wifi: mac80211: remove return value check of debugfs_create_dir()

Smatch complains that:
debugfs_hw_add() warn: 'statsd' is an error pointer or valid

Debugfs checks are generally not supposed to be

wifi: mac80211: remove return value check of debugfs_create_dir()

Smatch complains that:
debugfs_hw_add() warn: 'statsd' is an error pointer or valid

Debugfs checks are generally not supposed to be checked for errors
and it is not necessary here.

Just delete the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Yingsha Xu <ysxu@hust.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419104548.30124-1-ysxu@hust.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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wifi: mac80211: Drop support for TX push path

All drivers are now using mac80211 internal queues (iTXQs).
Drop mac80211 internal support for the old push path.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alex

wifi: mac80211: Drop support for TX push path

All drivers are now using mac80211 internal queues (iTXQs).
Drop mac80211 internal support for the old push path.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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wifi: mac80211: optionally implement MLO multicast TX

For drivers using software encryption for multicast TX, such
as mac80211_hwsim, mac80211 needs to duplicate the multicast
frames on each link, i

wifi: mac80211: optionally implement MLO multicast TX

For drivers using software encryption for multicast TX, such
as mac80211_hwsim, mac80211 needs to duplicate the multicast
frames on each link, if MLO is enabled. Do this, but don't
just make it dependent on the key but provide a separate flag
for drivers to opt out of this.

This is not very efficient, I expect that drivers will do it
in firmware/hardware or at least with DMA engine assistence,
so this is mostly for hwsim.

To make this work, also implement the SNS11 sequence number
space that an AP MLD shall have, and modify the API to the
__ieee80211_subif_start_xmit() function to always require the
link ID bits to be set.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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wifi: mac80211: add debugfs file to display per-phy AQL pending airtime

Now that the global pending airtime is more relevant for airtime fairness,
it makes sense to make it accessible via debugfs fo

wifi: mac80211: add debugfs file to display per-phy AQL pending airtime

Now that the global pending airtime is more relevant for airtime fairness,
it makes sense to make it accessible via debugfs for debugging

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220625212411.36675-6-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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wifi: mac80211: switch airtime fairness back to deficit round-robin scheduling

This reverts commits 6a789ba679d652587532cec2a0e0274fda172f3b and
2433647bc8d983a543e7d31b41ca2de1c7e2c198.

The virtua

wifi: mac80211: switch airtime fairness back to deficit round-robin scheduling

This reverts commits 6a789ba679d652587532cec2a0e0274fda172f3b and
2433647bc8d983a543e7d31b41ca2de1c7e2c198.

The virtual time scheduler code has a number of issues:
- queues slowed down by hardware/firmware powersave handling were not properly
handled.
- on ath10k in push-pull mode, tx queues that the driver tries to pull from
were starved, causing excessive latency
- delay between tx enqueue and reported airtime use were causing excessively
bursty tx behavior

The bursty behavior may also be present on the round-robin scheduler, but there
it is much easier to fix without introducing additional regressions

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220625212411.36675-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: introduce BSS color collision detection

Add ieee80211_rx_check_bss_color_collision routine in order to introduce
BSS color collision detection in mac80211 if it is not supported in HW/FW
(

mac80211: introduce BSS color collision detection

Add ieee80211_rx_check_bss_color_collision routine in order to introduce
BSS color collision detection in mac80211 if it is not supported in HW/FW
(e.g. for mt7915 chipset).
Add IEEE80211_HW_DETECTS_COLOR_COLLISION flag to let the driver notify
BSS color collision detection is supported in HW/FW. Set this for ath11k
which apparently didn't need this code.

Tested-by: Peter Chiu <Chui-Hao.Chiu@mediatek.com>
Co-developed-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a05eeeb1841a84560dc5aaec77894fcb69a54f27.1648204871.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
[clarify commit message a bit, move flag to mac80211]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: remove unused macros

Various macros in mac80211 aren't used, remove them. In one
case it's used under ifdef, so ifdef it for the W=2 warning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@i

mac80211: remove unused macros

Various macros in mac80211 aren't used, remove them. In one
case it's used under ifdef, so ifdef it for the W=2 warning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20220202104617.5172d7fd878e.I2f1fce686a2b71003f083b2566fb09cf16b8165a@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: Switch to a virtual time-based airtime scheduler

This switches the airtime scheduler in mac80211 to use a virtual
time-based scheduler instead of the round-robin scheduler used before.
Thi

mac80211: Switch to a virtual time-based airtime scheduler

This switches the airtime scheduler in mac80211 to use a virtual
time-based scheduler instead of the round-robin scheduler used before.
This has a couple of advantages:

- No need to sync up the round-robin scheduler in firmware/hardware with
the round-robin airtime scheduler.

- If several stations are eligible for transmission we can schedule both
of them; no need to hard-block the scheduling rotation until the head
of the queue has used up its quantum.

- The check of whether a station is eligible for transmission becomes
simpler (in ieee80211_txq_may_transmit()).

The drawback is that scheduling becomes slightly more expensive, as we
need to maintain an rbtree of TXQs sorted by virtual time. This means
that ieee80211_register_airtime() becomes O(logN) in the number of
currently scheduled TXQs because it can change the order of the
scheduled stations. We mitigate this overhead by only resorting when a
station changes position in the tree, and hopefully N rarely grows too
big (it's only TXQs currently backlogged, not all associated stations),
so it shouldn't be too big of an issue.

To prevent divisions in the fast path, we maintain both station sums and
pre-computed reciprocals of the sums. This turns the fast-path operation
into a multiplication, with divisions only happening as the number of
active stations change (to re-compute the current sum of all active
station weights). To prevent this re-computation of the reciprocal from
happening too frequently, we use a time-based notion of station
activity, instead of updating the weight every time a station gets
scheduled or de-scheduled. As queues can oscillate between empty and
occupied quite frequently, this can significantly cut down on the number
of re-computations. It also has the added benefit of making the station
airtime calculation independent on whether the queue happened to have
drained at the time an airtime value was accounted.

Co-developed-by: Yibo Zhao <yiboz@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Yibo Zhao <yiboz@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623134755.235545-1-toke@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: move interface shutdown out of wiphy lock

When reconfiguration fails, we shut down everything, but we
cannot call cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces() with the wiphy
mutex held. Since cfg802

mac80211: move interface shutdown out of wiphy lock

When reconfiguration fails, we shut down everything, but we
cannot call cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces() with the wiphy
mutex held. Since cfg80211 now calls it on resume errors, we
only need to do likewise for where we call reconfig (whether
directly or indirectly), but not under the wiphy lock.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2fe8ef106238 ("cfg80211: change netdev registration/unregistration semantics")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210608113226.78233c80f548.Iecc104aceb89f0568f50e9670a9cb191a1c8887b@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: fix 'reset' debugfs locking

cfg80211 now calls suspend/resume with the wiphy lock
held, and while there's a problem with that needing
to be fixed, we should do the same in debugfs.

Cc: st

mac80211: fix 'reset' debugfs locking

cfg80211 now calls suspend/resume with the wiphy lock
held, and while there's a problem with that needing
to be fixed, we should do the same in debugfs.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a05829a7222e ("cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210608113226.14020430e449.I78e19db0a55a8295a376e15ac4cf77dbb4c6fb51@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: Allow concurrent monitor iface and ethernet rx decap

Some HW/driver can support passing ethernet rx decap frames and
raw 802.11 frames for the monitor interface concurrently and
via separa

mac80211: Allow concurrent monitor iface and ethernet rx decap

Some HW/driver can support passing ethernet rx decap frames and
raw 802.11 frames for the monitor interface concurrently and
via separate RX calls to mac80211. Packets going to the monitor
interface(s) would be in 802.11 format and thus not have the
RX_FLAG_8023 set, and 802.11 format monitoring frames should have
RX_FLAG_ONLY_MONITOR set.

