FT-over-DS is a way to do a Fast BSS Transition using action frames for
the authenticate step. This allows a station to start a fast transition
to a target AP while still being connected to the original AP. This,
in theory, can result in less carrier downtime.
The existing ft_sm_new was removed, and two new constructors were added;
one for over-air, and another for over-ds. The internals of ft.c mostly
remain the same. A flag to distinguish between air/ds was added along
with a new parser to parse the action frames rather than authenticate
frames. The IE parsing is identical.
Netdev now just initializes the auth-proto differently depending on if
its doing over-air or over-ds. A new TX authenticate function was added
and used for over-ds. This will send out the IEs from ft.c with an
FT Request action frame.
The FT Response action frame is then recieved from the AP and fed into
the auth-proto state machine. After this point ft-over-ds behaves the
same as ft-over-air (associate to the target AP).
Some simple code was added in station.c to determine if over-air or
over-ds should be used. FT-over-DS can be beneficial in cases where the
AP is directing us to roam, or if the RSSI falls below a threshold.
It should not be used if we have lost communication to the AP all
(beacon lost) as it only works while we can still talk to the original
AP.
Since FT already handles processing the FT IE's (and building for
associate) it didn't make sense to have all the IE building inside
netdev_build_cmd_ft_authenticate. Instead this logic was moved into
ft.c, and an iovec is now passed from FT into
netdev_ft_tx_authenticate. This leaves the netdev command builder
unburdened by the details of FT, as well as prepares for FT-over-DS.
Since FT operates over Authenticate/Associate, it makes the most sense
for it to behave like the other auth-protos.
This change moves all the FT specific processing out of netdev and into
ft.c. The bulk of the changes were strait copy-pastes from netdev into
ft.c with minor API changes (e.g. remove struct netdev).
The 'in_ft' boolean unforunately is still required for a few reasons:
- netdev_disconnect_event relies on this flag so it can ignore the
disconnect which comes in when doing a fast transition. We cannot
simply check netdev->ap because this would cause the other auth-protos
to not handle a disconnect correctly.
- netdev_associate_event needs to correctly setup the eapol_sm when
in FT mode by setting require_handshake and use_eapol_start to false.
This cannot be handled inside eapol by checking the AKM because an AP
may only advertise a FT AKM, and the initial mobility association
does require the 4-way handshake.
Now the 'ft' module, previously ftutil, will be used to drive FT via
the auth-proto virtual class. This renaming is in preparation as
ftutil will become obsolete since all the IE building/processing is
going to be moved out of netdev. The new ft.c module will utilize
the existing ftutil functionality, but since this is now a full blown
auth protocol naming it 'ft' is better suited.
Marcel Holtmann