mac80211/ath9k: Support AMPDU with multiple VIFs.

The old ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw method didn't properly
find VIFS when there was more than one per AP.  This caused
AMPDU logic in ath9k to get the wrong VIF when trying to
account for transmitted SKBs.

This patch changes ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw to take a
localaddr argument to distinguish between VIFs with the
same AP but different local addresses.  The method name
is changed to ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 5d1187d7c5e5..73469d8b64bb 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -2432,25 +2432,28 @@ struct ieee80211_sta *ieee80211_find_sta(struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
                                          const u8 *addr);
 
 /**
- * ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw - find a station on hardware
+ * ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr - find a station on hardware
  *
  * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw()
- * @addr: station's address
+ * @addr: remote station's address
+ * @localaddr: local address (vif->sdata->vif.addr). Use NULL for 'any'.
  *
  * This function must be called under RCU lock and the
  * resulting pointer is only valid under RCU lock as well.
  *
- * NOTE: This function should not be used! When mac80211 is converted
- *       internally to properly keep track of stations on multiple
- *       virtual interfaces, it will not always know which station to
- *       return here since a single address might be used by multiple
- *       logical stations (e.g. consider a station connecting to another
- *       BSSID on the same AP hardware without disconnecting first).
+ * NOTE: You may pass NULL for localaddr, but then you will just get
+ *      the first STA that matches the remote address 'addr'.
+ *      We can have multiple STA associated with multiple
+ *      logical stations (e.g. consider a station connecting to another
+ *      BSSID on the same AP hardware without disconnecting first).
+ *      In this case, the result of this method with localaddr NULL
+ *      is not reliable.
  *
- * DO NOT USE THIS FUNCTION.
+ * DO NOT USE THIS FUNCTION with localaddr NULL if at all possible.
  */
-struct ieee80211_sta *ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
-                                               const u8 *addr);
+struct ieee80211_sta *ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+                                               const u8 *addr,
+                                               const u8 *localaddr);
 
 /**
  * ieee80211_sta_block_awake - block station from waking up