iwlwifi: mvm: disable TX-AMSDU on older NICs

On older NICs, we occasionally see issues with A-MSDU support,
where the commands in the FIFO get confused and then we see an
assert EDC because the next command in the FIFO isn't TX.

We've tried to isolate this issue and understand where it comes
from, but haven't found any errors in building the A-MSDU in
software.

At least for now, disable A-MSDU support on older hardware so
that users can use it again without fearing the assert.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203315.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
index 55cd49ccbf0b7a309286692cef45cc7bbddd4fa0..99fa440bc6393f66de3c0c0c57e8adbebb3ab2cd 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -474,7 +474,19 @@ int iwl_mvm_mac_setup_register(struct iwl_mvm *mvm)
        ieee80211_hw_set(hw, SUPPORTS_VHT_EXT_NSS_BW);
        ieee80211_hw_set(hw, BUFF_MMPDU_TXQ);
        ieee80211_hw_set(hw, STA_MMPDU_TXQ);
-       ieee80211_hw_set(hw, TX_AMSDU);
+       /*
+        * On older devices, enabling TX A-MSDU occasionally leads to
+        * something getting messed up, the command read from the FIFO
+        * gets out of sync and isn't a TX command, so that we have an
+        * assert EDC.
+        *
+        * It's not clear where the bug is, but since we didn't used to
+        * support A-MSDU until moving the mac80211 iTXQs, just leave it
+        * for older devices. We also don't see this issue on any newer
+        * devices.
+        */
+       if (mvm->cfg->device_family >= IWL_DEVICE_FAMILY_9000)
+               ieee80211_hw_set(hw, TX_AMSDU);
        ieee80211_hw_set(hw, TX_FRAG_LIST);
 
        if (iwl_mvm_has_tlc_offload(mvm)) {