones in particular)
do little to no scan offload - it's all done in software.
Some NICs may do single channel at a time scanning; I haven't really
checked them out in detail.
iwn(4), the upcoming 7260 driver stuff, the new Qualcomm Atheros
11ac chipsets and the Atheros mobile/USB full-offload chips all
have complete scan engines in firmware. We don't have to drive
any of it at all - the firmware just needs to be told what to scan,
when to scan, how long to scan. It'll take care of going off
channel, pausing TX/RX appropriately, sending sleep notification
to the AP, sending probe requests and handling probe responses.
It'll do passive/active scan itself. It's almost completely
transparent to the network stack - all we see are scan notifications
when it finishes scanning each channel and beacons/probe responses
when it does its thing. Once it's done we get a final notification
that the scan is complete, with some scan results in the message.
The iwn(4) NICs handle doing active scanning too as an option
and will handle waiting appropriately on 5GHz passive channels
before active scanning.
There's some more refactoring, tidying up and lock assertions to
sprinkle around to tidy this whole thing up before I turn swscan.c
into another set of ic methods to override by the driver or
alternate scan module. So in theory this is all one big no-op
commit. In theory.
Tested:
* iwn(4) 5200, STA mode
* ath(4) 6205, STA mode
* ath(4) - various NICs, AP mode
the knowledge of mbuf layout, and in particular constants such as M_EXT,
MLEN, MHLEN, and so on, in mbuf consumers by unifying various alignment
utility functions (M_ALIGN(), MH_ALIGN(), MEXT_ALIGN() in a single
M_ALIGN() macro, implemented by a now-inlined m_align() function:
- Move m_align() from uipc_mbuf.c to mbuf.h; mark as __inline.
- Reimplement M_ALIGN(), MH_ALIGN(), and MEXT_ALIGN() using m_align().
- Update consumers around the tree to simply use M_ALIGN().
This change eliminates a number of cases where mbuf consumers must be aware
of whether or not mbufs returned by the allocator use external storage, but
also assumptions about the size of the returned mbuf. This will make it
easier to introduce changes in how we use external storage, as well as
features such as variable-size mbufs.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1436
Reviewed by: glebius, trasz, gnn, bz
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
to awake transition as well as handle waking up a VAP in STA powersave
mode if it's in bgscan.
This was a reasonably hairy bug to try and figure out and it became
more obvious because of stuff I've done.
Specifically:
* a NIC would go into bgscan mode - either because of a bgscan timer
or wpa_supplicant asked it to;
* the AP would indicate there's traffic for the STA by setting the TIM
bitmap bit for it;
* mindwell would be met during scan, so it'd wake up and break out of
the scan loop in scan_task(), but
* because the scan wasn't completed, it wouldn't bring the VAP out of
STA mode powersave (so it wouldn't tell the AP about it and it would
block VAP TX);
* .. but because we kept seeing the TIM bit set, ic->ic_lastdata was
being constantly updated, and ..
* bgscancont() would thus never say "yes we can continue a bgscan"
so the bgscan would hang and never make progress.
Now, I do see this particular state occur on iwn(4) - /however/ -
this NIC has the firmware call ieee80211_scan_next() once the firmware
scan for that channel has completed. This has the effect of moving
the scan along to the next channel. I do see the debug that I'm adding
where we see a beacon with a TIM bit set whilst we're in bgscan, so
the condition about waking up to receive traffic is triggering.
It just won't cause a hang.
For other NICs - all of the USB ones and at least ath(4) -
ieee80211_scan_next() / ieee80211_scan_done() isn't called.
So it relies upon the mindwell timer, the beacon receive and the
beacon / probe response -> ieee80211_add_scan() to move along
the scan state.
In the above case, mindwell triggered, there's no beacons triggering
the scan_add code to move things along, and we weren't waking things
up when seeing the TIM set for us. So it just hung until the interface
was dropped.
So, the short-term fix here is to do what the comment in scan_task()
says - if we are in bgscan mode and we see our TIM bit set, just wake
up the VAP. If it's already awake then it's a nop. If we're awake
then we transition to awake and handle the traffic. Once there's no
TX or RX traffic going on, ic->ic_lastdata won't be updated anymore
and bgscancont() will continue.
This was triggered more often after my initial SLEEP state handling
for software sleep states - because now I update ic->ic_lastdata
upon seeing a TIM bit set, not just the RX of the subsequent traffic.
That's needed so the thing doesn't ping-pong up and down between
seeing the TIM bit set, sending the "I'm awake" NULL data frame, and
starting to receive data from the AP.
I'd like to subsequently split ic_lastdata into two - one for TX and
one for RX - so it becomes easier to use the correct one (or both!)
when making decisions like whether to scan, go to sleep, etc.
I'd appreciate this getting some further testing.
Tested:
* rsu(4), STA mode, bgscan on
* iwn(4), STA mode, bgscan on
that indicates we have traffic" bit and a "do something if we have
traffic bit."
I'm going to be fleshing out this stuff more over time and it'll make
more sense to have it broken out into two pieces here.
deal/log a warning if the scan flags change during one of those race
windows.
