[PATCH 3.13 015/163] Revert "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self"

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Thu Oct 09 2014 - 17:04:22 EST


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

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From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>

commit f47f46d7b09cf1d09e4b44b6cc4dd7d68a08028c upstream.

This reverts commit 43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd.

This commit caused packet loss.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
index 6a5b759..d7ce2f1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
@@ -1068,6 +1068,13 @@ int iwlagn_commit_rxon(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_rxon_context *ctx)
/* recalculate basic rates */
iwl_calc_basic_rates(priv, ctx);

+ /*
+ * force CTS-to-self frames protection if RTS-CTS is not preferred
+ * one aggregation protection method
+ */
+ if (!priv->hw_params.use_rts_for_aggregation)
+ ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+
if ((ctx->vif && ctx->vif->bss_conf.use_short_slot) ||
!(ctx->staging.flags & RXON_FLG_BAND_24G_MSK))
ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SHORT_SLOT_MSK;
@@ -1473,6 +1480,11 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
else
ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_TGG_PROTECT_MSK;

+ if (bss_conf->use_cts_prot)
+ ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+ else
+ ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
+
memcpy(ctx->staging.bssid_addr, bss_conf->bssid, ETH_ALEN);

if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
--
1.9.1

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