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Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan ebd0fd2b1a cfg80211: Fix mutex locking in reg_last_request_cell_base
should fix the following issue

	[ 3229.815012] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
	[ 3229.815016] 3.5.0-rc7-wl #28 Tainted: G        W  O
	[ 3229.815017]
	------------------------------------------------
	[ 3229.815019] wpa_supplicant/5783 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
	[ 3229.815022] 1 lock held by wpa_supplicant/5783:
	[ 3229.815023]  #0: (reg_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<fa65834d>]
	reg_last_request_cell_base+0x1d/0x60 [cfg80211]

Cc: Luis Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-18 17:03:15 +02:00
Eliad Peller 88bc40e8c3 mac80211: go out of PS before sending disassoc
on disassoc, ieee80211_set_disassoc() goes out of PS
before indicating BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC (not sure why this
is needed, but some drivers might count on the current
behavior).

However, it does it after sending the disassoc
frame, which results in null-data frame being sent
(in order to go out of ps) after we were already sent
the disassoc, which is invalid.

Fix it by going out of ps before sending the disassoc.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 12:17:42 +02:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 14cdf11201 cfg80211: remove regulatory_update()
regulatory_update() just calls wiphy_update_regulatory().
wiphy_update_regulatory() assumes you already have
the reg_mutex held so just move the call within locking
context and kill the superfluous regulatory_update().

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 12:16:41 +02:00
Luis R. Rodriguez f8a1c77457 cfg80211: make regulatory_update() static
Now that we have wiphy_regulatory_register() we can
tuck away the core's regulatory_update() call there
and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 12:16:40 +02:00
Luis R. Rodriguez bfead0808c cfg80211: rename reg_device_remove() to wiphy_regulatory_deregister()
This makes it clearer what we're doing. This now makes a bit
more sense given that regardless of the wiphy if the cell
base station hint feature is supported we will be modifying the
way the regulatory core behaves.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 12:16:39 +02:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 57b5ce072e cfg80211: add cellular base station regulatory hint support
Cellular base stations can provide hints to cfg80211 about
where they think we are. This can be done for example on
a cell phone. To enable these hints we simply allow them
through as user regulatory hints but we allow userspace
to clasify the hint as either coming directly from the
user or coming from a cellular base station. This option
is only available when you enable
CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS.

The base station hints themselves will not be processed
by the core unless at least one device on the system
supports this feature.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 12:16:39 +02:00
Luis R. Rodriguez b594bab902 cfg80211: add CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS
This adds CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS which is to
be used for features / code which require a bit of work on
the system integrator's part to ensure that the system will
still pass 802.11 regulatory certification. This option is
also usable for researchers and experimenters looking to add
code in the kernel without impacting compliant code.

We'd use CONFIG_EXPERT alone but it seems that most standard
Linux distributions are enabling CONFIG_EXPERT already. This
allows us to define 802.11 specific kernel features under a
flag that is intended by design to be disabled by standard
Linux distributions, and only enabled by system integrators
or distributions that have done work to ensure regulatory
certification on the system with the enabled features.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 12:13:51 +02:00
Kalle Valo 959085352b cfg80211: fix set_regdom() to cancel requests with same alpha2
While adding regulatory support to ath6kl I noticed that I easily
got the regulatory code confused. The way to reproduce the bug was:

1. iw reg set FI (in userspace)
2. cfg80211 calls ath6kl_reg_notify(FI)
3. ath6kl sets regdomain in firmware
4. firmware sends regdomain event to notify about the new regdomain (FI)
5. ath6kl calls regulatory_hint(FI)

And this (from FI to FI transition) confuses cfg80211 and after that I
only get "Pending regulatory request, waiting for it to be
processed...." messages and regdomain changes won't work anymore.

The reason why ath6kl calls regulatory_hint() is that firmware can change
the regulatory domain by it's own, for example due to 11d IEs. I could
of course workaround this in ath6kl but I think it's better to handle
the case in cfg80211.

The fix is pretty simple, use a different error code if the regdomain is
same and then just set the request processed so that it doesn't block new
requests.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 12:00:43 +02:00
Thomas Pedersen 84f10708f7 cfg80211: support TX error rate CQM
Let the user configure serveral TX error conection quality monitoring
parameters: % error rate, survey interval, and # of attempted packets.

On exceeding the TX failure rate over the given interval, the driver
will send a CQM notify event with the actual TX failure rate and
packets attempted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 11:57:23 +02:00
Johannes Berg 00f5335079 nl80211: add wdev ID as u64 as it should
In one of my previous patches I erroneously
used nla_put_u32 for the wdev_id, fix that
to use nla_put_u64.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 11:53:57 +02:00
Thomas Huehn b0e40e72be mac80211_hwsim: fix race condition with sta/vif pointers
info->control.sta and control.vif may only be dereferenced
during the drv_tx call otherwise could lead to use-after-free
bugs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
[reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 11:42:08 +02:00
Nicolas Cavallari 7f9f78ab96 mac80211: fix tx-mgmt cookie value being left uninitialized
commit "mac80211: unify SW/offload remain-on-channel"
moved the cookie assignment from ieee80211_mgmt_tx()
to ieee80211_start_roc_work().  But the latter is only
called where offchannel is needed.  If offchannel isn't
needed/used, a uninitialized cookie value would be returned
to userspace.

This patch sets the cookie value when offchannel isn't used.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <cavallar@lri.fr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17 11:22:42 +02:00
Johannes Berg 4290cb4bf2 cfg80211: reduce monitor interface tracking
Revert commit b78e8ceac2
("cfg80211: track monitor channel") and remove the
set_monitor_enabled() callback.

Due to the tracking happening in NETDEV_PRE_UP, it had
introduced bugs because the monitor interface callback
would be called before the device was started. It looks
like there's no way to fix this, and using NETDEV_PRE_UP
is broken anyway (since there's no NETDEV_UP_FAIL), so
remove all that code, track interfaces in NETDEV_UP and
also stop tracking the monitor channel in cfg80211.

This mostly reverts to before the tracking, except that
we keep the interface count tracking so that setting the
monitor channel can be rejected properly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-13 16:16:11 +02:00
Johannes Berg 5b7ccaf3fc cfg80211/mac80211: re-add get_channel operation
This essentially reverts commit 2e165b8184 but
introduces the get_channel operation with a new
wireless_dev argument so that you can retrieve
the channel per interface. This is necessary as
even though we can track all interface channels
(except monitor) we can't track the channel type
used.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-13 16:16:11 +02:00
Johannes Berg 075e08477d Revert "mac80211: refactor virtual monitor code"
This reverts commit 870d37fc22.

This code doesn't work as cfg80211 will call
set_monitor_enabled at the wrong time and it
doesn't seem to be possible to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-13 16:16:10 +02:00
Alan Cox 4b4b8229ae mac80211: fix use after free
roc is destroyed then roc->started is referenced. Keep a local cache.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-13 16:15:54 +02:00
Johannes Berg ae33bd817a nl80211: allow enabling WoWLAN without triggers
It may be desirable to use WoWLAN without triggers to
keep the connection alive to the AP while suspended.
Allow this use by enabling WoWLAN without triggers if
no triggers were requested.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 22:30:34 +02:00
Felix Fietkau f53594a0d8 cfg80211: ignore channel state for stopped AP/mesh interfaces
Without this change, running AP + station on the same wiphy
does not work since the commit "cfg80211: add channel checking
for iface combinations". The stopped AP prevents the client
from connecting to an AP on a different channel.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[line-break commit message to < 72 chars]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 16:18:17 +02:00
Johannes Berg 685fb72b63 mac80211: iterate the virtual monitor interface
If the virtual monitor interface is requested
by the driver, it should also be iterated over
when the driver wants to iterate all active
interfaces.

