Like bgscan, autoscan is an optional module based feature to automate
scanning but while disconnected or inactive.
Instead of requesting directly a scan, it only sets the scan_interval
and the sched_scan_interval. So, if the driver supports sched_scan,
autoscan will be able to tweak its interval. Otherwise, the tweaked
scan_interval will be used. If scan parameters needs to be tweaked, an
autoscan_params pointer in wpa_s will provide those. So req_scan /
req_sched_scan will not set the scan parameters as they usually do, but
instead will use this pointer.
Modules will not have to request a scan directly, like bgscan does.
Instead, it will need to return the interval it wants after each
notification.
Signed-hostap: Tomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com>
Excessive debug level can now be used to dump the IEs received in scan
results from both Beacon and Probe Response frames. This makes it easier
to debug issues where the driver (or well, more likely cfg80211) does
not update the IEs based on Beacon frames if even a single Probe
Response frame has been received.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
The nl80211 driver interface does not allow 128-bit WEP to be used
without a vendor specific cipher suite and no such suite is defined for
this purpose. Do not accept WEP key length 16 for nl80211 driver
interface forn ow. wext-interface can still try to use these for
backwards compatibility.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Do not try to associate with a network that has an invalid or incomplete
configuration because the association or at least data connection would
fail anyway. This commits adds a common function for checking whether a
network block is disabled to make it easier to check network blocks
without having to reject them during configuration file parsing (which
would prevent wpa_supplicant from starting). The only additional check
added in this commit is to verify the WEP key length. Similar checks for
other parameters can be added in future commits.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
When the network configuration includes exactly the number of
scan_ssid=1 networks as the driver supports for scan_sched and no
networks need wildcard SSID scan, there is no need to use sched_scan
timeout. Check this condition and optimize this case to avoid the extra
sched_scan start/stop operations.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
The debug messages were showing the opposite of what the actual
implementation was doing for sched_scan timeout.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
This new configuration parameter can be used to disable automatic
offloading of scan requests to the driver which was previously used
by default if the driver supported sched_scan.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Since P2P GO cannot change the SSID after WPS provisioning step, we
can use the specific SSID for the scan for data connection. In addition,
mark this as p2p_probe to avoid unnecessary use of 802.11b rates.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Since the P2P client learns the SSID of the group during GO Negotiation,
use the specific SSID in the Probe Request frames during the
provisioning step. This helps in avoiding unnecessary Probe Response
frames from other P2P GOs or APs.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Use Device Password ID in WSC IE of Probe Request and Probe Response
frames to advertise immediate availability of WPS credentials per P2P
specification sections 3.1.2.1.1 (Listen State), 3.1.2.1.2 (Scan Phase),
and 3.1.2.1.3 (Find Phase).
For now, the Device Password ID is set only for the case where we are
active GO Negotiation with a specific peer. In practice, this means that
the Probe Response frames during pending GO Negotiation (whenever in
Listen state) indicate availability of the credential.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
wpa_supplicant can now be configured to filter out scan results based
on a BSSID filter. Space-separated set of allowed BSSIDs can be set
with wpa_cli set bssid_filter command. Filtering mechanism can be
disabled by setting this variable to an empty list. When set, only
the BSSes that have a matching entry in this list will be accepted
from scan results.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Normal scan is more reliable and faster for WPS operations and since
these are for short periods of time, the benefit of trying to use
sched_scan would be limited. This can fix WPS connectivity issues
with some drivers.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
intended-for: hostap-1
For drivers limited to scan a single SSID at a time, this prevents
waiting too long for a wildcard scan in case there are several
scan_ssid networks in the configuration.
Signed-hostap: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
wpas_wps_in_use() was forcing WPS to be enabled unconditionally if P2P
support was included in the build. This is not really the correct
behavior for the case when P2P has been disabled at runtime. Change the
code here to verify runtime configuration of P2P before forcing WPS to
be enabled. This allows WSC IE to be left out from Probe Request frames
when scanning for APs without P2P or WPS being in use.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
If the BSSID of the AP is specified in the WPS command, the target
AP is likely already in the BSS table and its operating channel is
known. Use this information to speed up connection by only scanning
the known channel.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Trying to run sched_scan round every two seconds by defaults sounds way
too frequent since dualband cards are unlikely to be able to complete
the full scan cycle in two seconds. For now, set the hardcoded value to
10 seconds to make this somewhat more reasonable.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
When normal scan can speed up operations, use that for the first three
scan runs before starting the sched_scan to allow user space sleep more.
We do this only if the normal scan has functionality that is suitable
for this or if the sched_scan does not have better support for multiple
SSIDs.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Previously, only networks with scan_ssid=1 were included in sched_scan.
