This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cfg80211: make RATE_INFO_BW_20 the default
to the 4.9-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:
cfg80211-make-rate_info_bw_20-the-default.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 08:42:30 +0200
Subject: cfg80211: make RATE_INFO_BW_20 the default
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 842be75c77cb72ee546a2b19da9c285fb3ded660 ]
Due to the way I did the RX bitrate conversions in mac80211 with
spatch, going setting flags to setting the value, many drivers now
don't set the bandwidth value for 20 MHz, since with the flags it
wasn't necessary to (there was no 20 MHz flag, only the others.)
Rather than go through and try to fix up all the drivers, instead
renumber the enum so that 20 MHz, which is the typical bandwidth,
actually has the value 0, making those drivers all work again.
If VHT was hit used with a driver not reporting it, e.g. iwlmvm,
this manifested in hitting the bandwidth warning in
cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_vht().
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/cfg80211.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -947,9 +947,9 @@ enum rate_info_flags {
* @RATE_INFO_BW_160: 160 MHz bandwidth
*/
enum rate_info_bw {
+ RATE_INFO_BW_20 = 0,
RATE_INFO_BW_5,
RATE_INFO_BW_10,
- RATE_INFO_BW_20,
RATE_INFO_BW_40,
RATE_INFO_BW_80,
RATE_INFO_BW_160,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/cfg80211-make-rate_info_bw_20-the-default.patch
queue-4.9/iwlwifi-tt-move-ucode_loaded-check-under-mutex.patch
queue-4.9/mac80211-fix-setting-tx-power-on-monitor-interfaces.patch
queue-4.9/mac80211-bail-out-from-prep_connection-if-a-reconfig-is-ongoing.patch