History log of /freebsd-current/sys/net80211/ieee80211_mesh.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# fdafd315 24-Nov-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Automated cleanup of cdefs and other formatting

Apply the following automated changes to try to eliminate
no-longer-needed sys/cdefs.h includes as well as now-empty
blank lines in a row.

Remove /^#if.*\n#endif.*\n#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>.*\n/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>.*\n+#if.*\n#endif.*\n+/
Remove /\n+#if.*\n#endif.*\n+/
Remove /^#if.*\n#endif.*\n/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/types.h>/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/param.h>/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/capsicum.h>/

Sponsored by: Netflix


# 685dc743 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 3d0d5b21 23-Jan-2023 Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@FreeBSD.org>

IfAPI: Explicitly include <net/if_private.h> in netstack

Summary:
In preparation of making if_t completely opaque outside of the netstack,
explicitly include the header. <net/if_var.h> will stop including the
header in the future.

Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Reviewed by: glebius, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38200


# 156ce1e5 24-Oct-2022 Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>

net8021: Fix a typo in a kernel error message

- s/missmatch/mismatch/

MFC after: 1 week


# bd29f817 17-Aug-2022 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: consistently use the IEEE80211_M_ memory related options

Replace a malloc() by IEEE80211_MALLOC().
For malloc flags even in the local ieee80211_freebsd.c there was a mix
of both versions M_ and IEEE80211_M_.
Consistently use the IEEE80211_M_ malloc options everywhere.
If the field is changed for malloc, it'll also be changed for the
other accessor functions taking a "how" field to avoid any confusion.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36249


# 2889cbe2 12-Aug-2022 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: add an IEEE80211_IS_PROTECTED() macro

Summary: This returns whether the given 802.11 frame has the protected bit set.

Test Plan:
* tested in AP/STA mode
* STA mode - local athp/ath10k driver
* AP mode - in tree ath driver

Subscribers: imp, melifaro, glebius
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: bz

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36183


# 11572d7d 06-Jun-2021 Mathy Vanhoef <Mathy.Vanhoef@kuleuven.be>

net80211: reject mixed plaintext/encrypted fragments

ieee80211_defrag() accepts fragmented 802.11 frames in a protected Wi-Fi
network even when some of the fragments are not encrypted.
Track whether the fragments are encrypted or not and only accept
successive ones if they match the state of the first fragment.

This relates to section 6.3 in the 2021 Usenix "FragAttacks" (Fragment
and Forge: Breaking Wi-Fi Through Frame Aggregation and Fragmentation)
paper.

Submitted by: Mathy Vanhoef (Mathy.Vanhoef kuleuven.be)
Security: CVE-2020-26147
PR: 256118
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30663


# 2ec4c3c7 25-Sep-2021 Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>

net80211(4): Fix a few common typos in source code comments

- s/annoucement/announcement/
- s/setings/settings/

MFC after: 1 week


# 9feff969 08-Aug-2021 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Remove "All Rights Reserved" from FreeBSD Foundation sys/ copyrights

These ones were unambiguous cases where the Foundation was the only
listed copyright holder (in the associated license block).

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# af7d9f8e 18-Mar-2021 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: prefix get_random_bytes() with net80211_

Both linux/random.h and net80211 have a function named
get_random_bytes(). With overlapping files included these collide.
Arguably the function could be renamed in linuxkpi but the generic
name should also not be used in net80211 so rename it there.

Sponsored-by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC-after: 2 weeks
Reviewed-by: philip, adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29335


# 662c1305 01-Sep-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

net: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files


# 88901af8 24-Apr-2020 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Don't indirect user pointers directly in two 802.11s ioctls.

IEEE80211_MESH_RTCMD_ADD was invoking memcmp() to validate the
supplied address directly on the user pointer rather than first doing
a copyin() and validating the copied value.

IEEE80211_MESH_RTCMD_DELETE was passing the user pointer directly to
ieee80211_mesh_rt_del() rather than copying the user buffer into a
temporary kernel buffer.

Reviewed by: brooks, kib
Obtained from: CheriBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24562


# 08f5e6bb 21-Feb-2020 Pawel Biernacki <kaktus@FreeBSD.org>

Mark more nodes as CTLFLAG_MPSAFE or CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT (7 of many)

r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.

This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.

Mark all low hanging fruits as MPSAFE.

Reviewed by: markj
Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23626


# fb3bc596 24-May-2019 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Restructure mbuf send tags to provide stronger guarantees.

- Perform ifp mismatch checks (to determine if a send tag is allocated
for a different ifp than the one the packet is being output on), in
ip_output() and ip6_output(). This avoids sending packets with send
tags to ifnet drivers that don't support send tags.

