iwl4965: fix "Received BA when not expected"
authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:51:56 +0000 (17:51 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:24:15 +0000 (15:24 -0400)
Need to use broadcast sta_id for management frames, otherwise we broke
BA session in the firmware and get messages like that:

"Received BA when not expected"

or (on older kernels):

"BA scd_flow 0 does not match txq_id 10"

This fix regression introduced in 2.6.35 during station management
code rewrite by:

commit 2a87c26bbe9587baeb9e56d3ce0b4971bd777643
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 30 11:30:45 2010 -0700

    iwlwifi: use iwl_find_station less

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-4965-tx.c

index fbec88d..79ac081 100644 (file)
@@ -316,12 +316,18 @@ int iwl4965_tx_skb(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
        hdr_len = ieee80211_hdrlen(fc);
 
-       /* Find index into station table for destination station */
-       sta_id = iwl_legacy_sta_id_or_broadcast(priv, ctx, info->control.sta);
-       if (sta_id == IWL_INVALID_STATION) {
-               IWL_DEBUG_DROP(priv, "Dropping - INVALID STATION: %pM\n",
-                              hdr->addr1);
-               goto drop_unlock;
+       /* For management frames use broadcast id to do not break aggregation */
+       if (!ieee80211_is_data(fc))
+               sta_id = ctx->bcast_sta_id;
+       else {
+               /* Find index into station table for destination station */
+               sta_id = iwl_legacy_sta_id_or_broadcast(priv, ctx, info->control.sta);
+
+               if (sta_id == IWL_INVALID_STATION) {
+                       IWL_DEBUG_DROP(priv, "Dropping - INVALID STATION: %pM\n",
+                                      hdr->addr1);
+                       goto drop_unlock;
+               }
        }
 
        IWL_DEBUG_TX(priv, "station Id %d\n", sta_id);