Nicolas Cavallari discovered that carl9170 has some serious problems delivering data to sleeping stations. It turns out that the driver was not honoring two important flags (IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE and IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT) which are set on frames that should be sent although the receiving station is still in powersave mode. Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On Access Point mode, when transmitting a packet, if the destination station is in powersave mode, we abort transmitting the packet to the device queue, but we do not reclaim the allocated memory. Given enough packets, we can go in a state where there is no packet on the device queue, but we think the device has no memory left, so no packet gets transmitted, connections breaks and the AP stops working. This undo the allocation done in the TX path when the station is in power-save mode. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <cavallar@lri.fr> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Duplicate the data for iniAddac early on, to avoid having to do redundant memcpy calls later. While we're at it, make AR5416 < v2.2 use the same codepath. Fixes a reported crash on x86. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Reported-by: Magnus Määttä <magnus.maatta@logica.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rate control algorithms are supposed to stop processing when they encounter a rate with the index -1. Checking for rate->count not being zero is not enough. Allowing a rate with negative index leads to memory corruption in ath_debug_stat_rc(). One consequence of the bug is discussed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768639 Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
commit adb5066 "ath9k_hw: do not apply the 2.4 ghz ack timeout workaround to cts" reduced the hardware CTS timeout to the normal values specified by the standard, but it turns out while it doesn't need the same extra time that it needs for the ACK timeout, it does need more than the value specified in the standard, but only for 2.4 GHz. This patch brings the CTS timeout value in sync with the initialization values, while still allowing adjustment for bigger distances. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
commit b4a82a0 "ath9k_hw: fix interpretation of the rx KeyMiss flag" fixed the interpretation of the KeyMiss flag for keycache based lookups, however WEP encryption uses a static index, so KeyMiss is always asserted for it, even though frames are decrypted properly. Fix this by clearing the ATH9K_RXERR_KEYMISS flag if no keycache based lookup was performed. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Laurent Bonnans <bonnans.l@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jurica Vukadin <u.ra604@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
all works need to be initialized before ieee80211_register_hw to prevent mac80211 call backs such as drv_start, drv_config getting started. otherwise we would queue/cancel works before initializing them and it leads to kernel panic. this issue can be recreated with the following script in Chrome laptops with AR928X cards, with background scan running (or) Network manager is running while true do sudo modprobe -v ath9k sleep 3 sudo modprobe -r ath9k sleep 3 done EIP: [<81040a47>] __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1 SS:ESP 0068:f6be9d70 ---[ end trace 4f86d6139a9900ef ]--- Registered led device: ath9k-phy0 ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9280 Rev:2 mem=0xf88a0000, irq=16 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Pid: 456, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G D 3.0.13 #1 Call Trace: [<81379e21>] panic+0x53/0x14a [<81004a30>] oops_end+0x73/0x81 [<81004b53>] die+0x4c/0x55 [<81002710>] do_trap+0x7c/0x83 [<81002855>] ? do_bounds+0x58/0x58 [<810028cc>] do_invalid_op+0x77/0x81 [<81040a47>] ? __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1 [<810489ec>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x81/0x11f [<8103f809>] ? wait_on_work+0xe2/0xf7 [<8137f807>] error_code+0x67/0x6c [<810300d8>] ? wait_consider_task+0x4ba/0x84c [<81040a47>] ? __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1 [<810380c9>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x5f/0x67 [<81040a91>] cancel_work_sync+0xf/0x11 [<f88d7b7c>] ath_set_channel+0x62/0x25c [ath9k] [<f88d67d1>] ? ath9k_tx_last_beacon+0x26a/0x85c [ath9k] [<f88d8899>] ath_radio_disable+0x3f1/0x68e [ath9k] [<f90d0edb>] ieee80211_hw_config+0x111/0x116 [mac80211] [<f90dd95c>] __ieee80211_recalc_idle+0x919/0xa37 [mac80211] [<f90dda76>] __ieee80211_recalc_idle+0xa33/0xa37 [mac80211] [<812dbed8>] __dev_open+0x82/0xab Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com> Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> Tested-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The device seems to survive the issue, so no need to flood the logs about it... Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Documentation states that the KeyMiss flag is only valid if RxFrameOK is unset, however empirical evidence has shown that this is false. When KeyMiss is set (and RxFrameOK is 1), the hardware passes a valid frame which has not been decrypted. The driver then falsely marks the frame as decrypted, and when using CCMP this corrupts the rx CCMP PN, leading to connection hangs. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>