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Johannes Berg
2740f0cf8e cfg80211: add Intel Mobile Communications copyright
Our legal structure changed at some point (see wikipedia), but
we forgot to immediately switch over to the new copyright
notice.

For files that we have modified in the time since the change,
add the proper copyright notice now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-09-05 13:52:06 +02:00
Johannes Berg
5bc8c1f2b0 cfg80211: allow passing frame type to cfg80211_inform_bss()
When using the cfg80211_inform_bss[_width]() functions drivers
cannot currently indicate whether the data was received in a
beacon or probe response. Fix that by passing a new enum that
indicates such (or unknown).

For good measure, use it in ath6kl.

Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> [ath6kl]
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> [brcmfmac]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-08-26 11:16:02 +02:00
Johannes Berg
0e227084ae cfg80211: clarify BSS probe response vs. beacon data
There are a few possible cases of where BSS data came from:
 1) only a beacon has been received
 2) only a probe response has been received
 3) the driver didn't report what it received (this happens when
    using cfg80211_inform_bss[_width]())
 4) both probe response and beacon data has been received

Unfortunately, in the userspace API, a few things weren't there:
 a) there was no way to differentiate cases 1) and 4) above
    without comparing the data of the IEs
 b) the TSF was always from the last frame, instead of being
    exposed for beacon/probe response separately like IEs

Fix this by
   i) exporting a new flag attribute that indicates whether or
      not probe response data has been received - this addresses (a)
  ii) exporting a BEACON_TSF attribute that holds the beacon's TSF
      if a beacon has been received
 iii) not exporting the beacon attributes in case (3) above as that
      would just lead userspace into thinking the data actually came
      from a beacon when that isn't clear

To implement this, track inside the IEs struct whether or not it
(definitely) came from a beacon.

Reported-by: William Seto
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-08-26 11:16:01 +02:00
John W. Linville
40a10fd740 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2014-05-22 13:58:36 -04:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
67af981153 cfg80211: allow RSSI compensation
Channels in 2.4GHz band overlap, this means that if we
send a probe request on channel 1 and then move to channel
2, we will hear the probe response on channel 2. In this
case, the RSSI will be lower than if we had heard it on
the channel on which it was sent (1 in this case).

The firmware / low level driver can parse the channel in
the DS IE or HT IE and compensate the RSSI so that it will
still have a valid value even if we heard the frame on an
adjacent channel. This can be done up to a certain offset.

Add this offset as a configuration for the low level driver.
A low level driver that can compensate the low RSSI in this
case should assign the maximal offset for which the RSSI
value is still valid.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-05-22 09:58:49 +02:00
John W. Linville
3231d65ffe Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless 2014-05-13 15:27:44 -04:00
Eliad Peller
792e6aa7a1 cfg80211: add cfg80211_sched_scan_stopped_rtnl
Add locked-version for cfg80211_sched_scan_stopped.
This is used for some users that might want to
call it when rtnl is already locked.

Fixes: d43c6b6 ("mac80211: reschedule sched scan after HW restart")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.14+)
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-05-05 15:14:57 +02:00
Zhao, Gang
f26cbf401b cfg80211: change wiphy_to_dev function name
Name wiphy_to_rdev is more accurate to describe what the function
does, i.e., return a pointer pointing to struct
cfg80211_registered_device.

Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-04-25 17:33:04 +02:00
Zhao, Gang
1b8ec87aa0 cfg80211: change registered device pointer name
Name "dev" is too common and ambiguous, let all the pointer name
pointing to struct cfg80211_registered_device be "rdev". This can
improve code readability and consistency(since other places have
already called it rdev).

Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-04-25 17:32:56 +02:00
Johannes Berg
c14a74007f cfg80211: ignore invalid BSSIDs when looking for BSSes
When looking for a BSS matching given parameters, ignore invalid
BSSIDs. This avoids, for example, trying to join an IBSS that has
a multicast BSSID, which isn't supported by all drivers nor is it
a valid configuration of the IBSS so better create a new one with
a correctly chosen random BSSID.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-04-10 10:09:18 +02:00
Zhao, Gang
96998e3a2f cfg80211: remove unused wiphy argument from cfg80211_wext_freq()
cfg80211_wext_freq() is declared in wext-compat.h, but its
parameter struct wiphy's declaration is not included there.
As the parameter isn't used, just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
[remove parameter instead of changing to netdev]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-04-10 10:06:19 +02:00
Zhao, Gang
4da6462213 cfg80211: remove unnecessary check
RCU pointer bss->pub.beacon_ies is checked before in previous
statement:

if (rcu_access_pointer(bss->pub.beacon_ies))
	continue;

There is no need to check it twice(and in the wrong way :) ).

Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-03-19 21:29:57 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
3afc2167f6 cfg80211/mac80211: ignore signal if the frame was heard on wrong channel
On 2.4Ghz band, the channels overlap since the delta
between different channels is 5Mhz while the width of the
receiver is 20Mhz (at least).

This means that we can hear beacons or probe responses from
adjacent channels. These frames will have a significant
lower RSSI which will feed all kinds of logic with inaccurate
data. An obvious example is the roaming algorithm that will
think our AP is getting weak and will try to move to another
AP.

In order to avoid this, update the signal only if the frame
has been heard on the same channel as the one advertised by
the AP in its DS / HT IEs.
We refrain from updating the values only if the AP is
already in the BSS list so that we will still have a valid
(but inaccurate) value if the AP was heard on an adjacent
channel only.

To achieve this, stop taking the channel from DS / HT IEs
in mac80211. The DS / HT IEs is taken into account to
discard the frame if it was received on a disabled channel.
This can happen due to the same phenomenon: the frame is
sent on channel 12, but heard on channel 11 while channel
12 can be disabled on certain devices. Since this check
is done in cfg80211, stop even checking this in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
[remove unused rx_freq variable]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-03-19 21:29:56 +01:00
Johannes Berg
f9d15d162b cfg80211: send scan results from work queue
Due to the previous commit, when a scan finishes, it is in theory
possible to hit the following sequence:
 1. interface starts being removed
 2. scan is cancelled by driver and cfg80211 is notified
 3. scan done work is scheduled
 4. interface is removed completely, rdev->scan_req is freed,
    event sent to userspace but scan done work remains pending
 5. new scan is requested on another virtual interface
 6. scan done work runs, freeing the still-running scan

To fix this situation, hang on to the scan done message and block
new scans while that is the case, and only send the message from
the work function, regardless of whether the scan_req is already
freed from interface removal. This makes step 5 above impossible
and changes step 6 to be
 5. scan done work runs, sending the scan done message

As this can't work for wext, so we send the message immediately,
but this shouldn't be an issue since we still return -EBUSY.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-06 09:55:19 +01:00
Ilan Peer
bdfbec2d2d cfg80211: Add a function to get the number of supported channels
Add a utility function to get the number of channels supported by
the device, and update the places in the code that need this data.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
[replace another occurrence in libertas, fix kernel-doc, fix bugs]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-01-09 14:24:24 +01:00
Eliad Peller
4a58e7c384 cfg80211: don't "leak" uncompleted scans
___cfg80211_scan_done() can be called in some cases
(e.g. on NETDEV_DOWN) before the low level driver
notified scan completion (which is indicated by
passing leak=true).

Clearing rdev->scan_req in this case is buggy, as
scan_done_wk might have already being queued/running
(and can't be flushed as it takes rtnl()).

If a new scan will be requested at this stage, the
scan_done_wk will try freeing it (instead of the
previous scan), and this will later result in
a use after free.

Simply remove the "leak" option, and replace it with
a standard WARN_ON.

An example backtrace after such crash:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffee5
pgd = c0004000
[fffffee5] *pgd=9fdf6821, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP ARM
PC is at cfg80211_scan_done+0x28/0xc4 [cfg80211]
LR is at __ieee80211_scan_completed+0xe4/0x2dc [mac80211]
[<bf0077b0>] (cfg80211_scan_done+0x28/0xc4 [cfg80211])
[<bf0973d4>] (__ieee80211_scan_completed+0xe4/0x2dc [mac80211])
[<bf0982cc>] (ieee80211_scan_work+0x94/0x4f0 [mac80211])
[<c005fd10>] (process_one_work+0x1b0/0x4a8)
[<c0060404>] (worker_thread+0x138/0x37c)
[<c0066d70>] (kthread+0xa4/0xb0)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-05 19:06:47 +01:00
Johannes Berg
79845c662e cfg80211: fix scheduled scan pointer access
Since rdev->sched_scan_req is dereferenced outside the
lock protecting it, this might be done at the wrong
time, causing crashes. Move the dereference to where
it should be - inside the RTNL locked section.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.8+]
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-21 11:59:15 +02:00
Joe Perches
1372a298ea wireless: scan: Remove comment to compare_ether_addr
This function is being removed, so remove the reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-03 22:34:48 -04:00
Simon Wunderlich
dcd6eac1f3 nl80211: add scan width to bss and scan request structs
To allow scanning and working with 5 MHz and 10 MHz BSS, extend the
inform bss commands and add wrappers to take 5 and 10 MHz bss into
account.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:01 +03:00
Ben Greear
0e3a39b562 wireless: add comments about bss refcounting
Should help the next person that tries to understand
the bss refcounting logic.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-24 15:54:45 +02:00
Johannes Berg
5fe231e873 cfg80211: vastly simplify locking
Virtually all code paths in cfg80211 already (need to) hold
the RTNL. As such, there's little point in having another
four mutexes for various parts of the code, they just cause
lock ordering issues (and much of the time, the RTNL and a
few of the others need thus be held.)