Drivers doing such can enable the SUPPORTS_CONC_MON_RX_DECAP to
allow using ethernet decap offload while a monitor interface is
active, currently RX decapsulation offload gets disabled when a
monitor interface is added.

Signed-off-by: Sriram R <srirrama@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1617068116-32253-1-git-send-email-srirrama@codeaurora.org
[add proper documentation, rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: introduce aql_enable node in debugfs

Introduce aql_enable node in debugfs in order to enable/disable aql.
This is useful for debugging purpose.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@ke

mac80211: introduce aql_enable node in debugfs

Introduce aql_enable node in debugfs in order to enable/disable aql.
This is useful for debugging purpose.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e7a934d5d84e4796c4f97ea5de4e66c824296b07.1610214851.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: add rx decapsulation offload support

This allows drivers to pass 802.3 frames to mac80211, with some restrictions:

- the skb must be passed with a valid sta
- fast-rx needs to be active f

mac80211: add rx decapsulation offload support

This allows drivers to pass 802.3 frames to mac80211, with some restrictions:

- the skb must be passed with a valid sta
- fast-rx needs to be active for the sta
- monitor mode needs to be disabled

mac80211 will tell the driver when it is safe to enable rx decap offload for
a particular station.

In order to implement support, a driver must:

- call ieee80211_hw_set(hw, SUPPORTS_RX_DECAP_OFFLOAD)
- implement ops->sta_set_decap_offload
- mark 802.3 frames with RX_FLAG_8023

If it doesn't want to enable offload for some vif types, it can mask out
IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_DECAP_ENABLED in vif->offload_flags from within the
.add_interface or .update_vif_offload driver ops

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201218184718.93650-6-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: fix incorrect strlen of .write in debugfs

This fixes strlen mismatch problems happening in some .write callbacks
of debugfs.

When trying to configure airtime_flags in debugfs, an error ap

mac80211: fix incorrect strlen of .write in debugfs

This fixes strlen mismatch problems happening in some .write callbacks
of debugfs.

When trying to configure airtime_flags in debugfs, an error appeared:
ash: write error: Invalid argument

The error is returned from kstrtou16() since a wrong length makes it
miss the real end of input string. To fix this, use count as the string
length, and set proper end of string for a char buffer.

The debug print is shown - airtime_flags_write: count = 2, len = 8,
where the actual length is 2, but "len = strlen(buf)" gets 8.

Also cleanup the other similar cases for the sake of consistency.

Signed-off-by: Sujuan Chen <sujuan.chen@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Shayne Chen <shayne.chen@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112032028.7482-1-shayne.chen@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: remove trailing semicolon in macro definitions

The macro uses should have (and already have) the semicolon.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202011

mac80211: remove trailing semicolon in macro definitions

The macro uses should have (and already have) the semicolon.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127193842.2876355-1-trix@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: fix incorrect strlen of .write in debugfs

[ Upstream commit 6020d534fa012b80c6d13811dc4d2dfedca2e403 ]

This fixes strlen mismatch problems happening in some .write callbacks
of debugfs.

mac80211: fix incorrect strlen of .write in debugfs

[ Upstream commit 6020d534fa012b80c6d13811dc4d2dfedca2e403 ]

This fixes strlen mismatch problems happening in some .write callbacks
of debugfs.

When trying to configure airtime_flags in debugfs, an error appeared:
ash: write error: Invalid argument

The error is returned from kstrtou16() since a wrong length makes it
miss the real end of input string. To fix this, use count as the string
length, and set proper end of string for a char buffer.

The debug print is shown - airtime_flags_write: count = 2, len = 8,
where the actual length is 2, but "len = strlen(buf)" gets 8.

