This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: fix rx reordering with non explicit / psmp ack policy
to the 5.17-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:
mac80211-fix-rx-reordering-with-non-explicit-psmp-ac.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 779fc8a271f3339a89823a1b06c10ec25b35bfe4
Author: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 20 12:50:38 2022 +0200
mac80211: fix rx reordering with non explicit / psmp ack policy
[ Upstream commit 5e469ed9764d4722c59562da13120bd2dc6834c5 ]
When the QoS ack policy was set to non explicit / psmp ack, frames are treated
as not being part of a BA session, which causes extra latency on reordering.
Fix this by only bypassing reordering for packets with no-ack policy
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420105038.36443-1-nbd@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 48d9553dafe3..7e2404fd85b6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1405,8 +1405,7 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_reorder_ampdu(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx,
goto dont_reorder;
/* not part of a BA session */
- if (ack_policy != IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_ACK_POLICY_BLOCKACK &&
- ack_policy != IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_ACK_POLICY_NORMAL)
+ if (ack_policy == IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_ACK_POLICY_NOACK)
goto dont_reorder;
/* new, potentially un-ordered, ampdu frame - process it */