Since we are now checking for ifp mismatches before invoking
if_output, we can now try to allocate a new tag before invoking
if_output sending the original packet on the new tag if allocation
succeeds.

To avoid code duplication for the fragment and unfragmented cases,
add ip_output_send() and ip6_output_send() as wrappers around
if_output and nd6_output_ifp, respectively. All of the logic for
setting send tags and dealing with send tag-related errors is done
in these wrapper functions.

For pseudo interfaces that wrap other network interfaces (vlan and
lagg), wrapper send tags are now allocated so that ip*_output see
the wrapper ifp as the ifp in the send tag. The if_transmit
routines rewrite the send tags after performing an ifp mismatch
check. If an ifp mismatch is detected, the transmit routines fail
with EAGAIN.

- To provide clearer life cycle management of send tags, especially
in the presence of vlan and lagg wrapper tags, add a reference count
to send tags managed via m_snd_tag_ref() and m_snd_tag_rele().
Provide a helper function (m_snd_tag_init()) for use by drivers
supporting send tags. m_snd_tag_init() takes care of the if_ref
on the ifp meaning that code alloating send tags via if_snd_tag_alloc
no longer has to manage that manually. Similarly, m_snd_tag_rele
drops the refcount on the ifp after invoking if_snd_tag_free when
the last reference to a send tag is dropped.

This also closes use after free races if there are pending packets in
driver tx rings after the socket is closed (e.g. from tcpdrop).

In order for m_free to work reliably, add a new CSUM_SND_TAG flag in
csum_flags to indicate 'snd_tag' is set (rather than 'rcvif').
Drivers now also check this flag instead of checking snd_tag against
NULL. This avoids false positive matches when a forwarded packet
has a non-NULL rcvif that was treated as a send tag.

- cxgbe was relying on snd_tag_free being called when the inp was
detached so that it could kick the firmware to flush any pending
work on the flow. This is because the driver doesn't require ACK
messages from the firmware for every request, but instead does a
kind of manual interrupt coalescing by only setting a flag to
request a completion on a subset of requests. If all of the
in-flight requests don't have the flag when the tag is detached from
the inp, the flow might never return the credits. The current
snd_tag_free command issues a flush command to force the credits to
return. However, the credit return is what also frees the mbufs,
and since those mbufs now hold references on the tag, this meant
that snd_tag_free would never be called.

To fix, explicitly drop the mbuf's reference on the snd tag when the
mbuf is queued in the firmware work queue. This means that once the
inp's reference on the tag goes away and all in-flight mbufs have
been queued to the firmware, tag's refcount will drop to zero and
snd_tag_free will kick in and send the flush request. Note that we
need to avoid doing this in the middle of ethofld_tx(), so the
driver grabs a temporary reference on the tag around that loop to
defer the free to the end of the function in case it sends the last
mbuf to the queue after the inp has dropped its reference on the
tag.

- mlx5 preallocates send tags and was using the ifp pointer even when
the send tag wasn't in use. Explicitly use the ifp from other data
structures instead.

- Sprinkle some assertions in various places to assert that received
packets don't have a send tag, and that other places that overwrite
rcvif (e.g. 802.11 transmit) don't clobber a send tag pointer.

Reviewed by: gallatin, hselasky, rgrimes, ae
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20117


# f3f08e16 10-Feb-2019 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211(4): hide casts for 'i_seq' field offset calculation inside
ieee80211_getqos() and reuse it in various places.

Checked with RTL8188EE, HOSTAP mode + RTL8188CUS, STA mode.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# fe267a55 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys: general adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

No functional change intended.


# d2ffc7af 31-Jul-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/net8021: Add missing braces in setcurchan().

Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD (git c69e37d6)
MFC after: 3 days


# 85c4e670 19-May-2017 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[net80211] prepare for A-MSDU/A-MPDU offload crypto / sequence number checking.

When doing AMSDU offload, the driver (for now!) presents 802.11 frames with
the same sequence number and crypto sequence number / IV values up to the stack.
But, this will trip afoul over the sequence number detection.

So drivers now have a way to signify that a frame is part of an offloaded
AMSDU group, so we can just ensure that we pass those frames up to the
stack.

The logic will be a bit messy - the TL;DR will be that if it's part of
the previously seen sequence number then it belongs in the same burst.
But if we get a repeat of the same sequence number (eg we sent an ACK
but the receiver didn't hear it) then we shouldn't be passing those frames
up. So, we can't just say "all subframes go up", we need to track
whether we've seen the end of a burst of frames for the given sequence
number or not, so we know whether to actually pass them up or not.