This needs to behave similarly to the normal scan where broadcast SSID
is used to find networks that are not scanned for with a specific SSID.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Instead of including only a single SSID in the sched_scan request if
the driver does not support match sets, just drop the SSID filter and
configure more SSIDs up to the sched_scan limit.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
The filter_ssids pointer needs to be set to NULL if no SSID filters
are set to avoid filtering out all scan results.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
The previous implementation was trying to add the first SSID
to a zero-length array. Avoid this with an explicit validation
of the array length.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Even though scan_ssid should not really be set for wildcard SSID,
better verify that here explicitly insead of assuming that the
SSID is set.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Scan wasn't initiated in case the config contained only networks without
scan_ssid. In such a case we want scan to be initiated without any SSIDs
to actively scan but include all the SSIDs in the filter list. Also
added some debug logs to easily see which SSIDs were included in which
list.
Cc: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
In scan.c, merge a channel's noise value into the scan results. When
comparing scan results, compute the signal-to-noise ratio and use it
when available. Prefer a 5 GHz network if its SNR is really big (> 30)
or if its SNR is relatively close to the other network's.
The interface may not yet have been set to P2P client mode immediately
after GO Negotiation when doing the scan before association request.
Consequently, the scan request in this state has to specify that the
specific P2P probe mode is used to disable IEEE 802.11b rates.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
This code was used only with driver_test.c to allow MLME operations
in hostapd to be tested without having to use a real radio. There
are no plans on extending this to any other use than testing and
mac80211_hwsim has now obsoled the need for this type of testing.
As such, we can drop this code from wpa_supplicant to clean up the
implementation of unnecessary complexity.
The new wpa_supplicant.conf file global parameters interworking and
hessid can be used to configure wpa_supplicant to include
Interworking element in Probe Request frames.
When initializing, the scheduled scan code was being called before
everything is ready. With normal scans, the first scan round is
delayed, so the initialization is finished by the time it really
starts.
Add a function that can be used to request a delayed scheduled scan.
The scan will only start after the specified time has elapsed. Call
this function instead of starting the scheduled scan directly during
driver initialization.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Pass SSIDs to be matched in scheduled scan results. Only the SSIDs
that are included in the match lists will be reported by the driver,
so the filtering can be offloaded to the hardware and the power
consumption can be reduced.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
In new Linux kernel versions (>=3.0), nl80211 adds scheduled scan
capability. In order to use this feature to its full extent, we need
to support it in the wpa_supplicant core, so that it can also be used
by other drivers.
This commit adds initial scheduled scan support operations and events.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Move some code to separate functions to reorganize the P2P and WPS
handling during scans. This makes the code a bit cleaner and is
needed for the scheduled scan implementation to avoid duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
The new function, p2p_scan_ie_buf_len(), can be used to figure out
how large a buffer needs to be allocated for p2p_scan_ie() use. This
makes it easier to add new data into the buffer without forcing all
callers to be updated to use a larger buffer.
The P2P search mechanism depends on the same scan functionality that
is used for station mode scans. If these operations are being used
at the same time, scan result processing is not handled properly.
Avoid unexpected behavior by delaying station mode scan requests
if a P2P operation is in progress.
Among other things, this allows the station mode connection attempt
to be continued after a P2P find or group formation has been completed
if the interface is available (i.e., when the P2P group uses a
separate virtual interface).
There are some corner cases, where the wpa_supplicant_req_scan() call
may end up scheduling a scan even if we are about to start a GO. Avoid
this by explicitly marking the GO network to be selected for the next
connection.
This converts number of debugging messages to use wpa_msg() in order
to allow the interface name to be shown with the messages.
A new function, wpa_dbg(), is introduced to allow
CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG=y builds to remove the debug strings. This is
otherwise identical with wpa_msg(), but it gets compiled out if stdout
debugging is disabled.
The special case of requiring blacklisting count to be 2 or higher
is only needed when more than a single network is currently enabled.
As such, we should not do that when only a single network is enabled.
This make the station more likely to follow network side load
balancing attempts where the current AP may disassociate us with
an assumption that we would move to another AP.
When authentication or association fails when trying to connect to
a BSS in an ESS that has multiple BSSes based on previous scans,
limit the first recovery scan to only the known channels that has
been seen previously. This speeds up recovery in some of the most
commonly used load balancing mechanisms in enterprise WLAN
networks.
This is not supposed to happen, but in theory, the GO may end up
changing its channels at some point. While it would be reasonable
to use one of the common channels, GO may be forced to use another
channel. The most likely reason for this would be if the P2P client
is enforcing only a single channel to be used (e.g., to avoid
multi-channel concurrent operations).