It's highly likely that I need to actually sit down and replace this
scan infrastructure at some point. It has some other side effects too -
the scan task is a blocking task scheduled in the net80211 taskqueue;
so drivers that use this taskqueue have other things not run. Eek.
If you see this printf happen then please let me know!
it's not just 11b/11g.
The following was happening, and it's quite .. annoyingly grr-y.
* create vap, setup wpa_supplicant with no bgscanning, etc - there's
no call to ieee80211_media_change, so vap->iv_des_mode is
IEEE80211_MODE_AUTO;
* do ifconfig wlan0 scan - same thing, media_change doesn't get called,
iv_des_mode stays as auto.
* But then, run wpa_cli and do 'scan' - it'll do a media change.
* if you're on 11ng, vap->iv_des_mode gets changed to IEEE80211_MODE_11NG
* Then makescanlist() is called. There's a block of code that gets
called if iv_des_mode != IEEE80211_MODE_AUTO, and it does this:
if (vap->iv_des_mode != IEEE80211_MODE_11G ||
mode != IEEE80211_MODE_11B)
continue;
mode = IEEE80211_MODE_11G; /* upgrade */
* .. now, iv_des_mode is not IEEE80211_MODE_11G, so it always runs
'continue'
* .. and thus the scan list stays empty and no further channel
scans occur. Ever.(1)
If you then disassociate and try associating to something, your
scan table has likely been purged / aged out and you'll never
see anything in the scan list.
(1) You need to do 'ifconfig wlan0 mode auto' or just destroy/re-create
the VAP to get working wireless again.
Tested:
* iwn(4) - intel 5300 wifi; STA mode; using wpa_supplicant; bgscan
enabled -and- wpa_supplicant scanning.
Thanks to:
* Everyone who kept poking me about this and wondering why the hell
their wifi would eventually stop seeing scan lists. Grr.
I eventually snapped this evening and dug back into this code.
- Wrong integer type was specified.
- Wrong or missing "access" specifier. The "access" specifier
sometimes included the SYSCTL type, which it should not, except for
procedural SYSCTL nodes.
- Logical OR where binary OR was expected.
- Properly assert the "access" argument passed to all SYSCTL macros,
using the CTASSERT macro. This applies to both static- and dynamically
created SYSCTLs.
- Properly assert the the data type for both static and dynamic
SYSCTLs. In the case of static SYSCTLs we only assert that the data
pointed to by the SYSCTL data pointer has the correct size, hence
there is no easy way to assert types in the C language outside a
C-function.
- Rewrote some code which doesn't pass a constant "access" specifier
when creating dynamic SYSCTL nodes, which is now a requirement.
- Updated "EXAMPLES" section in SYSCTL manual page.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
I've decided that for 11n rates it's best to start (very) low and work
our way up.
So, from now on, the initial rate for AMRR 11n is MCS4.
It doesn't try MCS12 or MCS20 - at low signal strengths those don't
work very well at all.
AMRR will step the rate control up over time if things work out better.
Tested:
* Intel 5100
* Intel 5300 (using local diffs to test out 3x3 stream support)
The original commit was supposed to stop the ability to do raw frame
injection in monitor mode to arbitrary channels (whether supported
by regulatory or not) however it doesn't seem to have been followed
by any useful way of doing it.
Apparently AHDEMO is supposed to be that way, but it seems to require
too much fiddly things (disable scanning, set a garbage SSID, etc)
for it to actually be useful for spoofing things.
So for now let's just disable it and instead look to filter transmit
in the output path if the channel isn't allowed by regulatory.
That way monitor RX works fine but TX will be blocked.
I don't plan on MFC'ing this to -10 until the regulatory enforcement
bits are written.
request during SLEEP results in a hang.
Whilst I'm here, add in some disabled code that will transition to RUN
if there's multicast traffic. It's not needed for Atheros hardware but
it may be for other hardware.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode (powersave)
* AR5212, STA mode (powersave)
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)
This transitions the VAP in and out of SLEEP state based on:
* whether there's been an active transmission in the last (hardcoded) 500ms;
* whether the TIM from the AP indicates there is data available.
It uses the beacon reception to trigger the active traffic check.
This way there's no further timer running to wake up the CPU
from its own sleep states.
Right now the VAP isn't woken up for multicast traffic - mostly because
the only NIC I plan on doing this for right will auto wakeup and stay
awake for multicast traffic indicated in the TIM. So I don't have
to manually keep the hardware awake.
This doesn't do anything if the NIC doesn't advertise it implements
the new SWSLEEP capability AND if the VAP doesn't have powersave
enabled.
It also doesn't do much with ath(4) as it doesn't currently implement
the SLEEP state.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode (with local ath(4) changes)
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.
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.
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
decides to do nothing.
If this isn't done, then a scan request whilst a scan occurs in an active
channel set or a completed channel set will hang.
