[PATCH 27/28] mac80211: Always report TX status
From: Luca Coelho <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-31 13:05:42
Subsystem:
mac80211, the rest · Maintainers:
Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds
) From: Andrei Otcheretianski <redacted> If a frame is dropped for any reason, mac80211 wouldn't report the TX status back to user space. As the user space may rely on the TX_STATUS to kick its state machines, resends etc, it's better to just report this frame as not acked instead. Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <redacted> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <redacted> --- net/mac80211/status.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c
index 9a6d7208bf4f..001a869c059c 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/status.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/status.c@@ -479,11 +479,6 @@ static void ieee80211_report_ack_skb(struct ieee80211_local *local, if (!skb) return; - if (dropped) { - dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); - return; - } - if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NL80211_FRAME_TX) { u64 cookie = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->ack.cookie; struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
@@ -506,6 +501,8 @@ static void ieee80211_report_ack_skb(struct ieee80211_local *local, } rcu_read_unlock(); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); + } else if (dropped) { dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } else { /* consumes skb */
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