To allow that protect it with the iflist_mtx.

Change-Id: I58ac5de2f4ce93d12c5a98ecd2859f60158d5d69
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:50 +02:00
Johannes Berg 8e95ea49c9 cfg80211: fix locking and lockdep complaints
To call cfg80211_get_chan_state() we need to lock
the wdev, so we need to lock the wdev_iter mutex
in cfg80211_can_use_iftype_chan(). This needs to
use nested locking for lockdep.

Also, cfg80211_get_chan_state() doesn't actually
use the rdev, so remove that completely including
the lock assertion that isn't needed.

Reported-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:49 +02:00
Sylvain Roger Rieunier 2a9e6c5887 minstrel_ht: enable frame aggregation for fixed rate
When sample_idx is set to a value other than -1 it activates
the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE flag which disables
frame aggregation. To allow frame aggregation during fixed
rate it is necessary to set max_tp_rate, max_tp_rate2 and
max_prob_rate instead of sample_idx.

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Roger Rieunier <sylvain.roger.rieunier@gmail.com>
[reword commit message a bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:48 +02:00
Nicolas Cavallari 4922f71f25 mac80211: tx: do not drop non-robust mgmt to non-MFP stas.
When drop_unencrypted is enabled and MFP is disabled,
non-robust management frames for not-yet associated STA are dropped.
This isn't visible as many management frames sent from the kernel
have TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT set and management frames injected
from a monitor vif have TX_CTL_INJECTED so aren't dropped.
But management frames sent from userspace via NL80211_CMD_FRAME
do not have this flag set, so are dropped.

This patch make it always accept non-robust management frames.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <cavallar@lri.fr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:48 +02:00
Johannes Berg 46e6de159d mac80211: restructure key selection
The "no key" case in key selection that decides
whether to drop the frame or not is impossible
to understand, restructure the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
[cavallar@lri.fr: removed blank line and restructured action frame clause]
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <cavallar@lri.fr>
2012-07-12 12:10:47 +02:00
Johannes Berg 8c358bcd09 mac80211: add time synchronisation with BSS for assoc
Some drivers (iwlegacy, iwlwifi and rt2x00) today use the
bss_conf.last_tsf value. By itself though that value is
completely worthless since it may be ancient. What really
is needed is synchronisation between some device time and
the TSF.

To clarify this, rename bss_conf.last_tsf to sync_tsf and
add sync_device_ts which is obtained from rx_status which
gets a new field device_timestamp for this purpose. This
is intentionally not using the mactime field since that
is used for other things and in IBSS is expected to sync
with the IBSS's TSF which isn't necessarily true for the
device timestamp.

Also, since we have the information and it's useful even
before the connection has been established, give all the
timing details to the driver before authenticating.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:46 +02:00
Johannes Berg 30f422925c mac80211: optimize ieee80211_rx_status struct layout
We waste a lot of space in this struct because it uses
int values where smaller ones would be sufficient. The
upcoming A-MPDU information needs some space, optimize
the struct now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:45 +02:00
Johannes Berg d48b296850 mac80211: redesign scan RX
Scan receive is rather inefficient when there are
multiple virtual interfaces. We iterate all of the
virtual interfaces and then notify cfg80211 about
each beacon many times.

Redesign scan RX to happen before everything else.
Then we can also get rid of IEEE80211_RX_IN_SCAN
since we don't have to accept frames into the RX
handlers for scanning or scheduled scanning any
more. Overall, this simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:44 +02:00
Johannes Berg 5260a5b2c3 mac80211: track scheduled scan virtual interface
Instead of tracking whether or not we're in a
scheduled scan, track the virtual interface
(sdata) in an RCU-protected pointer to make it
usable from RX to check the MAC address.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:43 +02:00
Johannes Berg e2fd5dbc1c mac80211: make scan_sdata pointer usable with RCU
Making the scan_sdata pointer usable with RCU makes
it possible to dereference it in the RX path to see
if a received frame actually matches the interface
that is scanning. This is just preparations, making
the pointer __rcu.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:43 +02:00
Arik Nemtsov d811b3d556 mac80211: fix invalid band deref building preq IEs
The function building probe-request IEs does not validate the band is
supported before dereferencing it. This can result in a panic when
all bands are traversed, as done during sched-scan start.

Warn when this happens and return an empty probe request. Also fix
sched-scan to not waste memory on unsupported bands.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:42 +02:00
Johannes Berg fd0142844e nl80211: move scan API to wdev
The new P2P Device will have to be able to scan for
P2P search, so move scanning to use struct wireless_dev
instead of struct net_device.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:41 +02:00
Johannes Berg 1c90f9d404 nl80211: send interface after creation
After a new virtual interface is created, reply
to userspace with a message detailing it so it
knows the new wdev identifier.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:10:40 +02:00
Johannes Berg 84efbb84cf cfg80211: use wireless_dev for interface management
In order to be able to create P2P Device wdevs, move
the virtual interface management over to wireless_dev
structures.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12 12:08:10 +02:00
Johannes Berg 71bbc99438 cfg80211: use wdev in mgmt-tx/ROC APIs
The management frame and remain-on-channel APIs will be
needed in the P2P device abstraction, so move them over
to the new wdev-based APIs. Userspace can still use both
the interface index and wdev identifier for them so it's
backward compatible, but for the P2P Device wdev it will
be able to use the wdev identifier only.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:51:47 +02:00
Johannes Berg ba22fb5b25 nl80211: don't assume wdev->netdev exists
There are a few places that iterate the wdev
list and assume wdev->netdev exists, check
there. The rfkill one has to be extended for
each non-netdev type later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:51:46 +02:00
Johannes Berg 72fb2abcf5 nl80211: retrieve interface data by wdev
Since soon there will be virtual interfaces that
don't have a netdev, use the wdev identifier for
the API to retrieve interface data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:51:46 +02:00
Johannes Berg 1bf614ef79 nl80211: add NL80211_FLAG_NEED_WDEV
Some nl80211 callbacks will soon need the wdev instead
of the netdev, so add NL80211_FLAG_NEED_WDEV to allow
them to request that. Add NL80211_FLAG_NEED_WDEV_UP as
well which checks the netdev is UP if one exists.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:51:46 +02:00
Johannes Berg 89a54e48b9 nl80211: prepare for non-netdev wireless devs
In order to support a P2P device abstraction and
Bluetooth high-speed AMPs, we need to have a way
to identify virtual interfaces that don't have a
netdev associated.

Do this by adding a NL80211_ATTR_WDEV attribute
to identify a wdev which may or may not also be
a netdev.

To simplify things, use a 64-bit value with the
high 32 bits being the wiphy index for this new
wdev identifier in the nl80211 API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:51:46 +02:00
Johannes Berg f72b85b8eb mac80211: remove ieee80211_key_removed
This API call was intended to be used by drivers
if they want to optimize key handling by removing
one key when another is added. Remove it since no
driver is using it. If needed, it can always be
added back.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:49:15 +02:00
Johannes Berg 31ee67a1ce mac80211: remove unused assignment
ieee80211_mlme_notify_scan_completed() iterates all
interfaces and doesn't need to assign anything to
the sdata variable before the loop.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:49:11 +02:00
Johannes Berg 7d25745d05 mac80211: update BSS info on AC parameters change
When the AC parameters change, drivers might rely
on getting a bss_info_changed notification with
BSS_CHANGED_QOS in addition to the conf_tx call.

