linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 039/217] mac80211: fix unnecessary frame drops in mesh fwding

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Message-ID: <lsq.1461711741.118647527@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:02:21 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	"Michal Kazior" <michal.kazior@...to.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 039/217] mac80211: fix unnecessary frame drops in
 mesh fwding

3.16.35-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>

commit cf44012810ccdd8fd947518e965cb04b7b8498be upstream.

The ieee80211_queue_stopped() expects hw queue
number but it was given raw WMM AC number instead.

This could cause frame drops and problems with
traffic in some cases - most notably if driver
doesn't map AC numbers to queue numbers 1:1 and
uses ieee80211_stop_queues() and
ieee80211_wake_queue() only without ever calling
ieee80211_wake_queues().

On ath10k it was possible to hit this problem in
the following case:

  1. wlan0 uses queue 0
     (ath10k maps queues per vif)
  2. offchannel uses queue 15
  3. queues 1-14 are unused
  4. ieee80211_stop_queues()
  5. ieee80211_wake_queue(q=0)
  6. ieee80211_wake_queue(q=15)
     (other queues are not woken up because both
      driver and mac80211 know other queues are
      unused)
  7. ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding()
  8. ieee80211_select_queue_80211() returns 2
  9. ieee80211_queue_stopped(q=2) returns true
 10. frame is dropped (oops!)

Fixes: d3c1597b8d1b ("mac80211: fix forwarded mesh frame queue mapping")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 net/mac80211/rx.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80
 	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = rx->sdata;
 	struct ieee80211_rx_status *status = IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb);
 	struct ieee80211_if_mesh *ifmsh = &sdata->u.mesh;
-	u16 q, hdrlen;
+	u16 ac, q, hdrlen;
 
 	hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) skb->data;
 	hdrlen = ieee80211_hdrlen(hdr->frame_control);
@@ -2128,7 +2128,8 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80
 	    ether_addr_equal(sdata->vif.addr, hdr->addr3))
 		return RX_CONTINUE;
 
-	q = ieee80211_select_queue_80211(sdata, skb, hdr);
+	ac = ieee80211_select_queue_80211(sdata, skb, hdr);
+	q = sdata->vif.hw_queue[ac];
 	if (ieee80211_queue_stopped(&local->hw, q)) {
 		IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(ifmsh, dropped_frames_congestion);
 		return RX_DROP_MONITOR;