[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mwifiex: fix setting of multicast filter" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed May 22 21:55:25 UTC 2013


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

    mwifiex: fix setting of multicast filter

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.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 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 19b7aaa077e5c3908b5e736b4f99ba1d855d4b76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 15:37:19 -0400
Subject: mwifiex: fix setting of multicast filter

commit ccd384b10420ac81ba3fb9b0a7d18272c7173552 upstream.

A small bug in this code was causing the ALLMULTI filter to be set
when in fact we were just wanting to program a selective multicast list
to the hardware.

Fix that bug and remove a redundant if condition in the code that
follows.

This fixes wakeup behaviour when multicast WOL is enabled. Previously,
all multicast packets would wake up the system. Now, only those that the
host intended to receive trigger wakeups.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao at marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 21 ++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index 1798bc7..902330c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int mwifiex_request_set_multicast_list(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 	} else {
 		/* Multicast */
 		priv->curr_pkt_filter &= ~HostCmd_ACT_MAC_PROMISCUOUS_ENABLE;
-		if (mcast_list->mode == MWIFIEX_MULTICAST_MODE) {
+		if (mcast_list->mode == MWIFIEX_ALL_MULTI_MODE) {
 			dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
 				"info: Enabling All Multicast!\n");
 			priv->curr_pkt_filter |=
@@ -111,20 +111,11 @@ int mwifiex_request_set_multicast_list(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 				dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
 					"info: Set multicast list=%d\n",
 				       mcast_list->num_multicast_addr);
-				/* Set multicast addresses to firmware */
-				if (old_pkt_filter == priv->curr_pkt_filter) {
-					/* Send request to firmware */
-					ret = mwifiex_send_cmd_async(priv,
-						HostCmd_CMD_MAC_MULTICAST_ADR,
-						HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, 0,
-						mcast_list);
-				} else {
-					/* Send request to firmware */
-					ret = mwifiex_send_cmd_async(priv,
-						HostCmd_CMD_MAC_MULTICAST_ADR,
-						HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, 0,
-						mcast_list);
-				}
+				/* Send multicast addresses to firmware */
+				ret = mwifiex_send_cmd_async(priv,
+					HostCmd_CMD_MAC_MULTICAST_ADR,
+					HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, 0,
+					mcast_list);
 			}
 		}
 	}
--
1.8.1.2





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