This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "mac80211: do not use low data rates for data frames with no ack flag"
to the 5.14-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:
revert-mac80211-do-not-use-low-data-rates-for-data-f.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 435860ed31fd37636ac37a7f6eda2033f1d11106
Author: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 6 10:35:59 2021 +0200
Revert "mac80211: do not use low data rates for data frames with no ack flag"
[ Upstream commit 98d46b021f6ee246c7a73f9d490d4cddb4511a3b ]
This reverts commit d333322361e7 ("mac80211: do not use low data rates for
data frames with no ack flag").
Returning false early in rate_control_send_low breaks sending broadcast
packets, since rate control will not select a rate for it.
Before re-introducing a fixed version of this patch, we should probably also
make some changes to rate control to be more conservative in selecting rates
for no-ack packets and also prevent using probing rates on them, since we won't
get any feedback.
Fixes: d333322361e7 ("mac80211: do not use low data rates for data frames with no ack flag")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210906083559.9109-1-nbd@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rate.c b/net/mac80211/rate.c
index e5935e3d7a07..8c6416129d5b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rate.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rate.c
@@ -392,10 +392,6 @@ static bool rate_control_send_low(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
int mcast_rate;
bool use_basicrate = false;
- if (ieee80211_is_tx_data(txrc->skb) &&
- info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK)
- return false;
-
if (!pubsta || rc_no_data_or_no_ack_use_min(txrc)) {
__rate_control_send_low(txrc->hw, sband, pubsta, info,
txrc->rate_idx_mask);
