Patch "iwlwifi: mvm: overwrite skb info later" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    iwlwifi: mvm: overwrite skb info later

to the 4.9-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:
     iwlwifi-mvm-overwrite-skb-info-later.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 bd05a5bd6b11d7fd26a668de83c5cb996de05f8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 09:57:40 +0100
Subject: iwlwifi: mvm: overwrite skb info later

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

commit bd05a5bd6b11d7fd26a668de83c5cb996de05f8f upstream.

We don't really need clear the skb's status area nor store the
dev_cmd into it until we really commit to the frame by handing
it to the transport - defer those operations until just before
we do that.

This doesn't entirely fix the bug with frames not getting sent
out after having been deferred due to DQA, because it doesn't
restore the info->driver_data[0] place that was already set to
zero (or another value) by the A-MSDU logic.

Fixes: 24afba7690e4 ("iwlwifi: mvm: support bss dynamic alloc/dealloc of queues")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c |   20 +++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
@@ -459,7 +459,6 @@ iwl_mvm_set_tx_params(struct iwl_mvm *mv
 		      struct ieee80211_sta *sta, u8 sta_id)
 {
 	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
-	struct ieee80211_tx_info *skb_info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
 	struct iwl_device_cmd *dev_cmd;
 	struct iwl_tx_cmd *tx_cmd;
 
@@ -479,12 +478,18 @@ iwl_mvm_set_tx_params(struct iwl_mvm *mv
 
 	iwl_mvm_set_tx_cmd_rate(mvm, tx_cmd, info, sta, hdr->frame_control);
 
+	return dev_cmd;
+}
+
+static void iwl_mvm_skb_prepare_status(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				       struct iwl_device_cmd *cmd)
+{
+	struct ieee80211_tx_info *skb_info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
+
 	memset(&skb_info->status, 0, sizeof(skb_info->status));
 	memset(skb_info->driver_data, 0, sizeof(skb_info->driver_data));
 
-	skb_info->driver_data[1] = dev_cmd;
-
-	return dev_cmd;
+	skb_info->driver_data[1] = cmd;
 }
 
 static int iwl_mvm_get_ctrl_vif_queue(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
@@ -598,6 +603,9 @@ int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_non_sta(struct iwl_mv
 	if (!dev_cmd)
 		return -1;
 
+	/* From now on, we cannot access info->control */
+	iwl_mvm_skb_prepare_status(skb, dev_cmd);
+
 	tx_cmd = (struct iwl_tx_cmd *)dev_cmd->payload;
 
 	/* Copy MAC header from skb into command buffer */
@@ -908,7 +916,6 @@ static int iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu(struct iwl_mv
 		goto drop;
 
 	tx_cmd = (struct iwl_tx_cmd *)dev_cmd->payload;
-	/* From now on, we cannot access info->control */
 
 	/*
 	 * we handle that entirely ourselves -- for uAPSD the firmware
@@ -1015,6 +1022,9 @@ static int iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu(struct iwl_mv
 	IWL_DEBUG_TX(mvm, "TX to [%d|%d] Q:%d - seq: 0x%x\n", mvmsta->sta_id,
 		     tid, txq_id, IEEE80211_SEQ_TO_SN(seq_number));
 
+	/* From now on, we cannot access info->control */
+	iwl_mvm_skb_prepare_status(skb, dev_cmd);
+
 	if (iwl_trans_tx(mvm->trans, skb, dev_cmd, txq_id))
 		goto drop_unlock_sta;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@intel.com are

queue-4.9/iwlwifi-mvm-overwrite-skb-info-later.patch
queue-4.9/iwlwifi-mvm-pcie-adjust-a-msdu-tx_cmd-length-in-pcie.patch