This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: fix power saving clients handling in iwlwifi
to the 4.4-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:
mac80211-fix-power-saving-clients-handling-in-iwlwifi.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:15:46 CEST 2017
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:24:36 +0100
Subject: mac80211: fix power saving clients handling in iwlwifi
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit d98937f4ea713d21e0fcc345919f86c877dd8d6f ]
iwlwifi now supports RSS and can't let mac80211 track the
PS state based on the Rx frames since they can come out of
order. iwlwifi is now advertising AP_LINK_PS, and uses
explicit notifications to teach mac80211 about the PS state
of the stations and the PS poll / uAPSD trigger frames
coming our way from the peers.
Because of that, the TIM stopped being maintained in
mac80211. I tried to fix this in commit c68df2e7be0c
("mac80211: allow using AP_LINK_PS with mac80211-generated TIM IE")
but that was later reverted by Felix in commit 6c18a6b4e799
("Revert "mac80211: allow using AP_LINK_PS with mac80211-generated TIM IE")
since it broke drivers that do not implement set_tim.
Since none of the drivers that set AP_LINK_PS have the
set_tim() handler set besides iwlwifi, I can bail out in
__sta_info_recalc_tim if AP_LINK_PS AND .set_tim is not
implemented.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ static void __sta_info_recalc_tim(struct
}
/* No need to do anything if the driver does all */
- if (ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, AP_LINK_PS))
+ if (ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, AP_LINK_PS) && !local->ops->set_tim)
return;
if (sta->dead)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mac80211-fix-power-saving-clients-handling-in-iwlwifi.patch