linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 27/50] iwlwifi: mvm: inc pending frames counter also when txing non-sta

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Message-Id: <20160314175017.312564176@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:50:45 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@...el.com>,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 27/50] iwlwifi: mvm: inc pending frames counter also when txing non-sta

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@...el.com>

commit fb896c44f88a75843a072cd6961b1615732f7811 upstream.

Until this patch, when TXing non-sta the pending_frames counter
wasn't increased, but it WAS decreased in
iwl_mvm_rx_tx_cmd_single(), what makes it negative in certain
conditions. This in turn caused much trouble when we need to
remove the station since we won't be waiting forever until
pending_frames gets 0. In certain cases, we were exhausting
the station table even in BSS mode, because we had a lot of
stale stations.

Increase the counter also in iwl_mvm_tx_skb_non_sta() after a
successful TX to avoid this outcome.

Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
@@ -421,6 +421,15 @@ int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_non_sta(struct iwl_mv
 		return -1;
 	}

+	/*
+	 * Increase the pending frames counter, so that later when a reply comes
+	 * in and the counter is decreased - we don't start getting negative
+	 * values.
+	 * Note that we don't need to make sure it isn't agg'd, since we're
+	 * TXing non-sta
+	 */
+	atomic_inc(&mvm->pending_frames[sta_id]);
+
 	return 0;
 }