mwifiex: fix Tx timeout issue
authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:45:25 +0000 (11:45 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:06:02 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
commiteb1141c7d950e2f13638587d43b6cc50764b3a80
treeeec50a5234e8efcec070d3bb46d803650221f52f
parent6ed7d8044bc7ac58a25dfb2a7220aa18874e9437
mwifiex: fix Tx timeout issue

commit d76744a93246eccdca1106037e8ee29debf48277 upstream.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70191
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77581

It is observed that sometimes Tx packet is downloaded without
adding driver's txpd header. This results in firmware parsing
garbage data as packet length. Sometimes firmware is unable
to read the packet if length comes out as invalid. This stops
further traffic and timeout occurs.

The root cause is uninitialized fields in tx_info(skb->cb) of
packet used to get garbage values. In this case if
MWIFIEX_BUF_FLAG_REQUEUED_PKT flag is mistakenly set, txpd
header was skipped. This patch makes sure that tx_info is
correctly initialized to fix the problem.

Reported-by: Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Linus Gasser <list@markas-al-nour.org>
Reported-by: Michael Hirsch <hirsch@teufel.de>
Tested-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Maithili Hinge <maithili@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c