linux/drivers/net/wireless, branch v3.4.53

ath9k: Use minstrel rate control by default

2013-06-20T18:58:44Z

commit 5efac94999ff218e0101f67a059e44abb4b0b523 upstream. The ath9k rate control algorithm has various architectural issues that make it a poor fit in scenarios like congested environments etc. An example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927191 Change the default to minstrel which is more robust in such cases. The ath9k RC code is left in the driver for now, maybe it can be removed altogether later on. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan Cc: Jouni Malinen Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k: Disable PowerSave by default

2013-06-20T18:58:44Z

commit 531671cb17af07281e6f28c1425f754346e65c41 upstream. Almost all the DMA issues which have plagued ath9k (in station mode) for years are related to PS. Disabling PS usually "fixes" the user's connection stablility. Reports of DMA problems are still trickling in and are sitting in the kernel bugzilla. Until the PS code in ath9k is given a thorough review, disbale it by default. The slight increase in chip power consumption is a small price to pay for improved link stability. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs

2013-06-20T18:58:43Z

commit e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c upstream. The module parameter "fwpostfix" is userspace controllable, unfiltered, and is used to define the firmware filename. b43_do_request_fw() populates ctx->errors[] on error, containing the firmware filename. b43err() parses its arguments as a format string. For systems with b43 hardware, this could lead to a uid-0 to ring-0 escalation. CVE-2013-2852 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

B43: Handle DMA RX descriptor underrun

2013-05-19T17:54:41Z

commit 73b82bf0bfbf58e6ff328d3726934370585f6e78 upstream. Add handling of rx descriptor underflow. This fixes a fault that could happen on slow machines, where data is received faster than the CPU can handle. In such a case the device will use up all rx descriptors and refuse to send any more data before confirming that it is ok. This patch enables necessary interrupt to discover such a situation and will handle them by dropping everything in the ring buffer. Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch Signed-off-by: Thommy Jakobsson Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mwifiex: fix setting of multicast filter

2013-05-19T17:54:41Z

commit ccd384b10420ac81ba3fb9b0a7d18272c7173552 upstream. A small bug in this code was causing the ALLMULTI filter to be set when in fact we were just wanting to program a selective multicast list to the hardware. Fix that bug and remove a redundant if condition in the code that follows. This fixes wakeup behaviour when multicast WOL is enabled. Previously, all multicast packets would wake up the system. Now, only those that the host intended to receive trigger wakeups. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Acked-by: Bing Zhao Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mwifiex: clear is_suspended flag when interrupt is received early

2013-05-19T17:54:41Z

commit 48795424acff7215d5eac0b52793a2c1eb3a6283 upstream. When the XO-4 with 8787 wireless is woken up due to wake-on-WLAN mwifiex is often flooded with "not allowed while suspended" messages and the interface is unusable. [ 202.171609] int: sdio_ireg = 0x1 [ 202.180700] info: mwifiex_process_hs_config: auto cancelling host sleep since there is interrupt from the firmware [ 202.201880] event: wakeup device... [ 202.211452] event: hs_deactivated [ 202.514638] info: --- Rx: Data packet --- [ 202.514753] data: 4294957544 BSS(0-0): Data <= kernel [ 202.514825] PREP_CMD: device in suspended state [ 202.514839] data: dequeuing the packet ec7248c0 ec4869c0 [ 202.514886] mwifiex_write_data_sync: not allowed while suspended [ 202.514886] host_to_card, write iomem (1) failed: -1 [ 202.514917] mwifiex_write_data_sync: not allowed while suspended [ 202.514936] host_to_card, write iomem (2) failed: -1 [ 202.514949] mwifiex_write_data_sync: not allowed while suspended [ 202.514965] host_to_card, write iomem (3) failed: -1 [ 202.514976] mwifiex_write_data_async failed: 0xFFFFFFFF This can be readily reproduced when putting the XO-4 in a loop where it goes to sleep due to inactivity, but then wakes up due to an incoming ping. The error is hit within an hour or two. This issue happens when an interrupt comes in early while host sleep is still activated. Driver handles this case by auto cancelling host sleep. However is_suspended flag is still set which prevents any cmd or data from being sent to firmware. Fix it by clearing is_suspended flag in this path. Reported-by: Daniel Drake Tested-by: Daniel Drake Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ath9k: fix key allocation error handling for powersave keys

2013-05-19T17:54:40Z

commit 4ef69d0394cba8caa9f75d3f2e53429bfb8b3045 upstream. If no keycache slots are available, ath_key_config can return -ENOSPC. If the key index is not checked for errors, it can lead to logspam that looks like this: "ath: wiphy0: keyreset: keycache entry 228 out of range" This can cause follow-up errors if the invalid keycache index gets used for tx. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mwifiex: Call pci_release_region after calling pci_disable_device

2013-05-08T02:51:52Z

commit 5b0d9b218b74042ff72bf4bfda6eeb2e4bf98397 upstream. "drivers should call pci_release_region() AFTER calling pci_disable_device()" Please refer section 3.2 Request MMIO/IOP resources in Documentation/PCI/pci.txt Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mwifiex: Use pci_release_region() instead of a pci_release_regions()

2013-05-08T02:51:52Z

commit c380aafb77b7435d010698fe3ca6d3e1cd745fde upstream. PCI regions are associated with the device using pci_request_region() call. Hence use pci_release_region() instead of pci_release_regions(). Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ssb: implement spurious tone avoidance

2013-04-26T04:19:55Z

commit 46fc4c909339f5a84d1679045297d9d2fb596987 upstream. And make use of it in b43. This fixes a regression introduced with 49d55cef5b1925a5c1efb6aaddaa40fc7c693335 b43: N-PHY: implement spurious tone avoidance This commit made BCM4322 use only MCS 0 on channel 13, which of course resulted in performance drop (down to 0.7Mb/s). Reported-by: Stefan Brüns Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman