rt2x00: do not increment sequence number while re-transmitting
authorVijayakumar Durai <vijayakumar.durai1@vivint.com>
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:03:17 +0000 (11:03 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:34:45 +0000 (09:34 +0200)
commite7a998ea71d5e906ac5563fb6f5bfa339be72c78
tree9152ed5be909ca04ae9c4e417331bafa073db9ff
parent8a779c448061870ec3b99df20dd4a542ed4668d7
rt2x00: do not increment sequence number while re-transmitting

commit 746ba11f170603bf1eaade817553a6c2e9135bbe upstream.

Currently rt2x00 devices retransmit the management frames with
incremented sequence number if hardware is assigning the sequence.

This is HW bug fixed already for non-QOS data frames, but it should
be fixed for management frames except beacon.

Without fix retransmitted frames have wrong SN:

 AlphaNet_e8:fb:36 Vivotek_52:31:51 Authentication, SN=1648, FN=0, Flags=........C Frame is not being retransmitted 1648 1
 AlphaNet_e8:fb:36 Vivotek_52:31:51 Authentication, SN=1649, FN=0, Flags=....R...C Frame is being retransmitted 1649 1
 AlphaNet_e8:fb:36 Vivotek_52:31:51 Authentication, SN=1650, FN=0, Flags=....R...C Frame is being retransmitted 1650 1

With the fix SN stays correctly the same:

 88:6a:e3:e8:f9:a2 8c:f5:a3:88:76:87 Authentication, SN=1450, FN=0, Flags=........C
 88:6a:e3:e8:f9:a2 8c:f5:a3:88:76:87 Authentication, SN=1450, FN=0, Flags=....R...C
 88:6a:e3:e8:f9:a2 8c:f5:a3:88:76:87 Authentication, SN=1450, FN=0, Flags=....R...C

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vijayakumar Durai <vijayakumar.durai1@vivint.com>
[sgruszka: simplify code, change comments and changelog]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00.h
drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c