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Re: [PATCH V2] mac80211: Fix bug in getting rx status for frames pending in reorder buffer

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 05:46:48PM +0530, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:34 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > Currently rx status for frames which are completed from reorder buffer
> > is taken from it's cb area which is not always right, cb is not holding
> > the rx status when driver uses mac80211's non-irq rx handler to pass it's
> > received frames. This results in dropping almost all frames from reorder 
> > buffer when security is enabled by doing double decryption (first in hw, 
> > second in sw because of wrong rx status). This patch copies rx status into 
> > cb area before the frame is put into reorder buffer. After this patch, 
> > there is a significant improvement in throughput with ath9k + WPA2(AES).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'll look at putting it there in the drivers right away for .31, this
> should probably get a Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx too.
> 
> johannes
> 

I will resend the patch adding stable in Cc, thanks.

Vasanth
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