[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ath9k_htc: fix signal strength handling issues" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ath9k_htc: fix signal strength handling issues

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From f0486aec18aef1a8dc0cd822e021f8e8c23c8153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:37:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ath9k_htc: fix signal strength handling issues

commit 838f427955dcfd16858b0108ce29029da0d56a4e upstream.

The ath9k commit 2ef167557c0a26c88162ecffb017bfcc51eb7b29
(ath9k: fix signal strength reporting issues) fixed an issue where the
reported per-frame signal strength reported to mac80211 was being
overwritten with an internal average. The same issue is also present
in ath9k_htc.
In addition to preventing the driver from overwriting the value, this
commit also ensures that the internal average (which is used for ANI)
only tracks beacons of the AP that we're connected to.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h          |  1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h
index 1357952..17f687b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/firmware.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
+#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
 #include <linux/leds.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <net/mac80211.h>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c
index 3e40a64..9cbbb6a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c
@@ -1067,15 +1067,19 @@ static bool ath9k_rx_prepare(struct ath9k_htc_priv *priv,

 	last_rssi = priv->rx.last_rssi;

-	if (likely(last_rssi != ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER))
-		rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi = ATH_EP_RND(last_rssi,
-						     ATH_RSSI_EP_MULTIPLIER);
+	if (ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control) &&
+	    !is_zero_ether_addr(common->curbssid) &&
+	    ether_addr_equal(hdr->addr3, common->curbssid)) {
+		s8 rssi = rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi;

-	if (rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi < 0)
-		rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi = 0;
+		if (likely(last_rssi != ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER))
+			rssi = ATH_EP_RND(last_rssi, ATH_RSSI_EP_MULTIPLIER);

-	if (ieee80211_is_beacon(fc))
-		priv->ah->stats.avgbrssi = rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_rssi;
+		if (rssi < 0)
+			rssi = 0;
+
+		priv->ah->stats.avgbrssi = rssi;
+	}

 	rx_status->mactime = be64_to_cpu(rxbuf->rxstatus.rs_tstamp);
 	rx_status->band = hw->conf.channel->band;
--
1.8.1.2