mac80211: rework TX filtered frame code

This reworks the code for TX filtered frames, splitting it out to
a new function to handle those cases, making the clear instruction
a flag and renaming a few things to be easier to understand and
less Atheros hardware specific. Finally, it also makes the comments
explain more.

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

3 files changed, 89 insertions, 50 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
index 7df14799e38b..a00858dbab18 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
@@ -1178,6 +1178,77 @@ no_key:
         }
 }
 
+static void ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+                                            struct sta_info *sta,
+                                            struct sk_buff *skb,
+                                            struct ieee80211_tx_status *status)
+{
+        sta->tx_filtered_count++;
+
+        /*
+         * Clear the TX filter mask for this STA when sending the next
+         * packet. If the STA went to power save mode, this will happen
+         * happen when it wakes up for the next time.
+         */
+        sta->flags |= WLAN_STA_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
+
+        /*
+         * This code races in the following way:
+         *
+         *  (1) STA sends frame indicating it will go to sleep and does so
+         *  (2) hardware/firmware adds STA to filter list, passes frame up
+         *  (3) hardware/firmware processes TX fifo and suppresses a frame
+         *  (4) we get TX status before having processed the frame and
+         *      knowing that the STA has gone to sleep.
+         *
+         * This is actually quite unlikely even when both those events are
+         * processed from interrupts coming in quickly after one another or
+         * even at the same time because we queue both TX status events and
+         * RX frames to be processed by a tasklet and process them in the
+         * same order that they were received or TX status last. Hence, there
+         * is no race as long as the frame RX is processed before the next TX
+         * status, which drivers can ensure, see below.
+         *
+         * Note that this can only happen if the hardware or firmware can
+         * actually add STAs to the filter list, if this is done by the
+         * driver in response to set_tim() (which will only reduce the race
+         * this whole filtering tries to solve, not completely solve it)
+         * this situation cannot happen.
+         *
+         * To completely solve this race drivers need to make sure that they
+         *  (a) don't mix the irq-safe/not irq-safe TX status/RX processing
+         *      functions and
+         *  (b) always process RX events before TX status events if ordering
+         *      can be unknown, for example with different interrupt status
+         *      bits.
+         */
+        if (sta->flags & WLAN_STA_PS &&
+            skb_queue_len(&sta->tx_filtered) < STA_MAX_TX_BUFFER) {
+                ieee80211_remove_tx_extra(local, sta->key, skb,
+                                          &status->control);
+                skb_queue_tail(&sta->tx_filtered, skb);
+                return;
+        }
+
+        if (!(sta->flags & WLAN_STA_PS) &&
+            !(status->control.flags & IEEE80211_TXCTL_REQUEUE)) {
+                /* Software retry the packet once */
+                status->control.flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_REQUEUE;
+                ieee80211_remove_tx_extra(local, sta->key, skb,
+                                          &status->control);
+                dev_queue_xmit(skb);
+                return;
+        }
+
+        if (net_ratelimit())
+                printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: dropped TX filtered frame, "
+                       "queue_len=%d PS=%d @%lu\n",
+                       wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy),
+                       skb_queue_len(&sta->tx_filtered),
+                       !!(sta->flags & WLAN_STA_PS), jiffies);
+        dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+}
+
 void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
                          struct ieee80211_tx_status *status)
 {
@@ -1202,11 +1273,16 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
                 sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr->addr1);
                 if (sta) {
                         if (sta->flags & WLAN_STA_PS) {
-                                /* The STA is in power save mode, so assume
+                                /*
+                                 * The STA is in power save mode, so assume
                                  * that this TX packet failed because of that.
                                  */
                                 status->excessive_retries = 0;
                                 status->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_TX_FILTERED;
+                                ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame(local, sta,
+                                                                skb, status);
+                                sta_info_put(sta);
+                                return;
                         }
                         sta_info_put(sta);
                 }
@@ -1216,47 +1292,8 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
                 struct sta_info *sta;
                 sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr->addr1);
                 if (sta) {
-                        sta->tx_filtered_count++;
-
-                        /* Clear the TX filter mask for this STA when sending
-                         * the next packet. If the STA went to power save mode,
-                         * this will happen when it is waking up for the next
-                         * time. */
-                        sta->clear_dst_mask = 1;
-
-                        /* TODO: Is the WLAN_STA_PS flag always set here or is
-                         * the race between RX and TX status causing some
-                         * packets to be filtered out before 80211.o gets an
-                         * update for PS status? This seems to be the case, so
-                         * no changes are likely to be needed. */
-                        if (sta->flags & WLAN_STA_PS &&
-                            skb_queue_len(&sta->tx_filtered) <
-                            STA_MAX_TX_BUFFER) {
-                                ieee80211_remove_tx_extra(local, sta->key,
-                                                          skb,
-                                                          &status->control);
-                                skb_queue_tail(&sta->tx_filtered, skb);
-                        } else if (!(sta->flags & WLAN_STA_PS) &&
-                                   !(status->control.flags & IEEE80211_TXCTL_REQUEUE)) {
-                                /* Software retry the packet once */
-                                status->control.flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_REQUEUE;
-                                ieee80211_remove_tx_extra(local, sta->key,
-                                                          skb,
-                                                          &status->control);
-                                dev_queue_xmit(skb);
-                        } else {
-                                if (net_ratelimit()) {
-                                        printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: dropped TX "
-                                               "filtered frame queue_len=%d "
-                                               "PS=%d @%lu\n",
-                                               wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy),
-                                               skb_queue_len(
-                                                       &sta->tx_filtered),
-                                               !!(sta->flags & WLAN_STA_PS),
-                                               jiffies);
-                                }
-                                dev_kfree_skb(skb);
-                        }
+                        ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame(local, sta, skb,
+                                                        status);
                         sta_info_put(sta);
                         return;
                 }
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index 4099ece143ef..f7e65fa3f9ed 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
  * @WLAN_STA_WME: Station is a QoS-STA.
  * @WLAN_STA_WDS: Station is one of our WDS peers.
  * @WLAN_STA_PSPOLL: Station has just PS-polled us.
+ * @WLAN_STA_CLEAR_PS_FILT: Clear PS filter in hardware (using the
+ *      IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT control flag) when the next
+ *      frame to this station is transmitted.
  */
 enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags {
         WLAN_STA_AUTH           = 1<<0,
@@ -43,6 +46,7 @@ enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags {
         WLAN_STA_WME            = 1<<6,
         WLAN_STA_WDS            = 1<<7,
         WLAN_STA_PSPOLL         = 1<<8,
+        WLAN_STA_CLEAR_PS_FILT  = 1<<9,
 };
 
