mwifiex: fix Tx timeout issue
authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:45:25 +0000 (11:45 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:30:29 +0000 (14:30 -0400)
commitd76744a93246eccdca1106037e8ee29debf48277
tree912042a120dcf1079fe363882914e8d6993ddcfb
parent8b87efba61420c1b99060de52c1b9cf46157eed1
mwifiex: fix Tx timeout issue

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70191
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77581

It is observed that sometimes Tx packet is downloaded without
adding driver's txpd header. This results in firmware parsing
garbage data as packet length. Sometimes firmware is unable
to read the packet if length comes out as invalid. This stops
further traffic and timeout occurs.

The root cause is uninitialized fields in tx_info(skb->cb) of
packet used to get garbage values. In this case if
MWIFIEX_BUF_FLAG_REQUEUED_PKT flag is mistakenly set, txpd
header was skipped. This patch makes sure that tx_info is
correctly initialized to fix the problem.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Linus Gasser <list@markas-al-nour.org>
Reported-by: Michael Hirsch <hirsch@teufel.de>
Tested-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Maithili Hinge <maithili@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c