linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/ath, branch v3.8 Linux kernel stable tree ath9k: allow setting arbitrary antenna masks on AR9003+ 2013-01-22T19:33:44+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-20T20:55:22+00:00 fea92cbf0850d788683827990670d3968f893327 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw: fix chain swap setting when setting rx chainmask to 5 2013-01-22T19:33:44+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-20T20:55:21+00:00 24171dd92096fc370b195f3f6bdc0798855dc3f9 Chain swapping should only be enabled when the EEPROM chainmask is set to 5, regardless of what the runtime chainmask is. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Chain swapping should only be enabled when the EEPROM chainmask is set to 5,
regardless of what the runtime chainmask is.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw: fix calibration issues on chainmask that don't include chain 0 2013-01-22T19:33:43+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-20T20:55:20+00:00 4a8f199508d79ff8a7d1e22f47b912baaf225336 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: disable the tasklet before taking the PCU lock 2013-01-14T20:02:22+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-14T15:56:46+00:00 4668cce527acb3bd048c5e6c99b157a14b214671 Fixes a reported CPU soft lockup where the tasklet tries to acquire the lock and blocks while ath_prepare_reset (holding the lock) waits for it to complete. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Robert Shade <robert.shade@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Fixes a reported CPU soft lockup where the tasklet tries to acquire the
lock and blocks while ath_prepare_reset (holding the lock) waits for it
to complete.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Robert Shade <robert.shade@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: remove sc->rx.rxbuflock to fix a deadlock 2013-01-14T20:02:21+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-14T09:50:15+00:00 463e3ed3eacc8f47866e5d612bd8ee0bcee5e2f0 The commit "ath9k: fix rx flush handling" added a deadlock that happens because ath_rx_tasklet is called in a section that has already taken the rx buffer lock. It seems that the only purpose of the rxbuflock was a band-aid fix to the reset vs rx tasklet race, which has been properly fixed in the commit "ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush race". Now that the fix is in, we can safely remove the lock to avoid such issues. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
The commit "ath9k: fix rx flush handling" added a deadlock that happens
because ath_rx_tasklet is called in a section that has already taken the
rx buffer lock.

It seems that the only purpose of the rxbuflock was a band-aid fix to the
reset vs rx tasklet race, which has been properly fixed in the commit
"ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush race".

Now that the fix is in, we can safely remove the lock to avoid such issues.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: fix rx flush handling 2013-01-11T19:12:02+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-09T15:16:56+00:00 4b883f021b9ccf2df3d14425e6e610281fb6a35e Right now the rx flush is not doing anything useful on AR9003+, as it only works if the buffers in the rx FIFO have not been purged yet, as is done by ath_stoprecv. To fix this, always call ath_flushrecv from within ath_stoprecv before the FIFO is emptied, but still after the hw receive path has been stopped. This ensures that frames received (and ACKed by the hardware) shortly before a reset will be seen by the software, which should improve A-MPDU session stability. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Right now the rx flush is not doing anything useful on AR9003+, as it only
works if the buffers in the rx FIFO have not been purged yet, as is done
by ath_stoprecv.

To fix this, always call ath_flushrecv from within ath_stoprecv before
the FIFO is emptied, but still after the hw receive path has been stopped.

This ensures that frames received (and ACKed by the hardware) shortly before
a reset will be seen by the software, which should improve A-MPDU session
stability.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush race 2013-01-11T19:12:02+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-09T15:16:55+00:00 7fc00a3054b70b1794c2d64db703eb467ad0365c Ensure that the rx tasklet is no longer running when entering the reset path. Also remove the distinction between flush and no-flush frame processing. If a frame has been received and ACKed by the hardware, the stack needs to see it, so that the BA receive window does not go out of sync. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
Ensure that the rx tasklet is no longer running when entering the reset path.
Also remove the distinction between flush and no-flush frame processing.
If a frame has been received and ACKed by the hardware, the stack needs to see
it, so that the BA receive window does not go out of sync.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: remove the WARN_ON that triggers if generating a beacon fails 2013-01-11T19:12:02+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-09T15:16:54+00:00 3adcf20afb585993ffee24de36d1975f6b26b120 During teardown, mac80211 will not return a new beacon. This is normal and handled properly in the driver, so there's no need to spam the user with a kernel warning here. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
During teardown, mac80211 will not return a new beacon. This is normal and
handled properly in the driver, so there's no need to spam the user with a kernel
warning here.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: fix double-free bug on beacon generate failure 2013-01-11T19:12:01+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-09T15:16:53+00:00 1adb2e2b5f85023d17eb4f95386a57029df27c88 When the next beacon is sent, the ath_buf from the previous run is reused. If getting a new beacon from mac80211 fails, bf->bf_mpdu is not reset, yet the skb is freed, leading to a double-free on the next beacon tx attempt, resulting in a system crash. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
When the next beacon is sent, the ath_buf from the previous run is reused.
If getting a new beacon from mac80211 fails, bf->bf_mpdu is not reset, yet
the skb is freed, leading to a double-free on the next beacon tx attempt,
resulting in a system crash.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k: do not link receive buffers during flush 2013-01-11T19:12:01+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2013-01-09T15:16:52+00:00 a3dc48e82bb146ef11cf75676c8410c1df29b0c4 On AR9300 the rx FIFO needs to be empty during reset to ensure that no further DMA activity is generated, otherwise it might lead to memory corruption issues. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
On AR9300 the rx FIFO needs to be empty during reset to ensure that no
further DMA activity is generated, otherwise it might lead to memory
corruption issues.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>