mac80211: fix purging multicast PS buffer queue
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Tue, 2 Aug 2016 09:13:41 +0000 (11:13 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 7 Sep 2016 06:32:41 +0000 (08:32 +0200)
commit 6b07d9ca9b5363dda959b9582a3fc9c0b89ef3b5 upstream.

The code currently assumes that buffered multicast PS frames don't have
a pending ACK frame for tx status reporting.
However, hostapd sends a broadcast deauth frame on teardown for which tx
status is requested. This can lead to the "Have pending ack frames"
warning on module reload.
Fix this by using ieee80211_free_txskb/ieee80211_purge_tx_queue.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/cfg.c
net/mac80211/tx.c

index c12f348138acf7075297e5854b6e17391646d52b..19322c047386f2969eb0ff6847eef1bd69908dae 100644 (file)
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ static int ieee80211_stop_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev)
 
        /* free all potentially still buffered bcast frames */
        local->total_ps_buffered -= skb_queue_len(&sdata->u.ap.ps.bc_buf);
-       skb_queue_purge(&sdata->u.ap.ps.bc_buf);
+       ieee80211_purge_tx_queue(&local->hw, &sdata->u.ap.ps.bc_buf);
 
        mutex_lock(&local->mtx);
        ieee80211_vif_copy_chanctx_to_vlans(sdata, true);
index bdc224d5053ae3478a01565754ec6942c2d197a6..e1225b395415efb457269d8a11740be273efbfd3 100644 (file)
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ static void purge_old_ps_buffers(struct ieee80211_local *local)
                skb = skb_dequeue(&ps->bc_buf);
                if (skb) {
                        purged++;
-                       dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+                       ieee80211_free_txskb(&local->hw, skb);
                }
                total += skb_queue_len(&ps->bc_buf);
        }
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_multicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
        if (skb_queue_len(&ps->bc_buf) >= AP_MAX_BC_BUFFER) {
                ps_dbg(tx->sdata,
                       "BC TX buffer full - dropping the oldest frame\n");
-               dev_kfree_skb(skb_dequeue(&ps->bc_buf));
+               ieee80211_free_txskb(&tx->local->hw, skb_dequeue(&ps->bc_buf));
        } else
                tx->local->total_ps_buffered++;
 
@@ -3781,7 +3781,7 @@ ieee80211_get_buffered_bc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                        sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(skb->dev);
                if (!ieee80211_tx_prepare(sdata, &tx, NULL, skb))
                        break;
-               dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+               ieee80211_free_txskb(hw, skb);
        }
 
        info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);