[PATCH 3.14 08/19] mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Mar 14 2016 - 14:06:16 EST


3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 7a36b930e6ed4702c866dc74a5ad07318a57c688 upstream.

The value 5000 was put here with the addition of the timeout field to
ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session. It was originally added in mac80211 to
save resources for drivers like iwlwifi, which only supports a limited
number of concurrent aggregation sessions.

Since iwlwifi does not use minstrel_ht and other drivers don't need
this, 0 is a better default - especially since there have been
recent reports of aggregation setup related issues reproduced with
ath9k. This should improve stability without causing any adverse
effects.

Acked-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ minstrel_aggr_check(struct ieee80211_sta
if (skb_get_queue_mapping(skb) == IEEE80211_AC_VO)
return;

- ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(pubsta, tid, 5000);
+ ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(pubsta, tid, 0);
}

static void