Re: [PATCH for-5.18 v3] ath9k: Fix usage of driver-private space in tx_info

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:

> From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> 
> The ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status() helper also clears the rate counts and
> the driver-private part of struct ieee80211_tx_info, so using it breaks
> quite a few other things. So back out of using it, and instead define a
> ath-internal helper that only clears the area between the
> status_driver_data and the rates info. Combined with moving the
> ath_frame_info struct to status_driver_data, this avoids clearing anything
> we shouldn't be, and so we can keep the existing code for handling the rate
> information.
> 
> While fixing this I also noticed that the setting of
> tx_info->status.rates[tx_rateindex].count on hardware underrun errors was
> always immediately overridden by the normal setting of the same fields, so
> rearrange the code so that the underrun detection actually takes effect.
> 
> The new helper could be generalised to a 'memset_between()' helper, but
> leave it as a driver-internal helper for now since this needs to go to
> stable.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
> Fixes: 037250f0a45c ("ath9k: Properly clear TX status area before reporting to mac80211")
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
> Tested-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>

Patch applied to wireless.git, thanks.

5a6b06f5927c ath9k: Fix usage of driver-private space in tx_info

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