wifi: carl9170: Remove redundant assignment to pointer super

The pointer super is being assigned a value that is not being read, it
is being re-assigned later. The assignment is redundant and can be
removed.

Cleans up clang scan warning:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:192:34: warning: Value stored to
'super' during its initialization is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240207171524.2458418-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com

wifi: mac80211: return a beacon for a specific link

Pass the link id through to the get_beacon and return
the beacon for a specific link id.

Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

carl9170: tx: fix an incorrect use of list iterator

If the previous list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() don't exit early
(no goto hit inside the loop), the iterator 'cvif' after the loop
will be a bogus pointer to an invalid structure object containing
the HEAD (&ar->vif_list). As a result, the use of 'cvif' after that
will lead to a invalid memory access (i.e., 'cvif->id': the invalid
pointer dereference when return back to/after the callsite in the
carl9170_update_beacon()).

The original intention should have been to return the valid 'cvif'
when found in list, NULL otherwise. So just return NULL when no
entry found, to fix this bug.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1f1d9654e183c ("carl9170: refactor carl9170_update_beacon")
Signed-off-by: Xiaomeng Tong <xiam0nd.tong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220328122820.1004-1-xiam0nd.tong@gmail.com

mac80211: prepare sta handling for MLO support

Currently in mac80211 each STA object is represented
using sta_info datastructure with the associated
STA specific information and drivers access ieee80211_sta
part of it.

With MLO (Multi Link Operation) support being added
in 802.11be standard, though the association is logically
with a single Multi Link capable STA, at the physical level
communication can happen via different advertised
links (uniquely identified by Channel, operating class,
BSSID) and hence the need to handle multiple link
STA parameters within a composite sta_info object
called the MLD STA. The different link STA part of
MLD STA are identified using the link address which can
be same or different as the MLD STA address and unique
link id based on the link vif.

To support extension of such a model, the sta_info
datastructure is modified to hold multiple link STA
objects with link specific params currently within
sta_info moved to this new structure. Similarly this is
done for ieee80211_sta as well which will be accessed
within mac80211 as well as by drivers, hence trivial
driver changes are expected to support this.

For current non MLO supported drivers, only one link STA
is present and link information is accessed via 'deflink'
member.

For MLO drivers, we still need to define the APIs etc. to
get the correct link ID and access the correct part of
the station info.

Currently in mac80211, all link STA info are accessed directly
via deflink. These will be updated to access via link pointers
indexed by link id with MLO support patches, with link id
being 0 for non MLO supported cases.

Except for couple of macro related changes, below spatch takes
care of updating mac80211 and driver code to access to the
link STA info via deflink.

@ieee80211_sta@
struct ieee80211_sta *s;
struct sta_info *si;
identifier var = {supp_rates, ht_cap, vht_cap, he_cap, he_6ghz_capa, eht_cap, rx_nss, bandwidth, txpwr};
@@

(
s->
- var
+ deflink.var
|
si->sta.
- var
+ deflink.var
)

@sta_info@
struct sta_info *si;
identifier var = {gtk, pcpu_rx_stats, rx_stats, rx_stats_avg, status_stats, tx_stats, cur_max_bandwidth};
@@

(
si->
- var
+ deflink.var
)

Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1649086883-13246-1-git-send-email-quic_srirrama@quicinc.com
[remove MLO-drivers notes from commit message, not clear yet; run spatch]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

mac80211: Use memset_after() to clear tx status

In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
neighboring fields.

Use memset_after() so memset() doesn't get confused about writing
beyond the destination member that is intended to be the starting point
of zeroing through the end of the struct.

Additionally fix the common helper, ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status(),
which was not clearing ack_signal, but the open-coded versions
did. Johannes Berg points out this bug was introduced by commit
e3e1a0bcb3f1 ("mac80211: reduce IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES") but was harmless.

