From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:46:05 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mac80211: fixup AIFSN instead of disabling WMM
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~818^2~5^2~4
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=730a755017139ddedac08d82f73c3532a020d372;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

mac80211: fixup AIFSN instead of disabling WMM

Disabling WMM has a huge impact these days. It implies that
HT and VHT will be disabled which means that the throughput
will be drammatically reduced.
Since the AIFSN is a transmission parameter, we can play a
bit and fix it up to make it compliant with the 802.11
specification which requires it to be at least 2.
Increasing it from 1 to 2 will slightly reduce the
likelyhood to get a transmission opportunity compared to
other clients that would accept to set AIFSN=1, but at
least it will allow HT and VHT which is a huge gain.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 67f0387bea27..b9534c9902ac 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -1816,6 +1816,13 @@ static bool ieee80211_sta_wmm_params(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 		}
 
 		params.aifs = pos[0] & 0x0f;
+
+		if (params.aifs < 2) {
+			sdata_info(sdata,
+				   "AP has invalid WMM params (AIFSN=%d for ACI %d), will use 2\n",
+				   params.aifs, aci);
+			params.aifs = 2;
+		}
 		params.cw_max = ecw2cw((pos[1] & 0xf0) >> 4);
 		params.cw_min = ecw2cw(pos[1] & 0x0f);
 		params.txop = get_unaligned_le16(pos + 2);
@@ -4559,17 +4566,10 @@ static bool ieee80211_usable_wmm_params(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	left = len - 8;
 
 	for (; left >= 4; left -= 4, pos += 4) {
-		u8 aifsn = pos[0] & 0x0f;
 		u8 ecwmin = pos[1] & 0x0f;
 		u8 ecwmax = (pos[1] & 0xf0) >> 4;
 		int aci = (pos[0] >> 5) & 0x03;
 
-		if (aifsn < 2) {
-			sdata_info(sdata,
-				   "AP has invalid WMM params (AIFSN=%d for ACI %d), disabling WMM\n",
-				   aifsn, aci);
-			return false;
-		}
 		if (ecwmin > ecwmax) {
 			sdata_info(sdata,
 				   "AP has invalid WMM params (ECWmin/max=%d/%d for ACI %d), disabling WMM\n",