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mac80211: Fix accounting of multicast frames 

Since multicast frames are marked as no-ack, using
IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK to check if they have been
successfully transmitted by the driver is incorrect
since a driver can choose to ignore transmission status
for no-ack frames. This results in incorrect accounting
for such frames.

To fix this issue, this patch introduces a new flag
that can be used by drivers to indicate error-free
transmission of no-ack frames.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
[add a note about not setting the flag for non-no-ack frames]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Sujith Manoharan 2014-12-10 21:26:11 +05:30 committed by Johannes Berg
parent 6b127c71fb
commit 5cf16616e1
2 changed files with 12 additions and 3 deletions
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6
include/net/mac80211.h
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@ -505,6 +505,11 @@ struct ieee80211_bss_conf {
* @IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DONTFRAG: Don't fragment this packet even if it
* would be fragmented by size (this is optional, only used for
* monitor injection).
* @IEEE80211_TX_STAT_NOACK_TRANSMITTED: A frame that was marked with
* IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK has been successfully transmitted without
* any errors (like issues specific to the driver/HW).
* This flag must not be set for frames that don't request no-ack
* behaviour with IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK.
*
* Note: If you have to add new flags to the enumeration, then don't
* forget to update %IEEE80211_TX_TEMPORARY_FLAGS when necessary.
@ -540,6 +545,7 @@ enum mac80211_tx_info_flags {
IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP = BIT(28),
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_USE_MINRATE = BIT(29),
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DONTFRAG = BIT(30),
IEEE80211_TX_STAT_NOACK_TRANSMITTED = BIT(31),
};
#define IEEE80211_TX_CTL_STBC_SHIFT 23

9
net/mac80211/status.c
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@ -664,13 +664,15 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status_noskb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
int retry_count;
int rates_idx;
bool acked;
bool acked, noack_success;
rates_idx = ieee80211_tx_get_rates(hw, info, &retry_count);
sband = hw->wiphy->bands[info->band];
acked = !!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK);
noack_success = !!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_NOACK_TRANSMITTED);
if (pubsta) {
struct sta_info *sta;
@ -696,7 +698,7 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status_noskb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
rate_control_tx_status_noskb(local, sband, sta, info);
}
if (acked) {
if (acked || noack_success) {
local->dot11TransmittedFrameCount++;
if (!pubsta)
local->dot11MulticastTransmittedFrameCount++;
@ -856,7 +858,8 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
* Fragments are passed to low-level drivers as separate skbs, so these
* are actually fragments, not frames. Update frame counters only for
* the first fragment of the frame. */
if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK) {
if ((info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK) ||
(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_NOACK_TRANSMITTED)) {
if (ieee80211_is_first_frag(hdr->seq_ctrl)) {
local->dot11TransmittedFrameCount++;
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1))