On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:45:02PM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue
> 
> to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
>     
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      mac80211-send-control-port-protocol-frames-to-the-vo-queue.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> 
> 
> From 1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:02:47 +0100
> Subject: mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue
> 
> From: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
> 
> commit 1bf4bbb4024dcdab5e57634dd8ae1072d42a53ac upstream.
> 
> Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication
> frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt
> from aggregation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> 
> ---
>  net/mac80211/wme.c |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/net/mac80211/wme.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c
> @@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ u16 ieee80211_select_queue(struct ieee80
>               return IEEE80211_AC_BE;
>       }
>  
> +     if (skb->protocol == sdata->control_port_protocol) {
> +             skb->priority = 7;
> +             return ieee80211_downgrade_queue(sdata, skb);

This doesn't look correct to me.  In 3.4 kernel the 1st parameter for
function ieee80211_downgrade_queue() is a struct ieee80211_local, not a
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data.

Cheers,
--
Luís

> +     }
> +
>       /* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the
>        * data frame has */
>       skb->priority = cfg80211_classify8021d(skb);
> 
> 
> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
> 
> queue-3.4/mac80211-send-control-port-protocol-frames-to-the-vo-queue.patch
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