[PATCH] mac80211: improved 802.11g CTS protection
Currently, CTS protection is partially implemented twice:
1. via prism2 ioctls, only used by hostapd
2. via STA beacon parsing, recorded in sta.use_protection but never used
(other than printed in debugfs)
Protection control should be implemented on a per-subif basis. For example,
a single physical device may be running a soft AP on one channel, and a STA
on another. The AP interface should use protection based on what hostapd told
it, and the STA interface should use protection based on beacon parsing.
These should operate independantly: one subif using protection should not
influence the other.
To implement this, I moved the use_protection flag into ieee80211_sub_if_data
and removed the device-global cts_protect_erp_frames flag.
I also made the PRISM2_PARAM_CTS_PROTECT_ERP_FRAMES write operation only
available for AP interfaces, to avoid any possibility of the user messing with
the behaviour of a STA.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
index 9e39646..a3e01d7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
sdata->u.sta.authenticated ? "AUTH\n" : "",
sdata->u.sta.associated ? "ASSOC\n" : "",
sdata->u.sta.probereq_poll ? "PROBEREQ POLL\n" : "",
- sdata->u.sta.use_protection ? "CTS prot\n" : "");
+ sdata->use_protection ? "CTS prot\n" : "");
}
__IEEE80211_IF_FILE(flags);
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
index fe32a2d..2ddf4ef 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@
if (!tx->u.tx.rate)
return TXRX_DROP;
if (tx->u.tx.mode->mode == MODE_IEEE80211G &&
- tx->local->cts_protect_erp_frames && tx->fragmented &&
+ tx->sdata->use_protection && tx->fragmented &&
extra.nonerp) {
tx->u.tx.last_frag_rate = tx->u.tx.rate;
tx->u.tx.probe_last_frag = extra.probe ? 1 : 0;
@@ -868,8 +868,7 @@
* for the frame. */
if (mode->mode == MODE_IEEE80211G &&
(tx->u.tx.rate->flags & IEEE80211_RATE_ERP) &&
- tx->u.tx.unicast &&
- tx->local->cts_protect_erp_frames &&
+ tx->u.tx.unicast && tx->sdata->use_protection &&
!(control->flags & IEEE80211_TXCTL_USE_RTS_CTS))
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_USE_CTS_PROTECT;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index 99ff7c5..055a2a9 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -241,7 +241,6 @@
unsigned int authenticated:1;
unsigned int associated:1;
unsigned int probereq_poll:1;
- unsigned int use_protection:1;
unsigned int create_ibss:1;
unsigned int mixed_cell:1;
unsigned int wmm_enabled:1;
@@ -284,6 +283,7 @@
int mc_count;
unsigned int allmulti:1;
unsigned int promisc:1;
+ unsigned int use_protection:1; /* CTS protect ERP frames */
struct net_device_stats stats;
int drop_unencrypted;
@@ -444,7 +444,6 @@
int *basic_rates[NUM_IEEE80211_MODES];
int rts_threshold;
- int cts_protect_erp_frames;
int fragmentation_threshold;
int short_retry_limit; /* dot11ShortRetryLimit */
int long_retry_limit; /* dot11LongRetryLimit */
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
index 9bc209b..5918dd0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
@@ -1180,7 +1180,10 @@
break;
case PRISM2_PARAM_CTS_PROTECT_ERP_FRAMES:
- local->cts_protect_erp_frames = value;
+ if (sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_AP)
+ ret = -ENOENT;
+ else
+ sdata->use_protection = value;
break;
case PRISM2_PARAM_PREAMBLE:
@@ -1303,7 +1306,7 @@
break;
case PRISM2_PARAM_CTS_PROTECT_ERP_FRAMES:
- *param = local->cts_protect_erp_frames;
+ *param = sdata->use_protection;
break;
case PRISM2_PARAM_PREAMBLE:
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
index df6c410..ba2bf8f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
@@ -316,12 +316,11 @@
static void ieee80211_handle_erp_ie(struct net_device *dev, u8 erp_value)
{
- struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
struct ieee80211_if_sta *ifsta = &sdata->u.sta;
int use_protection = (erp_value & WLAN_ERP_USE_PROTECTION) != 0;
- if (use_protection != !!ifsta->use_protection) {
+ if (use_protection != sdata->use_protection) {
if (net_ratelimit()) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: CTS protection %s (BSSID="
MAC_FMT ")\n",
@@ -329,8 +328,7 @@
use_protection ? "enabled" : "disabled",
MAC_ARG(ifsta->bssid));
}
- ifsta->use_protection = use_protection ? 1 : 0;
- local->cts_protect_erp_frames = use_protection;
+ sdata->use_protection = use_protection;
}
}
@@ -390,6 +388,7 @@
struct ieee80211_if_sta *ifsta, int assoc)
{
union iwreq_data wrqu;
+ struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
if (ifsta->associated == assoc)
return;
@@ -417,6 +416,7 @@
ieee80211_sta_send_associnfo(dev, ifsta);
} else {
netif_carrier_off(dev);
+ sdata->use_protection = 0;
memset(wrqu.ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
}
wrqu.ap_addr.sa_family = ARPHRD_ETHER;