linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless, branch v3.3.4 Linux kernel stable tree brcm80211: smac: resume transmit fifo upon receiving frames 2012-04-27T17:16:36+00:00 Arend van Spriel arend@broadcom.com 2012-04-11T09:52:51+00:00 98ce20a3fda1422f8ba75a479f50e64b7b9efe04 commit badc4f07622f0f7093a201638f45e85765f1b5e4 upstream. There have been reports about not being able to use access-points on channel 12 and 13 or having connectivity issues when these channels were part of the selected regulatory domain. Upon switching to these channels the brcmsmac driver suspends the transmit dma fifos. This patch resumes them upon handing over the first received beacon to mac80211. This patch is to be applied to the stable tree for kernel versions 3.2 and 3.3. Tested-by: Francesco Saverio Schiavarelli <fschiava@libero.it> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit badc4f07622f0f7093a201638f45e85765f1b5e4 upstream.

There have been reports about not being able to use access-points
on channel 12 and 13 or having connectivity issues when these channels
were part of the selected regulatory domain. Upon switching to these
channels the brcmsmac driver suspends the transmit dma fifos. This
patch resumes them upon handing over the first received beacon to
mac80211.

This patch is to be applied to the stable tree for kernel versions
3.2 and 3.3.

Tested-by: Francesco Saverio Schiavarelli <fschiava@libero.it>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mwifiex: update pcie8766 scratch register addresses 2012-04-27T17:16:36+00:00 Bing Zhao bzhao@marvell.com 2012-04-13T02:00:35+00:00 d9a30de1e4fedffcd03e6688b13d93fac4ffe581 commit 428ca8a7065354877db63ceabfc493107686eebe upstream. The scratch register addresses have been changed for newer chips. Since the old chip was never shipped and it will not be supported any more, just update register addresses to support the new chips. Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 428ca8a7065354877db63ceabfc493107686eebe upstream.

The scratch register addresses have been changed for newer chips.
Since the old chip was never shipped and it will not be supported
any more, just update register addresses to support the new chips.

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
rtlwifi: Add missing DMA buffer unmapping for PCI drivers 2012-04-22T22:38:54+00:00 Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net 2012-03-26T15:48:20+00:00 6bc39a3bf99f91ce15dd676765d30a1fd2d5dab2 commit 673f7786e205c87b5d978c62827b9a66d097bebb upstream. In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42976, a system with driver rtl8192se used as an AP suffers from "Out of SW-IOMMU space" errors. These are caused by the DMA buffers used for beacons never being unmapped. This bug was also reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/961618 Reported-and-Tested-by: Da Xue <da@lessconfused.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 673f7786e205c87b5d978c62827b9a66d097bebb upstream.

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42976, a system with driver
rtl8192se used as an AP suffers from "Out of SW-IOMMU space" errors. These
are caused by the DMA buffers used for beacons never being unmapped.

This bug was also reported at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/961618

Reported-and-Tested-by: Da Xue <da@lessconfused.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
rtlwifi: Preallocate USB read buffers and eliminate kalloc in read routine 2012-04-22T22:38:54+00:00 Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net 2012-03-19T20:44:31+00:00 ed63f0fb7775311d675b13606affffae4d094281 commit a7959c1394d4126a70a53b914ce4105f5173d0aa upstream. The current version of rtlwifi for USB operations uses kmalloc to acquire a 32-bit buffer for each read of the device. When _usb_read_sync() is called with the rcu_lock held, the result is a "sleeping function called from invalid context" BUG. This is reported for two cases in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42775. The first case has the lock originating from within rtlwifi and could be fixed by rearranging the locking; however, the second originates from within mac80211. The kmalloc() call is removed from _usb_read_sync() by creating a ring buffer pointer in the private area and allocating the buffer data in the probe routine. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit a7959c1394d4126a70a53b914ce4105f5173d0aa upstream.

The current version of rtlwifi for USB operations uses kmalloc to
acquire a 32-bit buffer for each read of the device. When
_usb_read_sync() is called with the rcu_lock held, the result is
a "sleeping function called from invalid context" BUG. This is
reported for two cases in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42775.
The first case has the lock originating from within rtlwifi and could
be fixed by rearranging the locking; however, the second originates from
within mac80211. The kmalloc() call is removed from _usb_read_sync()
by creating a ring buffer pointer in the private area and
allocating the buffer data in the probe routine.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Revert "ath9k: fix going to full-sleep on PS idle" 2012-04-13T16:13:57+00:00 Sujith Manoharan c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com 2012-04-10T06:56:11+00:00 2ed63a49ab039d590f7f9fef63706d83805079c6 commit 011afa1ed8c408d694957d2474d89dc81a60b70c upstream. This reverts commit c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214. Users have reported connection failures in 3.3.1 and suspend/resume failures in 3.4-rcX. Revert this commit for now - PS IDLE can be fixed in a clean manner later on. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 011afa1ed8c408d694957d2474d89dc81a60b70c upstream.

This reverts commit c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214.

Users have reported connection failures in 3.3.1 and suspend/resume
failures in 3.4-rcX. Revert this commit for now - PS IDLE can be
fixed in a clean manner later on.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
iwlegacy: do not nulify il->vif on reset 2012-04-13T16:13:56+00:00 Stanislaw Gruszka sgruszka@redhat.com 2012-03-13T15:11:27+00:00 def81951735b03781b5e775a3f95c8fadf1a9b4b commit 883a649b737cdbe3ede7e50f3f939fd706ed5c4e upstream. This il->vif is dereferenced in different part of iwlegacy code, so do not nullify it. This should fix random crashes observed in companion with microcode errors i.e. crash in il3945_config_ap(). Additionally this should address also WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c:4656 il_mac_remove_interface at least one of the possible reasons of that warning. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 883a649b737cdbe3ede7e50f3f939fd706ed5c4e upstream.

