This will be seen in Probe Requests. More IEs can and should
be added here depending on the support in IWD. E.g. HS20 indication,
Interworking, HT/VHT IE's etc.
For (Re)Association the HS20 indication element was passed exactly as
it was found in the scan results. The spec defines what bits can be
set and what cannot when this IE is used in (Re)Association. Instead
of assuming the AP's IE conforms to the spec, we now parse the IE and
re-build it for use with (Re)Association.
Since the full IE is no longer used, it was removed from scan_bss, and
replaced with a bit for HS20 support (hs20_capable). This member is
now used the same as hs20_ie was.
The version parsed during scan results is now used when building the
(Re)Association IE.
The HS20 indication element should always be included during
(Re)Association per the spec. This removes the need for a
dedicated boolean, and now the hs20_ie can be used instead.
If the scan was triggered and later aborted, make sure to reset the
triggered value when the CMD_NEW_SCAN_RESULTS event comes in.
src/station.c:station_enter_state() Old State: disconnected, new state: connecting
src/scan.c:scan_notify() Scan notification 33
src/station.c:station_netdev_event() Associating
src/scan.c:scan_notify() Scan notification 34
Aborting (signal 11) [/home/denkenz/iwd-master/src/iwd]
++++++++ backtrace ++++++++
#0 0x7efd4d6a2ef0 in /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x42b20d in scan_notify() at src/scan.c:1383
P2P probe requests are to be sent at min 6.0 Mb/s using OFDM,
specifically the 802.11b rates are prohibited (section 2.4.1 in Wi-Fi
P2p Technical Spec v1.7), some of which use CCK modulation. This is
already the default for 5G but for 2.4G the drivers generally do this
if we set the NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE flags with
NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN.
The ifindex is used to index the netdevs in the system (wlan, ethernet,
etc.) but we can also do wifi scanning on interfaces that have no
corresponding netdev object, like the P2P-device virtual interfaces.
Use the wdev id's to reference interfaces, the nl80211 api doesn't care
whether we use a NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX or NL80211_ATTR_WDEV. Only
wireless interfaces have a wdev id.
Save the actual cmd_id returned from l_genl_family_dump and zero it in
the get_scan_done. There's no need to zero it in scan_cancel because
get_scan_done gets called automatically.
Store the scan_context pointer in scan_results directly instead of
storing the ifindex. We now cancel ongoing GET_SCAN commands when the
scan_context is being freed so there's no point going through the extra
step of looking up the scan_context by ifindex inside the command
callback to guard against non-existent scan_contexts.
In order to do ANQP efficiently IWD needs the ability to suspend scanning
temporarily. This is because both scanning and ANQP go offchannel and must
remain off channel for some amount of time. This cannot be done
simultaneously and if e.g. ANQP is requested after a scan is already
pending, the kernel will wait till that scan finishes before sending out
the frame.
This IE tells us what Advertisement Protocols the AP supports. This
is only here to look for ANQP support, so all this does is iterate
through all other Advertisement Protocol tuples looking for ANQP.
If found, anqp_capable is set in the scan_bss
The vendor specific IE was being parsed only to check if the AP supported
WPA, which used a Microsoft OUI. Hotspot/OSEN uses neither WPA or RSN
(although its nearly identical to RSN) so the we also need to check for
this Wifi-Alliance OUI and set bss->osen (new) if found.
When handling a scan finished event for a scan we haven't started check
that we were not halfway through a scan request that would have its
results flushed by the external scan.
Instead of having two separate types of scans make the periodic scan
logic a layer on top of the one-off scan requests, with minimum code to
account for the lower priority of those scans and the fact that periodic
scans also receive results from external scans. Also try to simplify
the code for both the periodic and one-off scans. In the SCAN_RESULTS
and SCAN_ABORT add more complete checks of the current request's state
so we avoid some existing crashes related to external scans.
scan_send_next_cmd and start_next_scan_request are now just one function
since their funcionality was similar and start_next_scan_request is used
everywhere. Also the state after the trigger command receives an EBUSY
is now the same as when a new scan is on top of the queue so we have
fewer situations to consider.
This code still does not account for fragmented scans where an external
scan between two or our fragments flushes the results and we lose some
of the results, or for fragmented scans that take over 30s and the
kernel expires some results (both situations are unlikely.)
Previously, the scan results were disregarded once the new
ones were available. To enable the scan scenarios where the
new scan results are delivered in parts, we introduce a
concept of aging BSSs and will remove them based on
retention time.
CC src/scan.o
src/scan.c: In function ‘scan_bss_compute_rank’:
src/scan.c:1048:4: warning: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C90
factor = factor * data_rate / 2340000000 +
This is not used by any of the scan notify callback implementations and
for P2P we're going to need to scan on an interface without an ifindex
so without this the other changes should be mostly contained in scan.
sc->state would get set when the TRIGGERED event arrived or when the
triggered callback for our own SCAN_TRIGGER command is received.
However it would not get reset to NOT_RUNNING when the NEW_SCAN_RESULTS
event is received, instead we'd first request the results with GET_SCAN
and only reset sc->state when that returns. If during that command a
new scan gets triggered, the GET_SCAN callback would still reset
sc->state and clobber the value set by the new scan.
To fix that repurpose sc->state to only track that period from the
TRIGGERED signal to the NEW_SCAN_RESULTS signal. sc->triggered can be
used to check if we're still waiting for the GET_SCAN command and
sc->start_cmd_id to check if we're waiting for the scan to get
triggered, so one of these three variables will now always indicate if
a scan is in progress.
On successful send, scan_send_start(..) used to set msg to NULL,
therefore the further management of the command by the caller was
impossible. This patch removes wrapper around l_genl_family_send()
and lets the callers to take responsibility for the command.
Some users may need their own control over 2.4/5GHz preference. This
adds a new user option, 'rank_5g_factor', which allows users to increase
or decrease their 5G preference.
This adds support for parsing the VHT IE, which allows a BSS supporting
VHT (80211ac) to be ranked higher than a BSS supporting only HT/basic
rates. Now, with basic/HT/VHT parsing we can calculate the theoretical
maximum data rate for all three and rank the BSS based on that.
This adds HT IE parsing and data rate calculation for HT (80211n)
rates. Now, a BSS supporting HT rates will be ranked higher than
a basic rate BSS, assuming the RSSI is at an acceptable level.
The spec dictates RSSI thresholds for different modulation schemes, which
correlate to different data rates. Until now were were ranking a BSS with
only looking at its advertised data rate, which may not even be possible
if the RSSI does not meet the threshold.
Now, RSSI is taken into consideration and the data rate returned from
parsing (Ext) Supported Rates IE(s) will reflect that.
