4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit 8682250b3c1b75a45feb7452bc413d004cfe3778 ]
If a frame is dropped for any reason, mac80211 wouldn't report the TX status back to user space.
As the user space may rely on the TX_STATUS to kick its state machines, resends etc, it's better to just report this frame as not acked instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho luciano.coelho@intel.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/mac80211/status.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c index 72fe9bc7a1f9..7892bac21eac 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/status.c +++ b/net/mac80211/status.c @@ -472,11 +472,6 @@ static void ieee80211_report_ack_skb(struct ieee80211_local *local, if (!skb) return;
- if (dropped) { - dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); - return; - } - if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NL80211_FRAME_TX) { u64 cookie = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->ack.cookie; struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata; @@ -497,6 +492,8 @@ static void ieee80211_report_ack_skb(struct ieee80211_local *local, } rcu_read_unlock();
+ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); + } else if (dropped) { dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } else { /* consumes skb */