wireless: deprecate WDS and disable by default

The old WDS 4-addr frame support is very limited, e.g.
 * no encryption is possible on such links
 * it cannot support rate/HT/VHT negotiation
 * management APIs are very restricted

These make the WDS legacy mode useless in practice.

All of these are resolved by the 4-addr AP/client support,
so there's also no reason to improve WDS in the future.

Therefore, add a Kconfig option to disable legacy WDS.
This gives people an "emergency valve" while they migrate
to the better-supported 4-addr AP/client option; we plan
to remove it (and the associated cfg80211/mac80211 code,
which is the ultimate goal) in the future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 8c8edaf..8f5a3f4 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ menuconfig WLAN
 
 if WLAN
 
+config WIRELESS_WDS
+       bool "mac80211-based legacy WDS support" if EXPERT
+       help
+         This option enables the deprecated WDS support, the newer
+         mac80211-based 4-addr AP/client support supersedes it with
+         a much better feature set (HT, VHT, ...)
+
+         We plan to remove this option and code, so if you find
+         that you have to enable it, please let us know on the
+         linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org mailing list, so we can
+         help you migrate to 4-addr AP/client (or, if it's really
+         necessary, give up on our plan of removing it).
+
 source "drivers/net/wireless/admtek/Kconfig"
 source "drivers/net/wireless/ath/Kconfig"
 source "drivers/net/wireless/atmel/Kconfig"

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
index cfa3fe8..368d9b3 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
@@ -734,9 +734,11 @@ static const struct ieee80211_iface_limit if_limits[] = {
                                 BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO) },
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
 static const struct ieee80211_iface_limit wds_limits[] = {
        { .max = 2048,  .types = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) },
 };
+#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATH9K_CHANNEL_CONTEXT
 
@@ -774,6 +776,7 @@ static const struct ieee80211_iface_combination if_comb[] = {
                                        BIT(NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_40),
 #endif
        },
+#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
        {
                .limits = wds_limits,
                .n_limits = ARRAY_SIZE(wds_limits),
@@ -781,6 +784,7 @@ static const struct ieee80211_iface_combination if_comb[] = {
                .num_different_channels = 1,
                .beacon_int_infra_match = true,
        },
+#endif
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATH9K_CHANNEL_CONTEXT
@@ -851,7 +855,9 @@ static void ath9k_set_hw_capab(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
                        BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
                        BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) |
                        BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) |
+#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
                        BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) |
+#endif
                        BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB);
 
                if (ath9k_is_chanctx_enabled())

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
index 6e5d909..52f3541 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
@@ -5591,7 +5591,9 @@ static struct b43_wl *b43_wireless_init(struct b43_bus_dev *dev)
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) |
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) |
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
+#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) |
+#endif
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC);
 
        hw->wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN;

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/main.c
index 83770d2..e97ab2b 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/main.c
@@ -3838,7 +3838,9 @@ static int b43legacy_wireless_init(struct ssb_device *dev)
        hw->wiphy->interface_modes =
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) |
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
+#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) |
+#endif
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC);
        hw->queues = 1; /* FIXME: hardware has more queues */
        hw->max_rates = 2;

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
index 4e0c565..236f790 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
@@ -1362,11 +1362,13 @@ int rt2x00lib_probe_dev(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
        if (rt2x00dev->bcn->limit > 0)
                rt2x00dev->hw->wiphy->interface_modes |=
                    BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) |
-                   BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) |
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH
                    BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) |
 #endif
-                   BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS);
+#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
+                   BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) |
+#endif
+                   BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP);
 
        rt2x00dev->hw->wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN;
 

diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index 8201e6d..f433f15 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -571,6 +571,11 @@ static int wiphy_verify_combinations(struct wiphy *wiphy)
                                return -EINVAL;
                }
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
+               if (WARN_ON(all_iftypes & BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS)))
+                       return -EINVAL;
+#endif
+
                /* You can't even choose that many! */
                if (WARN_ON(cnt < c->max_interfaces))
                        return -EINVAL;
@@ -609,6 +614,11 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy)
                     !rdev->ops->add_nan_func || !rdev->ops->del_nan_func)))
                return -EINVAL;
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS
+       if (WARN_ON(wiphy->interface_modes & BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS)))
+               return -EINVAL;
+#endif
+
        /*
         * if a wiphy has unsupported modes for regulatory channel enforcement,
         * opt-out of enforcement checking