Commit 5acbd509 authored by Felix Fietkau's avatar Felix Fietkau Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

mac80211: fix reordering of buffered broadcast packets

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1811077

commit 9ec1190d 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: default avatarFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent 4611b8cc
......@@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_multicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
if (ieee80211_hw_check(&tx->local->hw, QUEUE_CONTROL))
info->hw_queue = tx->sdata->vif.cab_queue;
/* no stations in PS mode */
if (!atomic_read(&ps->num_sta_ps))
/* no stations in PS mode and no buffered packets */
if (!atomic_read(&ps->num_sta_ps) && skb_queue_empty(&ps->bc_buf))
return TX_CONTINUE;
info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM;
......
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