[patch 05/17] ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k,report to userspace

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Oct 18 2008 - 15:04:54 EST


2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 4233df6b748193d45f79fb7448991a473061a65d upstream

As I've reported, ath9k currently fails utterly when fragmentation
is enabled. This makes ath9k "support" hardware fragmentation by
not supporting fragmentation at all to avoid the double-free issue.
The patch also changes mac80211 to report errors from the driver
operation to userspace.

That hack in ath9k should be removed once the rate control algorithm
it has is fixed, and we can at that time consider removing the hw
fragmentation support entirely since it's not used by any driver.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c | 8 +++++++-
net/mac80211/wext.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
@@ -1007,6 +1007,11 @@ static int ath9k_ampdu_action(struct iee
return ret;
}

+static int ath9k_no_fragmentation(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 value)
+{
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
static struct ieee80211_ops ath9k_ops = {
.tx = ath9k_tx,
.start = ath9k_start,
@@ -1031,7 +1036,8 @@ static struct ieee80211_ops ath9k_ops =
.get_tsf = ath9k_get_tsf,
.reset_tsf = ath9k_reset_tsf,
.tx_last_beacon = NULL,
- .ampdu_action = ath9k_ampdu_action
+ .ampdu_action = ath9k_ampdu_action,
+ .set_frag_threshold = ath9k_no_fragmentation,
};

void ath_get_beaconconfig(struct ath_softc *sc,
--- a/net/mac80211/wext.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wext.c
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_siwfrag(struc
* configure it here */

if (local->ops->set_frag_threshold)
- local->ops->set_frag_threshold(
+ return local->ops->set_frag_threshold(
local_to_hw(local),
local->fragmentation_threshold);


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