The first part of doing all of this is to ensure the ieee80211_rx_stats
struct is available in the RX sequence number check path and the
RX ampdu reorder path. So, start by passing the pointer into these
functions to avoid doing another lookup.

The actual support will come in a subsequent commit once I know the
functionality actually works!


# 6dbbec93 19-May-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: fix more compiler warnings.

ieee80211.c:
add_chanlist(): 'error' variable will be uninitialized if
no channels were passed; return '0' instead.
ieee80211_action.c:
ieee80211_send_action_register(): drop 'break' after 'return'.
ieee80211_crypto_none.c:
none_encap(): 'keyid' is not used in non-debug builds; hide it
behind IEEE80211_DEBUG ifdef.
ieee80211_freebsd.c:
Staticize global 'ieee80211_debug' variable (used only in this
file).
ieee80211_hostap.c:
Fix a comment (associatio -> association).
ieee80211_ht.c:
ieee80211_setup_htrates(): initialize 'maxunequalmcs' to 0 to mute
compiler warning.
ieee80211_hwmp.c:
hwmp_recv_preq(): copy 'prep' between conditional blocks to fix
-Wshadow warning.
ieee80211_mesh.c:
mesh_newstate(): remove duplicate 'ni' definition.
mesh_recv_group_data(): fix -Wempty-body warning in non-debug
builds.
ieee80211_phy.c:
ieee80211_compute_duration(): remove 'break' after panic() call.
ieee80211_scan_sta.c:
Hide some TDMA-specific macros under IEEE80211_SUPPORT_TDMA ifdef
adhoc_pick_bss(): remove 'ic' pointer redefinition.
ieee80211_sta.c:
sta_beacon_miss(): remove 'ic' pointer redefinition.
ieee80211_superg.c:
superg_ioctl_set80211(): drop unreachable return.

Tested with clang 3.8.0, gcc 4.6.4 and gcc 5.3.0.


# 601a2543 12-May-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: drop some unused variables / local macros

Most of them left after some commits (r178354, r191544, r287197 etc.);
some were never used.

Found by: Clang Static Analyzer


# a4641f4e 03-May-2016 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/net*: minor spelling fixes.

No functional change.


# 4357a5d1 20-Apr-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: hide subtype mask & shift in function call.

Hide subtype mask/shift (which is used for index calculation
in ieee80211_mgt_subtype_name[] array) in function call.

Tested with RTL8188CUS, STA mode.

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5369


# d72d72d3 20-Apr-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: provide descriptions for reason codes

Add text description for deauth/disassoc/etc reason codes
in addition to 'reason: <number>' string.

Reviewed by: adrian
Obtained from: IEEE Std 802.11-2012, 8.4.1.7 "Reason Code field"
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5367


# 31021a2b 20-Apr-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: replace internal LE_READ_*/LE_WRITE_* macro with system
le*dec / le*enc functions.

Replace net80211 specific macros with system-wide bytestream
encoding/decoding functions:
- LE_READ_2 -> le16dec
- LE_READ_4 -> le32dec
- LE_WRITE_2 -> le16enc
- LE_WRITE_4 -> le32enc

+ drop ieee80211_input.h include, where it was included for these
operations only.

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6030


# 1ffa8d7e 29-Feb-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: eliminate copy-paste nearby ieee80211_check_rxseq()

Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4043


# 665d5ae9 18-Feb-2016 Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: add few missing subtype names.

- 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


# d3a4ade3 11-Oct-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

net80211: free node reference in the ieee80211_parent_xmitpkt() when error happened.

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


# 0ebe104f 21-Sep-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Remove duplicate use of RV(), LE_* and other macros.

Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3705


# 71f9dd12 25-May-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Migrate the 802.11s locks out into ieee80211_freebsd.h, so they can be
defined as platform specific bits.

This is to help make OS portability easier.


# b9b53389 25-May-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Convert malloc/free back to #define's, as part of OS portability work.

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.


# c79f192c 25-May-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Begin plumbing ieee80211_rx_stats through the receive path.

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.


# fd90e2ed 22-May-2015 Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>

CALLOUT_MPSAFE has lost its meaning since r141428, i.e., for more than ten
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


# 2808a02b 10-May-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Prepare for supporting driver-overridden curchan when submitting scan
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.


