This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mwifiex: fix Tx timeout issue
to the 3.4-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:
mwifiex-fix-tx-timeout-issue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d76744a93246eccdca1106037e8ee29debf48277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:45:25 -0700
Subject: mwifiex: fix Tx timeout issue
From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit d76744a93246eccdca1106037e8ee29debf48277 upstream.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70191
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77581
It is observed that sometimes Tx packet is downloaded without
adding driver's txpd header. This results in firmware parsing
garbage data as packet length. Sometimes firmware is unable
to read the packet if length comes out as invalid. This stops
further traffic and timeout occurs.
The root cause is uninitialized fields in tx_info(skb->cb) of
packet used to get garbage values. In this case if
MWIFIEX_BUF_FLAG_REQUEUED_PKT flag is mistakenly set, txpd
header was skipped. This patch makes sure that tx_info is
correctly initialized to fix the problem.
Reported-by: Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Linus Gasser <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Michael Hirsch <hirsch@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Maithili Hinge <maithili@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ mwifiex_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *
}
tx_info = MWIFIEX_SKB_TXCB(skb);
+ memset(tx_info, 0, sizeof(*tx_info));
tx_info->bss_num = priv->bss_num;
tx_info->bss_type = priv->bss_type;
mwifiex_fill_buffer(skb);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/mwifiex-fix-tx-timeout-issue.patch
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