[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 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static ssize_t ieee80211_if_fmt_flags(
                         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 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *tx)
        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 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_misc(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *tx)
         * 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 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -241,7 +241,6 @@ struct ieee80211_if_sta {
        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 @@ struct ieee80211_sub_if_data {
        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 @@ struct ieee80211_local {
        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 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c
@@ -1180,7 +1180,10 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_prism2_param(struct net_device *dev,
                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 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_get_prism2_param(struct net_device *dev,
                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 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
@@ -316,12 +316,11 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_wmm_params(struct net_device *dev,
 
 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 @@ static void ieee80211_handle_erp_ie(struct net_device *dev, u8 erp_value)
                               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 @@ static void ieee80211_set_associated(struct net_device *dev,
                                     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 @@ static void ieee80211_set_associated(struct net_device *dev,
                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;