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.
need to do it at all anymore. Remove it from here. Expand
USB_ATTACH_SETUP inline now that it is one line and we're moving away
from the compat macros. Remove some bzero calls that turn out not be
be necessary.
OpenBSD's if_ral.c.
I didn't make the LINKSYS4 -> CISCOLINKSYS name change, nor did I
include the RALINK RT2573 that's supported by the rum(4) driver. I
didn't merge any code changes either.
supports software encrypt/decrypt.
The nuked code itself is quite problematic, as pointed out by sam@ ---
wk->wk_keyix should be replaced by the loop count.
Tested with WEP/TKIP/CCMP/no-protection.
Approved by: sam@ (mentor)
Noticed by: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
- For ural(4):
o Fix node leakage in ural_start(), if ural_tx_mgt() fails.
o Fix mbuf leakage in ural_tx_{mgt,data}(), if usbd_transfer() fails.
o In ural_tx_{mgt,data}(), set ural_tx_data.{m,ni} to NULL, if
usbd_transfer() fails, so they will not be freed again in ural_stop().
Approved by: sam (mentor)
tasks. Since the host controllers rely on tasks to process transfer
timeouts, if a synchronous transfer from a driver was invoked from
a task and timed out, it would never complete because the single
task thread was stuck performing the synchronous transfer so couldn't
process the timeout.
This affected the axe, udav and ural drivers.
Problem hardware provided by: guido
s/device_ptr_t/device_t/g
No md5 changes in the .o's
# Note to the md5 tracking club: $FreeBSD$ changes md5 after every commit
# so you need to checkout -kk to get $FreeBSD$ instead of the actual value
# of the keyword.
is never taken since there aren't any 802.11a ural(4) sticks available
on the market.
PR: kern/99676
Submitted by: KIYOHARA Takashi
Reviewed by: damien
MFC after: 1 week
(1) bpf peer attaches to interface netif0
(2) Packet is received by netif0
(3) ifp->if_bpf pointer is checked and handed off to bpf
(4) bpf peer detaches from netif0 resulting in ifp->if_bpf being
initialized to NULL.
(5) ifp->if_bpf is dereferenced by bpf machinery
(6) Kaboom
This race condition likely explains the various different kernel panics
reported around sending SIGINT to tcpdump or dhclient processes. But really
this race can result in kernel panics anywhere you have frequent bpf attach
and detach operations with high packet per second load.
Summary of changes:
- Remove the bpf interface's "driverp" member
- When we attach bpf interfaces, we now set the ifp->if_bpf member to the
bpf interface structure. Once this is done, ifp->if_bpf should never be
NULL. [1]
- Introduce bpf_peers_present function, an inline operation which will do
a lockless read bpf peer list associated with the interface. It should
be noted that the bpf code will pickup the bpf_interface lock before adding
or removing bpf peers. This should serialize the access to the bpf descriptor
list, removing the race.
- Expose the bpf_if structure in bpf.h so that the bpf_peers_present function
can use it. This also removes the struct bpf_if; hack that was there.
- Adjust all consumers of the raw if_bpf structure to use bpf_peers_present
Now what happens is:
(1) Packet is received by netif0
(2) Check to see if bpf descriptor list is empty
(3) Pickup the bpf interface lock
(4) Hand packet off to process
From the attach/detach side:
(1) Pickup the bpf interface lock
(2) Add/remove from bpf descriptor list
Now that we are storing the bpf interface structure with the ifnet, there is
is no need to walk the bpf interface list to locate the correct bpf interface.
We now simply look up the interface, and initialize the pointer. This has a
nice side effect of changing a bpf interface attach operation from O(N) (where
N is the number of bpf interfaces), to O(1).
[1] From now on, we can no longer check ifp->if_bpf to tell us whether or
not we have any bpf peers that might be interested in receiving packets.
In collaboration with: sam@
MFC after: 1 month
o fix contention window
o silently discard received frames that are too short
o simplify lookup of 802.11a channels (we know they exist)
o fix short preamble support
o add short slot support
o fix eifs settings
o many consistency tweaks
just discard the received frame and reuse the old mbuf.
This should prevent the connection from stalling after high network traffic.
MFC after: 2 weeks
o add ic_curchan and use it uniformly for specifying the current
channel instead of overloading ic->ic_bss->ni_chan (or in some
drivers ic_ibss_chan)
o add ieee80211_scanparams structure to encapsulate scanning-related
state captured for rx frames
o move rx beacon+probe response frame handling into separate routines
o change beacon+probe response handling to treat the scan table
more like a scan cache--look for an existing entry before adding
a new one; this combined with ic_curchan use corrects handling of
stations that were previously found at a different channel
o move adhoc neighbor discovery by beacon+probe response frames to
a new ieee80211_add_neighbor routine
Reviewed by: avatar
Tested by: avatar, Michal Mertl
MFC after: 2 weeks
