ath9k: fix various issues in the airtime-fairness implementation
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:25:08 +0000 (13:25 +0100)
committerFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 13:27:41 +0000 (14:27 +0100)
Effects of the bugs could include memory corruption, tx hangs, kernel
crahes, possibly other things as well

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
package/kernel/mac80211/patches/320-ath9k-clean-up-and-fix-ath_tx_count_airtime.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/320-ath9k-clean-up-and-fix-ath_tx_count_airtime.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/320-ath9k-clean-up-and-fix-ath_tx_count_airtime.patch
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+From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
+Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 13:13:05 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: clean up and fix ath_tx_count_airtime
+
+ath_tx_count_airtime is doing a lot of unnecessary work:
+
+- Redundant station lookup
+- Redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock
+- Useless memcpy of bf->rates
+- Useless NULL check of bf->bf_mpdu
+- Redundant lookup of the skb tid
+
+Additionally, it tries to look up the mac80211 queue index from the txq,
+which fails if the frame was delivered via the power save queue.
+
+This patch fixes all of these issues by passing down the right set of
+pointers instead of doing extra work
+
+Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
+Fixes: 63fefa050477 ("ath9k: Introduce airtime fairness scheduling between stations")
+Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
+---
+
+--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
++++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+@@ -723,51 +723,31 @@ static bool bf_is_ampdu_not_probing(stru
+     return bf_isampdu(bf) && !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE);
+ }
+-static void ath_tx_count_airtime(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq,
+-                               struct ath_buf *bf, struct ath_tx_status *ts)
++static void ath_tx_count_airtime(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_node *an,
++                               struct ath_atx_tid *tid, struct ath_buf *bf,
++                               struct ath_tx_status *ts)
+ {
+-      struct ath_node *an;
+-      struct ath_acq *acq = &sc->cur_chan->acq[txq->mac80211_qnum];
+-      struct sk_buff *skb;
+-      struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr;
+-      struct ieee80211_hw *hw = sc->hw;
+-      struct ieee80211_tx_rate rates[4];
+-      struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
+-      int i;
++      struct ath_txq *txq = tid->txq;
+       u32 airtime = 0;
+-
+-      skb = bf->bf_mpdu;
+-      if(!skb)
+-              return;
+-
+-      hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
+-      memcpy(rates, bf->rates, sizeof(rates));
+-
+-      rcu_read_lock();
+-
+-      sta = ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(hw, hdr->addr1, hdr->addr2);
+-      if(!sta)
+-              goto exit;
+-
+-
+-      an = (struct ath_node *) sta->drv_priv;
++      int i;
+       airtime += ts->duration * (ts->ts_longretry + 1);
++      for(i = 0; i < ts->ts_rateindex; i++) {
++              int rate_dur = ath9k_hw_get_duration(sc->sc_ah, bf->bf_desc, i);
++              airtime += rate_dur * bf->rates[i].count;
++      }
+-      for(i=0; i < ts->ts_rateindex; i++)
+-              airtime += ath9k_hw_get_duration(sc->sc_ah, bf->bf_desc, i) * rates[i].count;
++      if (sc->airtime_flags & AIRTIME_USE_TX) {
++              int q = txq->mac80211_qnum;
++              struct ath_acq *acq = &sc->cur_chan->acq[q];
+-      if (!!(sc->airtime_flags & AIRTIME_USE_TX)) {
+               spin_lock_bh(&acq->lock);
+-              an->airtime_deficit[txq->mac80211_qnum] -= airtime;
+-              if (an->airtime_deficit[txq->mac80211_qnum] <= 0)
+-                      __ath_tx_queue_tid(sc, ath_get_skb_tid(sc, an, skb));
++              an->airtime_deficit[q] -= airtime;
++              if (an->airtime_deficit[q] <= 0)
++                      __ath_tx_queue_tid(sc, tid);
+               spin_unlock_bh(&acq->lock);
+       }
+       ath_debug_airtime(sc, an, 0, airtime);
+-
+-exit:
+-      rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
+ static void ath_tx_process_buffer(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq,
+@@ -791,13 +771,13 @@ static void ath_tx_process_buffer(struct
+       ts->duration = ath9k_hw_get_duration(sc->sc_ah, bf->bf_desc,
+                                            ts->ts_rateindex);
+-      ath_tx_count_airtime(sc, txq, bf, ts);
+       hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *) bf->bf_mpdu->data;
+       sta = ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(hw, hdr->addr1, hdr->addr2);
+       if (sta) {
+               struct ath_node *an = (struct ath_node *)sta->drv_priv;
+               tid = ath_get_skb_tid(sc, an, bf->bf_mpdu);
++              ath_tx_count_airtime(sc, an, tid, bf, ts);
+               if (ts->ts_status & (ATH9K_TXERR_FILT | ATH9K_TXERR_XRETRY))
+                       tid->clear_ps_filter = true;
+       }