Certain FullMAC drivers do not expose CMD_ASSOCIATE/CMD_AUTHENTICATE,
but lack the ability to fully offload SAE connections to the firmware.
Such connections can still be supported on such firmware by using
CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH & CMD_FRAME. The firmware sets the
NL80211_FEATURE_SAE bit (which implies support for CMD_AUTHENTICATE, but
oh well), and no other offload extended features.
When CMD_CONNECT is issued, the firmware sends CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH via
unicast to the owner of the connection. The connection owner is then
expected to send SAE frames with the firmware using CMD_FRAME and
receive authenticate frames using unicast CMD_FRAME notifications as
well. Once SAE authentication completes, userspace is expected to
send a final CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH back to the kernel with the corresponding
status code. On failure, a non-0 status code should be used.
Note that for historical reasons, SAE AKM sent in CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH is
given in big endian order, not CPU order as is expected!
The TX or RX bitrate attributes can contain zero nested attributes.
This causes netdev_parse_bitrate() to fail, but this shouldn't then
cause the overall parsing to fail (we just don't have those values).
Fix this by continuing to parse attributes if either the TX/RX
bitrates fail to parse.
If the affinity watch is removed by setting an empty list the
disconnect callback won't be called which was the only place
the watch ID was cleared. This resulted in the next SetProperty call
to think a watch existed, and attempt to compare the sender address
which would be NULL.
The watch ID should be cleared inside the destroy callback, not
the disconnect callback.
If we scan a huge number of frequencies the PKEX timeout can get
rather large. This was overlooked in a prior patch who's intent
was to reduce the PKEX time, but in these cases it increased it.
Now the timeout will be capped at 2 minutes, but will still be
as low as 10 seconds for a single frequency.
In addition there was no timer reset once PKEX was completed.
This could cause excessive waits if, for example, the peer left
the channel mid-authentication. IWD would just wait until the
long PKEX timeout to eventually reset DPP. Once PKEX completes
we can assume that this peer will complete authentication quickly
and if not, we can fail.
While there is proper handling for a regdom update during a
TRIGGER_SCAN scan, prior to NEW_SCAN_RESULTS there is no such
handling if the regdom update comes in during a GET_SCAN or
GET_SURVEY.
In both the 6ghz and non-6ghz code paths we have some issues:
- For non-6ghz devices, or regdom updates that did not enable
6ghz the wiphy state watch callback will automatically issues
another GET_SURVEY/GET_SCAN without checking if there was
already one pending. It does this using the current scan request
which gets freed by the prior GET_SCAN/GET_SURVEY calls when
they complete, causing invalid reads when the subsequent calls
finish.
- If 6ghz was enabled by the update we actually append another
trigger command to the list and potentially run it if its the
current request. This also will end up in the same situation as
the request is freed by the pending GET_SURVEY/GET_SCAN calls.
For the non-6ghz case there is little to no harm in ignoring the
regdom update because its very unlikely it changed the allowed
frequencies.
For the 6ghz case we could potentially handle the new trigger scan
within get_scan_done, but thats beyond the scope of this change
and is likely quite intrusive.
Since surveys end up making driver calls in the kernel its not
entirely known how they are implemented or how long they will
take. For this reason the survey will be skipped if getting the
results from an external scan.
Doing this also fixes a crash caused by external scans where the
scan request pointer is not checked and dereferenced:
0x00005ffa6a0376de in get_survey_done (user_data=0x5ffa783a3f90) at src/scan.c:2059
0x0000749646a29bbd in ?? () from /usr/lib/libell.so.0
0x0000749646a243cb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libell.so.0
0x0000749646a24655 in l_main_iterate () from /usr/lib/libell.so.0
0x0000749646a24ace in l_main_run () from /usr/lib/libell.so.0
0x0000749646a263a4 in l_main_run_with_signal () from /usr/lib/libell.so.0
0x00005ffa6a00d642 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at src/main.c:614
Reported-by: Daniel Bond <danielbondno@gmail.com>
With the introduction of affinities the CQM threshold can be toggled
by a DBus call. There was no check if there was already a pending
call which would cause the command ID to be overwritten and lose any
potential to cancel it, e.g. if netdev went down.
