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mac80211: send ADDBA requests using the tid/queue of the aggregation session

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commit 1fe98f5690c4219d419ea9cc190f94b3401cf324 upstream.

Sending them out on a different queue can cause a race condition where a
number of packets in the queue may be discarded by the receiver, because
the ADDBA request is sent too early.
This affects any driver with software A-MPDU setup which does not allocate
packet seqno in hardware on tx, regardless of whether iTXQ is used or not.
The only driver I've seen that explicitly deals with this issue internally
is mwl8k.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202124533.80388-1-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 2021-12-02 13:45:33 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 4abf352f35
commit 55f8c6f0b2
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net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
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@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static void ieee80211_send_addba_request(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
mgmt->u.action.u.addba_req.start_seq_num =
cpu_to_le16(start_seq_num << 4);
ieee80211_tx_skb(sdata, skb);
ieee80211_tx_skb_tid(sdata, skb, tid);
}
void ieee80211_send_bar(struct ieee80211_vif *vif, u8 *ra, u16 tid, u16 ssn)