[ Upstream commit 162bd5e5fd ]
The driver may sleep under a spinlock.
The function call path is:
hwsim_get_radio_nl (acquire the spinlock)
nlmsg_new(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep
To fix it, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
This bug is found by my static analysis tool(DSAC) and checked by my code review.
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 67bd523861 ]
hwsim_new_radio_nl() now copies the name attribute in order to add a
null-terminator. mac80211_hwsim_new_radio() (indirectly) copies it
again into the net_device structure, so the first copy is not used or
freed later. Free the first copy before returning.
Fixes: ff4dd73dd2 ("mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit ff4dd73dd2 ]
Unfortunately, the nla policy was defined to have HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME
as an NLA_STRING, rather than NLA_NUL_STRING, so we can't use it as a
NUL-terminated string in the kernel.
Rather than break the API, kasprintf() the string to a new buffer to
guarantee NUL termination.
Reported-by: Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 9de981f507 upstream.
In struct ieee80211_tx_info, control.vif pointer and rate_driver_data[0]
falls on the same place, depending on the union usage.
During the whole TX process, the union is referred to as a control struct,
which holds the vif that is later used in the tx flow, especially in order
to derive the used tx power.
Referring direcly to rate_driver_data[0] and assigning a value to it,
overwrites the vif pointer, hence making all later references irrelevant.
Moreover, rate_driver_data[0] isn't used later in the flow in order to
retrieve the channel that it is pointing to.
Signed-off-by: Beni Lev <beni.lev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 8fbcfeb8a9 upstream.
mac80211_hwsim initializes a hrtimer with clockid
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW. That's not supported.
Use CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Due to the cast from uint32_t to int64_t, a wrong next beacon timing is
calculated and effectively the beacon timer stops working. This is
especially bad for 802.11s mesh networks, because discovery breaks
without beacons.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Beichler <benjamin.beichler@uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
There's no need to initialize at runtime, when the static
declaration macro can just be used instead, so do that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add the following to support beacon report radio measurement
with the measurement mode field set to passive or active:
1. Propagate the required scan duration to the device
2. Report the scan start time (in terms of TSF)
3. Report each BSS's detection time (also in terms of TSF)
TSF times refer to the BSS that the interface that requested the
scan is connected to.
Signed-off-by: Assaf Krauss <assaf.krauss@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
[changed ath9k/10k, at76c59x-usb, iwlegacy, wl1251 and wlcore to match
the new API]
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add radar_detect_widths to the interface combination that allows
concurrent P2P Device dedicated interface and AP interfaces, to enable
testing of radar detection when P2P Device interface is used.
Clear the radar_detect_widths in case of multi channel contexts
as this is not currently supported.
As radar_detect_widths are now supported in all combinations,
remove the hwsim_if_dfs_limits definition since it is no longer
needed.
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Registering wmediumd is currently limited to the initial network
namespace. This patch enables wmediumd to attach from non-initial
network namespaces using a user namespace having CAP_NET_ADMIN. A
registered wmediumd can forward frames on radios that have been created
in the same network namespace, even if they have been moved to other
network namespaces.
The wmediumd Netlink portid is tracked per net namespace. Additionally,
the portid is stored on all radios created in that net namespace to
simplify the portid lookup in the data path.
Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* the biggest change is Michał's work on integrating FQ/codel
with the mac80211 internal software queues
* cfg80211 connect result gets clarified for the
"no connection at all" case
* advertisement of per-interface type capabilities, in case
they differ (which makes a lot of sense for some capabilities)
* most of the nl80211 & hwsim unprivileged namespace operation
changes
* human-readable VHT capabilities in debugfs
* some other cleanups, like spelling
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Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2016-06-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Johannes Berg says:
====================
For the next cycle, we have the following:
* the biggest change is Michał's work on integrating FQ/codel
with the mac80211 internal software queues
* cfg80211 connect result gets clarified for the
"no connection at all" case
* advertisement of per-interface type capabilities, in case
they differ (which makes a lot of sense for some capabilities)
* most of the nl80211 & hwsim unprivileged namespace operation
changes
* human-readable VHT capabilities in debugfs
* some other cleanups, like spelling
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A wmediumd that does not send this attribute causes a NULL pointer
dereference, as the attribute is accessed even if it does not exist.
The attribute was required but never checked ever since userspace frame
forwarding has been introduced. The issue gets more problematic once we
allow wmediumd registration from user namespaces.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7882513bac ("mac80211_hwsim driver support userspace frame tx/rx")
Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
While wiphys can be moved into network namespaces over nl80211, the
creation and removal of hwsim radios is currently limited to the initial
namespace. This patch allows management of namespaced radios from the
owning namespace by setting genetlink netnsok.