Also cleanup the other similar cases for the sake of consistency.

Signed-off-by: Sujuan Chen <sujuan.chen@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Shayne Chen <shayne.chen@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112032028.7482-1-shayne.chen@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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mac80211: rework tx encapsulation offload API

The current API (which lets the driver turn on/off per vif directly) has a
number of limitations:
- it does not deal with AP_VLAN
- conditions for enabl

mac80211: rework tx encapsulation offload API

The current API (which lets the driver turn on/off per vif directly) has a
number of limitations:
- it does not deal with AP_VLAN
- conditions for enabling (no tkip, no monitor) are only checked at
add_interface time
- no way to indicate 4-addr support

In order to address this, store offload flags in struct ieee80211_vif
(easy to extend for decap offload later). mac80211 initially sets the enable
flag, but gives the driver a chance to modify it before its settings are
applied. In addition to the .add_interface op, a .update_vif_offload op is
introduced, which can be used for runtime changes.

If a driver can't disable encap offload at runtime, or if it has some extra
limitations, it can simply override the flags within those ops.

Support for encap offload with 4-address mode interfaces can be enabled
by setting a flag from .add_interface or .update_vif_offload.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200908123702.88454-6-nbd@nbd.name
[resolved conflict with commit aa2092a9bab3 ("ath11k: add raw mode and
software crypto support")]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: debugfs: improve airtime_flags handler readability

Improve airtime_flags debugfs handler readability reporting configured
airtime flags in both numeric and human readable manner

Signed-of

mac80211: debugfs: improve airtime_flags handler readability

Improve airtime_flags debugfs handler readability reporting configured
airtime flags in both numeric and human readable manner

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9df7e40b45e95bb0b320317831455beaed1ee3ee.1574872357.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
[remove AQL since it's no longer there]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: Implement Airtime-based Queue Limit (AQL)

In order for the Fq_CoDel algorithm integrated in mac80211 layer to operate
effectively to control excessive queueing latency, the CoDel algorithm

mac80211: Implement Airtime-based Queue Limit (AQL)

In order for the Fq_CoDel algorithm integrated in mac80211 layer to operate
effectively to control excessive queueing latency, the CoDel algorithm
requires an accurate measure of how long packets stays in the queue, AKA
sojourn time. The sojourn time measured at the mac80211 layer doesn't
include queueing latency in the lower layer (firmware/hardware) and CoDel
expects lower layer to have a short queue. However, most 802.11ac chipsets
offload tasks such TX aggregation to firmware or hardware, thus have a deep
lower layer queue.

Without a mechanism to control the lower layer queue size, packets only
stay in mac80211 layer transiently before being sent to firmware queue.
As a result, the sojourn time measured by CoDel in the mac80211 layer is
almost always lower than the CoDel latency target, hence CoDel does little
to control the latency, even when the lower layer queue causes excessive
latency.

The Byte Queue Limits (BQL) mechanism is commonly used to address the
similar issue with wired network interface. However, this method cannot be
applied directly to the wireless network interface. "Bytes" is not a
suitable measure of queue depth in the wireless network, as the data rate
can vary dramatically from station to station in the same network, from a
few Mbps to over Gbps.

This patch implements an Airtime-based Queue Limit (AQL) to make CoDel work
effectively with wireless drivers that utilized firmware/hardware
offloading. AQL allows each txq to release just enough packets to the lower
layer to form 1-2 large aggregations to keep hardware fully utilized and
retains the rest of the frames in mac80211 layer to be controlled by the
CoDel algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Kan Yan <kyan@google.com>
[ Toke: Keep API to set pending airtime internal, fix nits in commit msg ]
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119060610.76681-4-kyan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: expose HW conf flags through debugfs

This is useful during testing to eg. check the currently
configured HW power save state.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: ht

mac80211: expose HW conf flags through debugfs

This is useful during testing to eg. check the currently
configured HW power save state.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119053538.25979-3-thomas@adapt-ip.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: AMPDU handling for rekeys with Extended Key ID

Extended Key ID allows A-MPDU sessions while rekeying as long as each
A-MPDU aggregates only MPDUs with one keyid together.

