Commit c8f03455 authored Feb 24, 2015 by Larry Finger Committed by Kalle Valo Mar 03, 2015

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>

parent 0ff66cff

drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c

+5 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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: