[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jan 15 17:45:23 UTC 2014


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

    mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan

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 3.8.13.16.

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 a5ecc4be3e6cbfbb52eb3777c0dbfaaa2bf2db7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:39:50 +0100
Subject: mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan

commit 277d916fc2e959c3f106904116bb4f7b1148d47a upstream.

The check needs to apply to both multicast and unicast packets,
otherwise probe requests on AP mode scans are sent through the multicast
buffer queue, which adds long delays (often longer than the scanning
interval).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/tx.c | 23 +++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 6b976b7..0892d9a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -442,7 +442,6 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 {
 	struct sta_info *sta = tx->sta;
 	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(tx->skb);
-	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)tx->skb->data;
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = tx->local;

 	if (unlikely(!sta))
@@ -453,15 +452,6 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 		     !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER))) {
 		int ac = skb_get_queue_mapping(tx->skb);

-		/* only deauth, disassoc and action are bufferable MMPDUs */
-		if (ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) &&
-		    !ieee80211_is_deauth(hdr->frame_control) &&
-		    !ieee80211_is_disassoc(hdr->frame_control) &&
-		    !ieee80211_is_action(hdr->frame_control)) {
-			info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER;
-			return TX_CONTINUE;
-		}
-
 		ps_dbg(sta->sdata, "STA %pM aid %d: PS buffer for AC %d\n",
 		       sta->sta.addr, sta->sta.aid, ac);
 		if (tx->local->total_ps_buffered >= TOTAL_MAX_TX_BUFFER)
@@ -504,9 +494,22 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 static ieee80211_tx_result debug_noinline
 ieee80211_tx_h_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 {
+	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(tx->skb);
+	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)tx->skb->data;
+
 	if (unlikely(tx->flags & IEEE80211_TX_PS_BUFFERED))
 		return TX_CONTINUE;

+	/* only deauth, disassoc and action are bufferable MMPDUs */
+	if (ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) &&
+	    !ieee80211_is_deauth(hdr->frame_control) &&
+	    !ieee80211_is_disassoc(hdr->frame_control) &&
+	    !ieee80211_is_action(hdr->frame_control)) {
+		if (tx->flags & IEEE80211_TX_UNICAST)
+			info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER;
+		return TX_CONTINUE;
+	}
+
 	if (tx->flags & IEEE80211_TX_UNICAST)
 		return ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf(tx);
 	else
--
1.8.3.2





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