Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem" 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

    rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

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:
     rtlwifi-rtl8821ae-fix-connection-lost-problem.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 b8b8b16352cd90c6083033fd4487f04fae935c18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:15:05 -0500
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

commit b8b8b16352cd90c6083033fd4487f04fae935c18 upstream.

In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read
of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi
this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection.
This regression was located using bisection.

Fixes: 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues")
Reported-and-tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ static u8 _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(struct rtl
 	}
 	if (0 == tmp) {
 		read_addr = REG_DBI_RDATA + addr % 4;
-		ret = rtl_read_byte(rtlpriv, read_addr);
+		ret = rtl_read_word(rtlpriv, read_addr);
 	}
 	return ret;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net are

queue-4.4/rtlwifi-rtl8821ae-fix-connection-lost-problem.patch