[PATCH 3.12 048/133] ath9k: Use correct channel for RX packets

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 04 2014 - 17:24:25 EST


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

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From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit ff9a93f2ebb88ac7aab9568de80b64b92078e96d upstream.

Accessing the current channel definition in mac80211
when processing RX packets is problematic because it
could have been updated when a scan is issued. Since a
channel change involves flushing the existing packets
in the RX queue before a chip-reset is done, they would
be processed using the wrong band/channel information.

To avoid this, use the current channel information
maintained in the driver.

Reported-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
@@ -848,20 +848,15 @@ static int ath9k_process_rate(struct ath
enum ieee80211_band band;
unsigned int i = 0;
struct ath_softc __maybe_unused *sc = common->priv;
+ struct ath_hw *ah = sc->sc_ah;

- band = hw->conf.chandef.chan->band;
+ band = ah->curchan->chan->band;
sband = hw->wiphy->bands[band];

- switch (hw->conf.chandef.width) {
- case NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_5:
+ if (IS_CHAN_QUARTER_RATE(ah->curchan))
rxs->flag |= RX_FLAG_5MHZ;
- break;
- case NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_10:
+ else if (IS_CHAN_HALF_RATE(ah->curchan))
rxs->flag |= RX_FLAG_10MHZ;
- break;
- default:
- break;
- }

if (rx_stats->rs_rate & 0x80) {
/* HT rate */
@@ -1175,6 +1170,14 @@ static int ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess(struc
ath_start_rx_poll(sc, 3);
}

+ /*
+ * This shouldn't happen, but have a safety check anyway.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON(!ah->curchan)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto exit;
+ }
+
if (ath9k_process_rate(common, hw, rx_stats, rx_status)) {
ret =-EINVAL;
goto exit;
@@ -1182,8 +1185,8 @@ static int ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess(struc

ath9k_process_rssi(common, hw, rx_stats, rx_status);

- rx_status->band = hw->conf.chandef.chan->band;
- rx_status->freq = hw->conf.chandef.chan->center_freq;
+ rx_status->band = ah->curchan->chan->band;
+ rx_status->freq = ah->curchan->chan->center_freq;
rx_status->antenna = rx_stats->rs_antenna;
rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_END;



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