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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -stable] carl9170: fix frame delivery if sta is in powersave mode
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:36:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202252136.37255.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F46771F.9000200@lri.fr>

Nicolas Cavallari discovered that carl9170 has some
serious problems delivering data to sleeping stations.

It turns out that the driver was not honoring two
important flags (IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE and
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT) which are set on
frames that should be sent although the receiving
station is still in powersave mode.

Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
---
> Part of the reason i wrote this, is because, while this patch fixes the
> memory accounting problem and prevent the AP from stopping working, the
> powersaving station sometimes cannot communicate with the AP anymore
> (other stations can). The station uses ath9k, and is just really doing a
> background scan. The first traces that i have just indicate that the
> station entered powersave mode, then sends probe requests and probe
> requests directed to the AP, then sends authentication requests to the
> AP (?), but the AP does not respond to any of them...
>
Ok, I think this patch [on top of yours] should fix the problem.
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
index 771e1a9..0f00721 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
@@ -1236,6 +1236,7 @@ static bool carl9170_tx_ps_drop(struct ar9170 *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
 	struct carl9170_sta_info *sta_info;
+	struct ieee80211_tx_info *tx_info;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	sta = __carl9170_get_tx_sta(ar, skb);
@@ -1243,17 +1244,18 @@ static bool carl9170_tx_ps_drop(struct ar9170 *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		goto out_rcu;
 
 	sta_info = (void *) sta->drv_priv;
-	if (unlikely(sta_info->sleeping)) {
-		struct ieee80211_tx_info *tx_info;
+	tx_info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
 
+	if (unlikely(sta_info->sleeping) &&
+	    !(tx_info->flags & (IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE |
+				IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT))) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 
-		tx_info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
 		if (tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU)
 			atomic_dec(&ar->tx_ampdu_upload);
 
 		tx_info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_TX_FILTERED;
 		carl9170_release_dev_space(ar, skb);
 		carl9170_tx_status(ar, skb, false);
 		return true;
 	}

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-25 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-23 15:53 [RFC] carl9170: Fix memory accounting when sta is in power-save mode Nicolas Cavallari
2012-02-23 16:52 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-02-23 17:27   ` Nicolas Cavallari
2012-02-23 18:08     ` Christian Lamparter
2012-02-23 18:51       ` Nicolas Cavallari
2012-02-24 13:34         ` Nicolas Cavallari
2012-02-24 13:39           ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-24 14:01             ` Nicolas Cavallari
2012-02-24 14:09               ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-25  9:32                 ` Jouni Malinen
2012-02-25 20:12                   ` Johannes Berg
2012-02-25 20:20                     ` Christian Lamparter
2012-02-24 14:07           ` Christian Lamparter
2012-02-24 20:43     ` Christian Lamparter
2012-02-25 20:36     ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2012-02-27 12:00       ` [PATCH -stable] carl9170: fix frame delivery if sta is in powersave mode Nicolas Cavallari

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