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<title>LinuxKPI: 802.11: add struct/fields and functions for v7.0</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T12:00:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2026-04-14T15:23:31+00:00</published>
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Add 802.11 struct fields and functions support for Linux v7.0 based
wireless drivers (at least iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89).

While here cleanup some other bits.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
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Add 802.11 struct fields and functions support for Linux v7.0 based
wireless drivers (at least iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89).

While here cleanup some other bits.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
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<entry>
<title>LinuxKPI: 802.11: Add structures and functions for NAN support</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T12:00:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-18T11:26:59+00:00</published>
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In Linux v7.0 iwlwifi(4) started to add support for Wi-Fi Aware(tm)
also known as Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN).

Add structures and fields for this as needed so far to keep the driver
compiling.  net80211 has no support for it as a new mode.

We may consider a dedicated header file for these parts in the future
depending on how much more is to come.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
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In Linux v7.0 iwlwifi(4) started to add support for Wi-Fi Aware(tm)
also known as Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN).

Add structures and fields for this as needed so far to keep the driver
compiling.  net80211 has no support for it as a new mode.

We may consider a dedicated header file for these parts in the future
depending on how much more is to come.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
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<title>LinuxKPI: 802.11: set IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE according to struct</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T12:00:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T07:50:35+00:00</published>
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IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE came up in the mt76 vendor subtree merge
as one of the non-mechanical changes which made me look.
Rather than (incorrectly) hand counting the offset from the beginning
of a frame, use the offset from the beginning of struct ieee80211_mgmt.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
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IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE came up in the mt76 vendor subtree merge
as one of the non-mechanical changes which made me look.
Rather than (incorrectly) hand counting the offset from the beginning
of a frame, use the offset from the beginning of struct ieee80211_mgmt.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
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<entry>
<title>LinuxKPI: implement devm_kmemdup_array()</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T01:12:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T13:35:36+00:00</published>
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Implement devm_kmemdup_array() using devm_kmemdup() in order to
prepare for Linux v7.0 based drivers.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56396
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Implement devm_kmemdup_array() using devm_kmemdup() in order to
prepare for Linux v7.0 based drivers.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56396
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<title>LinuxKPI: add kmalloc_obj[s], kzalloc_obj[s], and kzalloc_flex</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T01:12:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T15:13:18+00:00</published>
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Drivers in Linux v7.0 seem to have changed to the new allocation
macros using a sweep.  Add the ones I encountered with wireless
drivers so far.  They all take an optional argument for a gfp_t,
which default_gfp() deals with.

The plural version "objs" takes an extra nitems argument in addition
to the size.  We use size_mul() to possibly detect overflows.

The "flex" version uses an extra variable to track the variable sized
array allocations and if supported by the compiler will use
__builtin_counted_by_ref() to properly track bounds.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56395
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Drivers in Linux v7.0 seem to have changed to the new allocation
macros using a sweep.  Add the ones I encountered with wireless
drivers so far.  They all take an optional argument for a gfp_t,
which default_gfp() deals with.

The plural version "objs" takes an extra nitems argument in addition
to the size.  We use size_mul() to possibly detect overflows.

The "flex" version uses an extra variable to track the variable sized
array allocations and if supported by the compiler will use
__builtin_counted_by_ref() to properly track bounds.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56395
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<title>LinuxKPI: sync overflow.h from Linux v7.0</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T01:12:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T13:50:44+00:00</published>
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overflow.h was imported directly from Linux in 3208d4ad2b8320a.
Update the file to the newer version as needed for v7.0 driver updates.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Obtained from:	git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
		028ef9c96e96197026887c0f092424679298aae8 (tag: v7.0)
Reviewed by:	emaste, dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56394
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overflow.h was imported directly from Linux in 3208d4ad2b8320a.
Update the file to the newer version as needed for v7.0 driver updates.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Obtained from:	git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
		028ef9c96e96197026887c0f092424679298aae8 (tag: v7.0)
Reviewed by:	emaste, dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56394
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<entry>
<title>LinuxKPI: conditionally add __flex_counter()</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T01:12:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T15:06:56+00:00</published>
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__flex_counter() is used by overflow.h and needed for "flex allocations".
It is either a void * typed 0 (NULL) (like this for _Generic checks),
or uses __builtin_counted_by_ref.

