This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ath5k: fix regression in tx status processing
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:
ath5k-fix-regression-in-tx-status-processing.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 7ede612fd615abcda0cc30e5bef2a70f4cf4f75c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:18:48 +0200
Subject: ath5k: fix regression in tx status processing
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7ede612fd615abcda0cc30e5bef2a70f4cf4f75c upstream.
The regression was introduced in the following commit:
0967e01e8e713ed2982fb4eba8ba13794e9a6e89
"ath5k: make use of the new rate control API"
ath5k_tx_frame_completed saves the intended per-rate retry counts before
they are cleared by ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status, however at this
point the information in info->status.rates is incomplete.
This causes significant throughput degradation and excessive packet loss
on links where high bit rates don't work properly.
Move the copy from bf->rates a few lines up to ensure that the saved
retry counts are updated, and that they are really cleared in
info->status.rates after the call to ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status.
Cc: Thomas Huehn <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Vahl <bvahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ben West <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
@@ -1663,15 +1663,15 @@ ath5k_tx_frame_completed(struct ath5k_hw
ah->stats.tx_bytes_count += skb->len;
info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
+ size = min_t(int, sizeof(info->status.rates), sizeof(bf->rates));
+ memcpy(info->status.rates, bf->rates, size);
+
tries[0] = info->status.rates[0].count;
tries[1] = info->status.rates[1].count;
tries[2] = info->status.rates[2].count;
ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status(info);
- size = min_t(int, sizeof(info->status.rates), sizeof(bf->rates));
- memcpy(info->status.rates, bf->rates, size);
-
for (i = 0; i < ts->ts_final_idx; i++) {
struct ieee80211_tx_rate *r =
&info->status.rates[i];
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/ath5k-fix-regression-in-tx-status-processing.patch
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