Patch "Revert "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self"" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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

    Revert "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self"

to the 3.14-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:
     revert-iwlwifi-dvm-don-t-enable-cts-to-self.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

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


>From f47f46d7b09cf1d09e4b44b6cc4dd7d68a08028c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:11:11 +0300
Subject: Revert "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self"

From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>

commit f47f46d7b09cf1d09e4b44b6cc4dd7d68a08028c upstream.

This reverts commit 43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd.

This commit caused packet loss.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
@@ -1068,6 +1068,13 @@ int iwlagn_commit_rxon(struct iwl_priv *
 	/* recalculate basic rates */
 	iwl_calc_basic_rates(priv, ctx);
 
+	/*
+	 * force CTS-to-self frames protection if RTS-CTS is not preferred
+	 * one aggregation protection method
+	 */
+	if (!priv->hw_params.use_rts_for_aggregation)
+		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+
 	if ((ctx->vif && ctx->vif->bss_conf.use_short_slot) ||
 	    !(ctx->staging.flags & RXON_FLG_BAND_24G_MSK))
 		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SHORT_SLOT_MSK;
@@ -1473,6 +1480,11 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee
 	else
 		ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_TGG_PROTECT_MSK;
 
+	if (bss_conf->use_cts_prot)
+		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+	else
+		ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+
 	memcpy(ctx->staging.bssid_addr, bss_conf->bssid, ETH_ALEN);
 
 	if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.14/iwlwifi-increase-default_max_tx_power.patch
queue-3.14/revert-iwlwifi-dvm-don-t-enable-cts-to-self.patch
queue-3.14/iwlwifi-mvm-treat-eapols-like-mgmt-frames-wrt-rate.patch
queue-3.14/iwlwifi-mvm-fix-endianity-issues-with-smart-fifo-commands.patch
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