 #define STA_TID_NUM 16
@@ -136,8 +140,6 @@ struct sta_info {
         struct sk_buff_head tx_filtered; /* buffer of TX frames that were
                                           * already given to low-level driver,
                                           * but were filtered */
-        int clear_dst_mask;
-
         unsigned long rx_packets, tx_packets; /* number of RX/TX MSDUs */
         unsigned long rx_bytes, tx_bytes;
         unsigned long tx_retry_failed, tx_retry_count;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 69fdb763aa8b..1cd58e01f1ee 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1020,10 +1020,10 @@ __ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *tx,
         }
 
         if (!tx->sta)
-                control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_DST_MASK;
-        else if (tx->sta->clear_dst_mask) {
-                control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_DST_MASK;
-                tx->sta->clear_dst_mask = 0;
+                control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
+        else if (tx->sta->flags & WLAN_STA_CLEAR_PS_FILT) {
+                control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
+                tx->sta->flags &= ~WLAN_STA_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
         }
 
         hdrlen = ieee80211_get_hdrlen(tx->fc);
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static int __ieee80211_tx(struct ieee80211_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb,
         if (tx->u.tx.extra_frag) {
                 control->flags &= ~(IEEE80211_TXCTL_USE_RTS_CTS |
                                     IEEE80211_TXCTL_USE_CTS_PROTECT |
-                                    IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_DST_MASK |
+                                    IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT |
                                     IEEE80211_TXCTL_FIRST_FRAGMENT);
                 for (i = 0; i < tx->u.tx.num_extra_frag; i++) {
                         if (!tx->u.tx.extra_frag[i])
@@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_beacon_get(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                 control->antenna_sel_tx = local->hw.conf.antenna_sel_tx;
                 control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_NO_ACK;
                 control->retry_limit = 1;
-                control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_DST_MASK;
+                control->flags |= IEEE80211_TXCTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
         }
 
         ap->num_beacons++;