This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtlwifi: rtl8192ee: Fix adhoc fail to the 3.18-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-rtl8192ee-fix-adhoc-fail.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b661a5da57766f4f565d64238b753d6efc0f5499 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Troy Tan <troy_tan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:01:22 -0600 Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192ee: Fix adhoc fail From: Troy Tan <troy_tan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b661a5da57766f4f565d64238b753d6efc0f5499 upstream. When the buffer descriptor index exceeds 2, then a TX HANG condition will result. Signed-off-by: Troy Tan <troy_tan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c | 6 +----- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/hw.c | 26 -------------------------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 31 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c @@ -666,7 +666,6 @@ void rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(struct i struct sk_buff *skb = NULL; u32 totalpacketlen; - bool rtstatus; u8 u1rsvdpageloc[5] = { 0 }; bool b_dlok = false; @@ -728,10 +727,7 @@ void rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(struct i memcpy((u8 *)skb_put(skb, totalpacketlen), &reserved_page_packet, totalpacketlen); - rtstatus = rtl_cmd_send_packet(hw, skb); - - if (rtstatus) - b_dlok = true; + b_dlok = true; if (b_dlok) { RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_POWER, DBG_LOUD , --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/hw.c @@ -85,29 +85,6 @@ static void _rtl92ee_enable_bcn_sub_func _rtl92ee_set_bcn_ctrl_reg(hw, 0, BIT(1)); } -static void _rtl92ee_return_beacon_queue_skb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) -{ - struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv = rtl_priv(hw); - struct rtl_pci *rtlpci = rtl_pcidev(rtl_pcipriv(hw)); - struct rtl8192_tx_ring *ring = &rtlpci->tx_ring[BEACON_QUEUE]; - unsigned long flags; - - spin_lock_irqsave(&rtlpriv->locks.irq_th_lock, flags); - while (skb_queue_len(&ring->queue)) { - struct rtl_tx_buffer_desc *entry = - &ring->buffer_desc[ring->idx]; - struct sk_buff *skb = __skb_dequeue(&ring->queue); - - pci_unmap_single(rtlpci->pdev, - rtlpriv->cfg->ops->get_desc( - (u8 *)entry, true, HW_DESC_TXBUFF_ADDR), - skb->len, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE); - kfree_skb(skb); - ring->idx = (ring->idx + 1) % ring->entries; - } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtlpriv->locks.irq_th_lock, flags); -} - static void _rtl92ee_disable_bcn_sub_func(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) { _rtl92ee_set_bcn_ctrl_reg(hw, BIT(1), 0); @@ -403,9 +380,6 @@ static void _rtl92ee_download_rsvd_page( rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, REG_DWBCN0_CTRL + 2, bcnvalid_reg | BIT(0)); - /* Return Beacon TCB */ - _rtl92ee_return_beacon_queue_skb(hw); - /* download rsvd page */ rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(hw, false); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from troy_tan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/rtlwifi-rtl8192ee-fix-dma-stalls.patch queue-3.18/rtlwifi-rtl8192ee-fix-adhoc-fail.patch queue-3.18/rtlwifi-rtl8192ee-fix-parsing-of-received-packet.patch queue-3.18/rtlwifi-rtl8192ee-fix-tx-hang-due-to-failure-to-update-tx-write-point.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html