# f05e369a 10-Apr-2015 Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>

iwn, wlan: fix typos
Fxi tow typos

Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD
MFC after: 3 days


# f0188618 21-Oct-2014 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Fix multiple incorrect SYSCTL arguments in the kernel:

- 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


# dea45121 19-Sep-2014 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Mechanically convert to if_inc_counter().


# b8c83a19 16-Jan-2014 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Another round of removing historical mbuf(9) allocator flags.
They are breeding! New ones arouse since last round.

Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# 5945b5f5 08-Jan-2014 Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>

Rename definition of IEEE80211_FC1_WEP to IEEE80211_FC1_PROTECTED.

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


# 76039bc8 26-Oct-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
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.


# e7495198 07-Aug-2013 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Convert net80211 over to using if_transmit for the dispatch from the
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


# 1cc7c4c3 28-Jul-2013 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Fix compilation when debugging is disabled.


# 363a2c3c 27-Jul-2013 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Refactor the VAP transmit path code into a utility function that both
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.


# 0933e74b 05-Jul-2013 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Add a missing unlock.


# 3eed804d 08-Mar-2013 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Fix non-invariant compilation.


# 5cda6006 08-Mar-2013 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Bring over my initial work from the net80211 TX locking branch.

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.


# 8c67042b 15-Feb-2013 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Fix an incorrect sizeof()

Spotted by: clang

Submitted by: dim


# 23f4fd6d 12-Feb-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Substitute '#ifdef ALIGNED_POINTER' with '#ifndef __NO_STRICT_ALIGNMENT',
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.


# d6aee93f 08-Feb-2013 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Fix ieee80211_mesh.c compilation.

* 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.


# 6db8a9b0 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Mesh: recevied GANN frames where not parsed correctly.

* Added mesh_parse_meshgate_action that parse all values to host endian;
* Add more detailed debug output;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# 4c4f4aa0 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

HWMP: ic->raw_xmit didn't always point to correct ni.

This is a code re-write. ic->raw_xmit need a pointer to ieee80211_node
for the destination node (da). I have reorganized the code so that
a pointer to the da node is searched for in the end & in one place.

* Make mesh_find_txnode public to be used by HWMP, renamed to
ieee80211_mesh_finx_txnode;
* changed the argument from ieee80211_node to ieee80211vap for all
hwmp_send_* functions;
* removed the 'sa' argument from hwmp_send_* functions as all HWMP frames
have the source address equal to vap->iv_myaddr;
* Modified hwmp_send_action so that if da is MULTCAST ni=vap->iv_bss
otherwise we called ieee80211_mesh_find_txnode. Also no need to hold
a reference in this functions if da is not MULTICAST as by finding the
node it became referenced in ieee80211_find_txnode;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# 15254d45 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Mesh gate code to transmit to all mesh gates.

* Modified mesh_find_txnode to be able to handle proxy marked entries by
recursively calling itself to find the txnode towards the active mesh gate;
* Mesh Gate: Added a new function that transmits data frames
similar to ieee80211_start;
* Modified ieee80211_mesh_forward_to_gates so that:
+ Frames are duplicated and sent to each valid Mesh Gate;
+ Route is marked invalid before return of function, this is
because we dont know yet which Mesh Gate is we will use;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# b79858da 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Send frames to mesh gate if 11s discovery fails.

* Send frames that have no path to a known valid Mesh Gate;
* Added the function ieee80211_mesh_forward_to_gates that sends the frame
to the first found Mesh Gate in the forwarding information;
* If we try to discover again while we are discovering queue frame,
the discovery callout will send the frames either to mesh gates
or discards them silently;
* Queue frame also if we try to discover to frequently;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# a21c6123 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Mark root mesh as gate when mesh gate flag set.

* Add function ieee80211_mesh_mark_gate in ieee80211_mesh.h;
* When received a proactive PREQ or RANN with corresponding mesh gate
flag set, create a new entry in the known mesh gate list;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# 4cc361aa 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Propagate GANN frames, and store know gate info.

* Modified mesh_recv_action_meshgate to do following:
+ if mesh STA already knows the mesh gate of the recevied GANN frame
+ if mesh gate is know, check seq number according to 802.11 standard
+ if mesh gate is not know, add it to the list of known mesh gates
+ if forwarding is enabled and ttl >= 1 then propagate the GANN frame;
* Declare a new malloc type M_80211_MESH_GT_RT;
* Declare a struct to store GANN information, ieee80211_mesh_gate_route. And
add it as a TAILQ list to ieee80211_mesh_state;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# ed0b5440 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Mesh update: add base Mesh Gate functionality.

