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carl9170: Fix memory accounting when sta is in power-save mode.
authorNicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:53:34 +0000 (16:53 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:08:51 +0000 (13:08 -0500)
commitb5caa2033496a5adaeba561305a2d7e7fca1a7b7
treefeaecc367249ce155d4e851eddcb699f42a431bc
parent8f74a8934eb90c53362a1ba8696405d849275e28
carl9170: Fix memory accounting when sta is in power-save mode.

On Access Point mode, when transmitting a packet, if the destination
station is in powersave mode, we abort transmitting the packet to the
device queue, but we do not reclaim the allocated memory.  Given enough
packets, we can go in a state where there is no packet on the device
queue, but we think the device has no memory left, so no packet gets
transmitted, connections breaks and the AP stops working.

This undo the allocation done in the TX path when the station is in
power-save mode.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <cavallar@lri.fr>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c