Tested:
* Intel 5100, STA mode
There were two bugs:
* If the initial lowest rate didn't go through the loop at least once,
the AMRR rate index would be the highest rate in the table
(eg the rix mapping to MCS15) but rate would stay at the default
value, namely 0.
This meant that the initial rate selection would be MCS15 _but_ the
node ni_txrate value would be MCS0.
* If the node is 11n, then break out of the loop correctly. Beforehand,
my initial 11n AMRR commit would immediately exit out as it would
fail the 11n check, then it would always fall through to the non-11n
rate which would then see if it was < 36mbit (ie, "72"), which would
always match. Hence, it'd always return MCS15.
Tested:
* Intel Centrino 2230 STA (local changes), STA mode
* Intel Wifi 5100, STA
For now, the AMRR code only knows about _either_ MCS or non-MCS rates.
It doesn't know how to downgrade (ie, doing 11b CCK rates if MCS0 isn't
reliable.)
PR: kern/183428
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
I changed it to use if_transmit a while ago but apparently with monitor
mode the if_transmit method is overridden.
This is (mostly) a workaround until a more permanent solution can be
found.
Submitted by: Patrick Kelsey <kelsey@ieee.org>
Approved by: re@ (gjb)
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)
together.
Add M_FLAG_PRINTF for use with printf(9) %b indentifier.
Use the generic mbuf flags print names in the net80211 code and adjust
the protocol specific bits for their new positions.
Change SCTP M_PROTO mapping from 5 to 1 to fit within the 16bit field
they use internally to store some additional information.
Discussed with: trociny, glebius
M_LASTFRAG flags to protocol specific flags.
Remove the now unused M_FRAG, M_FIRSTFRAG and M_LASTFRAG mbuf flags.
Discussed with: trociny, glebius, adrian
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.
* Add 802.11n 2ghz and 5ghz tables, including legacy rates and up to
MCS23 rates (3x3.)
* Populate the rate code -> rate index lookup table with MCS _and_
normal rates, but _not_ the basic rate flag. Since the basic rate flag
is the same as the MCS flag, we can only use one.
* Introduce some accessor inlines that do PLCP and rate table lookup/access
and enforce that it doesn't set the basic rate bit. They're not
designed for MCS rates, so it will panic.
* Start converting drivers that use the rate table stuff to use the
accessor inlines and strip the basic flag.
* Teach AMRR about basic 11n - it's still as crap for MCS as it is
being used by iwn, so it's not a step _backwardS_.
* Convert iwn over to accept 11n MCS rates rather than 'translate' legacy
to MCS rates. It doesn't use a lookup table any longer; instead it's a
function which takes the current node (for HT parameters) and the
rate code, and returns the hardware PLCP code to use.
Tested:
* ath - it's a no-op, and it works that way
* iwn - both 11n and non-11n
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.
When creating fragment frames, the header length should honour the
DATAPAD flag.
This fixes the fragments that are queued to the ath(4) driver but it
doesn't yet fix fragment transmission. That requires further changes
to the ath(4) transmit path. Well, strictly speaking, it requires
further changes to _all_ wifi driver transmit paths, but this is at least
a start.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode, w/ fragthreshold set to 256.
before using said node.
The "blessed" way here is to take a node reference before referencing
anything inside the node, otherwise the node can be freed between
the time the pointer is copied/dereferenced and the time the node contents
are used.
This mirrors fixes that I've done elsewhere in the net80211/driver
stack.
PR: kern/178470
the given node.
This takes into account the per-node cap, the ic cap and the
per-channel regulatory caps.
This is designed to replace references to ni_txpower in various net80211
drivers - ni_txpower doesn't necessarily reflect the actual cap for
the given node (eg if the node has the default value of 50dBm (100) and
the administrator has manually configured a lower TX power.)
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.
* The following bit flags where incroccetly defined:
o Mesh Control Present
o Mesh Power Save Level
o RSPI
This is now corrected according to Table 8.4 as per IEEE 802.11 2012;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
since the former is defined everywhere. This cuts off some code not
necessary on non strict aligment arches.
Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
* Add the superg.h header to allow ieee80211_check_ff() to work
* Since the assert stuff creates assertions based on line numbers and there
was a conflict, just nudge things down a bit.
* Added hwmp_update_transmitter function that checks if the metric
to the transmitter have improved. If old FI is invalid or metric
is larger the FI to the transmitter is updated occurdingly.
This is a recommendation from the 802.11 2012 standard, table 13-9;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* When calling ieee80211_mesh_rt_flush_peer, the rt->rt_dest argument
should not be passed because it can get freed before invalidating
the other routes that depends on it to compare with next_hop.
Use PERR_DADDR(i) instead;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* The standard is unclear about what should happen in case a mesh STA (not
marked as a mesh gate) recevies a PREQ for a destination that is marked
as proxy. Solution for now is not to do intermediate reply at all, and
let the PREQ reach the mesh gate;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Original PREP frame is transmitted only by the target mesh STA or the
mesh STA that is the proxy target;
* Fixed so that metric value is not over written incorrectly in
hwmp_recv_preq for when replying back with a PREP;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
