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| author |   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> | 2015-02-24 09:23:01 -0600 |
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| committer |   Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> | 2015-03-03 17:07:05 +0200 |
| commit | c8f0345586694a33f828bc6b177fb21eb1702325 (patch) | |
| tree | 58f56edd0f8760d3c5b183ddbd3c0fdff1a23aa3 /drivers/net | |
| parent | b43: fix support for 5 GHz only BCM43228 model (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c8f0345586694a33f828bc6b177fb21eb1702325.tar.xz linux-dev-c8f0345586694a33f828bc6b177fb21eb1702325.zip | |
rtlwifi: Improve handling of IPv6 packets
Routine rtl_is_special_data() is supposed to identify packets that need to
use a low bit rate so that the probability of successful transmission is
high. The current version has a bug that causes all IPv6 packets to be
labelled as special, with a corresponding low rate of transmission. A
complete fix will be quite intrusive, but until that is available, all
IPv6 packets are identified as regular.
This patch also removes a magic number.
Reported-and-tested-by: Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.18+]
Cc: Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c index 1d4677460711..074f716020aa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c @@ -1386,8 +1386,11 @@ u8 rtl_is_special_data(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 is_tx) } return true; - } else if (0x86DD == ether_type) { - return true; + } else if (ETH_P_IPV6 == ether_type) { + /* TODO: Handle any IPv6 cases that need special handling. + * For now, always return false + */ + goto end; } end: |