This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iwlwifi: mvm: rs: don't override the rate history in the search cycle
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:
iwlwifi-mvm-rs-don-t-override-the-rate-history-in-the-search-cycle.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.
>From foo@baz Fri Mar 16 15:43:16 CET 2018
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:36:04 +0300
Subject: iwlwifi: mvm: rs: don't override the rate history in the search cycle
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 992172e3aec19e5b0ea5b757ba40a146b9282d1e ]
When we are in a search cycle, we try different combinations
of parameters. Those combinations are called 'columns'.
When we switch to a new column, we first need to check if
this column has a suitable rate, if not, we can't try it.
This means we must not erase the statistics we gathered
for the previous column until we are sure that we are
indeed switching column.
The code that tries to switch to a new column first sets
a whole bunch of things for the new column, and only then
checks that we can find suitable rates in that column.
While doing that, the code mistakenly erased the rate
statistics. This code was right until
struct iwl_scale_tbl_info grew up for TPC.
Fix this to make sure we don't erase the rate statistics
until we are sure that we can indeed switch to the new
column.
Note that this bug is really harmless since it causes a
change in the behavior only when we can't find any rate
in the new column which should really not happen. In the
case we do find a suitable we reset the rate statistics
a few lines later anyway.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rs.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rs.c
@@ -1881,12 +1881,10 @@ static int rs_switch_to_column(struct iw
struct rs_rate *rate = &search_tbl->rate;
const struct rs_tx_column *column = &rs_tx_columns[col_id];
const struct rs_tx_column *curr_column = &rs_tx_columns[tbl->column];
- u32 sz = (sizeof(struct iwl_scale_tbl_info) -
- (sizeof(struct iwl_rate_scale_data) * IWL_RATE_COUNT));
unsigned long rate_mask = 0;
u32 rate_idx = 0;
- memcpy(search_tbl, tbl, sz);
+ memcpy(search_tbl, tbl, offsetof(struct iwl_scale_tbl_info, win));
rate->sgi = column->sgi;
rate->ant = column->ant;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/iwlwifi-mvm-rs-don-t-override-the-rate-history-in-the-search-cycle.patch