mac80211: Always report TX status
authorAndrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Wed, 5 Sep 2018 05:06:13 +0000 (08:06 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 4 Nov 2018 13:52:37 +0000 (14:52 +0100)
commitb0be0d83fc6894337b807cbf66ee66e001caf89b
tree5560b1ad2850027cf44cec7f624369068effe1dc
parent64f38286c7be284f4eba70bff165269a65461183
mac80211: Always report TX status

[ Upstream commit 8682250b3c1b75a45feb7452bc413d004cfe3778 ]

If a frame is dropped for any reason, mac80211 wouldn't report the TX
status back to user space.

As the user space may rely on the TX_STATUS to kick its state
machines, resends etc, it's better to just report this frame as not
acked instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/mac80211/status.c