The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:32:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: mark TX-during-stop for TX in in_reconfig
Mark TXQs as having seen transmit while they were stopped if we bail out of drv_wake_tx_queue() due to reconfig, so that the queue wake after this will make them catch up. This is particularly necessary for when TXQs are used for management packets since those TXQs won't see a lot of traffic that'd make them catch up later.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 4856bfd23098 ("mac80211: do not call driver wake_tx_queue op during reconfig") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho luciano.coelho@intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20211129152938.4573a221c0e1.I0d1d5daea3089... Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com
diff --git a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h index cd3731cbf6c6..c336267f4599 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h +++ b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h @@ -1219,8 +1219,11 @@ static inline void drv_wake_tx_queue(struct ieee80211_local *local, { struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = vif_to_sdata(txq->txq.vif);
- if (local->in_reconfig) + /* In reconfig don't transmit now, but mark for waking later */ + if (local->in_reconfig) { + set_bit(IEEE80211_TXQ_STOP_NETIF_TX, &txq->flags); return; + }
if (!check_sdata_in_driver(sdata)) return;