linux-stable/net
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan b3631286ac mac80211: Fix bug in getting rx status for frames pending in reorder buffer
Currently rx status for frames which are completed from reorder buffer
is taken from it's cb area which is not always right, cb is not holding
the rx status when driver uses mac80211's non-irq rx handler to pass it's
received frames. This results in dropping almost all frames from reorder
buffer when security is enabled by doing double decryption (first in hw,
second in sw because of wrong rx status). This patch copies rx status into
cb area before the frame is put into reorder buffer. After this patch,
there is a significant improvement in throughput with ath9k + WPA2(AES).

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-16 10:39:02 -04:00
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9p 9p: fix sparse warning: cast adds address space 2009-02-26 23:13:32 -08:00
802 tr: fix leakage of device in net/802/tr.c 2009-04-11 01:43:17 -07:00
8021q gro: Normalise skb before bypassing GRO on netpoll VLAN path 2009-04-13 15:44:50 -07:00
appletalk proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
atm proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
ax25 Revert "ax25: zero length frame filtering in AX25" 2009-03-27 17:23:42 -07:00
bluetooth proc tty: remove struct tty_operations::read_proc 2009-04-01 08:59:10 -07:00
bridge Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-03-26 01:22:01 -07:00
can proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
core gro: Restore correct value to gso_size 2009-04-14 15:11:06 -07:00
dcb DCB: fix kfree(skb) 2009-01-04 17:29:21 -08:00
dccp dccp: Do not let initial option overhead shrink the MPS 2009-03-02 03:07:23 -08:00
decnet net/*: use linux/kernel.h swap() 2009-03-21 13:36:17 -07:00
dsa dsa: add switch chip cascading support 2009-03-21 19:06:54 -07:00
econet net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly 2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
ethernet eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() function 2008-11-23 23:24:32 -08:00
ipv4 tcp: fix >2 iw selection 2009-04-14 02:08:53 -07:00
ipv6 ipv6:remove useless check 2009-04-14 02:21:41 -07:00
ipx ipx: use constant for strings and desciptor 2009-03-21 19:06:51 -07:00
irda proc tty: switch ircomm to ->proc_fops 2009-04-01 08:59:10 -07:00
iucv iucv: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() 2009-02-26 23:07:37 -08:00
key af_key: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() 2009-02-26 23:07:32 -08:00
lapb
llc proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
mac80211 mac80211: Fix bug in getting rx status for frames pending in reorder buffer 2009-04-16 10:39:02 -04:00
netfilter netfilter: ctnetlink: fix regression in expectation handling 2009-04-06 17:47:20 +02:00
netlabel netlabel: Cleanup the Smack/NetLabel code to fix incoming TCP connections 2009-03-28 15:01:37 +11:00
netlink Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
netrom Revert "netrom: zero length frame filtering in NetRom" 2009-03-27 17:22:55 -07:00
packet packet: avoid warnings when high-order page allocation fails 2009-04-15 03:39:52 -07:00
phonet trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts 2009-03-30 15:22:01 +02:00
rds RDS: Use spinlock to protect 64b value update on 32b archs 2009-04-02 00:52:22 -07:00
rfkill net/rfkill/rfkill.c: fix unused rfkill_led_trigger() warning 2009-01-04 17:11:24 -08:00
rose Revert "rose: zero length frame filtering in af_rose.c" 2009-04-14 20:28:00 -07:00
rxrpc RxRPC: Fix a potential NULL dereference 2009-02-06 21:50:52 -08:00
sched netsched: Allow meta match on vlan tag on receive 2009-04-13 18:12:57 -07:00
sctp proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2009-04-06 13:25:56 -07:00
tipc tipc: fix non-const printf format arguments 2009-03-18 19:11:29 -07:00
unix New helper - current_umask() 2009-03-31 23:00:26 -04:00
wanrouter wanrouter: fix sparse warnings: context imbalance 2009-02-26 23:13:36 -08:00
wimax trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts 2009-03-30 15:22:01 +02:00
wireless cfg80211: fix NULL pointer deference in reg_device_remove() 2009-04-16 10:39:01 -04:00
x25 af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size 2009-03-27 00:28:21 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: spin_lock() should be spin_unlock() in xfrm_state.c 2009-03-27 00:23:04 -07:00
compat.c net: socket infrastructure for SO_TIMESTAMPING 2009-02-15 22:43:35 -08:00
Kconfig trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts 2009-03-30 15:22:01 +02:00
Makefile RDS: Kconfig and Makefile 2009-02-26 23:43:35 -08:00
nonet.c
socket.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-04-06 18:05:43 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: sysctl_net - use net_eq to compare nets 2009-03-16 16:23:30 +01:00
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