This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: 6pack: Fix tx timeout and slot time
to the 5.4-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:
net-6pack-fix-tx-timeout-and-slot-time.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a7f362f271a5e417ca41e5e762e3c50bc8c2c3da
Author: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 8 20:57:43 2021 -0700
net: 6pack: Fix tx timeout and slot time
[ Upstream commit 3c0d2a46c0141913dc6fd126c57d0615677d946e ]
tx timeout and slot time are currently specified in units of HZ. On
Alpha, HZ is defined as 1024. When building alpha:allmodconfig, this
results in the following error message.
drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c: In function 'sixpack_open':
drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c:71:41: error:
unsigned conversion from 'int' to 'unsigned char'
changes value from '256' to '0'
In the 6PACK protocol, tx timeout is specified in units of 10 ms and
transmitted over the wire:
https://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/6PACK
Defining a value dependent on HZ doesn't really make sense, and
presumably comes from the (very historical) situation where HZ was
originally 100.
Note that the SIXP_SLOTTIME use explicitly is about 10ms granularity:
mod_timer(&sp->tx_t, jiffies + ((when + 1) * HZ) / 100);
and the SIXP_TXDELAY walue is sent as a byte over the wire.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
index da13683d52d1..bd0beb16d68a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@
#define SIXP_DAMA_OFF 0
/* default level 2 parameters */
-#define SIXP_TXDELAY (HZ/4) /* in 1 s */
+#define SIXP_TXDELAY 25 /* 250 ms */
#define SIXP_PERSIST 50 /* in 256ths */
-#define SIXP_SLOTTIME (HZ/10) /* in 1 s */
+#define SIXP_SLOTTIME 10 /* 100 ms */
#define SIXP_INIT_RESYNC_TIMEOUT (3*HZ/2) /* in 1 s */
#define SIXP_RESYNC_TIMEOUT 5*HZ /* in 1 s */
