Return-path: Received: from hostap.isc.org ([149.20.54.63]:55152 "EHLO hostap.isc.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753083AbYHSHzZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:55:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:54:32 +0300 From: Jouni Malinen To: Johannes Berg , "John W. Linville" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM Message-ID: <20080819075431.GA4805@jm.kir.nu> (sfid-20080819_095529_999484_8A58C7F8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The previous code was using IWEVCUSTOM to report IEs from AssocReq and AssocResp frames into user space. This can easily hit the 256 byte limit (IW_CUSTOM_MAX) with APs that include number of vendor IEs in AssocResp. This results in the event message not being sent and dmesg showing "wlan0 (WE) : Wireless Event too big (366)" type of errors. Convert mac80211 to use IWEVASSOCREQIE/IWEVASSOCRESPIE to avoid the issue of being unable to send association IEs as wireless events. These newer event types use binary encoding and larger maximum size (IW_GENERIC_IE_MAX = 1024), so the likelyhood of not being able to send the IEs is much smaller than with IWEVCUSTOM. As an extra benefit, the code is also quite a bit simpler since there is no need to allocate an extra buffer for hex encoding. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen Index: wireless-testing/net/mac80211/mlme.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -501,51 +501,21 @@ int ieee80211_ht_addt_info_ie_to_ht_bss_ static void ieee80211_sta_send_associnfo(struct net_device *dev, struct ieee80211_if_sta *ifsta) { - char *buf; - size_t len; - int i; union iwreq_data wrqu; - if (!ifsta->assocreq_ies && !ifsta->assocresp_ies) - return; - - buf = kmalloc(50 + 2 * (ifsta->assocreq_ies_len + - ifsta->assocresp_ies_len), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!buf) - return; - - len = sprintf(buf, "ASSOCINFO("); if (ifsta->assocreq_ies) { - len += sprintf(buf + len, "ReqIEs="); - for (i = 0; i < ifsta->assocreq_ies_len; i++) { - len += sprintf(buf + len, "%02x", - ifsta->assocreq_ies[i]); - } + memset(&wrqu, 0, sizeof(wrqu)); + wrqu.data.length = ifsta->assocreq_ies_len; + wireless_send_event(dev, IWEVASSOCREQIE, &wrqu, + ifsta->assocreq_ies); } + if (ifsta->assocresp_ies) { - if (ifsta->assocreq_ies) - len += sprintf(buf + len, " "); - len += sprintf(buf + len, "RespIEs="); - for (i = 0; i < ifsta->assocresp_ies_len; i++) { - len += sprintf(buf + len, "%02x", - ifsta->assocresp_ies[i]); - } - } - len += sprintf(buf + len, ")"); - - if (len > IW_CUSTOM_MAX) { - len = sprintf(buf, "ASSOCRESPIE="); - for (i = 0; i < ifsta->assocresp_ies_len; i++) { - len += sprintf(buf + len, "%02x", - ifsta->assocresp_ies[i]); - } + memset(&wrqu, 0, sizeof(wrqu)); + wrqu.data.length = ifsta->assocresp_ies_len; + wireless_send_event(dev, IWEVASSOCRESPIE, &wrqu, + ifsta->assocresp_ies); } - - memset(&wrqu, 0, sizeof(wrqu)); - wrqu.data.length = len; - wireless_send_event(dev, IWEVCUSTOM, &wrqu, buf); - - kfree(buf); } -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA