mac80211: Copy tx'ed beacons to monitor mode

When debugging wireless powersave issues on the AP side it's quite helpful
to see our own beacons that are transmitted by the hardware/driver. However,
this is not that easy since beacons don't pass through the regular TX queues.

Preferably drivers would call ieee80211_tx_status also for tx'ed beacons
but that's not always possible. Hence, just send a copy of each beacon
generated by ieee80211_beacon_get_tim to monitor devices when they are
getting fetched by the driver.

Also add a HW flag IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS that can be used by
drivers to indicate that they report TX status for beacons.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
(with a fix from Christian Lamparted rolled in)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Helmut Schaa 2015-09-09 09:46:32 +02:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent 5359d112dc
commit 35afa58862
3 changed files with 24 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -1898,6 +1898,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txq {
* @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU: The driver supports receiving A-MSDUs
* within A-MPDU.
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS: The device/driver provides TX status
* for sent beacons.
*
* @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
@ -1932,6 +1935,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS,
IEEE80211_HW_TDLS_WIDER_BW,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU,
IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS,
/* keep last, obviously */
NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS

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@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static const char *hw_flag_names[NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS + 1] = {
FLAG(SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS),
FLAG(TDLS_WIDER_BW),
FLAG(SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU),
FLAG(BEACON_TX_STATUS),
/* keep last for the build bug below */
(void *)0x1

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@ -3512,6 +3512,12 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_beacon_get_tim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
{
struct ieee80211_mutable_offsets offs = {};
struct sk_buff *bcn = __ieee80211_beacon_get(hw, vif, &offs, false);
struct sk_buff *copy;
struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
int shift;
if (!bcn)
return bcn;
if (tim_offset)
*tim_offset = offs.tim_offset;
@ -3519,6 +3525,19 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_beacon_get_tim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
if (tim_length)
*tim_length = offs.tim_length;
if (ieee80211_hw_check(hw, BEACON_TX_STATUS) ||
!hw_to_local(hw)->monitors)
return bcn;
/* send a copy to monitor interfaces */
copy = skb_copy(bcn, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!copy)
return bcn;
shift = ieee80211_vif_get_shift(vif);
sband = hw->wiphy->bands[ieee80211_get_sdata_band(vif_to_sdata(vif))];
ieee80211_tx_monitor(hw_to_local(hw), copy, sband, 1, shift, false);
return bcn;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_beacon_get_tim);