The latter was added to gcc and llvm fairly recently and while for gcc
the __has_builtin() check suffices, clang had parts broken until recently
so needs an extra check for the next major version.  The fixed hash is
currently not part of any tag to use, so we play it save (and hope 23
will have it).  It will be a while until we will see the builting to be
used but at least we will be prepared for it.  See inline comments for
the commit hashes and versions which added the feature.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56393
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__flex_counter() is used by overflow.h and needed for "flex allocations".
It is either a void * typed 0 (NULL) (like this for _Generic checks),
or uses __builtin_counted_by_ref.

The latter was added to gcc and llvm fairly recently and while for gcc
the __has_builtin() check suffices, clang had parts broken until recently
so needs an extra check for the next major version.  The fixed hash is
currently not part of any tag to use, so we play it save (and hope 23
will have it).  It will be a while until we will see the builting to be
used but at least we will be prepared for it.  See inline comments for
the commit hashes and versions which added the feature.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56393
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<entry>
<title>LinuxKPI: add default_gfp()</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T01:12:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T13:40:24+00:00</published>
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Various new allocation macros can take an optional gfp_t argument.
If the argument is not given we need to set the GFP_KERNEL default.
While this is only internally used and I initialy called it differently,
should this spread elsewhere having the same name as in Linux will be
good.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundaton
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56392
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Various new allocation macros can take an optional gfp_t argument.
If the argument is not given we need to set the GFP_KERNEL default.
While this is only internally used and I initialy called it differently,
should this spread elsewhere having the same name as in Linux will be
good.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundaton
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56392
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<entry>
<title>LinuxKPI: move hex2bin() from kernel.h to new hex.h</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T01:12:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T13:36:40+00:00</published>
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New Linux v7.0 drivers include hex.h.  Rather than adding a dummy
header, migrate the kernel.h hex2bin() into hex.h, where it belongs.
Care needs to be taken as the _h2b() helper function is still used by
other bits in kernel.h.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	emaste, dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56391
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New Linux v7.0 drivers include hex.h.  Rather than adding a dummy
header, migrate the kernel.h hex2bin() into hex.h, where it belongs.
Care needs to be taken as the _h2b() helper function is still used by
other bits in kernel.h.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	emaste, dumbbell
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56391
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<entry>
<title>LinuxKPI: 802.11: make sure dtim_period is set</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T01:12:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern A. Zeeb</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-17T02:34:51+00:00</published>
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When going from ASSOC to RUN LinuxKPI based wireless drivers have
certian expectations written in various ways.  I believe mac80211
waits to see a beacon before setting the vif to assoc (or the sta
to AUTHORIZED).  We have some comments in lkpi_update_dtim_tsf()
for that.
In practice we can filter out the beacons already and know when
they came in as we count them but it is hard to split up the
state machine and defer the work.

So we make sure that dtim_period is set to at least 1 before
calling the (*vif_cfg_change) after setting assoc to true;
0 is a reserved value according to the standards.

We will update it once we see a beacon and in case the value
differs from 1 shortly afterwards from the recv_mgmt callback.

While iwlwifi seems to have coped with our initial implementation,
rtw89 may hit a DIV 0 if dtim_period is 0 depending on how well
the rx path races with our unlocking in assoc_to_run.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
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When going from ASSOC to RUN LinuxKPI based wireless drivers have
certian expectations written in various ways.  I believe mac80211
waits to see a beacon before setting the vif to assoc (or the sta
to AUTHORIZED).  We have some comments in lkpi_update_dtim_tsf()
for that.
In practice we can filter out the beacons already and know when
they came in as we count them but it is hard to split up the
state machine and defer the work.

So we make sure that dtim_period is set to at least 1 before
calling the (*vif_cfg_change) after setting assoc to true;
0 is a reserved value according to the standards.

We will update it once we see a beacon and in case the value
differs from 1 shortly afterwards from the recv_mgmt callback.

While iwlwifi seems to have coped with our initial implementation,
rtw89 may hit a DIV 0 if dtim_period is 0 depending on how well
the rx path races with our unlocking in assoc_to_run.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
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