[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "Revert "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self"" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    Revert "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self"

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.9.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:11:11 +0300
Subject: Revert "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self"

commit f47f46d7b09cf1d09e4b44b6cc4dd7d68a08028c upstream.

This reverts commit 43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd.

This commit caused packet loss.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
index 6a5b759..d7ce2f1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
@@ -1068,6 +1068,13 @@ int iwlagn_commit_rxon(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_rxon_context *ctx)
 	/* recalculate basic rates */
 	iwl_calc_basic_rates(priv, ctx);

+	/*
+	 * force CTS-to-self frames protection if RTS-CTS is not preferred
+	 * one aggregation protection method
+	 */
+	if (!priv->hw_params.use_rts_for_aggregation)
+		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+
 	if ((ctx->vif && ctx->vif->bss_conf.use_short_slot) ||
 	    !(ctx->staging.flags & RXON_FLG_BAND_24G_MSK))
 		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SHORT_SLOT_MSK;
@@ -1473,6 +1480,11 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	else
 		ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_TGG_PROTECT_MSK;

+	if (bss_conf->use_cts_prot)
+		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+	else
+		ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+
 	memcpy(ctx->staging.bssid_addr, bss_conf->bssid, ETH_ALEN);

 	if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
--
1.9.1