This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mwifiex: Send DELBA requests according to spec
to the 4.14-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:
mwifiex-send-delba-requests-according-to-spec.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6ca66476122512d67b2d6066e37b3dea4b50ed83
Author: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Oct 16 17:32:43 2021 +0200
mwifiex: Send DELBA requests according to spec
[ Upstream commit cc8a8bc37466f79b24d972555237f3d591150602 ]
While looking at on-air packets using Wireshark, I noticed we're never
setting the initiator bit when sending DELBA requests to the AP: While
we set the bit on our del_ba_param_set bitmask, we forget to actually
copy that bitmask over to the command struct, which means we never
actually set the initiator bit.
Fix that and copy the bitmask over to the host_cmd_ds_11n_delba command
struct.
Fixes: 5e6e3a92b9a4 ("wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver")
Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211016153244.24353-5-verdre@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11n.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11n.c
index 7252069149115..2844f937cc659 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11n.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11n.c
@@ -632,14 +632,15 @@ int mwifiex_send_delba(struct mwifiex_private *priv, int tid, u8 *peer_mac,
uint16_t del_ba_param_set;
memset(&delba, 0, sizeof(delba));
- delba.del_ba_param_set = cpu_to_le16(tid << DELBA_TID_POS);
- del_ba_param_set = le16_to_cpu(delba.del_ba_param_set);
+ del_ba_param_set = tid << DELBA_TID_POS;
+
if (initiator)
del_ba_param_set |= IEEE80211_DELBA_PARAM_INITIATOR_MASK;
else
del_ba_param_set &= ~IEEE80211_DELBA_PARAM_INITIATOR_MASK;
+ delba.del_ba_param_set = cpu_to_le16(del_ba_param_set);
memcpy(&delba.peer_mac_addr, peer_mac, ETH_ALEN);
/* We don't wait for the response of this command */
