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Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-tracegrafted
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: - Fix error output of boot instance creation failure Currently if a boot instance creation fails, instead of printing out the name of the instance that failed, it prints "(null)". That is because it prints "cur_str" that had already been processed by strsep(). Print the saved name instead. While at it, print the error code of the failure. - Fix use-after-free for same named historgrams Histograms can be named so that they can be used in multiple events. But if the named histogram has a variable attached, the second event that uses the named histogram which duplicates it and needs to free the original after duplication leaves the old variable in place and still visible. If another histogram uses than variable, it will use the stale one which will try to reference the freed duplicate histogram and crash the kernel. Free the duplicate variables along with the duplicated histogram data. - Check return value of kthread_run() in event self test The events self tests uses a kthread for testing but does not check if it succeeded in creating a kthread. If the kthread creation were to fail, the code will still try to call kthread_stop() on the error returned. - Fix race between reading trace_pipe and updating subbuffer size If a user is reading the trace_pipe file at the same time they update the ring buffer sub-buffer size, can cause the trace_pipe read to read stale data. Add trace_access_lock() around updating the ring buffer sub-buffer size. - Fix eventfs_inode on failure path in creation of the events directory In the creation of the "events" directory, if after allocating the eventfs_inode a failure is detected, it calls cleanup_ei() which calls free_ei(). The free_ei() will test if eventfs_inode being freed has no children. It is a bug if it does. But on the failure case of the creation of the "events" directory, the children lists have not yet been initialized and the free will trigger a warning because list_empty() on an uninitialized list returns false. Move the initialization into init_ei() where it makes more sense and makes sure that a created eventfs_inode has its lists initialized upon creation. - Check return value of kthread_run() in ftrace direct sample code The sample code that shows how to use the ftrace direct calls does not test the return of kthread_run() to see if it succeeds. Return a failure if the kthread_run() doesn't succeed. - Clear user events state on fork in case of alloc failure On fork, the child gets a pointer to the parent's user events state. It makes a copy of it then updates the child's pointer to it. But if the allocation fails, the duplication function leaves the child with a pointer to its parent's descriptor. When the child cleans up its data, it will free the parent's descriptor while the parent is still using it. In the duplication function, set the child's user_event_mm to NULL before testing if the allocation succeeded, and when it exits it will not free the parent's descriptor. - Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a failed replacement leaves it at -1. But the check for success expects the retry value to be non-zero and exits with an error on zero. This is the opposite result. Fix it. - Fail nicely when the remote swap_reader_page() returns an error Currently, if the swap_reader_page() of a remote buffer fails, it triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() and continues normally. Instead, have it exit with an error and a pr_warn() print instead of a full WARNING. * tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-modify eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei() tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop() tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/80211/cfg80211.rst178
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/80211/index.rst10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/80211/introduction.rst17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/80211/mac80211-advanced.rst239
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/80211/mac80211.rst155
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/80211/cfg80211.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/80211/cfg80211.rst
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+==================
+cfg80211 subsystem
+==================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: Introduction
+
+Device registration
+===================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: Device registration
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_channel_flags
+ ieee80211_channel
+ ieee80211_rate_flags
+ ieee80211_rate
+ ieee80211_sta_ht_cap
+ ieee80211_supported_band
