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authorMathy Vanhoef <vanhoefm@gmail.com>2014-06-14 01:14:56 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2014-07-01 14:26:25 -0400
commitb76ff0d2e0aaf52adf0e7ec0625aa48a039cba23 (patch)
treebe10e5aea4a6281419f62820e735f24173871b75 /drivers/net/wireless/ath
parent41881354f93a5e82f16c811f95e0700bf99283ec (diff)
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ath5k: capture CCK and OFDM restarts
Treat frames that underwent a CCK or OFDM restart as frames with an invalid CRC. Signed-off-by: Mathy Vanhoef <vanhoefm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
index 5839a3434119..8ad2550bce7f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
@@ -1462,7 +1462,20 @@ ath5k_receive_frame_ok(struct ath5k_hw *ah, struct ath5k_rx_status *rs)
ah->stats.rxerr_phy++;
if (rs->rs_phyerr > 0 && rs->rs_phyerr < 32)
ah->stats.rxerr_phy_code[rs->rs_phyerr]++;
- return false;
+
+ /*
+ * Treat packets that underwent a CCK or OFDM reset as having a bad CRC.
+ * These restarts happen when the radio resynchronizes to a stronger frame
+ * while receiving a weaker frame. Here we receive the prefix of the weak
+ * frame. Since these are incomplete packets, mark their CRC as invalid.
+ */
+ if (rs->rs_phyerr == AR5K_RX_PHY_ERROR_OFDM_RESTART ||
+ rs->rs_phyerr == AR5K_RX_PHY_ERROR_CCK_RESTART) {
+ rs->rs_status |= AR5K_RXERR_CRC;
+ rs->rs_status &= ~AR5K_RXERR_PHY;
+ } else {
+ return false;
+ }
}
if (rs->rs_status & AR5K_RXERR_DECRYPT) {
/*
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