mac80211: Copy tx'ed beacons to monitor mode
When debugging wireless powersave issues on the AP side it's quite helpful
to see our own beacons that are transmitted by the hardware/driver. However,
this is not that easy since beacons don't pass through the regular TX queues.
Preferably drivers would call ieee80211_tx_status also for tx'ed beacons
but that's not always possible. Hence, just send a copy of each beacon
generated by ieee80211_beacon_get_tim to monitor devices when they are
getting fetched by the driver.
Also add a HW flag IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS that can be used by
drivers to indicate that they report TX status for beacons.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
(with a fix from Christian Lamparted rolled in)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 84e0e8c..7354072 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -3512,6 +3512,12 @@
{
struct ieee80211_mutable_offsets offs = {};
struct sk_buff *bcn = __ieee80211_beacon_get(hw, vif, &offs, false);
+ struct sk_buff *copy;
+ struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
+ int shift;
+
+ if (!bcn)
+ return bcn;
if (tim_offset)
*tim_offset = offs.tim_offset;
@@ -3519,6 +3525,19 @@
if (tim_length)
*tim_length = offs.tim_length;
+ if (ieee80211_hw_check(hw, BEACON_TX_STATUS) ||
+ !hw_to_local(hw)->monitors)
+ return bcn;
+
+ /* send a copy to monitor interfaces */
+ copy = skb_copy(bcn, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!copy)
+ return bcn;
+
+ shift = ieee80211_vif_get_shift(vif);
+ sband = hw->wiphy->bands[ieee80211_get_sdata_band(vif_to_sdata(vif))];
+ ieee80211_tx_monitor(hw_to_local(hw), copy, sband, 1, shift, false);
+
return bcn;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_beacon_get_tim);