mac80211: RX BA support for sta max_rx_aggregation_subframes

The ability to change the max_rx_aggregation frames is useful
in cases of IOP.

There exist some devices (latest mobile phones and some AP's)
that tend to not respect a BA sessions maximum size (in Kbps).
These devices won't respect the AMPDU size that was negotiated during
association (even though they do respect the maximal number of packets).

This violation is characterized by a valid number of packets in
a single AMPDU. Even so, the total size will exceed the size negotiated
during association.

Eventually, this will cause some undefined behavior, which in turn
causes the hw to drop packets, causing the throughput to plummet.

This patch will make the subframe limitation to be held by each station,
instead of being held only by hw.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
index a9aff6079c42..282e99bdb301 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c
@@ -298,10 +298,13 @@ void __ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session(struct sta_info *sta,
 		buf_size = IEEE80211_MAX_AMPDU_BUF;
 
 	/* make sure the size doesn't exceed the maximum supported by the hw */
-	if (buf_size > local->hw.max_rx_aggregation_subframes)
-		buf_size = local->hw.max_rx_aggregation_subframes;
+	if (buf_size > sta->sta.max_rx_aggregation_subframes)
+		buf_size = sta->sta.max_rx_aggregation_subframes;
 	params.buf_size = buf_size;
 
+	ht_dbg(sta->sdata, "AddBA Req buf_size=%d for %pM\n",
+	       buf_size, sta->sta.addr);
+
 	/* examine state machine */
 	mutex_lock(&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx);