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authorMatti Gottlieb <matti.gottlieb@intel.com>2015-03-30 09:50:07 -0400
committerEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2015-04-02 02:26:47 -0400
commit6ed13164450a916116cf7f0f38fe0da4679a45c9 (patch)
tree79c803b604082b064d066d8a7060c0300cb5d630 /drivers/fmc
parentb6e160ab15c203fe77d13a121081b1a9bce7cbfe (diff)
iwlwifi: mvm: Fix wrongfully flushing frames in the roc/off channel queue
Sending multiple action frames off channel, one after the other can create a race that will result in a timeout: 1. Start sending action frame off channel. 2. Once the frame is sent or the time event is over, the flow will eventually call ieee80211_start_next_roc to start the next roc frame & iwl_mvm_roc_finished schedules to schedule a work to flush the queue. 3. Start sending new roc frame and write it to the queue before the flush work has started. 4. The work is called and it flushes the new packet that was placed on the on the queue so the packet is lost. This causes the frame to be removed & not sent, that causes a timeout in userspace. Flush the work queue that flushes the roc/off channel queue before starting to send a new frame off channel, in order to avoid a race between the new frame that is transmitted off channel & the flushing of the queue. Signed-off-by: Matti Gottlieb <matti.gottlieb@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
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