ath9k: fix BUG_ON triggered by PAE frames
When I initially stumbled upon sequence number problems with PAE frames in ath9k, I submitted a patch to remove all special cases for PAE frames and let them go through the normal transmit path. Out of concern about crypto incompatibility issues, this change was merged instead: commit 6c8afef5 Author: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Date: Tue Feb 9 10:07:00 2010 +0530 ath9k: Fix sequence numbers for PAE frames After a lot of testing, I'm able to reliably trigger a driver crash on rekeying with current versions with this change in place. It seems that the driver does not support sending out regular MPDUs with the same TID while an A-MPDU session is active. This leads to duplicate entries in the TID Tx buffer, which hits the following BUG_ON in ath_tx_addto_baw(): index = ATH_BA_INDEX(tid->seq_start, bf->bf_seqno); cindex = (tid->baw_head + index) & (ATH_TID_MAX_BUFS - 1); BUG_ON(tid->tx_buf[cindex] != NULL); I believe until we actually have a reproducible case of an incompatibility with another AP using no PAE special cases, we should simply get rid of this mess. This patch completely fixes my crash issues in STA mode and makes it stay connected without throughput drops or connectivity issues even when the AP is configured to a very short group rekey interval. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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