A Mesh Gate should transmit a Mesh Action frame containing
ieee80211_meshgann_ie as its only information element periodically
every ieee80211_mesh_gateint ms. Unless the mesh gate is also configure
as a ROOT, then these frames should not be send.
This is according to 802.11 2012 standard;

* Introduce new SYSCTL net.wlan.mesh.gateint, with 10s default;
* Add two new functions mesh_gatemode_setup and mesh_gatemode_cb. This
is similar to how HWMP setups up a callout;
* Add two new action handlers mesh_recv_action_meshgate and
mesh_send_action_meshgate;
* Added ieee80211_add_meshgate to ieee80211_mesh.h;
* Modified mesh_send_action to look similar to hwmp_send_action. This is
because we need to send out broadcast management frames.
* Introduced a new flag for mesh state IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_ROOT. This flag
is now set by HWMP code when a mesh STA is configured as a ROOT. This
is then checked by mesh_gatemode_cb before scheduling a new callout;
* Added to new field to ieee80211_mesh_state:
+ struct callout ms_gatetimer
+ ieee80211_mesh_seq ms_gateseq;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# 227da7d1 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Add mesh debug for interarction between DS & MBSS.

* Add mesh debug information when frames enter or leave the MBSS;
* Set IEEE80211_MSG_OUTPUT bit to enable output;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# ff17492f 07-Feb-2013 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Stop a mesh STA from flooding with peer frames.

This problem happens when using ACL policy to filter mesh STA
but two nodes have different policy. Then one of them will try to
peer all the time. This can also help if for any reason one of the
peering mesh STA have problems sending/receiving peer frames.

* Modified struct ieee80211_node to include two new fields:
+ struct callout ni_mlhtimer /* link mesh backoff timer */
+ uint8_t ni_mlhcnt /* link mesh holding counter */
* Added two new sysctl (check sysctl -d for more info):
+ net.wlan.mesh.backofftimeout=5000
+ net.wlan.mesh.maxholding=2;
* When receiving a beacon and we are in IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_IDLE
check if ni_mlhcnt >= ieee80211_mesh_maxholding, if so do not do anything;
* In mesh_peer_timeout_cb when transitioning from IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_HOLDING
to IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_IDLE increment ni_mlhcnt, and eventually start
ieee80211_mesh_backofftimeout;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)


# eb1b1807 05-Dec-2012 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Mechanically substitute flags from historic mbuf allocator with
malloc(9) flags within sys.

Exceptions:

- sys/contrib not touched
- sys/mbuf.h edited manually


# 0af1b472 14-Sep-2012 Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>

s/ is is / is /g
s/ a a / a /g

Approved by: cperciva
MFC after: 3 days


# 47451c66 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

PREQ discovery update.

* Added a new discovery flag IEEE80211_MESHRT_FLAGS_DISCOVER;
* Modified ieee80211_ioctl.h to include IEEE80211_MESHRT_FLAGS_DISCOVER;
* Added hwmp_rediscover_cb, which will be called by a timeout to do
rediscovery if we have not reach max number of preq discovery;
* Modified hwmp_discover to setup a callout for path rediscovery;
* Added to ieee80211req_mesh_route to have a back pointer to ieee80211vap
for the discovery callout context;
* Modified mesh_rt_add_locked arguemnt from ieee80211_mesh_state to
ieee80211vap, this because we have to initialize the above back pointer;

Approved by: adrian


# 9fc85253 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Net80211s update: Mesh Gate Announcement and removal of Portal Announcement.

* Renamed IEEE80211_ELEMID_MESHPANN to IEEE80211_ELEMID_MESHGANN according to
amendment;
* Added IEEE80211_IOC_MESH_GATE that controls whether Mesh Gate Announcement
is activated or not;
* Renamed all flags from Portal to Gate in HWMP frames;
* Removed IEEE80211_ACTION_MESHPANN enum cause its part of the Mesh Action
category now as per amendment;
* Renamed IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_PORTAL to IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_GATE in
ieee80211_mesh_state flags;
* Modified ieee80211_hwmp.c/ieee80211_mesh.c to use new GATE flags;

Approved by: adrian


# 3db82516 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

PERR update to be called from mesh code.