+ cfg80211_signal_type
+ wiphy_params_flags
+ wiphy_flags
+ wiphy
+ wireless_dev
+ wiphy_new
+ wiphy_read_of_freq_limits
+ wiphy_register
+ wiphy_unregister
+ wiphy_free
+ wiphy_name
+ wiphy_dev
+ wiphy_priv
+ priv_to_wiphy
+ set_wiphy_dev
+ wdev_priv
+ ieee80211_iface_limit
+ ieee80211_iface_combination
+ cfg80211_check_combinations
+
+Actions and configuration
+=========================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: Actions and configuration
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :functions:
+ cfg80211_ops
+ vif_params
+ key_params
+ survey_info_flags
+ survey_info
+ cfg80211_beacon_data
+ cfg80211_ap_settings
+ station_parameters
+ rate_info_flags
+ rate_info
+ station_info
+ monitor_flags
+ mpath_info_flags
+ mpath_info
+ bss_parameters
+ ieee80211_txq_params
+ cfg80211_crypto_settings
+ cfg80211_auth_request
+ cfg80211_assoc_request
+ cfg80211_deauth_request
+ cfg80211_disassoc_request
+ cfg80211_ibss_params
+ cfg80211_connect_params
+ cfg80211_pmksa
+ cfg80211_rx_mlme_mgmt
+ cfg80211_auth_timeout
+ cfg80211_rx_assoc_resp
+ cfg80211_assoc_timeout
+ cfg80211_tx_mlme_mgmt
+ cfg80211_ibss_joined
+ cfg80211_connect_resp_params
+ cfg80211_connect_done
+ cfg80211_connect_result
+ cfg80211_connect_bss
+ cfg80211_connect_timeout
+ cfg80211_roamed
+ cfg80211_disconnected
+ cfg80211_ready_on_channel
+ cfg80211_remain_on_channel_expired
+ cfg80211_new_sta
+ cfg80211_rx_mgmt
+ cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status
+ cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify
+ cfg80211_cqm_pktloss_notify
+ cfg80211_michael_mic_failure
+
+Scanning and BSS list handling
+==============================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: Scanning and BSS list handling
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :functions:
+ cfg80211_ssid
+ cfg80211_scan_request
+ cfg80211_scan_done
+ cfg80211_bss
+ cfg80211_inform_bss
+ cfg80211_inform_bss_frame_data
+ cfg80211_inform_bss_data
+ cfg80211_unlink_bss
+ cfg80211_find_ie
+ ieee80211_bss_get_ie
+
+Utility functions
+=================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: Utility functions
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_channel_to_frequency
+ ieee80211_frequency_to_channel
+ ieee80211_get_channel
+ ieee80211_get_response_rate
+ ieee80211_hdrlen
+ ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb
+ ieee80211_radiotap_iterator
+
+Data path helpers
+=================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: Data path helpers
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_data_to_8023
+ ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023s
+ cfg80211_classify8021d
+
+Regulatory enforcement infrastructure
+=====================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: Regulatory enforcement infrastructure
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :functions:
+ regulatory_hint
+ wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory
+ freq_reg_info
+
+RFkill integration
+==================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: RFkill integration
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :functions:
+ wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state
+ wiphy_rfkill_start_polling
+ wiphy_rfkill_stop_polling
+
+Test mode
+=========
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :doc: Test mode
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h
+ :functions:
+ cfg80211_testmode_alloc_reply_skb
+ cfg80211_testmode_reply
+ cfg80211_testmode_alloc_event_skb
+ cfg80211_testmode_event
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/80211/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/80211/index.rst
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/80211/index.rst
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+=====================================
+Linux 802.11 Driver Developer's Guide
+=====================================
+
+.. toctree::
+
+ introduction
+ cfg80211
+ mac80211
+ mac80211-advanced
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/80211/introduction.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/80211/introduction.rst
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+============
+Introduction
+============
+
+Explaining wireless 802.11 networking in the Linux kernel
+
+Copyright 2007-2009 Johannes Berg
+
+These books attempt to give a description of the various subsystems
+that play a role in 802.11 wireless networking in Linux. Since these
+books are for kernel developers they attempts to document the
+structures and functions used in the kernel as well as giving a
+higher-level overview.
+
+The reader is expected to be familiar with the 802.11 standard as
+published by the IEEE in 802.11-2007 (or possibly later versions).
+References to this standard will be given as "802.11-2007 8.1.5".
