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rt2x00: Forbid aggregation for STAs not programmed into the hw
authorHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:38:36 +0000 (14:38 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:56:57 +0000 (13:56 -0400)
If a STA is not known by the hw (i.e. has no WCID assigned) don't allow
aggregation since this might mess up tx status reports and we won't be
able to distinguish the reports of multiple WCID-less STAs.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c

index 0e21aaf53bb4b51c9a13f3f7dee172ea15d64f78..9ff58231abcd471b0bdbc6c66bdd02f7c2b9effd 100644 (file)
@@ -4484,8 +4484,19 @@ int rt2800_ampdu_action(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
                        struct ieee80211_sta *sta, u16 tid, u16 *ssn,
                        u8 buf_size)
 {
+       struct rt2x00_sta *sta_priv = (struct rt2x00_sta *)sta->drv_priv;
        int ret = 0;
 
+       /*
+        * Don't allow aggregation for stations the hardware isn't aware
+        * of because tx status reports for frames to an unknown station
+        * always contain wcid=255 and thus we can't distinguish between
+        * multiple stations which leads to unwanted situations when the
+        * hw reorders frames due to aggregation.
+        */
+       if (sta_priv->wcid < 0)
+               return 1;
+
        switch (action) {
        case IEEE80211_AMPDU_RX_START:
        case IEEE80211_AMPDU_RX_STOP: