Re: [PATCH -stable] carl9170: fix frame delivery if sta is in powersave mode

[Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>]

On 25/02/2012 21:36, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> 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.

This effectively fixes the problem.

Thanks !