This il->vif is dereferenced in different part of iwlegacy code, so do
not nullify it. This should fix random crashes observed in companion
with microcode errors i.e. crash in il3945_config_ap().

Additionally this should address also
WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c:4656 il_mac_remove_interface
at least one of the possible reasons of that warning.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ath9k: fix max noise floor threshold 2012-04-13T16:13:52+00:00 Rajkumar Manoharan rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com 2012-03-15T00:38:04+00:00 90f1820ee60b216248ba35f3c447349bede2a4d7 commit 2ee0a07028d2cde6e131b73f029dae2b93c50f3a upstream. Currently the maximum noise floor limit is set as too high (-60dB). The assumption of having a higher threshold limit is that it would help de-sensitize the receiver (reduce phy errors) from continuous interference. But when we have a bursty interference where there are collisions and then free air time and if the receiver is desensitized too much, it will miss the normal packets too. Lets make use of chips specific min, nom and max limits always. This patch helps to improve the connection stability in congested networks. Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com> Tested-by: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com> Signed-off-by: Madhan Jaganathan <madhanj@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 2ee0a07028d2cde6e131b73f029dae2b93c50f3a upstream.

Currently the maximum noise floor limit is set as too high (-60dB). The
assumption of having a higher threshold limit is that it would help
de-sensitize the receiver (reduce phy errors) from continuous
interference. But when we have a bursty interference where there are
collisions and then free air time and if the receiver is desensitized too
much, it will miss the normal packets too. Lets make use of chips
specific min, nom and max limits always. This patch helps to improve the
connection stability in congested networks.

Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Tested-by: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhan Jaganathan <madhanj@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: rtl8192cu: rtl8192de: Fix low-gain setting when scanning 2012-04-13T16:13:52+00:00 Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net 2012-03-26T14:59:48+00:00 eb641120479de7ee703fabb5e6ee0ec7947474ba commit 643c61e119459e9d750087b7b34be94491efebf9 upstream. In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770207, slowdowns of driver rtl8192ce are reported. One fix (commit a9b89e2) has already been applied, and it helped, but the maximum RX speed would still drop to 1 Mbps. As in the previous fix, the initial gain was determined to be the problem; however, the problem arises from a setting of the gain when scans are started. Driver rtl8192de also has the same code structure - this one is fixed as well. Reported-and-Tested-by: Ivan Pesin <ivan.pesin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 643c61e119459e9d750087b7b34be94491efebf9 upstream.

In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770207, slowdowns of driver
rtl8192ce are reported. One fix (commit a9b89e2) has already been applied,
and it helped, but the maximum RX speed would still drop to 1 Mbps. As in
the previous fix, the initial gain was determined to be the problem; however,
the problem arises from a setting of the gain when scans are started.

Driver rtl8192de also has the same code structure - this one is fixed as well.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Ivan Pesin <ivan.pesin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
rtlwifi: Convert to asynchronous firmware load 2012-04-02T17:32:10+00:00 Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net 2012-01-30T15:54:49+00:00 f5ba9c849e393be3b3a220248b596cebcabe6999 commit b0302aba812bcc39291cdab9ad7e37008f352a91 upstream. This patch addresses a kernel bugzilla report and two recent mail threads. The kernel bugzilla report is https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42632, which reports a udev timeout on boot. The first mail thread, which was on LKML (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/ linux/kernel/1112.3/00965.html) was for a WARNING that occurs after a suspend/resume cycle for rtl8192cu. The scond mail thread (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=132655490826766&w=2) concerned changes in udev that break drivers that delay while firmware is loaded on modprobe. This patch converts all rtlwifi-based drivers to use the asynchronous firmware loading mechanism. Drivers rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu and rtl8192de share a common callback routine. Driver rtl8192se needs different handling of the firmware, thus it has its own code. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit b0302aba812bcc39291cdab9ad7e37008f352a91 upstream.

This patch addresses a kernel bugzilla report and two recent mail threads.

The kernel bugzilla report is https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42632,
which reports a udev timeout on boot.

The first mail thread, which was on LKML (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/
linux/kernel/1112.3/00965.html) was for a WARNING that occurs after a
suspend/resume cycle for rtl8192cu.

The scond mail thread (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=132655490826766&w=2)
concerned changes in udev that break drivers that delay while firmware is loaded
on modprobe.

This patch converts all rtlwifi-based drivers to use the asynchronous firmware
loading mechanism. Drivers rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu and rtl8192de share a common
callback routine. Driver rtl8192se needs different handling of the firmware,
thus it has its own code.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
p54spi: Release GPIO lines and IRQ on error in p54spi_probe 2012-04-02T17:31:53+00:00 Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com 2012-02-29T20:40:08+00:00 361e5342d8ef0c08e3df26de6d021f94f20d8529 commit 62ebeed8d00aef75eac4fd6c161cae75a41965ca upstream. This makes it possible to reload driver if insmod has failed due to missing firmware. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 62ebeed8d00aef75eac4fd6c161cae75a41965ca upstream.

This makes it possible to reload driver if insmod has failed due to
missing firmware.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>