The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From db7205af049d230e7e0abf61c1e74c1aab40f390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:32:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: mark TX-during-stop for TX in in_reconfig
Mark TXQs as having seen transmit while they were stopped if
we bail out of drv_wake_tx_queue() due to reconfig, so that
the queue wake after this will make them catch up. This is
particularly necessary for when TXQs are used for management
packets since those TXQs won't see a lot of traffic that'd
make them catch up later.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 4856bfd23098 ("mac80211: do not call driver wake_tx_queue op during reconfig")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20211129152938.4573a221c0e1.I0d1d5daea3089be3fc0dccc92991b0f8c5677f0c@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
index cd3731cbf6c6..c336267f4599 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
@@ -1219,8 +1219,11 @@ static inline void drv_wake_tx_queue(struct ieee80211_local *local,
{
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = vif_to_sdata(txq->txq.vif);
- if (local->in_reconfig)
+ /* In reconfig don't transmit now, but mark for waking later */
+ if (local->in_reconfig) {
+ set_bit(IEEE80211_TXQ_STOP_NETIF_TX, &txq->flags);
return;
+ }
if (!check_sdata_in_driver(sdata))
return;
