[patch 24/33] minstrel: fix warning if lowest supported rate indexis not 0

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 13:46:23 EST


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

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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxx>

commit d57854bb1d78ba89ffbfdfd1c3e95b52ed7478ff upstream

This patch fixes the following WARNING (caused by rix_to_ndx): "
>WARNING: at net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c:69 minstrel_rate_init+0xd2/0x33a [mac80211]()
>[...]
>Call Trace:
> warn_on_slowpath+0x51/0x75
> _format_mac_addr+0x4c/0x88
> minstrel_rate_init+0xd2/0x33a [mac80211]
> print_mac+0x16/0x1b
> schedule_hrtimeout_range+0xdc/0x107
> ieee80211_add_station+0x158/0x1bd [mac80211]
> nl80211_new_station+0x1b3/0x20b [cfg80211]

The reason is that I'm experimenting with "g" only mode on a 802.11 b/g card.

Therefore rate_lowest_index returns 4 (= 6Mbit, instead of usual 0 = 1Mbit).
Since mi->r array is initialized with zeros in minstrel_alloc_sta,
rix_to_ndx has a hard time to find the 6Mbit entry and will trigged the WARNING.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
@@ -389,13 +389,15 @@ minstrel_rate_init(void *priv, struct ie
{
struct minstrel_sta_info *mi = priv_sta;
struct minstrel_priv *mp = priv;
- struct minstrel_rate *mr_ctl;
+ struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(mp->hw);
+ struct ieee80211_rate *ctl_rate;
unsigned int i, n = 0;
unsigned int t_slot = 9; /* FIXME: get real slot time */

mi->lowest_rix = rate_lowest_index(sband, sta);
- mr_ctl = &mi->r[rix_to_ndx(mi, mi->lowest_rix)];
- mi->sp_ack_dur = mr_ctl->ack_time;
+ ctl_rate = &sband->bitrates[mi->lowest_rix];
+ mi->sp_ack_dur = ieee80211_frame_duration(local, 10, ctl_rate->bitrate,
+ !!(ctl_rate->flags & IEEE80211_RATE_ERP_G), 1);

for (i = 0; i < sband->n_bitrates; i++) {
struct minstrel_rate *mr = &mi->r[n];
@@ -410,7 +412,7 @@ minstrel_rate_init(void *priv, struct ie

mr->rix = i;
mr->bitrate = sband->bitrates[i].bitrate / 5;
- calc_rate_durations(mi, hw_to_local(mp->hw), mr,
+ calc_rate_durations(mi, local, mr,
&sband->bitrates[i]);

/* calculate maximum number of retransmissions before

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