Some drivers fail to set a CQM threshold and report not supported.
Its unclear exactly why but if this happens roaming is effectively
broken.
To work around this enable RSSI polling if -ENOTSUP is returned.
The polling callback has been changed to emit the HIGH/LOW signal
threshold events instead of just the RSSI level index, just as if
a CQM event came from the kernel.
When the affinity is set to the current BSS lower the roaming
threshold to loosly lock IWD to the current BSS. The lower
threshold is automatically removed upon roaming/disconnection
since the affinity array is also cleared out.
This property will hold an array of object paths for
BasicServiceSet (BSS) objects. For the purpose of this patch
only the setter/getter and client watch is implemented. The
purpose of this array is to guide or loosely lock IWD to certain
BSS's provided that some external client has more information
about the environment than what IWD takes into account for its
roaming decisions.
For the time being, the array is limited to only the connected
BSS path, and any roams or disconnects will clear the array.
The intended use case for this is if the device is stationary
an external client could reduce the likelihood of roaming by
setting the affinity to the current BSS.
This documents new DBus property that expose a bit more control to
how IWD roams.
Setting the affinity on the connected BSS effectively "locks" IWD to
that BSS (except at critical RSSI levels, explained below). This can
be useful for clients that have access to more information about the
environment than IWD. For example, if a client is stationary there
is likely no point in trying to roam until it has moved elsewhere.
A new main.conf option would also be added:
[General].CriticalRoamThreshold
This would be the new roam threshold set if the currently connected
BSS is in the Affinities list. If the RSSI continues to drop below
this level IWD will still attempt to roam.
A user reported a crash which was due to the roam trigger timeout
being overwritten, followed by a disconnect. Post-disconnect the
timer would fire and result in a crash. Its not clear exactly where
the overwrite was happening but upon code inspection it could
happen in the following scenario:
1. Beacon loss event, start roam timeout
2. Signal low event, no check if timeout is running and the timeout
gets overwritten.
The reported crash actually didn't appear to be from the above
scenario but something else, so this logic is being hardened and
improved
Now if a roam timeout already exists and trying to be rearmed IWD
will check the time remaining on the current timer and either keep
the active timer or reschedule it to the lesser of the two values
(current or new rearm time). This will avoid cases such as a long
roam timer being active (e.g. 60 seconds) followed by a beacon or
packet loss event which should trigger a more agressive roam
schedule.
This adds a secondary set of signal thresholds. The purpose of these
are to provide more flexibility in how IWD roams. The critical
threshold is intended to be temporary and is automatically reset
upon any connection changes: disconnects, roams, or new connections.
This prepares for the ability to toggle between two signal
thresholds in netdev. Since each netdev may not need/want the
same threshold store it in the netdev object rather than globally.
Since IWD enrollees can send unicast frames, a PKEX configurator could
still run without multicast support. Using this combination basically
allows any driver to utilize DPP/PKEX assuming the MAC address can
be communicated using some out of band mechanism.
The DPP spec allows for obtaining frequency and MAC addresses up
to the implementation. IWD already takes advantage of this by
first scanning for nearby APs and using only those frequencies.
For further optimization an enrollee may be able to determine the
configurators frequency and MAC ahead of time which would make
finding the configurator much faster.
This will help to get rid of magic number use throughout the project.
The definitions should be limited to global magic numbers that are used
throughout the project, for example SSID length, MAC address length,
etc.
Due to an unnoticed bug after adding the BasicServiceSet object into
network, it became clear that since station already owns the scan_bss
objects it makes sense for it to manage the associated DBus objects
as well. This way network doesn't have to jump through hoops to
determine if the scan_bss object was remove, added, or updated. It
can just manage its list as it did prior.
From the station side this makes things very easy. When scan results
come in we either update or add a new DBus object. And any time a
scan_bss is freed we remove the DBus object.
James Prestwood