Drivers able to

mac80211: AMPDU handling for rekeys with Extended Key ID

Extended Key ID allows A-MPDU sessions while rekeying as long as each
A-MPDU aggregates only MPDUs with one keyid together.

Drivers able to segregate MPDUs accordingly can tell mac80211 to not
stop A-MPDU sessions when rekeying by setting the new flag
IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_KEYBORDER_SUPPORT.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190629195015.19680-3-alexander@wetzel-home.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: Simplify Extended Key ID API

1) Drop IEEE80211_HW_EXT_KEY_ID_NATIVE and let drivers directly set
the NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_EXT_KEY_ID flag.

2) Drop IEEE80211_HW_NO_AMPDU_KEYBORDER_SUPPOR

mac80211: Simplify Extended Key ID API

1) Drop IEEE80211_HW_EXT_KEY_ID_NATIVE and let drivers directly set
the NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_EXT_KEY_ID flag.

2) Drop IEEE80211_HW_NO_AMPDU_KEYBORDER_SUPPORT and simply assume all
drivers are unable to handle A-MPDU key borders.

The new Extended Key ID API now requires all mac80211 drivers to set
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_EXT_KEY_ID when they implement set_key() and can
handle Extended Key ID. For drivers not providing set_key() mac80211
itself enables Extended Key ID support, using the internal SW crypto
services.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190629195015.19680-2-alexander@wetzel-home.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 505

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 505

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 58 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081207.556988620@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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mac80211: AMPDU handling for Extended Key ID

IEEE 802.11 - 2016 forbids mixing MPDUs with different keyIDs in one
A-MPDU. Drivers supporting A-MPDUs and Extended Key ID must actively
enforce that re

mac80211: AMPDU handling for Extended Key ID

IEEE 802.11 - 2016 forbids mixing MPDUs with different keyIDs in one
A-MPDU. Drivers supporting A-MPDUs and Extended Key ID must actively
enforce that requirement due to the available two unicast keyIDs.

Allow driver to signal mac80211 that they will not check the keyID in
MPDUs when aggregating them and that they expect mac80211 to stop Tx
aggregation when rekeying a connection using Extended Key ID.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: debugfs option to force TX status frames

At Technical University of Munich we use MAC 802.11 TX status frames to
perform several measurements in MAC 802.11 setups.

With ath based drivers

mac80211: debugfs option to force TX status frames

At Technical University of Munich we use MAC 802.11 TX status frames to
perform several measurements in MAC 802.11 setups.

With ath based drivers this was possible until commit d94a461d7a7df6
("ath9k: use ieee80211_tx_status_noskb where possible") as the driver
ignored the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag and always delivered
tx_status frames. Since that commit, this behavior was changed and the
driver now adheres to IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS.

Due to performance reasons, IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS is not set for
data frames from interfaces in managed mode. Hence, frames that are sent
from a managed mode interface do never deliver tx_status frames. This
remains true even if a monitor mode interface (the measurement interface)
is added to the same ieee80211 physical device. Thus, there is no
possibility for receiving tx_status frames for frames sent on an interface
in managed mode, if the driver adheres to IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS.

In order to force delivery of tx_status frames for research and debugging
purposes, implement a debugfs option force_tx_status for ieee80211 physical
devices. When this option is set for a physical device,
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS is enabled in all packets sent from that
device. This option can be set via
/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/<dev>/force_tx_status. The default is disabled.

Co-developed-by: Charlie Groh <ga58taw@mytum.de>
Signed-off-by: Charlie Groh <ga58taw@mytum.de>
Signed-off-by: Julius Niedworok <julius.n@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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