Bug#939853: iwlwifi: ASSERT 0xEDC with A-MSDU
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream patch
Control: fixed -1 5.3~rc5-1~exp2
On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 15:56 +0200, Christian wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 5.2.9-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> in recent kernel versions the iwlwifi module is broken for older devices. See
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203315 for details. This bug makes
> high bandwidth transfers over wifi very unstable, including file transfers and
> backups. As the fix seems pretty minimal
> (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11029027/) but takes a long time to get
> into a kernel release it would be very helpful if this could be backported to
> the current testing kernel.
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That was committed as:
commit cfb21b11b891b08b79be07be57c40a85bb926668
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Wed Jun 12 11:09:58 2019 +0200
iwlwifi: mvm: disable TX-AMSDU on older NICs
which went into 5.3-rc4 and then into 5.2.11. So this will be fixed
when we update to a new 5.2.y release.
Ben.
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