iwlagn: don't assign seqno to QoS Null frames
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:26:53 +0000 (07:26 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:48:09 +0000 (14:48 -0400)
802.11 says:
"Sequence numbers for QoS (+)Null frames may be
set to any value."

However, if we use the normal counters then peers
will get confused with aggregation since there'll
be holes in the sequence number sequence.

To avoid that, don't assign sequence numbers to
QoS Null frames.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi GUy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c

index 416e992..60a8ecc 100644 (file)
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ static int iwl_trans_pcie_tx(struct iwl_trans *trans, struct sk_buff *skb,
                txq_id =
                    trans_pcie->ac_to_queue[ctx][skb_get_queue_mapping(skb)];
 
-       if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc)) {
+       if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc) && !ieee80211_is_qos_nullfunc(fc)) {
                u8 *qc = NULL;
                struct iwl_tid_data *tid_data;
                qc = ieee80211_get_qos_ctl(hdr);
@@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ static int iwl_trans_pcie_tx(struct iwl_trans *trans, struct sk_buff *skb,
        q->write_ptr = iwl_queue_inc_wrap(q->write_ptr, q->n_bd);
        iwl_txq_update_write_ptr(trans, txq);
 
-       if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc)) {
+       if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc) && !ieee80211_is_qos_nullfunc(fc)) {
                trans->shrd->tid_data[sta_id][tid].tfds_in_queue++;
                if (!ieee80211_has_morefrags(fc))
                        trans->shrd->tid_data[sta_id][tid].seq_number =