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commit 4fe40b8e1566dad04c87fbf299049a1d0d4bd58d upstream. Deferring sampling attempts to the second stage has some bad interactions with drivers that process the rate table in hardware and use the probe flag to indicate probing packets (e.g. most mt76 drivers). On affected drivers it can lead to probing not working at all. If the link conditions turn worse, it might not be such a good idea to do a lot of sampling for lower rates in this case. Fix this by simply skipping the sample attempt instead of deferring it, but keep the checks that would allow it to be sampled if it was skipped too often, but only if it has less than 95% success probability. Also ensure that IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE is set for all probing packets. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: cccf129f820e ("mac80211: add the 'minstrel' rate control algorithm") Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111183359.43528-2-nbd@nbd.name Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.