Commit 6382246e authored by Emmanuel Grumbach's avatar Emmanuel Grumbach Committed by Johannes Berg
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mac80211: notify the driver upon BAR Rx 



When we receive a BAR, this typically means that our peer
doesn't hear our Block-Acks or that we can't hear its
frames. Either way, it is a good indication that the link
is in a bad condition. This is why it can serve as a probe
to the driver.
Use the event_callback callback for this.
Since more events with the same data will be added in the
feature, the structure that describes the data attached to
the event is called in a generic name: ieee80211_ba_event.

This also means that from now on, the event_callback can't
sleep.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 6e70d560

include/net/mac80211.h

+18 −2
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@@ -337,10 +337,12 @@ enum ieee80211_bss_change { 
 * enum ieee80211_event_type - event to be notified to the low level driver

 * @RSSI_EVENT: AP's rssi crossed the a threshold set by the driver.

 * @MLME_EVENT: event related to MLME

 * @BAR_RX_EVENT: a BAR was received

 */

enum ieee80211_event_type {

	RSSI_EVENT,

	MLME_EVENT,

	BAR_RX_EVENT,

};



/**
@@ -399,18 +401,32 @@ struct ieee80211_mlme_event { 
	u16 reason;

};



/**

 * struct ieee80211_ba_event - data attached for BlockAck related events

 * @sta: pointer to the &ieee80211_sta to which this event relates

 * @tid: the tid

 * @ssn: the starting sequence number

 */

struct ieee80211_ba_event {

	struct ieee80211_sta *sta;

	u16 tid;

	u16 ssn;

};



/**

 * struct ieee80211_event - event to be sent to the driver

 * @type: The event itself. See &enum ieee80211_event_type.

 * @rssi: relevant if &type is %RSSI_EVENT

 * @mlme: relevant if &type is %AUTH_EVENT

 * @u:    union holding the above two fields

 * @ba: relevant if &type is %BAR_RX_EVENT

 * @u:union holding the fields above

 */

struct ieee80211_event {

	enum ieee80211_event_type type;

	union {

		struct ieee80211_rssi_event rssi;

		struct ieee80211_mlme_event mlme;

		struct ieee80211_ba_event ba;

	} u;

};
@@ -3001,7 +3017,7 @@ enum ieee80211_reconfig_type { 
 *	The callback can sleep.

 * @event_callback: Notify driver about any event in mac80211. See

 *	&enum ieee80211_event_type for the different types.

 *	The callback can sleep.

 *	The callback must be atomic.

 *

 * @release_buffered_frames: Release buffered frames according to the given

 *	parameters. In the case where the driver buffers some frames for

net/mac80211/rx.c

+8 −0
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@@ -2427,6 +2427,9 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx, struct sk_buff_head *frames) 
		struct {

			__le16 control, start_seq_num;

		} __packed bar_data;

		struct ieee80211_event event = {

			.type = BAR_RX_EVENT,

		};



		if (!rx->sta)

			return RX_DROP_MONITOR;
@@ -2442,6 +2445,9 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx, struct sk_buff_head *frames) 
			return RX_DROP_MONITOR;



		start_seq_num = le16_to_cpu(bar_data.start_seq_num) >> 4;

		event.u.ba.tid = tid;

		event.u.ba.ssn = start_seq_num;

		event.u.ba.sta = &rx->sta->sta;



		/* reset session timer */

		if (tid_agg_rx->timeout)
@@ -2454,6 +2460,8 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx, struct sk_buff_head *frames) 
						 start_seq_num, frames);

		spin_unlock(&tid_agg_rx->reorder_lock);



		drv_event_callback(rx->local, rx->sdata, &event);



		kfree_skb(skb);

		return RX_QUEUED;

	}

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