Also drops the associated unneeded BUILD_BUG_ON()s, and adds a note to
carl9170 about usage.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> [both CARL9170+P54USB on real HW]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211118203839.1289276-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

carl9170: remove get_tid_h

'get_tid_h()' is the same as 'ieee80211_get_tid()'.
So this function can be removed to save a few lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/68efad7a597159e22771d37fc8b4a8a613866d60.1617399010.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr

carl9170: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang

In preparation to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang, fix a warning
by explicitly adding a break statement instead of letting the code fall
through to the next case.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/115
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/04257418814755f081fa0ac14a61b01328cdc4ed.1605896059.git.gustavoars@kernel.org

carl9170: Convert 'ar9170_qmap' to inline function

'ar9170_qmap' is used in some source files which include carl9170.h,
but not all of them. A 'defined but not used' warning is thrown when
compiling the ones which do not use it.

Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s)

from drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h:57,
In file included from drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h:57,
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h:71:17: warning: ‘ar9170_qmap’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]

NB: Snipped - lots of these repeat

Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827093351.GA1627017@dell

carl9170: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821065204.GA24827@embeddedor

carl9170: tx: mark expected switch fall-throughs

In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
where we are expecting to fall through.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

wireless: remove unnecessary unlikely()

Both WARN_ON() and WARN_ON_ONCE() already contain unlikely().

Signed-off-by: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@huawei.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Wireless Mailing List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

networking: make skb_push & __skb_push return void pointers

It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

@@
expression SKB, LEN;
typedef u8;
identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
@@
- *(fn(SKB, LEN))
+ *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

@@
expression E, SKB, LEN;
identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
type T;
@@
- E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
+ E = fn(SKB, LEN)

@@
expression SKB, LEN;
identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum };
@@
- fn(SKB, LEN)[0]
+ *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the
more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_band

This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

carl9170: tx: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()

According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment 3.a, it can be used if
"3. The referenced data structure has already been exposed to readers either
at compile time or via rcu_assign_pointer() -and-
a. You have not made -any- reader-visible changes to this structure since
then".

This case fulfills the conditions above because between the rcu_dereference()
call (cvif = rcu_dereference(ar->beacon_iter);) and the rcu_assign_pointer()
call there is no update of the "cvif" variable.
Therefore, this patch makes the replacement.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
@@
identifier v;
@@

v = rcu_dereference(...);
... when != rcu_dereference(...);
when != v = ...;
when != (<+...v...+>)++;
when != \(memcpy\|memset\)(...);
(
- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
(..., v);
|
if(...) {
... when != v = ...;
- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
(..., v);
... when any
}
)

Because there are cases where between a “rcu_dereference()” call and a
“rcu_assign_pointer()” call might be updates of the value that interests us,
the Coccinelle semantic patch ignores them and replaces with
"RCU_INIT_POINTER()" only when the update is not happening.

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

wireless: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>

None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>. Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: add support for the new rate control API

With the new rate control API, the driver can now apply the
tx rate to outgoing frames just before they are uploaded to
the device. This is important because the rate control can
now react to fading or improving links a bit sooner.

Also, the driver no longer needs to sort the outgoing frames
for sample attempts (which affected the size of A-MPDUs and
the throughput of the link). For aggregated data frames, the
driver (and rate control) needs only to calculate and apply
a single set of tx rates to every subframe of the whole
aggregate.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: fix frame drop and WARN due to minstrel_ht change

With "mac80211/minstrel_ht: add support for using CCK rates"
minstrel_ht selects legacy CCK rates as viable rates for
outgoing frames which might be sent as part of an A-MPDU
[IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU is set].

This behavior triggered the following WARN_ON in the driver:
> WARNING: at carl9170/tx.c:995 carl9170_op_tx+0x1dd/0x6fd
The driver assumed that the rate control algorithm made a
mistake and dropped the frame.

