Patch "mac80211: minstrel_ht: fix a logic error in RTS/CTS handling" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "mac80211: minstrel_ht: fix a logic error in RTS/CTS handling" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mac80211: minstrel_ht: fix a logic error in RTS/CTS handling

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mac80211-minstrel_ht-fix-a-logic-error-in-rts-cts-handling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c36dd3eaf1a674a45b58b922258d6eaa8932e292 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:07:17 +0100
Subject: mac80211: minstrel_ht: fix a logic error in RTS/CTS handling
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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

commit c36dd3eaf1a674a45b58b922258d6eaa8932e292 upstream.

RTS/CTS needs to be enabled if the rate is a fallback rate *or* if it's
a dual-stream rate and the sta is in dynamic SMPS mode.

Fixes: a3ebb4e1b763 ("mac80211: minstrel_ht: handle peers in dynamic SMPS")
Reported-by: Matías Richart <mrichart@fing.edu.uy>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ minstrel_ht_set_rate(struct minstrel_pri
 	 *  - if station is in dynamic SMPS (and streams > 1)
 	 *  - for fallback rates, to increase chances of getting through
 	 */
-	if (offset > 0 &&
+	if (offset > 0 ||
 	    (mi->sta->smps_mode == IEEE80211_SMPS_DYNAMIC &&
 	     group->streams > 1)) {
 		ratetbl->rate[offset].count = ratetbl->rate[offset].count_rts;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@openwrt.org are

queue-4.4/mac80211-minstrel_ht-set-default-tx-aggregation-timeout-to-0.patch
queue-4.4/mac80211-minstrel_ht-fix-a-logic-error-in-rts-cts-handling.patch