mac80211: don't apply flow control on management frames
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:28:01 +0000 (23:28 +0100)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 10:02:10 +0000 (12:02 +0200)
commit73bc9e0af5945d03d398668dd97885742a5e85f7
tree5329e881a88683f9c1eb2f229d383e037e8f4ea5
parent272cd0e8d4a639a87fe2fa40323871043ad9876e
mac80211: don't apply flow control on management frames

In some cases (depending on the driver, but it's true e.g. for
iwlwifi) we're using an internal TXQ for management packets,
mostly to simplify the code and to have a place to queue them.
However, it appears that in certain cases we can confuse the
code and management frames are dropped, which is certainly not
what we want.

Short-circuit the processing of management frames. To keep the
impact minimal, only put them on the frags queue and check the
tid == management only for doing that and to skip the airtime
fairness checks, if applicable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319232800.0e876c800866.Id2b66eb5a17f3869b776c39b5ca713272ea09d5d@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/tx.c