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Re: [PATCH V3] mac80211: Fix bug in getting rx status for frames pending in reorder buffer

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:00:49PM +0530, Vasanth 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>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---

oops, forgot to add Acked by

vasanth
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