If CONFIG_WPS_STRICT is set, validate WPS IE(s) in management frames and
reject the frames if any of the mandatory attributes is missing or if an
included attribute uses an invalid value. In addition, verify that all
mandatory attributes are included and have valid values in the WSC
messages.
The wpa_supplicant compilation without CONFIG_WPS option results in
messages below.
scan.c: In function 'wpa_supplicant_scan':
scan.c:246: warning: unused variable 'wps'
This trivial patch erases this warning.
When SME is in wpa_supplicant (mac80211), we need to make sure that
the kernel code has valid BSS entry for the AP. In some cases it
seemed to be possible to end up not having current information in
cfg80211 or mac80211 which can result to association failures. Avoid
this by always running through the scan request before initial
connection attempt.
The AP configuration may change after provisioning, so it is better
not to use the current security policy to prioritize results. Instead,
use WPS Selected Registrar attribute as the main sorting key and use
signal strength next without considering security policy or rate sets.
The non-WPS provisioning case remains as-is, i.e., this change applies
only when trying to find an AP for WPS provisioning.
Addition of the background scanning mechanism in commit
60b94c9819 moved the scan trigger
into a new function that was also incrementing the scan_runs
counter, but the removal of the previous scan_runs incrementation
was forgotten from that patch. This counter should only be updated
into a single location, so remove the old one. This improves AP
selection for WPS provisioning by not skipping some of the initial
scans.
Add a new wpa_supplicant state: interface disabled. This can be used
to allow wpa_supplicant to be running with the network interface even
when the driver does not actually allow any radio operations (e.g.,
due to rfkill).
Allow driver_nl80211.c and driver_wext.c to start while rfkill is in
blocked state (i.e., when ifconfig up fails) and process rfkill
events to block/unblock WLAN.
Scan only the frequency that was used during provisioning during the
first five scans for the connection. This speeds up connection in the
most likely case where the AP remains on the same channel. If the AP is
not found after these initial scans, all channels will be scanned.
filter_ssids=1 global configuration parameter can now be used to
enable scan result filtering (with -Dnl80211 only for now) based on
the configured SSIDs. In other words, only the scan results that have
an SSID matching with one of the configured networks are included in the
BSS table. This can be used to reduce memory needs in environments that
have huge number of APs.
wpa_supplicant can now be notified of suspend/resume events, e.g.,
from pm-action scripts. This allows wpa_supplicant to clear information
that may become invalid during a suspend operation.
Most of this file was already moved into wpa_supplicant/scan.c and
we can remove the file completely by having couple of small helper
functions copied to the remaining users outside core wpa_supplicant
code.
This fits better in wpa_supplicant/scan.c. Couple of remaining
scan_helpers.c functions are currently used in driver wrappers,
but they can likely be removed in the future.
Commit d3a9822542 broke per-SSID scan
by using the ssid variable for internal loop and by doing so,
overriding the value that was needed below to figure out whether the
scan is for a specific SSID. Fix this by using a temporary variable
instead when looping over network finding which frequencies to scan for.
This allows background scanning and roaming decisions to be contained in
a single place based on a defined set of notification events which will
hopefully make it easier to experiment with roaming improvements. In
addition, this allows multiple intra-ESS roaming policies to be used
(each network configuration block can configure its own bgscan module).
The beacon loss and signal strength notifications are implemented for
the bgscan API, but the actual events are not yet available from the
driver.
The included sample bgscan module ("simple") is an example of what can
be done with the new bgscan mechanism. It requests periodic background
scans when the device remains associated with an ESS and has couple of
notes on what a more advanced bgscan module could do to optimize
background scanning and roaming. The periodic scans will cause the scan
result handler to pick a better AP if one becomes available. This bgscan
module can be taken into use by adding bgscan="simple" (or
bgscan="simple:<bgscan interval in seconds>") into the network
configuration block.
After transitioning from DISCONNECTED to SCANNING, we never go back
to DISCONNECTED even though scanning is done or failed.
We're thus stuck in SCANNING while scanning is actually done.
This introduces a new mechanism for collecting notification calls into
a single place (notify.c). As a result of this, most of the
wpa_supplicant code does not need to know about dbus (etc. mechanisms
that could use the notifications). Some empty placeholder functions are
also added in preparation of new dbus code that needs more event
notifications.
