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mac80211: Warn if the rate controller requests retries for a NO_ACK frame 

To deter future rate scaling algorithm writers from requesting NO_ACK
packets to be retried, throw a WARN_ON_ONCE if the algorithm hands us
a try count over 1 for NO_ACK packet.

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Gábor Stefanik 2009-04-23 19:36:14 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 97d3f458a1
commit 9955151df7
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@ -558,6 +558,10 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
if (unlikely(!info->control.rates[0].count))
info->control.rates[0].count = 1;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE((info->control.rates[0].count > 1) &&
(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK)))
info->control.rates[0].count = 1;
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) {
/*
* XXX: verify the rate is in the basic rateset