* Added mpp_senderror for Mesh Path Selection protocol;
* Added hwmp_senderror that will send an HWMP PERR according to the
supplied reason code;
* Call mpp_senderror when deleting a route with correct reason code
for whether the route is marked proxy or not;
* Call mpp_senderror when trying to forward an individually addressed
frame and there is no forwarding information;

Approved by: adrian


# 644ccee4 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

PREP update

* Added assertion in mesh_rt_update;
* Fixed some prep propagation that where multicast, ALL PREPS ARE UNICAST;
* Fixed PREP acceptance criteria;
* Fixed some PREP debug messages;
* HWMP intermediate reply (PREP) should only be sent if we have newer
forwarding infomration (FI) about target;
* Fixed PREP propagation condition and PREP w/ AE handling;
* Ignore PREPs that have unknown originator.
* Removed old code inside PREP that was for proactive path building
to root mesh;

Other errors include:
* use seq number of target and not orig mesh STA;
* Metric is what we have stored in our FI;
* Error in amendment, Hop count is not 0 but equals FI hopcount for target;

Approved by: adrian


# 737a965e 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

* MeshForwarding update mesh_recv_indiv_data_to_fwrd to silently discard
unknown meshDA instead of panic, which is allowed per amendment spec;

Approved by: adrian


# 4f3a27ae 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Added route lifetime update for destination and source mesh along a mesh path;

* In mesh_recv_indiv_data_to_fwd update route entry for both meshDA and meshSA;
* In mesh_recv_indiv_data_to_me update route entry for meshSA;
* in ieee80211_mesh_rt_update put code so that a proxy entry that is gated
by us (number of hops == 0) is never invalidated;
* Fixed so that we always call ieee80211_mesh_rt_update with lifetime in ms;

Approved by: adrian


# 3c314f6d 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Mesh forwarding with proxy support.

* Modified HWMP PREP/PREQ to contain a proxy entry and also changed PREP
frame processing according to amendment as following:
o Fixed PREP to always update/create if acceptance criteria is meet;
o PREQ processing to reply if request is for a proxy entry that is
proxied by us;
o Removed hwmp_discover call from PREQ, because sending a PREP will
build the forward path, and by receving and accepting a PREQ we
have already built the reverse path (non-proactive code);
* Disabled code for pro-active in PREP for now (will make a separate patch for
pro-active HWMP routing later)
* Added proxy information for a Mesh route, mesh gate to use and proxy seqno;
* Modified ieee80211_encap according to amendment;
* Introduced Mesh control address extension enum and removed unused struct,
also rename some structure element names.
* Modified mesh_input and added mesh_recv_* that should verify and process mesh
data frames according to 9.32 Mesh forwarding framework in amendment;
* Modified mesh_decap accordingly to changes done in mesh control AE struct;

Approved by: adrian


# b5df85a6 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Implemented so that Mesh forwarding information lifetime is dynamic.

* Introduced ieee80211_mesh_rt_update that updates a route with the
maximum(lifetime left, new lifetime);
* Modified ieee80211_mesh_route struct by adding a lock that will be used
by both ieee80211_mesh_rt_update and precursor code (added in future commit);
* Modified in ieee80211_hwmp.c HWMP code to use new ieee80211_mesh_rt_update;
* Modified mesh_rt_flush_invalid to use new ieee80211_mesh_rt_update;
* mesh_rt_flush also checks that lifetime == 0, this gives route discovery
a change to complete;
* Modified mesh_recv_mgmt case IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_BEACON:
when ever we received a beacon from a neighbor we update route lifetime;

Approved by: adrian


# 6eb9b443 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Fixed some MPM reason codes and max number of neighbors check

* Added IEEE80211_MESH_MAX_NEIGHBORS and it is set to 15, same as before;
* Modified mesh_parse_meshpeering_action to verify MPM frame and send
correct reason code for when a frame is rejected according to standard spec;
* Modified mesh_recv_action_meshpeering_* according to the standard spec;
* Modified mesh_peer_timeout_cb to always send CLOSE frame when in CONFIRMRCV
state according to the standard spec;

Approved by: adrian


# c2042c35 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Modified structure and code that handles Mesh peering management.

* Old struct ieee80211_meshpeer_ie had wrong peer_proto field size;
* Added IEEE80211_MPM_* size macros;
* Created an enum for the Mesh Peering Protocol Identifier field according
to the standard spec and removed old defines;
* Abbreviated Handshake Protocol is not used by the standard anymore;
* Modified mesh_verify_meshpeer to use IEEE80211_MPM_* macros for verification;
* Modified mesh_parse_meshpeering_action to parse complete frame, also to parse
it according to the standard spec;
* Modified ieee80211_add_meshpeer to construct correct MPM frames according to
the standard spec;

Approved by: adrian


# ebeaa1ad 01-May-2012 Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@FreeBSD.org>

Added Self-protected action category (including MPM).