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/80211/mac80211-advanced.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/80211/mac80211-advanced.rst
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+=============================
+mac80211 subsystem (advanced)
+=============================
+
+Information contained within this part of the book is of interest only
+for advanced interaction of mac80211 with drivers to exploit more
+hardware capabilities and improve performance.
+
+LED support
+===========
+
+Mac80211 supports various ways of blinking LEDs. Wherever possible,
+device LEDs should be exposed as LED class devices and hooked up to the
+appropriate trigger, which will then be triggered appropriately by
+mac80211.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_get_tx_led_name
+ ieee80211_get_rx_led_name
+ ieee80211_get_assoc_led_name
+ ieee80211_get_radio_led_name
+ ieee80211_tpt_blink
+ ieee80211_tpt_led_trigger_flags
+ ieee80211_create_tpt_led_trigger
+
+Hardware crypto acceleration
+============================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: Hardware crypto acceleration
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ set_key_cmd
+ ieee80211_key_conf
+ ieee80211_key_flags
+ ieee80211_get_tkip_p1k
+ ieee80211_get_tkip_p1k_iv
+ ieee80211_get_tkip_p2k
+
+Powersave support
+=================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: Powersave support
+
+Beacon filter support
+=====================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: Beacon filter support
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions: ieee80211_beacon_loss
+
+Multiple queues and QoS support
+===============================
+
+TBD
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions: ieee80211_tx_queue_params
+
+Access point mode support
+=========================
+
+TBD
+
+Some parts of the if_conf should be discussed here instead
+
+Insert notes about VLAN interfaces with hw crypto here or in the hw
+crypto chapter.
+
+support for powersaving clients
+-------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: AP support for powersaving clients
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_get_buffered_bc
+ ieee80211_beacon_get
+ ieee80211_sta_eosp
+ ieee80211_frame_release_type
+ ieee80211_sta_ps_transition
+ ieee80211_sta_ps_transition_ni
+ ieee80211_sta_set_buffered
+ ieee80211_sta_block_awake
+
+Supporting multiple virtual interfaces
+======================================
+
+TBD
+
+Note: WDS with identical MAC address should almost always be OK
+
+Insert notes about having multiple virtual interfaces with different MAC
+addresses here, note which configurations are supported by mac80211, add
+notes about supporting hw crypto with it.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces
+ ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic
+
+Station handling
+================
+
+TODO
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_sta
+ sta_notify_cmd
+ ieee80211_find_sta
+ ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr
+
+Hardware scan offload
+=====================
+
+TBD
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions: ieee80211_scan_completed
+
+Aggregation
+===========
+
+TX A-MPDU aggregation
+---------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
+ :doc: TX A-MPDU aggregation
+
+.. WARNING: DOCPROC directive not supported: !Cnet/mac80211/agg-tx.c
+
+RX A-MPDU aggregation
+---------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
+ :doc: RX A-MPDU aggregation
+
+.. WARNING: DOCPROC directive not supported: !Cnet/mac80211/agg-rx.c
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions: ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action
+
+Spatial Multiplexing Powersave (SMPS)
+=====================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: Spatial multiplexing power save
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_request_smps
+ ieee80211_smps_mode
+
+TBD
+
+This part of the book describes the rate control algorithm interface and
+how it relates to mac80211 and drivers.
+
+Rate Control API
+================
+
+TBD
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session
+ ieee80211_start_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe
+ ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session
+ ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe
+ ieee80211_rate_control_changed
+ ieee80211_tx_rate_control
+
+TBD
+
+This part of the book describes mac80211 internals.
