linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.1 264/405] wil6210: fix return code of wmi_mgmt_tx and wmi_mgmt_tx

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Message-Id: <20190530030554.299325891@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 20:04:22 -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, Lior David <liord@...eaurora.org>,
        Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.1 264/405] wil6210: fix return code of wmi_mgmt_tx and wmi_mgmt_tx_ext

[ Upstream commit 49122ec42634f73babb1dc96f170023e5228d080 ]

The functions that send management TX frame have 3 possible
results: success and other side acknowledged receive (ACK=1),
success and other side did not acknowledge receive(ACK=0) and
failure to send the frame. The current implementation
incorrectly reports the ACK=0 case as failure.

Signed-off-by: Lior David <liord@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c |  5 +++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c      | 11 ++++++-----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c
index a1e226652b4ab..692730415d781 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c
@@ -1274,7 +1274,12 @@ int wil_cfg80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
 			     params->wait);
 
 out:
+	/* when the sent packet was not acked by receiver(ACK=0), rc will
+	 * be -EAGAIN. In this case this function needs to return success,
+	 * the ACK=0 will be reflected in tx_status.
+	 */
 	tx_status = (rc == 0);
+	rc = (rc == -EAGAIN) ? 0 : rc;
 	cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(wdev, cookie ? *cookie : 0, buf, len,
 				tx_status, GFP_KERNEL);
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c
index bda4a9712f91f..63116f4b62c7f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c
@@ -3502,8 +3502,9 @@ int wmi_mgmt_tx(struct wil6210_vif *vif, const u8 *buf, size_t len)
 	rc = wmi_call(wil, WMI_SW_TX_REQ_CMDID, vif->mid, cmd, total,
 		      WMI_SW_TX_COMPLETE_EVENTID, &evt, sizeof(evt), 2000);
 	if (!rc && evt.evt.status != WMI_FW_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
-		wil_err(wil, "mgmt_tx failed with status %d\n", evt.evt.status);
-		rc = -EINVAL;
+		wil_dbg_wmi(wil, "mgmt_tx failed with status %d\n",
+			    evt.evt.status);
+		rc = -EAGAIN;
 	}
 
 	kfree(cmd);
@@ -3555,9 +3556,9 @@ int wmi_mgmt_tx_ext(struct wil6210_vif *vif, const u8 *buf, size_t len,
 	rc = wmi_call(wil, WMI_SW_TX_REQ_EXT_CMDID, vif->mid, cmd, total,
 		      WMI_SW_TX_COMPLETE_EVENTID, &evt, sizeof(evt), 2000);
 	if (!rc && evt.evt.status != WMI_FW_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
-		wil_err(wil, "mgmt_tx_ext failed with status %d\n",
-			evt.evt.status);
-		rc = -EINVAL;
+		wil_dbg_wmi(wil, "mgmt_tx_ext failed with status %d\n",
+			    evt.evt.status);
+		rc = -EAGAIN;
 	}
 
 	kfree(cmd);
-- 
2.20.1