net80211: deal with lost state transitions

Since 5efea30f039c4 we can possibly lose a state transition which can
cause trouble further down the road.
The reproducer from 643d6dce6c1e can trigger the

net80211: deal with lost state transitions

Since 5efea30f039c4 we can possibly lose a state transition which can
cause trouble further down the road.
The reproducer from 643d6dce6c1e can trigger these for example.
Drivers for firmware based wireless cards have worked around some of
this (and other) problems in the past.

Add an array of tasks rather than a single one as we would simply
get npending > 1 and lose order with other tasks. Try to keep state
changes updated as queued in case we end up with more than one at a
time. While this is not ideal either (call it a hack) it will sort
the problem for now.
We will queue in ieee80211_new_state_locked() and do checks there
and dequeue in ieee80211_newstate_cb().
If we still overrun the (currently) 8 slots we will drop the state
change rather than overwrite the last one.
When dequeing we will update iv_nstate and keep it around for historic
reasons for the moment.

The longer term we should make the callers of
ieee80211_new_state[_locked]() actually use the returned errors
and act appropriately but that will touch a lot more places and
drivers (possibly incl. changed behaviour for ioctls).

rtwn(4) and rum(4) should probably be revisted and net80211 internals
removed (for rum(4) at least the current logic still seems prone to
races).

PR: 271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation (in 2023)
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: cc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43389

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sys: Use mbufq_empty instead of comparing mbufq_len against 0

Reviewed by: bz, emaste
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43338

net80211: migrate ic_vhtcaps, ic_vht_mcsinfo, ic_flags_vht

Like for the VAP rename ic_flags_vht to ic_vht_flags for consistency to
keep "VHT" fields together and merge ic_vhtcaps and ic_vht_mcsinfo

net80211: migrate ic_vhtcaps, ic_vht_mcsinfo, ic_flags_vht

Like for the VAP rename ic_flags_vht to ic_vht_flags for consistency to
keep "VHT" fields together and merge ic_vhtcaps and ic_vht_mcsinfo
into struct ieee80211_vht_cap ic_vht_cap.

While the structure layout changes no other functional changes intended.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: adrian, cc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42421

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net80211: combine iv_vhtcaps and iv_vht_mcsinfo

The iv_vhtcaps and iv_vht_mcsinfo fields together form
struct ieee80211_vht_cap so combine them into one field in the VAP
and keep the information tog

net80211: combine iv_vhtcaps and iv_vht_mcsinfo

The iv_vhtcaps and iv_vht_mcsinfo fields together form
struct ieee80211_vht_cap so combine them into one field in the VAP
and keep the information together.

While the structure layout changes no other functional changes intended.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: adrian, cc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42420

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net80211: improve ddb output for sta and rate

Add more missing fields to the ddb output of sta (including spares so
people will notice if they use them to adjust ddb as well).
There are still more m

net80211: improve ddb output for sta and rate

Add more missing fields to the ddb output of sta (including spares so
people will notice if they use them to adjust ddb as well).
There are still more missing fields (some left as reminder in an
uncompiled __notyet__ block).

Add _db_show_rate() to print iv_rate as well optionally including
function pointers.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days

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net80211: improve scan debugging

While debugging other problems I ran into the case where net80211
was thinking a scan was ongoing and new scans could not be started
but given other logging there wa

net80211: improve scan debugging

While debugging other problems I ran into the case where net80211
was thinking a scan was ongoing and new scans could not be started
but given other logging there was clearly no more scan running.
It was hard after the fact to quickly determine enough state to
reconstruct or validate assumptions.

Improve a MSG_SCAN debug logging and implement _db_show_scan() ddb
output which can be printed along with show com /S or /a.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days

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net80211: fix ddb print alignment

Add missing \ts after new lines to properly align output of ddb show
commands.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 10 days

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix

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IfAPI: Explicitly include <net/if_private.h> in netstack

Summary:
In preparation of making if_t completely opaque outside of the netstack,
explicitly include the header. <net/if_var.h> will stop in

IfAPI: Explicitly include <net/if_private.h> in netstack

Summary:
In preparation of making if_t completely opaque outside of the netstack,
explicitly include the header. <net/if_var.h> will stop including the
header in the future.

Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Reviewed by: glebius, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38200

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net80211: improve DDB output.

Start adding more fields to DDB output related to VHT (11ac) and
mark COM, VAP, and STA more explicitly to make show all vaps /..
more readable.

Sponsored by: The Free

net80211: improve DDB output.

Start adding more fields to DDB output related to VHT (11ac) and
mark COM, VAP, and STA more explicitly to make show all vaps /..
more readable.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundaton
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35977

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net80211: fix debug printf

We are printing %p in _db_show_sta(), there is no need to prefix it
with 0x again to get a 0x0x...

Spsonsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days

[net80211] Migrate HT/legacy protection mode and preamble calculation to per-VAP flags

The later firmware devices (including iwn!) support multiple configuration
contexts for a lot of things, leavin

[net80211] Migrate HT/legacy protection mode and preamble calculation to per-VAP flags

The later firmware devices (including iwn!) support multiple configuration
contexts for a lot of things, leaving it up to the firmware to decide
which channel and vap is active. This allows for things like off-channel
p2p sta/ap operation and other weird things.

However, net80211 is still focused on a "net80211 drives all" when it comes to driving
the NIC, and as part of this history a lot of these options are global and not per-VAP.
This is fine when net80211 drives things and all VAPs share a single channel - these
parameters importantly really reflect the state of the channel! - but it will increasingly
be not fine when we start supporting more weird configurations and more recent NICs.
Yeah, recent like iwn/iwm.

Anyway - so, migrate all of the HT protection, legacy protection and preamble
stuff to be per-VAP. The global flags are still there; they're now calculated
in a deferred taskqueue that mirrors the old behaviour. Firmware based drivers
which have per-VAP configuration of these parameters can now just listen to the
per-VAP options.

What do I mean by per-channel? Well, the above configuration parameters really
are about interoperation with other devices on the same channel. Eg, HT protection
mode will flip to legacy/mixed if it hears ANY BSS that supports non-HT stations or
indicates it has non-HT stations associated. So, these flags really should be
per-channel rather than per-VAP, and then for things like "do i need short preamble
or long preamble?" turn into a "do I need it for this current operating channel".
Then any VAP using it can query the channel that it's on, reflecting the real
required state.

This patch does none of the above paragraph just yet.

I'm also cheating a bit - I'm currently not using separate taskqueues for
the beacon updates and the per-VAP configuration updates. I can always further
split it later if I need to but I didn't think it was SUPER important here.

So:

* Create vap taskqueue entries for ERP/protection, HT protection and short/long
preamble;
* Migrate the HT station count, short/long slot station count, etc - into per-VAP
variables rather than global;
* Fix a bug with my WME work from a while ago which made it per-VAP - do the WME
beacon update /after/ the WME update taskqueue runs, not before;
* Any time the HT protmode configuration changes or the ERP protection mode
config changes - schedule the task, which will call the driver without the
net80211 lock held and all correctly serialised;
* Use the global flags for beacon IEs and VAP flags for probe responses and
other IE situations.

The primary consumer of this is ath10k. iwn could use it when sending RXON,
but we don't support IBSS or AP modes on it yet, and I'm not yet sure whether
it's required in STA mode (ie whether the firmware parses beacons to change
protection mode or whether we need to.)

Tested:

* AR9280, STA/AP
* AR9380, DWDS STA+STA/AP
* ath10k work, STA/AP
* Intel 6235, STA
* Various rtwn / run NICs, DWDS STA and STA configurations

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[net80211] Also convert the ddb path

Whoops - this belonged in my previous commit.

sys: general adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
pro

sys: general adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

No functional change intended.

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net80211: fix LOR/deadlock in ieee80211_ff_node_cleanup().

Add new lock for stageq (part of ieee80211_superg structure) and
ni_tx_superg (part of ieee80211_node structure);
drop com_lock protection

net80211: fix LOR/deadlock in ieee80211_ff_node_cleanup().

Add new lock for stageq (part of ieee80211_superg structure) and
ni_tx_superg (part of ieee80211_node structure);
drop com_lock protection where it is used to protect them.