Simplify all this by getting rid of the extra four mutexes
and just use the RTNL throughout. Only a few code changes
were needed to do this and we can get rid of a work struct
for bonus points.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:15 +02:00
Johannes Berg
9f419f3851 cfg80211: move cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex under wext
The function is only used and needed by the wext code
for scanning, so move it there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25 00:02:13 +02:00
Johannes Berg
f9f475292d cfg80211: always check for scan end on P2P device
If a P2P device wdev is removed while it has a scan, then the
scan completion might crash later as it is already freed by
that time. To avoid the crash always check the scan completion
when the P2P device is being removed for some reason. If the
driver already canceled it, don't want and free it, otherwise
warn and leak it to avoid later crashes.

In order to do this, locking needs to be changed away from the
rdev mutex (which can't always be guaranteed). For now, use
the sched_scan_mtx instead, I'll rename it to just scan_mtx in
a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-24 11:15:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg
1345ee6a6d cfg80211: fix potential BSS memory leak and update
In the odd case that while updating information from a beacon,
a BSS was found that is part of a hidden group, we drop the
new information. In this case, however, we leak the IE buffer
from the update, and erroneously update the entry's timestamp
so it will never time out. Fix both these issues.

Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-07 12:55:32 +01:00
Johannes Berg
8cdc196b74 Merge remote-tracking branch 'mac80211/master' into HEAD 2013-02-15 09:41:21 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
04f39047af nl80211/cfg80211: add radar detection command/event
Add new NL80211_CMD_RADAR_DETECT, which starts the Channel
Availability Check (CAC). This command will also notify the
usermode about events (CAC finished, CAC aborted, radar
detected, NOP finished).
Once radar detection has started it should continuously
monitor for radars as long as the channel is active.

This patch enables DFS for AP mode in nl80211/cfg80211.

Based on original patch by Victor Goldenshtein <victorg@ti.com>

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
[remove WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_RADAR_DETECT again -- my mistake]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:40:18 +01:00
Luciano Coelho
6719429dd6 cfg80211: check vendor IE length to avoid overrun
cfg80211_find_vendor_ie() was checking only that the vendor IE would
fit in the remaining IEs buffer.  If a corrupt includes a vendor IE
that is too small, we could potentially overrun the IEs buffer.

Fix this by checking that the vendor IE fits in the reported IE length
field and skip it otherwise.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
[change BUILD_BUG_ON to != 1 (from >= 2)]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-13 10:14:17 +01:00
Johannes Berg
8cef2c9df8 cfg80211: move TSF into IEs
While technically the TSF isn't an IE, it can be
necessary to distinguish between the TSF from a
beacon and a probe response, in particular in
order to know the next DTIM TBTT, as not all APs
are spec compliant wrt. TSF==0 being a DTIM TBTT
and thus the DTIM count needs to be taken into
account as well.

To allow this, move the TSF into the IE struct
so it can be known whence it came.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:59 +01:00
Johannes Berg
83c7aa1a14 cfg80211: remove scan ies NULL check
There's no way scan BSS IEs can be NULL as even
if the allocation fails the frame is discarded.
Remove some code checking for this and document
that it is always non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg
776b358017 cfg80211: track hidden SSID networks properly
Currently, cfg80211 will copy beacon IEs from a previously
received hidden SSID beacon to a probe response entry, if
that entry is created after the beacon entry. However, if
it is the other way around, or if the beacon is updated,
such changes aren't propagated.

Fix this by tracking the relation between the probe
response and beacon BSS structs in this case.

In case drivers have private data stored in a BSS struct
and need access to such data from a beacon entry, cfg80211
now provides the hidden_beacon_bss pointer from the probe
response entry to the beacon entry.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:57 +01:00
Johannes Berg
5b112d3d09 cfg80211: pass wiphy to cfg80211_ref_bss/put_bss
This prepares for using the spinlock instead of krefs
which is needed in the next patch to track the refs
of combined BSSes correctly.

Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [mwifiex]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:52 +01:00
Johannes Berg
0532d4f154 cfg80211: wrap BSS kref
Add inline wrappers for the BSS struct krefs
to be able to extend them easily later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:46 +01:00
Johannes Berg
9537f227b4 cfg80211: remove a local variable
This local variable is only used once, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:46 +01:00
Johannes Berg
4b1af4792a cfg80211: use lockdep to assert lock is held
Instead of annotating with a comment, add a lockdep
annotation which also serves as documentation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:45 +01:00
Johannes Berg
2ca813ad61 cfg80211: move locking into cfg80211_bss_age
There's no reason for it to require external
locking, move it into the function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:43 +01:00
Johannes Berg
50521aa881 cfg80211: fix BSS IE allocation comment
The comment about allocating the IEs together with
the BSS struct is no longer true, remove it. Also
fix a typo in the same area.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:43 +01:00
Johannes Berg
37e0838117 cfg80211: remove unused cfg80211_get_mesh
As Thomas pointed out, cfg80211_get_mesh() is
unused and can be removed.

