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2013-07-22mac80211: prevent the buffering or frame transmission to non-assoc mesh STAChun-Yeow Yeoh
This patch is intended to avoid the buffering to non-assoc mesh STA and also to avoid the triggering of frame to non-assoc mesh STA which could cause kernel panic in specific hw. One of the examples, is kernel panic happens to ath9k if user space inserts the mesh STA and not proceed with the SAE and AMPE, and later the same mesh STA is detected again. The sta_state of the mesh STA remains at IEEE80211_STA_NONE and if the ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup is called and subsequently the ath_tx_aggr_wakeup, the kernel panic due to ath_tx_node_init is not called before to initialize the require data structures. This issue is reported by Cedric Voncken before. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg106342.html [<831ea6b4>] ath_tx_aggr_wakeup+0x44/0xcc [ath9k] [<83084214>] ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup+0xb8/0x208 [mac80211] [<830b9824>] ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update+0x94/0x108 [mac80211] [<83099398>] ieee80211_sta_ps_transition+0xc94/0x34d8 [mac80211] [<8022399c>] nf_iterate+0x98/0x104 [<8309bb60>] ieee80211_sta_ps_transition+0x345c/0x34d8 [mac80211] Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15mac80211: consolidate MBSS change notificationThomas Pedersen
A few mesh utility functions will call ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(), and then the caller might notify the driver of the same change again. Avoid this redundancy by propagating the BSS changes and generally calling bss_info_change_notify() once per change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04mac80211: mesh power save basicsMarco Porsch
Add routines to - maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode - indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames - track neighbor STAs power modes - buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode - add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons - release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor changes. Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated mesh peering is currently not working when either node is configured to be in power save mode. Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions. For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA pointer is already available. Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations. Track power modes based on received frames. Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer). Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons. Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames. Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status. Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and show large delay spikes and frame losses. Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy <ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>