From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755310Ab3LBUFA (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:05:00 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39150 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753920Ab3LBTRu (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:17:50 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Huehn , Benjamin Vahl , Ben West , Felix Fietkau , "John W. Linville" Subject: [PATCH 3.12 079/212] ath5k: fix regression in tx status processing Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:14:30 -0800 Message-Id: <20131202191256.584735994@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.4.3.gca3854a In-Reply-To: <20131202191248.517975703@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20131202191248.517975703@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-8.1.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Felix Fietkau commit 7ede612fd615abcda0cc30e5bef2a70f4cf4f75c upstream. The regression was introduced in the following commit: 0967e01e8e713ed2982fb4eba8ba13794e9a6e89 "ath5k: make use of the new rate control API" ath5k_tx_frame_completed saves the intended per-rate retry counts before they are cleared by ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status, however at this point the information in info->status.rates is incomplete. This causes significant throughput degradation and excessive packet loss on links where high bit rates don't work properly. Move the copy from bf->rates a few lines up to ensure that the saved retry counts are updated, and that they are really cleared in info->status.rates after the call to ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status. Cc: Thomas Huehn Cc: Benjamin Vahl Reported-by: Ben West Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Acked-by: Thomas Huehn Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c @@ -1663,15 +1663,15 @@ ath5k_tx_frame_completed(struct ath5k_hw ah->stats.tx_bytes_count += skb->len; info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb); + size = min_t(int, sizeof(info->status.rates), sizeof(bf->rates)); + memcpy(info->status.rates, bf->rates, size); + tries[0] = info->status.rates[0].count; tries[1] = info->status.rates[1].count; tries[2] = info->status.rates[2].count; ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status(info); - size = min_t(int, sizeof(info->status.rates), sizeof(bf->rates)); - memcpy(info->status.rates, bf->rates, size); - for (i = 0; i < ts->ts_final_idx; i++) { struct ieee80211_tx_rate *r = &info->status.rates[i];