Cc: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:42 +01:00
Johannes Berg
3af6341c53 cfg80211: simplify mesh BSS comparison
Instead of first checking if a BSS is an MBSS
and then doing the comparisons, inline it all
into the BSS comparison function. This avoids
doing the IE searches twice and is also a lot
less code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:41 +01:00
Johannes Berg
4593c4cbe1 cfg80211: fix BSS list hidden SSID lookup
When trying to find a hidden SSID, the lookup function
is done wrong; the code is trying to combine the two
lookups into one, and as a consequence doesn't always
find the entry at all. To understand this, consider a
case where multiple BSS entries with the same channel
and BSSID exist but have different SSID length. Then
comparing against the probe response SSID length is
bound to cause problems since the hidden one might be
either zeroed out or zero-length.

To fix this we need to do two lookups for the two ways
to hide SSIDs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:41 +01:00
Johannes Berg
5622f5bb8d cfg80211: refactor hidden SSID finding
Instead of duplicating the rbtree functions, pass
an argument to the compare function. This removes
the code duplication for the two searches.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:40 +01:00
Johannes Berg
3ff9a827c6 cfg80211: remove free_priv BSS API
Now that mac80211 no longer uses this API, remove
it completely. If anyone needs it again, we can
revert this patch of course, but mac80211 was the
only user right now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:07:30 +01:00
Dan Carpenter
c49dc9008b cfg80211: off by one in ieee80211_bss()
We do a:

	sprintf(buf, " Last beacon: %ums ago",
		elapsed_jiffies_msecs(bss->ts));

elapsed_jiffies_msecs() can return a 10 digit number so "buf" needs to
be 31 characters long.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-24 15:47:22 +01:00
Johannes Berg
9caf036402 cfg80211: fix BSS struct IE access races
When a BSS struct is updated, the IEs are currently
overwritten or freed. This can lead to races if some
other CPU is accessing the BSS struct and using the
IEs concurrently.

Fix this by always allocating the IEs in a new struct
that holds the data and length and protecting access
to this new struct with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:42:20 +01:00
Johannes Berg
f94f8b168c cfg80211: fix cmp_hidden_bss
The cmp_bss() comparator function uses memcmp() to
compare the SSID. This means that cmp_hidden_bss()
needs to similarly return a number bigger than zero
(use 1) instead of -1 when ie1 is bigger than ie2,
which is the case if an ie2 byte is non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:26 +01:00
Johannes Berg
915de2ff4a cfg80211: fix whitespace in scan handling
Fix a number of indentation and similar issues.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:25 +01:00
Johannes Berg
b629ea3db4 cfg80211: don't BUG_ON BSS struct issues
There's no need to stop the machine, just leak
the BSS entry if there's an issue with its hold
counter when freeing.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30 13:41:24 +01:00
Johannes Berg
0172bb7507 cfg80211: use DS or HT operation IEs to determine BSS channel
Currently, mac80211 checks the DS params IE if present and
uses it for the (primary) BSS channel, instead of the one
that the frame was received on. This is particularly useful
in the 2.4 GHz band since a frame is often received on one
of the adjacent channels due to overlap.

Move this code to cfg80211 so other drivers also do this.

Additionally, on 5 GHz, in particular with some (possibly)
upcoming changes in 802.11ai and duplicate transmissions
when wider channels are used, something similar happens.
So if present, also use the (primary) channel information
contained in the HT operation IE.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-23 14:23:30 +01:00
Beni Lev
4ee3e063f1 cfg80211: add cfg80211 exported function tracing
Also add tracing to the API functions that drivers
(and mac80211) can call in cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Beni Lev <beni.lev@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 10:53:38 +02:00
Hila Gonen
e35e4d28b6 cfg80211: add wrappers for registered_device_ops
This will allow adding central tracing like in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Hila Gonen <hila.gonen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 10:53:37 +02:00
Sam Leffler
15d6030b4b cfg80211: add support for flushing old scan results
Add an NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_FLUSH flag that causes old bss cache
entries to be flushed on scan completion. This is useful for
collecting guaranteed fresh scan/survey result (e.g. on resume).

For normal scan, flushing only happens on successful completion
of a scan; i.e. it does not happen if the scan is aborted.
For scheduled scan, previous scan results are flushed everytime
when we get new scan results.

This feature is enabled by default. Drivers can disable it by
unsetting the NL80211_FEATURE_SCAN_FLUSH flag.

Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
[invert polarity of feature flag to account for old kernels]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-18 09:01:52 +02:00