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mac80211: fix reordering of buffered broadcast packets

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commit 9ec1190d06 upstream.

If the buffered broadcast queue contains packets, letting new packets bypass
that queue can lead to heavy reordering, since the driver is probably throttling
transmission of buffered multicast packets after beacons.

Keep buffering packets until the buffer has been cleared (and no client
is in powersave mode).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Felix Fietkau
2018-11-28 22:39:16 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 50749911b1
commit e9f8baa38c
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -439,8 +439,8 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_multicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
if (ieee80211_hw_check(&tx->local->hw, QUEUE_CONTROL))
info->hw_queue = tx->sdata->vif.cab_queue;
/* no stations in PS mode */
if (!atomic_read(&ps->num_sta_ps))
/* no stations in PS mode and no buffered packets */
if (!atomic_read(&ps->num_sta_ps) && skb_queue_empty(&ps->bc_buf))
return TX_CONTINUE;
info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM;