From: Loic Poulain loic.poulain@linaro.org
commit d3fd2c95c1c13ec217d43ebef3c61cfa00a6cd37 upstream.
We observe unexpected connection drops with some APs due to non-acked mac80211 generated null data frames (keep-alive). After debugging and capture, we noticed that null frames are submitted at standard data bitrate and that the given APs are in trouble with that.
After setting the null frame bitrate to control bitrate, all null frames are acked as expected and connection is maintained.
Not sure if it's a requirement of the specification, but it seems the right thing to do anyway, null frames are mostly used for control purpose (power-saving, keep-alive...), and submitting them with a slower/simpler bitrate/modulation is more robust.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 512b191d9652 ("wcn36xx: Fix TX data path") Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain loic.poulain@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo kvalo@codeaurora.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1634560399-15290-1-git-send-email-loic.poulain@lin... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c @@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ static void wcn36xx_set_tx_data(struct w if (ieee80211_is_any_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control)) { /* Don't use a regular queue for null packet (no ampdu) */ bd->queue_id = WCN36XX_TX_U_WQ_ID; + bd->bd_rate = WCN36XX_BD_RATE_CTRL; }
if (bcast) {