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Helmut Schaa e69deded2b mac80211: Tear down BA session on BAR tx failure 
As described at [1] some STAs (i.e. Intel 5100 Windows) can end up
correctly BlockAcking incoming frames without delivering them to user
space if a AMPDU subframe got lost and we don't flush the receipients
reorder buffer with a BlockAckReq. This in turn results in stuck
connections.

According to 802.11n-2009 it is not necessary to send a BAR to flush
the recepients RX reorder buffer but we still do that to be polite.

However, assume the following frame exchange:

AP -> STA, AMPDU (failed)
AP -> STA, BAR (failed)

The client in question then ends up in the same situation and won't
deliver frames to userspace anymore since we weren't able to flush
its reorder buffer.

This is not a hypothetical situation but I was able to observe this
exact behavior during a stress test between a rt2800pci AP and a Intel
5100 Windows client.

In order to work around this issue just tear down the BA session as
soon as a BAR failed to be TX'ed.

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/66867

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:58 -04:00
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9p net/9p: Fix the msize calculation. 2011-07-23 09:32:52 -05:00
802 snap: remove one synchronize_net() 2011-05-23 16:29:24 -04:00
8021q net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared 2011-07-27 22:39:30 -07:00
appletalk appletalk: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:15 -07:00
atm atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
ax25 ax25: Fix set-but-unused variable. 2011-04-17 00:48:31 -07:00
batman-adv netdevice: Kill 'feature' test macros. 2011-07-12 12:28:58 -07:00
bluetooth net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared 2011-07-27 22:39:30 -07:00
bridge atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
caif Remove redundant linux/version.h includes from net/ 2011-06-21 16:03:17 -07:00
can net/can: use printk_ratelimited() instead of printk_ratelimit() 2011-06-17 00:03:03 -04:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2011-07-26 13:38:50 -07:00
core Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-07-28 05:58:19 -07:00
dcb dcbnl: unlock on an error path in dcbnl_cee_fill() 2011-07-08 09:01:14 -07:00
dccp dccp ccid-2: Perform congestion-window validation 2011-07-04 12:37:49 -06:00
decnet atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
dns_resolver KEYS: Improve /proc/keys 2011-03-17 11:59:32 +11:00
dsa DSA: Enable cascading in multi-chip 6131 configuration 2011-06-29 05:53:49 -07:00
econet af_econet: Use current logging styles and neatening 2011-07-03 20:05:16 -07:00
ethernet net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags 2011-07-27 22:39:30 -07:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: free skb buffer if dev isn't running 2011-06-30 16:18:09 +04:00
ipv4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-07-28 05:58:19 -07:00
ipv6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-07-28 05:58:19 -07:00
ipx ipx: fix ipx_release() 2011-03-21 18:16:39 -07:00
irda Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-06-20 22:29:08 -07:00
iucv atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
key net: Remove casts of void * 2011-06-16 23:19:27 -04:00
l2tp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-07-28 05:58:19 -07:00
lapb lapb: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:16 -07:00
llc llc: Fix length check in llc_fixup_skb(). 2011-04-11 18:59:05 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: Tear down BA session on BAR tx failure 2011-08-22 14:45:58 -04:00
netfilter atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
netlabel atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
netlink Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2011-06-24 15:25:51 -04:00
netrom netrom: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:16 -07:00
nfc NFC: add the NFC socket raw protocol 2011-07-05 15:26:58 -04:00
packet af-packet: fix - avoid reading stale data 2011-07-14 08:36:33 -07:00
phonet rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size 2011-06-09 20:38:07 -07:00
rds notifiers: cpu: move cpu notifiers into cpu.h 2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
rfkill net: rfkill: add generic gpio rfkill driver 2011-05-19 13:53:54 -04:00
rose rose: Delete commented out references to ancient firewalling code. 2011-07-07 02:41:59 -07:00
rxrpc rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport() 2011-05-19 18:51:50 -04:00
sched net: Abstract dst->neighbour accesses behind helpers. 2011-07-17 23:11:35 -07:00
sctp Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-07-21 13:38:42 -07:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs 2011-07-27 13:23:02 -07:00
tipc atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
unix new helpers: kern_path_create/user_path_create 2011-07-20 01:44:05 -04:00
wanrouter Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
wimax
wireless nl80211/cfg80211: Add extra IE configuration to AP mode setup 2011-08-12 13:45:04 -04:00
x25 x25: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:16 -07:00
xfrm net: Add ->neigh_lookup() operation to dst_ops 2011-07-18 00:40:17 -07:00
compat.c net: Add sendmmsg socket system call 2011-05-05 11:10:14 -07:00
Kconfig NFC: add nfc subsystem core 2011-07-05 15:26:57 -04:00
Makefile NFC: add nfc subsystem core 2011-07-05 15:26:57 -04:00
nonet.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
socket.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-07-28 05:58:19 -07:00
sysctl_net.c