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mac80211: process station blockack action frames from work
Processing an association response could take a bit of time while we set up the hardware etc. During that time, the AP might already send a blockack request. If this happens very quickly on a fairly slow machine, we can end up processing the blockack request before the association processing has finished. Since the blockack processing cannot sleep right now, we also cannot make it wait in the driver. As a result, sometimes on slow machines the iwlagn driver gets totally confused, and no traffic can pass when the aggregation setup was done before the assoc setup completed. I'm working on a proper fix for this, which involves queuing all blockack category action frames from a work struct, and also allowing the ampdu_action driver callback to sleep, which will generally clean up the code and make things easier. However, this is a very involved and complex change. To fix the problem at hand in a way that can also be backported to stable, I've come up with this patch. Here, I simply process all aggregation action frames from the managed interface skb queue, which means their processing will be serialized with processing the association response, thereby fixing the problem. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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@ -1692,14 +1692,52 @@ static void ieee80211_sta_rx_queued_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
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rma = ieee80211_rx_mgmt_disassoc(sdata, mgmt, skb->len);
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break;
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case IEEE80211_STYPE_ACTION:
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if (mgmt->u.action.category != WLAN_CATEGORY_SPECTRUM_MGMT)
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break;
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switch (mgmt->u.action.category) {
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case WLAN_CATEGORY_BACK: {
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struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
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int len = skb->len;
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struct sta_info *sta;
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ieee80211_sta_process_chanswitch(sdata,
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&mgmt->u.action.u.chan_switch.sw_elem,
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(void *)ifmgd->associated->priv,
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rx_status->mactime);
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break;
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rcu_read_lock();
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sta = sta_info_get(sdata, mgmt->sa);
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if (!sta) {
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rcu_read_unlock();
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break;
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}
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local_bh_disable();
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switch (mgmt->u.action.u.addba_req.action_code) {
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case WLAN_ACTION_ADDBA_REQ:
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if (len < (IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE +
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sizeof(mgmt->u.action.u.addba_req)))
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break;
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ieee80211_process_addba_request(local, sta, mgmt, len);
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break;
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case WLAN_ACTION_ADDBA_RESP:
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if (len < (IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE +
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sizeof(mgmt->u.action.u.addba_resp)))
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break;
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ieee80211_process_addba_resp(local, sta, mgmt, len);
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break;
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case WLAN_ACTION_DELBA:
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if (len < (IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE +
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sizeof(mgmt->u.action.u.delba)))
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break;
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ieee80211_process_delba(sdata, sta, mgmt, len);
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break;
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}
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local_bh_enable();
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rcu_read_unlock();
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break;
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}
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case WLAN_CATEGORY_SPECTRUM_MGMT:
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ieee80211_sta_process_chanswitch(sdata,
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&mgmt->u.action.u.chan_switch.sw_elem,
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(void *)ifmgd->associated->priv,
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rx_status->mactime);
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break;
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}
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}
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mutex_unlock(&ifmgd->mtx);
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@ -1944,6 +1944,9 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_action(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
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if (len < IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE + 1)
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break;
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if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
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return ieee80211_sta_rx_mgmt(sdata, rx->skb);
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switch (mgmt->u.action.u.addba_req.action_code) {
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case WLAN_ACTION_ADDBA_REQ:
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if (len < (IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE +
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