linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 10/98] iwlwifi: mvm: inc pending frames counter also when txing non-sta

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Message-Id: <1458084692-23100-11-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:30:04 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@...el.com>,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 10/98] iwlwifi: mvm: inc pending frames counter also when txing non-sta

4.2.8-ckt6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

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>
[ kamal: backport to 4.2: file rename ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
index 89116864..998f0ef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
@@ -397,6 +397,15 @@ int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_non_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		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;
 }
 
-- 
2.7.0