To prevent two arbitrary namespaces to communicate over the simulated
shared medium, radios are separated by netgroups. Each radio created in
the same namespace lives in the same netgroup and hence can communicate
with other radios in that group. When moving radios to other namespaces,
the netgroup is preserved, so two radios having the same netgroup can
communicate even if not in the same namespace; This allows a controlling
namespace to create radios and move them to other namespaces for
communication.
When a net namespace owning a radio exits, the radio is destroyed unless
it was created in the initial network namespace. This keeps the previous
behavior by returning them to the init namespace, but prevents unprivileged
users from creating radios in the initial namespace.
Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If the hw scan request specifies a single BSSID, use that value instead
of the wildcard BSSID in the Probe Request frames.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Since offset is zero, it's not necessary to use set function. Reset
function is straightforward, and will remove the unnecessary add
operation in set function.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The function here already has a variable hdr that even
contains the right thing, so the inner scope's hdr variable
that's shadowing the outer one can just be removed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Currently mac80211 does not inform the driver of the session
block ack timeout when starting a rx aggregation session.
Drivers that manage the reorder buffer need to know this
parameter.
Seeing that there are now too many arguments for the
drv_ampdu_action() function, wrap them inside a structure.
Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This reverts commit cd37a90b2a.
Different userspace programs interpreted HWSIM_ATTR_ADDR_TRANSMITTER
and HWSIM_ATTR_ADDR_RECEIVER differently: some expected it to
be an unchanging hardware address that is tied to the radio despite
which address is configured on the interface, while others expected
to be a copy of the address in the frame (the configured address).
The intent of the original authors is unclear.
The latter interpretation doesn't really work properly with multiple
vifs and broadcast frames. Also, as the TA is already in the
frame, userspace programs can actually support configured addresses
in the former interpretation by mapping between them and the supplied
HWSIM_ATTR_ADDR_TRANSMITTER.
So, in the interest of API stability, revert to the previous mode
of operation and going forward use the former interpretation.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If a packet is received from netlink with the frequency value set it is
checked against the current radio's frequency and discarded if different.
The frequency is also checked against data2->tmp_chan to support the "hw"
off-channel/scan case.
Signed-off-by: Adam Welle <arwelle@cert.org>
[allow both simultaneously, add locking]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If the rate control algorithm messed up then the txrate pointer
here could be NULL - WARN and drop the packet from monitoring.
Signed-off-by: Amit Khatri <amit.khatri@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Jain <rahul.jain@samsung.com>
[rewrite commit message, add warning]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Instead of using pointers, use sequentially assigned cookies.
This is easier to understand while debugging and also avoids
problems when the pointer is reused for the next allocation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
VHT can be used with IBSS without needing any additional changes in
mac80211_hwsim, so start claiming support for this to increase test
coverage.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Previously, this was done only for Beacon frames, but similar timestamp
update is needed for Probe Response frames to make these more accurately
match the real IEEE 802.11 behavior. Previously, all zeros timestamp was
sent in Probe Response frames.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Typically drivers that implement hardware remain-on-channel will
have to wait for scheduling constraints, so make hwsim also wait
a little bit (only 20ms) before actually starting the operation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
We had another change to fix this in mac80211, but the hwsim
"hardware" scan should also be fixed. Obviously this one isn't
important since it's not real hardware, but we'd better be
consistent.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Switch everything to the new and more capable implementation of abs().
Mainly to give the new abs() a bit of a workout.
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* many internal fixes, API improvements, cleanups, etc.
* full AP client state tracking in cfg80211/mac80211 from Ayala
* VHT support (in mac80211) for mesh
* some A-MSDU in A-MPDU support from Emmanuel
* show current TX power to userspace (from Rafał)
* support for netlink dump in vendor commands (myself)
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Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2015-10-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Johannes Berg says:
====================
For the current cycle, we have the following right now:
* many internal fixes, API improvements, cleanups, etc.
* full AP client state tracking in cfg80211/mac80211 from Ayala
* VHT support (in mac80211) for mesh
* some A-MSDU in A-MPDU support from Emmanuel
* show current TX power to userspace (from Rafał)
* support for netlink dump in vendor commands (myself)
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The genl_notify function has too many arguments for no real reason - all
callers use genl_info to get them anyway. Just pass the genl_info down to
genl_notify.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Advertise the capability to send A-MSDU within A-MPDU
in the AddBA request sent by mac80211. Let the driver
know about the peer's capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
During hwsim_init_netlink(), we should call genl_unregister_family()
if failed on netlink_register_notifier() since the genetlink is
already registered.