Always call the function when userspace updates
are made (in AP/GO modes) and also set the change
flag when updates were made by the AP (in managed
mode.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:49:00 +02:00
Vladimir Kondratiev 56af8f9af9 cfg80211: fix oops due to unassigned set_monitor_enabled callback
Quick fix for method being invoked without checking its existence.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-08 13:10:07 +02:00
Christian Lamparter 2f7916f8d6 mac80211: request TX status for BlockAck Requests
Because ieee80211_tx_status in status.c checks if
outgoing BlockAck requests have been acked, it is
necessary to tell the driver that tx feedback for
this sort of frame is important.

Otherwise, the stack will continue to send the same
BlockAck request over and over, which can cause
the receiver to flush or clean its reorder buffer
over and over.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-07 21:35:42 +02:00
Johannes Berg 4d6d0ae2a0 mac80211_hwsim: add testmode code to stop/wake queues
This was useful for debugging the queue stop/wake
issues and is pretty small so let's just put it in.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-06 15:27:15 +02:00
Johannes Berg a6f38ac3cc mac80211: fix crash with single-queue drivers
Larry (and some others I think) reported that with
single-queue drivers mac80211 crashes when waking
the queues. This happens because we allocate just
a single queue for each virtual interface in case
the driver doesn't have at least 4 queues, but the
code stopping/waking the virtual interface queues
wasn't taking this into account.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-06 15:26:58 +02:00
Eliad Peller c62094889f mac80211: always set in_reconfig=false on wakeup
If the interfaces were removed just before a restart
work was started, open_count will be 0, and most of
the reconfig work will be skipped, including the
resetting of local->in_reconfig to false.

Leaving local->inconfig = true will result in
dropping any incoming packet.

Fix it by always setting local->in_reconfig = false
(even if there are no active interfaces).

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-06 08:33:05 +02:00
Johannes Berg 135792ec24 mac80211: fix debugfs default key links
Due to the way the default key links are created,
it happens that a link is left dangling:
 * both unicast/multicast links are created
 * unicast link is destroyed, and the links
   are updated
 * during this update, adding the multicast
   link again fails because it is present,
   destroying the debugfs pointer
 * removing the multicast link won't work as
   the pointer has been destroyed

Fix this by always removing the links and then
re-creating them if needed.

Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-06 08:33:04 +02:00
Vladimir Kondratiev 95ddc1fc45 cfg80211: bitrate calculation for 60g
60g band uses different from .11n MCS scheme, so bitrate
should be calculated differently

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-05 15:18:32 +02:00
Vladimir Kondratiev 8eb41c8dfb {nl,cfg}80211: support high bitrates
Until now, a u16 value was used to represent bitrate value.
With VHT bitrates this becomes too small.

Introduce a new 32-bit bitrate attribute. nl80211 will report
both the new and the old attribute, unless the bitrate doesn't
fit into the old u16 attribute in which case only the new one
will be reported.

User space tools encouraged to prefer the 32-bit attribute, if
available (since it won't be available on older kernels.)

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
[reword commit message and comments a bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-05 15:18:30 +02:00
Johannes Berg c5a7e58249 cfg80211: fix locking regression in monitor channel tracking
Michal's monitor channel tracking introduce a locking problem
as it locked the rdev lock inside the netdev notifier which
isn't allowed as we might already hold it if we get there by
removing an interface that is up.

Fix this by relying only on the RTNL to protect the interface
counters, the RTNL is always held in these code paths anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-04 13:30:23 +02:00
Johannes Berg a1845fc7c5 mac80211: add TX prepare API
Some drivers require setup before being able to send
management frames in managed mode, in particular in
multi-channel cases.

Introduce API to allow the drivers to do such setup
while being able to sleep waiting for the setup to
finish in the device. This isn't possible inside the
TX call since that can't sleep.

A future patch may also restructure the TX retry to
wait for the driver to report the frame status, as
suggested by Arik in
http://mid.gmane.org/CA+XVXffKSEL6ZQPQ98x-zO-NL2=TNF1uN==mprRyUmAaRn254g@mail.gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-03 13:50:34 +02:00