* Added new action category IEEE80211_ACTION_CAT_SELF_PROT which is used by 11s
for Mesh Peering Management;
* Updated Self protected enum Action codes to start from 1 instead of 0
according to the standard spec;
* Removed old and wrong action categories IEEE80211_ACTION_CAT_MESHPEERING;
* Modified ieee80211_mesh.c and ieee80211_action.c to use the new action
category code;
* Added earlier verification code in ieee80211_input;

Approved by: adrian


# 1f88a92b 06-Mar-2012 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Modify HWMP to be able to allocate memory for PREQ/PREP/PERR for all scenarios.

* Added verify_mesh_*_len functions that verify the length
according to the amendment spec and return number of destination addresses
for allocation of appropriate struct size in memory;
* Modified hwmp_recv_action_meshpath to allocate HWMP ie instead of
storing them on the stack and store all available field according the flags;
* Modify hwmp_add_mesh* to work with all cases of HWMP according to amendment.
* Modify hwmp_send_* to calculate correct len of bytes for the HWMP ie.
* Added new M_80211_MESH_* malloc defines.
* Added macros with magic numbers for HWMP ie sizes according to amendment.
* Added the external address to all HWMP ie structs.

Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com


# 91216c71 03-Mar-2012 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

* Introduce new flag for QoS control field;
* Change in mesh_input to validate that QoS is set and Mesh Control field
is present, also both bytes of the QoS are read;
* Moved defragmentation in mesh_input before we try to forward packet as
inferred from amendment spec, because Mesh Control field only present in first
fragment;
* Changed in ieee80211_encap to set QoS subtype and Mesh Control field present,
only first fragment have Mesh Control field present bit equal to 1;

Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com


# bdd2a076 03-Mar-2012 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

* Added IEEE80211_ACTION_CAT_MESH in ieee80211.h as specified amendment spec;
* Moved old categories as specified by D4.0 to be action fields of MESH category
as specified in amendment spec;
* Modified functions to use MESH category and its action fields:
+ ieee80211_send_action_register
+ ieee80211_send_action
+ ieee80211_recv_action_register
+ieee80211_recv_action;
* Modified ieee80211_hwmp_init and hwmp_send_action so they uses correct
action fields as specified in amendment spec;
* Modified ieee80211_parse_action so that it verifies MESH frames.
* Change Mesh Link Metric to use one information element as amendment spec.
Draft 4.0 defined two different information elements for request and response.

Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com


# 81b95c2c 13-Feb-2012 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Correct the 802.11s mesh configuration structure and related tidbits.

* Change the mesh IE size to be IEEE80211_MESH_CONF_SZ rather than the
size of the structure;
* conf_cap is now a uint8_t rather than a uint16_t (uint16_t in D3.0,
uint8_t in the amendment spec);
* Update mesh config capability bits - earlier bits were from draft X,
current is amendment spec;
* Update the following to be an enum rather than #define and added
a VENDOR entry too from the amendment spec;
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_PATH_*
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_METRIC_*
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_CC_*
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_SYNC_*
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_AUTH_*
* Kept IEEE80211_MESHCONF_FORM_* and IEEE80211_MESHCONF_CAP_* as
defines because they are defined in a way that we need to mask in/out
information;
* In IEEE80211_MESHCONF_CAP_* IEEE80211_MESHCONF_CAP_TBTTA is removed
and 0x80 is made reserved as defined in the amendment spec.

Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com
Reviewed by: rpaulo


# 1616ed91 02-Feb-2012 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Whitespace removal.


# 5a8801b0 17-Dec-2011 Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@FreeBSD.org>

Remove now redundant mac argument.

Discussed with: adrian@


# 957458a8 14-Dec-2011 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Modify the ACL code slightly to support a few nifty things:

* Call it before sending probe responses, so the ACL code has the
chance to reject sending them.

* Pass the whole frame to the ACL code now, rather than just the
destination MAC - that way the ACL module can look at the frame
contents to determine what the response should be.

This is part of some uncommitted work to support band steering.

Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


# 6472ac3d 07-Nov-2011 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>

Mark all SYSCTL_NODEs static that have no corresponding SYSCTL_DECLs.

The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.


# cd0b8f2d 03-May-2011 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Fix some corner cases in the net80211 sequence number retransmission
handling.

The current sequence number code does a few things incorrectly:

* It didn't try eliminating duplications from HT nodes. I guess it's assumed
that out of order / retransmission handling would be handled by the AMPDU RX
routines. If a HT node isn't doing AMPDU RX, then retransmissions need to
be eliminated. Since most of my debugging is based on this (as AMPDU TX
software packet aggregation isn't yet handled), handle this corner case.

