Commit e96d1cd2 authored by Ashok Raj Nagarajan's avatar Ashok Raj Nagarajan Committed by Johannes Berg
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cfg80211: Add support to set tx power for a station associated



This patch adds support to set transmit power setting type and transmit
power level attributes to NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION in order to facilitate
adjusting the transmit power level of a station associated to the AP.

The added attributes allow selection of automatic and limited transmit
power level, with the level defined in dBm format.

Co-developed-by: default avatarBalaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAshok Raj Nagarajan <arnagara@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBalaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent dbd50a85
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@@ -975,6 +975,27 @@ enum station_parameters_apply_mask {
	STATION_PARAM_APPLY_UAPSD = BIT(0),
	STATION_PARAM_APPLY_CAPABILITY = BIT(1),
	STATION_PARAM_APPLY_PLINK_STATE = BIT(2),
	STATION_PARAM_APPLY_STA_TXPOWER = BIT(3),
};

/**
 * struct sta_txpwr - station txpower configuration
 *
 * Used to configure txpower for station.
 *
 * @power: tx power (in dBm) to be used for sending data traffic. If tx power
 *	is not provided, the default per-interface tx power setting will be
 *	overriding. Driver should be picking up the lowest tx power, either tx
 *	power per-interface or per-station.
 * @type: In particular if TPC %type is NL80211_TX_POWER_LIMITED then tx power
 *	will be less than or equal to specified from userspace, whereas if TPC
 *	%type is NL80211_TX_POWER_AUTOMATIC then it indicates default tx power.
 *	NL80211_TX_POWER_FIXED is not a valid configuration option for
 *	per peer TPC.
 */
struct sta_txpwr {
	s16 power;
	enum nl80211_tx_power_setting type;
};

/**
@@ -1049,6 +1070,7 @@ struct station_parameters {
	const struct ieee80211_he_cap_elem *he_capa;
	u8 he_capa_len;
	u16 airtime_weight;
	struct sta_txpwr txpwr;
};

/**
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@@ -2315,6 +2315,15 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
 * @NL80211_ATTR_AIRTIME_WEIGHT: Station's weight when scheduled by the airtime
 *	scheduler.
 *
 * @NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER_SETTING: Transmit power setting type (u8) for
 *	station associated with the AP. See &enum nl80211_tx_power_setting for
 *	possible values.
 * @NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER: Transmit power level (s16) in dBm units. This
 *	allows to set Tx power for a station. If this attribute is not included,
 *	the default per-interface tx power setting will be overriding. Driver
 *	should be picking up the lowest tx power, either tx power per-interface
 *	or per-station.
 *
 * @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available
 * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
 * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
@@ -2765,6 +2774,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
	NL80211_ATTR_PEER_MEASUREMENTS,

	NL80211_ATTR_AIRTIME_WEIGHT,
	NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER_SETTING,
	NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER,

	/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */

@@ -5391,6 +5402,9 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_SCHED_SCAN_BAND_SPECIFIC_RSSI_THOLD: Driver supports
 *	filtering of sched scan results using band specific RSSI thresholds.
 *
 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_STA_TX_PWR: This driver supports controlling tx power
 *	to a station.
 *
 * @NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: number of extended features.
 * @MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: highest extended feature index.
 */
@@ -5434,6 +5448,7 @@ enum nl80211_ext_feature_index {
	NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AP_PMKSA_CACHING,
	NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_SCHED_SCAN_BAND_SPECIFIC_RSSI_THOLD,
	NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_EXT_KEY_ID,
	NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_STA_TX_PWR,

	/* add new features before the definition below */
	NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES,
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@@ -331,6 +331,11 @@ const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
					       .len = NL80211_MAX_SUPP_RATES },
	[NL80211_ATTR_STA_PLINK_ACTION] =
		NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, NUM_NL80211_PLINK_ACTIONS - 1),
	[NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER_SETTING] =
		NLA_POLICY_RANGE(NLA_U8,
				 NL80211_TX_POWER_AUTOMATIC,
				 NL80211_TX_POWER_FIXED),
	[NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER] = { .type = NLA_S16 },
	[NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
	[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] = { /* NLA_NESTED can't be empty */ },
	[NL80211_ATTR_MESH_ID] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
@@ -5420,6 +5425,36 @@ static int nl80211_set_station_tdls(struct genl_info *info,
	return nl80211_parse_sta_wme(info, params);
}

static int nl80211_parse_sta_txpower_setting(struct genl_info *info,
					     struct station_parameters *params)
{
	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = info->user_ptr[0];
	int idx;

	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER_SETTING]) {
		if (!rdev->ops->set_tx_power ||
		    !wiphy_ext_feature_isset(&rdev->wiphy,
					 NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_STA_TX_PWR))
			return -EOPNOTSUPP;

		idx = NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER_SETTING;
		params->txpwr.type = nla_get_u8(info->attrs[idx]);

		if (params->txpwr.type == NL80211_TX_POWER_LIMITED) {
			idx = NL80211_ATTR_STA_TX_POWER;

			if (info->attrs[idx])
				params->txpwr.power =
					nla_get_s16(info->attrs[idx]);
			else
				return -EINVAL;
		}
		params->sta_modify_mask |= STATION_PARAM_APPLY_STA_TXPOWER;
	}

	return 0;
}

static int nl80211_set_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
{
	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = info->user_ptr[0];
@@ -5513,6 +5548,10 @@ static int nl80211_set_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
				     NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AIRTIME_FAIRNESS))
		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

	err = nl80211_parse_sta_txpower_setting(info, &params);
	if (err)
		return err;

	/* Include parameters for TDLS peer (will check later) */
	err = nl80211_set_station_tdls(info, &params);
	if (err)
@@ -5650,6 +5689,10 @@ static int nl80211_new_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
				     NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_AIRTIME_FAIRNESS))
		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

	err = nl80211_parse_sta_txpower_setting(info, &params);
	if (err)
		return err;

	err = nl80211_parse_sta_channel_info(info, &params);
	if (err)
		return err;