linux-kernel - [ 05/34] mac80211: timeout a single frame in the rx reorder buffer

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Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:39:27 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: [ 05/34] mac80211: timeout a single frame in the rx reorder buffer

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>

commit 07ae2dfcf4f7143ce191c6436da1c33f179af0d6 upstream.

The current code checks for stored_mpdu_num > 1, causing
the reorder_timer to be triggered indefinitely, but the
frame is never timed-out (until the next packet is received)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/mac80211/rx.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -2363,7 +2363,7 @@ static u8 ieee80211_sta_manage_reorder_b
 	index = seq_sub(tid_agg_rx->head_seq_num, tid_agg_rx->ssn)
 						% tid_agg_rx->buf_size;
 	if (!tid_agg_rx->reorder_buf[index] &&
-	    tid_agg_rx->stored_mpdu_num > 1) {
+	    tid_agg_rx->stored_mpdu_num) {
 		/*
 		 * No buffers ready to be released, but check whether any
 		 * frames in the reorder buffer have timed out.


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