* When a sequence number of 4095 was received, any subsequent sequence number
is going to be (by definition) less than 4095. So if the following sequence
number (0) doesn't initially occur and the retransmit is received, it's
incorrectly eliminated by the IEEE80211_FC1_RETRY && SEQ_LEQ() check.
Try to handle this better.

This almost completely eliminates out of order TCP statistics showing up during
iperf testing for the 11a, 11g and non-aggregate 11n AMPDU RX case. The only
other packet loss conditions leading to this are due to baseband resets or
heavy interference.


# 893c4d6e 22-Feb-2011 Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@FreeBSD.org>

Make sure to only accept and handle action frames which are for us. In
promiscuous mode we might receive stuff which otherwise gets filtered
by hardware.


# 96283082 21-Feb-2011 Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@FreeBSD.org>

Add a new mgmt subtype "ACTION NO ACK" defined in 802.11n-2009, while here
clean up parts of the *_recv_mgmt() functions.
- make sure appropriate counters are bumped and debug messages are printed
- order the unhandled subtypes by value and add a few missing ones
- fix some whitespace nits
- remove duplicate code in adhoc_recv_mgmt()
- remove a useless comment, probably left in while c&p


# d3befdec 19-Jan-2011 Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@FreeBSD.org>

Jump to the next element and not to an arbitrary point. frm[1] contains
the element's data length, frm[2] is the first byte of the element's data.

Submitted by: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar at gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 week


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# 0917631f 18-Mar-2010 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Fix a couple of bugs with 802.11n:
o Process the BAR frame on the adhoc, mesh and sta modes
o Fix the format of the ADDBA reply frame
o Fix references to the spec section numbers

Also, print the all the MCS rates in bootverbose.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Obtained from: //depot/user/rpaulo/80211n/...


# 6c946257 03-Feb-2010 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Avoid a null pointer deref when parsing the meshid.

Found with: clang static analyzer


# 79ea4264 14-Jan-2010 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Fix bugs introduced in previous commit: off-by-one in add_meshconf() and
big-endian bug on verify_meshconf()


# 651e41a4 12-Jan-2010 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Update mesh code to to D4.0.


# e22a16d5 30-Oct-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

MFC r198230, r198242, r198260, r198346, r198369, r198384:

More mesh fixes to comply with latest draft.


# 357864c2 21-Oct-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Don't call the newstate callback as that's dangerous. Rely no ENETRESET
to DTRT.

MFC after: 3 days


# d093681c 19-Oct-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Implement the missing support for updating the mesh conf number of
neighbors via ieee80211_beacon_notify().

MFC after: 3 days


# 596646ae 17-Oct-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

MFC 197975, 197977, 197980, 198027:
Update for latest 802.11s changes in meshconf format.

Approved by: re (kib)


# fe1b9e2a 13-Oct-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Properly initialize the mesh conf capabilities byte.

MFC after: 2 days


# f78595fa 12-Oct-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Fix a wrong initialization that snuck in the latest commit.

MFC after: 3 days


# 6b8c1829 12-Oct-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Another 3.03 draft bit that I missed in the previous 802.11s stack
update. The Mesh Configuration IE has changed quite a bit. Refactor the
code to handle this change.

MFC after: 3 days


# f785216c 28-Sep-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Update 802.11s mesh support to draft 3.03. This includes a revised frame
format for peering and changes to the PERR frames.
Note that this is incompatible with the previous code.

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kib)


# c77735e2 22-Sep-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Update 802.11s mesh support to draft 3.03. This includes a revised frame
format for peering and changes to the PERR frames.
Note that this is incompatible with the previous code.

Reviewed by: sam
MFC after: 1 week


# 3ca80f0d 27-Jul-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Mesh fixes, namely:
* don't clobber proxy entries
* HWMP seq number processing, including discard of old frames
* flush routing table entries based on nexthop
* print route flags in ifconfig
* more debugging messages and comments

Proxy changes submitted by sam.

Approved by: re (kib)


# e50821ab 21-Jul-2009 Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>

store mesh timers as ticks and sysctls for changing the defaults

Reviewed by: rpaulo
Approved by: re (kib)


# c104cff2 20-Jul-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

More mesh bits, namely:
* bridge support (sam)
* handling of errors (sam)
* deletion of inactive routing entries
* more debug msgs (sam)
* fixed some inconsistencies with the spec.
* decap is now specific to mesh (sam)
* print mesh seq. no. on ifconfig list mesh
* small perf. improvements

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kib)


# aec0289d 13-Jul-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Fix inline function declaration and prototype.

Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 59aa14a9 11-Jul-2009 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>

Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.

Authentication and encryption are not implemented.

There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).

A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.

Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.

More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh

Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.

Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s