This patch removes the noisy warning altogether and allows
said A-MPDU frames with CCK sample and/or fallback rates to
be transmitted seamlessly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: refactor carl9170_update_beacon

This patch moves parts of carl9170_update_beacon
into separate subroutines, so the parts become
more manageable.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: explain why sta cannot be NULL for ampdus

Dan Carpenter reported that smatch detected a potential
problem with the code [1]:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:1488 carl9170_op_tx()
error: we previously assumed 'sta' could be null (see line 1482)

drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
1482 if (sta) {
^^^^^ New check.
[...]
1485 }
1487 if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU) {
1488 run = carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue(ar, sta, skb);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Old dereference of "sta" inside the call to carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue().

A range of solutions have been discussed in [2] and
we agreed on the following: "
> we might as well add a comment to carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue
> and explain the situation [in a way that's obvious to a
> human reader]. This way we can save the "if"... which is
> a small win since carl9170_op_tx is sort of a hot-path.
Putting a comment there is fine. Without the comment
it's easy for a human reader to get confused why the
check is there. So long as humans can read the code,
that's all that matters."

[1] <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg94526.html>
[2] <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kernel-janitors/msg14953.html>

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

mac80211: move TX station pointer and restructure TX

Remove the control.sta pointer from ieee80211_tx_info to free up
sufficient space in the TX skb control buffer for the upcoming
Transmit Power Control (TPC).
Instead, the pointer is now on the stack in a new control struct
that is passed as a function parameter to the drivers' tx method.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[reworded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

carl9170: fix HT peer BA session corruption

This patch adds an alternative tx status path
for BlockAck Requests as the hardware doesn't
recognize that a BlockAck Requests is usually
acked with a BlockAck and not a legacy ACK.

Without this patch, the stack would constantly
resent old and stale BARs. So, depending on the
receiver stack, this could lead to:

- "stuck" ba sessions and package loss, as the
stale BAR would reset the sequence each time.

- lots of reorder releases.

- ...

Reported-by: Sean Patrick Santos <quantheory@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mikołaj Kuligowski <mikolaj.q@wp.pl>
Reported-by: Per-Erik Westerberg <per-erik.westerberg@bredband.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

mac80211: reduce IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES

IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES can be reduced from 5 to 4 as there
is no current hardware supporting a rate chain with 5 multi
rate stages (mrr), so 4 mrr stages are sufficient.

The memory that is freed within the ieee80211_tx_info struct
will be used in the upcoming Transmission Power Control (TPC)
implementation.

Suggested-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
[reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

carl9170: fix breakage from "mac80211: handle non-bufferable MMPDUs correctly"

That commit intended for 3.4 renamed IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE as
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER. Meanwhile, "carl9170: fix frame delivery
if sta is in powersave mode" added a reference to
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE in the fixes stream for 3.3. This simple
patch fixes that merge boo-boo.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: fix frame delivery if sta is in powersave mode

Nicolas Cavallari discovered that carl9170 has some
serious problems delivering data to sleeping stations.

It turns out that the driver was not honoring two
important flags (IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE and
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT) which are set on
frames that should be sent although the receiving
station is still in powersave mode.

Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: Fix memory accounting when sta is in power-save mode.

On Access Point mode, when transmitting a packet, if the destination
station is in powersave mode, we abort transmitting the packet to the
device queue, but we do not reclaim the allocated memory. Given enough
packets, we can go in a state where there is no packet on the device
queue, but we think the device has no memory left, so no packet gets
transmitted, connections breaks and the AP stops working.

This undo the allocation done in the TX path when the station is in
power-save mode.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <cavallar@lri.fr>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: allow users to lower output power level

This patch implements a simple way of reducing the
output power of the device by a configurable upper
limit.

Requested-by: Harshal Chhaya <harshal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: use ieee80211_free_txskb

In the past, it was fine to simply call
dev_kfree_skb when it was impossible to
transmit a skb. However, with the new
tx status API:
"mac80211: implement wifi TX status"
Every loose skb needs to be handed back
to mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: fix AMPDU TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS handling

Previously the driver did not care if TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS
was set on aggregated frames or not and it would silently
drop successfully sent frames if possible [much like:
"no news is good news!"].

But, TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS was invented for a reason and
no tx status report should ever be dropped if it is set.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: set beacon xmit power to the max

Harshal Chhaya discovered during network tests, that
several of his clients dropped-off the network. The
captured packets shows that the beacons sent by the
AP are at a much lower power than the other data
packets.

The reason for this mishap: The driver never updated
the beacon phy register, so all beacons were always
sent at the lowest power.

Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=131067225105801
Reported-by: Harshal Chhaya <harshal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: move beacon_update into tx.c

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings

tx.c: In function ‘carl9170_tx_accounting_free’:
tx.c:159:28: warning: variable ‘txinfo’ set but not used
tx.c: In function ‘carl9170_tx_status_process_ampdu’:
tx.c:383:27: warning: variable ‘ar_info’ set but not used
tx.c: In function ‘__carl9170_tx_process_status’:
tx.c:626:27: warning: variable ‘arinfo’ set but not used
tx.c: In function ‘carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue’:
tx.c:1324:15: warning: variable ‘max’ set but not used

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: improve unicast PS buffering

Using the ieee80211_sta_block allows the PS code
to handle awake->doze->awake transitions of our
clients in a race-free manner.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: Fix tx aggregation problems with some clients

Some clients seem to rely upon the reception of BlockAckReqs to flush
their rx reorder buffer. In order to fix aggregation for these clients
carl9170 should set IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK to generate a
BlockAckReq if the transmission of an AMPDU subframe fails.

This fixes aggregation problems with Intel 5100 Windows STAs (and maybe
others as well).

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

mac80211: make tx() operation return void

The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).

Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.

Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: utilize fw seq counter for mgmt/non-QoS data frames

"mac80211 will properly assign sequence numbers to QoS-data
frames but cannot do so correctly for non-QoS-data and
management frames because beacons need them from that counter
as well and mac80211 cannot guarantee proper sequencing."

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: fix carl9170_tx_prepare typo

commit: "carl9170: revamp carl9170_tx_prepare"
introduced a peculiar bug that would only show
up if the the module parameter noht is set to 1.

Then all outbound voice, video and background
frames would each invoke a (bogus) RTS/CTS
handshake.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: fix init-self regression

The commit: "carl9170: tx path review" introduced a regression.

gcc (with -Winit-self):
tx.c:1264: warning: ‘super’ is used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: tx path review

This patch fixes a few shortcomings in the tx path.

* move temp. ampdu_[ack]_len out of txinfo->pad.

* fix WARN_ON from tx.c:line 300 when tx_ampdu_queue
fails to queue the frame.

* In tx_prepare, we already have a local pointer
to the station's ieee80211_sta struct.

* remove a second !sta check, tx_prepare already takes
care of that.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: stop stale uplink BA sessions

This patch fixes a possible lengthy stall if the device
is operating as an experimental 11n AP and an STA
[during heavy txrx action] suddenly signalized to go
off-channel (old NetworkManager), or (sleep - which is
unlikely, because then it wouldn't be *active* at all!?).

Because the driver has to manage the BA Window, the
sudden PSM transition can leave active uplink BA
sessions to the STA in a bad state and a proper
cleanup is needed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: revamp carl9170_tx_prepare

David Miller complained about the driver's excessive use
of variables in __packed structs. While I did not fully
agree with his sole "performance" argument on all accounts.
I do see some room for improvement in hot-paths on
architectures without an efficient access to unaligned
elements.

This first patch (dare I say?) optimizes an important tx
hot-path in the driver: carl9170_tx_prepare.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: remove lost-frame workaround

This patch removes some cruft, which survived
the RFC review phase.

Originally, carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue erroneously
dropped a lot of frames. As a result the ampdu
scheduler bogged down quite frequently and the
affected BA session timed out.

However this bug has been fixed and the WA and
its debugfs counter is no longer useful.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

carl9170: 802.11 rx/tx processing and usb backend

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>