mac80211: fix reordering of buffered broadcast packets
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:39:16 +0000 (22:39 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:20:30 +0000 (09:20 +0100)
commitdb32c245a486f3623b3c9bc70e81bbf6e3d30e0c
treec585b1b4d2d8bace46f566df7010005e4f49ee9a
parent7df29ead86c521daeec311a30c6fabdfb9963dc0
mac80211: fix reordering of buffered broadcast packets

commit 9ec1190d065998650fd9260dea8cf3e1f56c0e8c upstream.

If the buffered broadcast queue contains packets, letting new packets bypass
that queue can lead to heavy reordering, since the driver is probably throttling
transmission of buffered multicast packets after beacons.

Keep buffering packets until the buffer has been cleared (and no client
is in powersave mode).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/tx.c