Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix incorrect signal strength for unassociated AP" has been added to the 3.12-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix incorrect signal strength for unassociated AP

to the 3.12-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:
     rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-fix-incorrect-signal-strength-for-unassociated-ap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 78dbfecb95be4635b995af3bd29fa10013409fcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:15:29 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix incorrect signal strength for unassociated AP

From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 78dbfecb95be4635b995af3bd29fa10013409fcd upstream.

The routine that processes received frames was returning the RSSI value for the
signal strength; however, that value is available only for associated APs. As
a result, the strength was the absurd value of 10 dBm. As a result, scans
return incorrect values for the strength, which causes unwanted attempts to roam.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ bool rtl92cu_rx_query_desc(struct ieee80
 						 p_drvinfo);
 	}
 	/*rx_status->qual = stats->signal; */
-	rx_status->signal = stats->rssi + 10;
+	rx_status->signal = stats->recvsignalpower + 10;
 	/*rx_status->noise = -stats->noise; */
 	return true;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.12/rtlwifi-rtl8188ee-fix-smatch-warning-in-rtl8188ee-hw.c.patch
queue-3.12/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-fix-incorrect-signal-strength-for-unassociated-ap.patch
queue-3.12/rtlwifi-fix-endian-error-in-extracting-packet-type.patch
queue-3.12/rtlwifi-rtl8192se-fix-wrong-assignment.patch
queue-3.12/rtlwifi-rtl8192de-fix-incorrect-signal-strength-for-unassociated-ap.patch
queue-3.12/rtlwifi-rtl8192se-fix-incorrect-signal-strength-for-unassociated-ap.patch
queue-3.12/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-fix-more-pointer-arithmetic-errors.patch
queue-3.12/staging-r8188eu-fix-ap-mode.patch
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