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Commit b58ef214 authored by Daniel C Halperin's avatar Daniel C Halperin Committed by John W. Linville
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iwlwifi: remove incorrect uses of ieee80211_get_tx_rate to prevent TX stall


Refactor and correct rate selection for outgoing transmitted
packets.

First, note that HT rates in the mac80211 rate table do not provide valid
indices when ieee80211_get_tx_rate is called; the check to see if we could to
abort a transmission early in iwl_tx_skb() would thus occasionally read invalid
memory and occasionally stall transmission (if the erroneous byte was 0xff).
We remove that code; the check wasn't valid anyway.

Second, iwl_tx_cmd_build_rate() also called ieee80211_get_tx_rate to be used
for sending management packets, which do not use the uCode station table.  This
patch refactors that function and adds comments to enhance legibility, replaces
the call to ieee80211_get_tx_rate() with a direct lookup, and adds error
handling in case the table entry is invalid.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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