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* [PATCH stable] b43legacy: Do not return TX_BUSY from op_tx
@ 2008-07-02 23:06 Michael Buesch
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From: Michael Buesch @ 2008-07-02 23:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable; +Cc: John Linville, bcm43xx-dev, linux-wireless, Stefano Brivio

Never return TX_BUSY from op_tx. It doesn't make sense to return
TX_BUSY, if we can not transmit the packet.
Drop the packet and return TX_OK.

Upstream commit is
eb803e419ca6be06ece2e42027bb4ebd8ec09f91

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>


Index: linux-2.6.25.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c	2008-06-14 22:41:44.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.25.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c	2008-07-03 00:51:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -2347,14 +2347,16 @@ static int b43legacy_op_tx(struct ieee80
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&wl->irq_lock, flags);
 		err = b43legacy_pio_tx(dev, skb, ctl);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wl->irq_lock, flags);
 	} else
 		err = b43legacy_dma_tx(dev, skb, ctl);
 out:
-	if (unlikely(err))
-		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+	if (unlikely(err)) {
+		/* Drop the packet. */
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+	}
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
 static int b43legacy_op_conf_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 				int queue,
 				const struct ieee80211_tx_queue_params *params)

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