This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: vt6656: use NULLFUCTION stack on mac80211

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the staging-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 21:41:20 +0000 Subject: staging: vt6656: use NULLFUCTION stack on mac80211

It appears that the drivers does not go into power save correctly the NULL data packets are not being transmitted because it not enabled in mac80211.

The driver needs to capture ieee80211_is_nullfunc headers and copy the duration_id to it's own duration data header.

Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/610971ae-555b-a6c3-61b3-444a0c1e35b4@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 1 + drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c | 14 +++++--------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c index 4ac85ecb0921..131100510bb0 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c @@ -1014,6 +1014,7 @@ vt6656_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, const struct usb_device_id *id) ieee80211_hw_set(priv->hw, RX_INCLUDES_FCS); ieee80211_hw_set(priv->hw, REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS); ieee80211_hw_set(priv->hw, SUPPORTS_PS); + ieee80211_hw_set(priv->hw, PS_NULLFUNC_STACK);

priv->hw->max_signal = 100;

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c index 39b557511b24..29caba728906 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c @@ -278,11 +278,9 @@ static u16 vnt_rxtx_datahead_g(struct vnt_usb_send_context *tx_context, PK_TYPE_11B, &buf->b);

/* Get Duration and TimeStamp */ - if (ieee80211_is_pspoll(hdr->frame_control)) { - __le16 dur = cpu_to_le16(priv->current_aid | BIT(14) | BIT(15)); - - buf->duration_a = dur; - buf->duration_b = dur; + if (ieee80211_is_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control)) { + buf->duration_a = hdr->duration_id; + buf->duration_b = hdr->duration_id; } else { buf->duration_a = vnt_get_duration_le(priv, tx_context->pkt_type, need_ack); @@ -371,10 +369,8 @@ static u16 vnt_rxtx_datahead_ab(struct vnt_usb_send_context *tx_context, tx_context->pkt_type, &buf->ab);

/* Get Duration and TimeStampOff */ - if (ieee80211_is_pspoll(hdr->frame_control)) { - __le16 dur = cpu_to_le16(priv->current_aid | BIT(14) | BIT(15)); - - buf->duration = dur; + if (ieee80211_is_nullfunc(hdr->frame_control)) { + buf->duration = hdr->duration_id; } else { buf->duration = vnt_get_duration_le(priv, tx_context->pkt_type, need_ack);