rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read
of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi
this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection.
This regression was located using bisection.

Fixes: 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues")
Reported-and-tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11+
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
index 4f73012..1d431d4 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ static u8 _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u16 addr)
        }
        if (0 == tmp) {
                read_addr = REG_DBI_RDATA + addr % 4;
-               ret = rtl_read_byte(rtlpriv, read_addr);
+               ret = rtl_read_word(rtlpriv, read_addr);
        }
        return ret;
 }