[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue

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 3.8.13.21.

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 60686e49eeb62e3b741f7509e44e37fd006c1f77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:02:47 +0100
Subject: mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue

commit 1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac upstream.

Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication
frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt
from aggregation.

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/wme.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wme.c b/net/mac80211/wme.c
index 906f00c..8fa9cc6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c
@@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ u16 ieee80211_select_queue(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 		return IEEE80211_AC_BE;
 	}

+	if (skb->protocol == sdata->control_port_protocol) {
+		skb->priority = 7;
+		return ieee80211_downgrade_queue(sdata, skb);
+	}
+
 	/* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the
 	 * data frame has */
 	skb->priority = cfg80211_classify8021d(skb);
--
1.8.3.2