mac80211: Fix rate reporting regression

Mattias Nissler's "clean up rate selection" patch incorrectly changes
the behavior of txrate setting in sta_info. This patch backs out parts
of the rate selection consolidation in order to fix this issue for now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c
index 33de6f967e5..934676d687d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c
@@ -207,21 +207,36 @@ rate_control_simple_get_rate(void *priv, struct net_device *dev,
 {
         struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
         struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) skb->data;
+        struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
         struct sta_info *sta;
         int rateidx;
+        u16 fc;
 
         sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr->addr1);
 
-        if (!sta) {
-                sel->rate = rate_lowest(local, mode, NULL);
+        /* Send management frames and broadcast/multicast data using lowest
+         * rate. */
+        fc = le16_to_cpu(hdr->frame_control);
+        if ((fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_FTYPE) != IEEE80211_FTYPE_DATA ||
+            is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) || !sta) {
+                sel->rate = rate_lowest(local, mode, sta);
+                if (sta)
+                        sta_info_put(sta);
                 return;
         }
 
+        /* If a forced rate is in effect, select it. */
+        sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
+        if (sdata->bss && sdata->bss->force_unicast_rateidx > -1)
+                sta->txrate = sdata->bss->force_unicast_rateidx;
+
         rateidx = sta->txrate;
 
         if (rateidx >= mode->num_rates)
                 rateidx = mode->num_rates - 1;
 
+        sta->last_txrate = rateidx;
+
         sta_info_put(sta);
 
         sel->rate = &mode->rates[rateidx];