Commit 9cbbffe2 authored Jan 09, 2013 by Bob Copeland Committed by Johannes Berg Jan 16, 2013

mac80211: set NEED_TXPROCESSING for PERR frames



A user reported warnings in ath5k due to transmitting frames with no
rates set up.  The frames were Mesh PERR frames, and some debugging
showed an empty control block with just the vif pointer:

>  [  562.522682] XXX txinfo: 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  00 00 00 00 00  ................
>  [  562.522688] XXX txinfo: 00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 54 b8 f2
>  db 00 00 00 00  ........T.......
>  [  562.522693] XXX txinfo: 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  00 00 00 00 00  ................

Set the IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NEED_TXPROCESSING flag to ensure that
rate control gets run before the frame is sent.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent b4a7ff75

net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ static void prepare_frame_for_deferred_tx(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
		skb->priority = 7;

		info->control.vif = &sdata->vif;
		info->flags \|= IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NEED_TXPROCESSING;
		ieee80211_set_qos_hdr(sdata, skb);
		}

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