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Re: Compat-wireless-3.2-rc6-3 is broken for rt2860 device

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Am Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:36:57 +0100
schrieb Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Andreas Hartmann
> <andihartmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Helmut Schaa schrieb:
> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Andreas Hartmann
> >> <andihartmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> All in one: Your workaround was a good idea, but unfortunately it
> >>> doesn't "solve" / workaround the problem introduced with the patch
> >>> "mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing
> >>> down aggr" [1]. I don't know off any other solution at this time as to revert it.
> >>
> >> Ok, so we've got at least one hw issue here: rt2800 is not able to report
> >> correct ACK state of BARs :(
> >>
> >> The interesting bit is that the legacy drivers tear the BA session down as
> >> soon as the first AMPDU subframe failed. That's the same behavior as
> >> mac80211 had before the mentioned patch.
> >>
> >> So, let's assume the generic way Felix implemented works for other devices
> >> (like ath9k) we could go with a workaround inside rt2x00 to tear down
> >> the BA session as soon as the first AMPDU frame failed.
> >>
> >> Mind to try that one (not even compile tested though :) ).
> >
> > hdr is missing. I tried to derive it like this:
> >
> > struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr=(void*)entry->skb->data;
> 
> Looks correct but you should put it right before the ieee80211_is_data_qos check
> not at the start of the function ...

I did it like this:

--- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c.orig	2012-01-23 16:50:03.188718671 +0100
+++ drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c	2012-01-23 18:11:56.248553764 +0100
@@ -388,8 +388,17 @@
 		tx_info->status.ampdu_len = 1;
 		tx_info->status.ampdu_ack_len = success ? 1 : 0;
 
-		if (!success)
-			tx_info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK;
+		struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (void*) entry->skb->data;
+		if (!success && tx_info->control.sta != NULL && ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control)) {
+			/*
+			 * Tear down BA session
+			 */
+			struct ieee80211_sta *sta = tx_info->control.sta;
+			u8 *qc = ieee80211_get_qos_ctl(hdr);
+			int tid = *qc & IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TID_MASK;
+
+			ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(sta, tid);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (rate_flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS) {


but the machine does crash anyway. Could hdr be null, too?

Andreas
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