Signed-off-by: Su Kang Yin <cantona@cantona.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
As we're running out of hardware capability flags pretty quickly,
convert them to use the regular test_bit() style unsigned long
bitmaps.
This introduces a number of helper functions/macros to set and to
test the bits, along with new debugfs code.
The occurrences of an explicit __clear_bit() are intentional, the
drivers were never supposed to change their supported bits on the
fly. We should investigate changing this to be a per-frame flag.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Declare that MCS 0-9 are supported for all Rx chains.
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Previously, VHT capabilities and supported MCSs where set for all
bands, although VHT is only allowed on 5.2 GHz band. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This support is essentially useless as typically networks are encrypted,
frames will be filtered by hardware, and rate scaling will be done with
the intended recipient in mind. For real monitoring of the network, the
monitor mode support should be used instead.
Removing it removes a lot of corner cases.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
For hwsim, the duration field in frames is already not valid for
the common case of HT/VHT MCSes, so there's little point in trying
to keep it accurate for the legacy rates. Enable the fast-xmit code
to allow testing that, although given the dependency on hardware
crypto it will only be enabled in open network configurations.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
of small fixes, cleanups and internal features we have:
* VHT support for TDLS and IBSS (conditional on drivers though)
* first TX performance improvements (the biggest will come later)
* many suspend/resume (race) fixes
* name_assign_type support from Tom Gundersen
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Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2015-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Johannes Berg says:
====================
Lots of updates for net-next; along with the usual flurry
of small fixes, cleanups and internal features we have:
* VHT support for TDLS and IBSS (conditional on drivers though)
* first TX performance improvements (the biggest will come later)
* many suspend/resume (race) fixes
* name_assign_type support from Tom Gundersen
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jouni reported that certain combinations of hwsim test cases failed,
and we found that beaconing was erroneously enabled too early on any
channel switch, which lead to the BI of 2000 TU from the first test
case to leak into the second one, which then didn't beacon properly.
To fix this, set data->beacon_int to zero when all stop beaconing so
that beaconing cannot be started (which was intended as 'restarted')
elsewhere.
Additionally, Jouni found that due to this 'restart' and the beacon
interval handling station interfaces would also have a needlessly
running beacon timer all the time, of course not doing anything.
To also fix the latter case only use the beacon interval when it's
actually needed, i.e. when beaconing gets enabled.
Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Tested-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
The rocker commit was two overlapping changes, one to rename
the ->vport member to ->pport, and another making the bitmask
expression use '1ULL' instead of plain '1'.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use the built-in function instead of memset.
Miscellanea:
Add #include <linux/etherdevice.h> where appropriate
Use ETH_ALEN instead of 6
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This allows wpa_supplicant/hostapd to send a vendor command and verify
response to that command and a vendor event.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Due to the checks in get_hwsim_data_ref_from_addr, wmediumd
was only able to use the second mac address (those starting with
0x42). This is confusing and needlessly limiting, so allow any
configured address.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Correct two problems with the error handling when using the netlink
forwarding API: first, the netlink skb is never freed if nla_put()
fails; and second, genlmsg_unicast() can fail if the netlink socket
is full. In the latter case, the corresponding data skb is not counted
as a drop and userspace programs like wmediumd will see TCP stalls
due to lost packets.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.
This makes the very common pattern of
if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... }
be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do
return nlmsg_end(...);
and the caller is expected to deal with it.
This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write
if (my_function(...))
/* error condition */
and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.
Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there.
Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did
- return nlmsg_end(...);
+ nlmsg_end(...);
+ return 0;
I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.
One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We have
* a lot of regulatory code changes to deal with the
way newer Intel devices handle this
* a change to drop packets while disconnecting from
an AP instead of trying to wait for them
* a new attempt at improving the tailroom accounting
to not kick in too much for performance reasons
* improvements in wireless link statistics
* many other small improvements and small fixes that
didn't seem necessary for 3.19 (e.g. in hwsim which
is testing only code)
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Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2015-01-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Here's a big pile of changes for this round.
We have
* a lot of regulatory code changes to deal with the
way newer Intel devices handle this
* a change to drop packets while disconnecting from
an AP instead of trying to wait for them
* a new attempt at improving the tailroom accounting
to not kick in too much for performance reasons
* improvements in wireless link statistics
* many other small improvements and small fixes that
didn't seem necessary for 3.19 (e.g. in hwsim which
is testing only code)
Conflicts:
drivers/staging/rtl8723au/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
Minor overlapping changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jia-Ju Bai