When the supplicant is connected and performs a scan, it doesn't enter
WPA_SCANNING state for various reasons. However, external programs
still need to know that the supplicant is scanning since they may not
wish to perform certain operations during a scan (as those operations
will likely fail or yield incorrect results). Add a 'scanning' property
and signal to the supplicant dbus interface to allow clients to
synchronize better with the supplicant when it scans.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
A new network block parameter, scan_freq, can be used to specify subset
of frequencies to scan. This can speed up scanning process considerably
if it is known that only a small subset of channels is actually used in
the network. A union of configured frequencies for all enabled network
blocks is used in scan requests.
Currently, only driver_nl80211.c has support for this functionality.
For example, following parameter marks 2.4 GHz channels 1, 6, 11 to be
scanned: scan_freq=2412 2437 2462
wpa_supplicant can now initialize hostapd data structures when mode=2 is
used to set up an AP. The hostapd configuration is not yet set based on
wpa_supplicant network configuration block. In addition, the glue code
for hostapd driver_ops needs number of functions that will be needed for
AP functionality.
This can be used, e.g., with mac80211-based Linux drivers with
nl80211. This allows over-the-air FT protocol to be used (IEEE
802.11r).
Since the nl80211 interface needed for this is very recent (added
today into wireless-testing.git), driver_nl80211.c has backwards
compatibility code that uses WEXT for association if the kernel does
not support the new commands. This compatibility code can be
disabled by defining NO_WEXT_COMPAT. That code will also be removed
at some point to clean up driver_nl80211.c.
Do not use just the driver name for this since driver_ndis.c supports
both wired and wireless NDIS drivers and needs to indicate the driver
type after initialization.
If the driver reports support for more than one SSID per scan request,
optimize scan_ssid=1 operations in ap_scan=1 mode. This speeds up
scanning whenever scan_ssid=1 is used since the broadcast SSID can be
included in every scan request and if driver supports more than two
SSIDs in the scan request, the benefits are even larger when multiple
networks have been configured with ap_scan=1.
This is also cleaning up wpa_supplicant_scan() function by moving code
around so that the SSID list is not processed unnecessarily if the
operation mode does not need this.
This can be used to provide support for scanning multiple SSIDs at a
time to optimize scan_ssid=1 operations. In addition, Probe Request IEs
will be available to scan2() (e.g., for WPS PBC scanning).
Some WPS APs do not set Selected Registrar attribute to 1 properly when
using an external Registrar. Allow such an AP to be selected for PIN
registration after couple of scan runs that do not find APs marked with
Selected Registrar = 1. This allows wpa_supplicant to iterate through
all APs that advertise WPS support without delaying connection with
implementations that set Selected Registrar = 1 properly.
Generate a SHA1 hash -based UUID from the local MAC address if the UUID
was not configured. This makes it easier to prepare for WPS since there
is no need to generate an UUID.
This adds WPS support for both hostapd and wpa_supplicant. Both programs
can be configured to act as WPS Enrollee and Registrar. Both PBC and PIN
methods are supported.
Currently, hostapd has more complete configuration option for WPS
parameters and wpa_supplicant configuration style will likely change in
the future. External Registrars are not yet supported in hostapd or
wpa_supplicant. While wpa_supplicant has initial support for acting as
an Registrar to configure an AP, this is still using number of hardcoded
parameters which will need to be made configurable for proper operation.
Find attached the patch that creates a new driver: roboswitch. This
driver adds support for wired authentication with a Broadcom
RoboSwitch chipset. For example it is now possible to do wired
authentication with a Linksys WRT54G router running OpenWRT.
LIMITATIONS
- At the moment the driver does not support the BCM5365 series (though
adding it requires just some register tweaks).
- The driver is also limited to Linux (this is a far more technical
restriction).
- In order to compile against a 2.4 series you need to edit
include/linux/mii.h and change all references to "u16" in "__u16". I
have submitted a patch upstream that will fix this in a future version
of the 2.4 kernel. [These modifications (and more) are now included in
the kernel source and can be found in versions 2.4.37-rc2 and up.]
USAGE
- Usage is similar to the wired driver. Choose the interfacename of
the vlan that contains your desired authentication port on the router.
This name must be formatted as <interface>.<vlan>, which is the
default on all systems I know.
The scan path to initiate another scan if the initial association failed
was broken due to wpa_s->scan_req being zeroed earlier in
wpa_supplicant_scan(). This caused the second scan to bail out early
since it thought this was not a requested scan.
In situations where the driver does background scanning and sends a
steady stream of scan results, wpa_supplicant would continually
reschedule the scan. This resulted in specific SSID scans never
happening for a hidden AP, and the supplicant never connecting to the AP
because it never got found. Instead, if there's an already scheduled
scan, and a request comes in to reschedule it, and there are enabled
scan_ssid=1 network blocks, let the scan happen anyway so the hidden
SSID has a chance to be found.