While here, drop duplicate OPACKETS counter incrementation.

ni_tx_ampdu is not protected with it (however, it is also used without
locking in other places; probably, it requires some other solution
to be thread-safe).

Tested with RTL8188CUS (AP) and RTL8188EU (STA).

NOTE: Since this change breaks KBI, all wireless drivers need to be
recompiled.

Reviewed by: adrian
Approved by: re (gjb)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6958

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[net80211] remove node scan lock / generation number + fix few LORs

Drop scan generation number and node table scan lock - the only place
where ni_scangen is checked is in ieee80211_timeout_stations

[net80211] remove node scan lock / generation number + fix few LORs

Drop scan generation number and node table scan lock - the only place
where ni_scangen is checked is in ieee80211_timeout_stations() (and it
is used to prevent duplicate checking of the same node); node scan lock
protects only this variable + node table scan generation number.

This will fix (at least) next LOR (hostap mode):

lock order reversal:
1st 0xc175f84c urtwm0_scan_loc (urtwm0_scan_loc) @ /usr/src/sys/modules/wlan/../../net80211/ieee80211_node.c:2019
2nd 0xc175e018 urtwm0_com_lock (urtwm0_com_lock) @ /usr/src/sys/modules/wlan/../../net80211/ieee80211_node.c:2693
stack backtrace:
#0 0xa070d1c5 at witness_debugger+0x75
#1 0xa070d0f6 at witness_checkorder+0xd46
#2 0xa0694cce at __mtx_lock_flags+0x9e
#3 0xb03ad9ef at ieee80211_node_leave+0x12f
#4 0xb03afd13 at ieee80211_timeout_stations+0x483
#5 0xb03aa1c2 at ieee80211_node_timeout+0x42
#6 0xa06c6fa1 at softclock_call_cc+0x1e1
#7 0xa06c7518 at softclock+0xc8
#8 0xa06789ae at intr_event_execute_handlers+0x8e
#9 0xa0678fa0 at ithread_loop+0x90
#10 0xa0675fbe at fork_exit+0x7e
#11 0xa08af910 at fork_trampoline+0x8

In addition to the above:

* switch to ieee80211_iterate_nodes();
* do not assert that node table lock is held, while calling node_age();
that's not really needed (there are no resources, which can be protected
by this lock) + this fixes LOR/deadlock between ieee80211_timeout_stations()
and ieee80211_set_tim() (easy to reproduce in HOSTAP mode while
sending something to an STA with enabled power management).

Tested:

* (avos) urtwn0, hostap mode
* (adrian) AR9380, STA mode
* (adrian) AR9380, AR9331, AR9580, hostap mode

Notes:

* This changes the net80211 internals, so you have to recompile all of it
and the wifi drivers.

Submitted by: avos
Approved by: re (delphij)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6833

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net80211: unbreak 'show all vaps(/a)' ddb command

Replace ifnet list lookup (which is broken since r287197, because
IFT_IEEE80211 type is not used anymore) with iteration on
ieee80211com list.

Revi

net80211: unbreak 'show all vaps(/a)' ddb command

Replace ifnet list lookup (which is broken since r287197, because
IFT_IEEE80211 type is not used anymore) with iteration on
ieee80211com list.

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6419

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These files were getting sys/malloc.h and vm/uma.h with header pollution
via sys/mbuf.h

Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless
connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just li

Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless
connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.

Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.

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Revert the wifi ifnet changes until things are more baked and tested.

* 286410
* 286413
* 286416

The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are

Revert the wifi ifnet changes until things are more baked and tested.

* 286410
* 286413
* 286416

The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.

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Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless connectivity interact
with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devi

Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless connectivity interact
with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@,
op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211

Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not
tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances
of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change.
But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this
commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated.

Differential Revision: D2655, D2740
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix

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Use name from ieee80211com instead of parent ifnet, in debugging printfs.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit po

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.

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Update ddb to print mesh routing table.

* Modified _db_show_vap and _db_show_com to print mesh routing table
if the 'm' modifier is specified;

Approved by: adrian (mentor)