Re: [PATCH 1/1 V2] mac80211: Fix ieee80211_rx_reorder_ampdu: ignore QoS null packets

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Monday 07 July 2008 18:23:44 Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 15:48 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
> > 
> > This patch fixes the check at the entrance to ieee80211_rx_reorder_ampdu.
> > This check has been broken by 511fe3f3c4ba0b5b77421336f64a19b6cd00e65f
> > 'mac80211: rx.c use new helpers'
> > 
> Actually, do we want something like this instead:
> 
> > diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > index 6a88e8f..a6e8214 100644
> > --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > @@ -2052,7 +2052,7 @@ static u8 ieee80211_rx_reorder_ampdu(struct ieee80211_local *local,
> >  	tid_agg_rx = sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[tid];
> >  
> >  	/* null data frames are excluded */
> > -	if (unlikely(ieee80211_is_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control)))
> > +	if (unlikely(ieee80211_is_qos_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control)))
> >  		goto end_reorder;
> >  
> >  	/* new un-ordered ampdu frame - process it */
> 
> 	if (unlikely(ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control) && (hdr->frame_control & cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_STYPE_NULLFUNC))))
> 
> Or wrap the above in a ieee80211_is_data_has_nullfunc() helper?

I think this helper naming is becoming a bit weird and obfuscating.
I'd say just opencode it, if it's only used in a few places.


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Greetings Michael.