+
+Key handling
+============
+
+Key handling basics
+-------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: net/mac80211/key.c
+ :doc: Key handling basics
+
+MORE TBD
+--------
+
+TBD
+
+Receive processing
+==================
+
+TBD
+
+Transmit processing
+===================
+
+TBD
+
+Station info handling
+=====================
+
+Programming information
+-----------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+ :functions:
+ sta_info
+ ieee80211_sta_info_flags
+
+STA information lifetime rules
+------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+ :doc: STA information lifetime rules
+
+Aggregation Functions
+=====================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+ :functions:
+ sta_ampdu_mlme
+ tid_ampdu_tx
+ tid_ampdu_rx
+
+Synchronisation Functions
+=========================
+
+TBD
+
+Locking, lots of RCU
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/80211/mac80211.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/80211/mac80211.rst
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+===========================
+mac80211 subsystem (basics)
+===========================
+
+You should read and understand the information contained within this
+part of the book while implementing a mac80211 driver. In some chapters,
+advanced usage is noted, those may be skipped if this isn't needed.
+
+This part of the book only covers station and monitor mode
+functionality, additional information required to implement the other
+modes is covered in the second part of the book.
+
+Basic hardware handling
+=======================
+
+TBD
+
+This chapter shall contain information on getting a hw struct allocated
+and registered with mac80211.
+
+Since it is required to allocate rates/modes before registering a hw
+struct, this chapter shall also contain information on setting up the
+rate/mode structs.
+
+Additionally, some discussion about the callbacks and the general
+programming model should be in here, including the definition of
+ieee80211_ops which will be referred to a lot.
+
+Finally, a discussion of hardware capabilities should be done with
+references to other parts of the book.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_hw
+ ieee80211_hw_flags
+ SET_IEEE80211_DEV
+ SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR
+ ieee80211_ops
+ ieee80211_alloc_hw
+ ieee80211_register_hw
+ ieee80211_unregister_hw
+ ieee80211_free_hw
+
+PHY configuration
+=================
+
+TBD
+
+This chapter should describe PHY handling including start/stop callbacks
+and the various structures used.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_conf
+ ieee80211_conf_flags
+
+Virtual interfaces
+==================
+
+TBD
+
+This chapter should describe virtual interface basics that are relevant
+to the driver (VLANs, MGMT etc are not.) It should explain the use of
+the add_iface/remove_iface callbacks as well as the interface
+configuration callbacks.
+
+Things related to AP mode should be discussed there.
+
+Things related to supporting multiple interfaces should be in the
+appropriate chapter, a BIG FAT note should be here about this though and
+the recommendation to allow only a single interface in STA mode at
+first!
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions: ieee80211_vif
+
+Receive and transmit processing
+===============================
+
+what should be here
+-------------------
+
+TBD
+
+This should describe the receive and transmit paths in mac80211/the
+drivers as well as transmit status handling.
+
+Frame format
+------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: Frame format
+
+Packet alignment
+----------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: net/mac80211/rx.c
+ :doc: Packet alignment
+
+Calling into mac80211 from interrupts
+-------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: Calling mac80211 from interrupts
+
+functions/definitions
+---------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_rx_status
+ mac80211_rx_encoding_flags
+ mac80211_rx_flags
+ mac80211_tx_info_flags
+ mac80211_tx_control_flags
+ mac80211_rate_control_flags
+ ieee80211_tx_rate
+ ieee80211_tx_info
+ ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status
+ ieee80211_rx
+ ieee80211_rx_ni
+ ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
+ ieee80211_tx_status_skb
+ ieee80211_tx_status_ni
+ ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe
+ ieee80211_rts_get
+ ieee80211_rts_duration
+ ieee80211_ctstoself_get
+ ieee80211_ctstoself_duration
+ ieee80211_generic_frame_duration
+ ieee80211_wake_queue
+ ieee80211_stop_queue
+ ieee80211_wake_queues
+ ieee80211_stop_queues
+ ieee80211_queue_stopped
+
+Frame filtering
+===============
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: Frame filtering
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions: ieee80211_filter_flags
+
+The mac80211 workqueue
+======================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :doc: mac80211 workqueue
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/net/mac80211.h
+ :functions:
+ ieee80211_queue_work
+ ieee80211_queue_delayed_work