[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mwifiex: fix hang issue for USB chipsets" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    mwifiex: fix hang issue for USB chipsets

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

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.11.

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 7a930d476ff7bdb571c3013f04e9f5051cc2cd3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar at marvell.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:31:24 -0700
Subject: mwifiex: fix hang issue for USB chipsets

commit bd1c6142edce787b8ac1be15635f845aa9905333 upstream.

Bug 60815 - Interface hangs in mwifiex_usb
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60815

We have 4 bytes of interface header for packets delivered to SDIO
and PCIe, but not for USB interface.

In Tx AMSDU case, currently 4 bytes of garbage data is unnecessarily
appended for USB packets. This sometimes leads to a firmware hang,
because it may not interpret the data packet correctly.

Problem is fixed by removing this redundant headroom for USB.

Tested-by: Dmitry Khromov <icechrome at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar at marvell.com>
Signed-off-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/11n_aggr.c | 3 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.h | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c      | 3 +--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c
index 68d52cf..167681a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ mwifiex_11n_form_amsdu_txpd(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
  */
 int
 mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
-			  struct mwifiex_ra_list_tbl *pra_list, int headroom,
+			  struct mwifiex_ra_list_tbl *pra_list,
 			  int ptrindex, unsigned long ra_list_flags)
 			  __releases(&priv->wmm.ra_list_spinlock)
 {
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 	int pad = 0, ret;
 	struct mwifiex_tx_param tx_param;
 	struct txpd *ptx_pd = NULL;
+	int headroom = adapter->iface_type == MWIFIEX_USB ? 0 : INTF_HEADER_LEN;

 	skb_src = skb_peek(&pra_list->skb_head);
 	if (!skb_src) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.h b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.h
index 900e1c6..892098d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.h
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 int mwifiex_11n_deaggregate_pkt(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 				struct sk_buff *skb);
 int mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
-			      struct mwifiex_ra_list_tbl *ptr, int headroom,
+			      struct mwifiex_ra_list_tbl *ptr,
 			      int ptr_index, unsigned long flags)
 			      __releases(&priv->wmm.ra_list_spinlock);

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c
index 818f871..e59e575 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c
@@ -1295,8 +1295,7 @@ mwifiex_dequeue_tx_packet(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
 		if (mwifiex_is_amsdu_allowed(priv, tid) &&
 		    mwifiex_is_11n_aggragation_possible(priv, ptr,
 							adapter->tx_buf_size))
-			mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt(priv, ptr, INTF_HEADER_LEN,
-						  ptr_index, flags);
+			mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt(priv, ptr, ptr_index, flags);
 			/* ra_list_spinlock has been freed in
 			   mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt() */
 		else
--
1.8.1.2