mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL

commit 5b632fe8 upstream.

Commit f0425bed "mac80211: retry sending
failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr" caused regression
on rt2x00 hardware (connection hangs). This regression was fixed by
commit be03d4a4 "rt2x00: Don't let
mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails". But the latter
commit caused yet another problem reported in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42828#c22

After long discussion in this thread:
http://mid.gmane.org/20121018075615.GA18212@redhat.com
and testing various alternative solutions, which failed on one or other
setup, we have no other good fix for the issues like just revert both
mentioned earlier commits.

To do not affect other hardware which benefit from commit
f0425bed, instead of reverting it,
introduce flag that when used will restore mac80211 behaviour before
the commit.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
[replaced link with mid.gmane.org that has message-id]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

include/net/mac80211.h

@@ -1128,6 +1128,10 @@ enum sta_notify_cmd {
  * @IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW: The device handles TX A-MPDU session
  *	setup strictly in HW. mac80211 should not attempt to do this in
  *	software.
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL: On this hardware TX BA session
+ *	should be tear down once BAR frame will not be acked.
+ *
  */
 enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
 	IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL			= 1<<0,
@@ -1154,6 +1158,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
 	IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PER_STA_GTK		= 1<<21,
 	IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS				= 1<<22,
 	IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW		= 1<<23,
+	IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL		= 1<<26,
 };
 
 /**

net/mac80211/status.c

@@ -429,7 +429,11 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 				       IEEE80211_BAR_CTRL_TID_INFO_MASK) >>
 				      IEEE80211_BAR_CTRL_TID_INFO_SHIFT;
 
-				ieee80211_set_bar_pending(sta, tid, ssn);
+				if (local->hw.flags &
+				    IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL)
+					ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(&sta->sta, tid);
+				else
+					ieee80211_set_bar_pending(sta, tid, ssn);
 			}
 		}