mac80211: detect driver tx bugs
When a driver rejects a frame in it's ->tx() callback, it must also
stop queues, otherwise mac80211 can go into a loop here. Detect this
situation and abort the loop after five retries, warning about the
driver bug.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 28d8bd5..c80d589 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@
ieee80211_tx_handler *handler;
struct ieee80211_tx_data tx;
ieee80211_tx_result res = TX_DROP, res_prepare;
- int ret, i;
+ int ret, i, retries = 0;
WARN_ON(__ieee80211_queue_pending(local, control->queue));
@@ -1216,6 +1216,13 @@
if (!__ieee80211_queue_stopped(local, control->queue)) {
clear_bit(IEEE80211_LINK_STATE_PENDING,
&local->state[control->queue]);
+ retries++;
+ /*
+ * Driver bug, it's rejecting packets but
+ * not stopping queues.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(retries > 5))
+ goto drop;
goto retry;
}
memcpy(&store->control, control,