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authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2017-07-27 15:34:12 +0300
committerLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>2017-08-09 08:53:50 +0300
commita600852a9d00be08c539307a42729fd46b0a654e (patch)
tree743d924ee0720822d5701a5061ac1f8de8acb75f /net/mac80211
parent7e39a00d593133ca8fcd3eef0409685e7c895ee6 (diff)
iwlwifi: mvm: don't WARN when a legit race happens in A-MPDU
When we start an Rx A-MPDU session, we first get the AddBA request, then we send an ADD_STA command to the firmware that will reply with a BAID which is a hardware resource that tracks the BA session. This BAID will appear on each and every frame that we get from the firwmare until the A-MPDU session is torn down. In the Rx path, we look at this BAID to manage the reordering buffer. This flow is inherently racy since the hardware will start to put the BAID in the frames it receives even if the firmware hasn't sent the response to the ADD_STA command. This basically means that the driver can get frames with a valid BAID that it doesn't know yet. When that happens, the driver used to WARN. Fix this by simply not WARN in this case. When the driver will know abou the BAID, it will initialise the relevant states and the next frame with a valid BAID will refresh them. Fixes: b915c10174fb ("iwlwifi: mvm: add reorder buffer per queue") Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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