mac80211: send control port protocol frames to the VO queue
Improves reliability of wifi connections with WPA, since authentication
frames are prioritized over normal traffic and also typically exempt
from aggregation.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/wme.c b/net/mac80211/wme.c
index 21211c6..d51422c 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wme.c
@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@
return IEEE80211_AC_BE;
}
+ if (skb->protocol == sdata->control_port_protocol) {
+ skb->priority = 7;
+ return ieee80211_downgrade_queue(sdata, skb);
+ }
+
/* use the data classifier to determine what 802.1d tag the
* data frame has */
rcu_read_lock();