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authorLuka Gejak <luka.gejak@linux.dev>2026-05-18 16:23:10 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-07-04 13:42:26 +0200
commit6579dcb5e0f7460ea004c7decd37adfc26dee84e (patch)
tree9e04e5292f20b58f92575ed0adbe9b4aed233577
parent16eef2a52687bb4e0d66b0ba63b71b7be1621f22 (diff)
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wifi: rtw88: increase TX report timeout to fix race condition
commit c80788f7c5aed8d420366b821f867a8a353d83a5 upstream. The driver expects the firmware to report TX status within 500ms. However, a timeout can be triggered when the hardware performs background scans while under TX load. During these scans, the firmware stays off-channel for periods exceeding 500ms, delaying the delivery of TX reports back to the driver. When this occurs, the purge timer fires prematurely and drops the tracking skbs from the queue. This results in the host stack interpreting the missing status as packet loss, leading to TCP window collapse. In testing with iperf3, this causes throughput to drop from ~90 Mbps to near-zero for approximately 2 seconds until the connection recovers. Increase RTW_TX_PROBE_TIMEOUT to 2500ms for RTL8723DU. This duration is sufficient to accommodate off-channel dwell time during full background scans, ensuring the purge timer only trips during genuine firmware lockups and preventing unnecessary TCP retransmission cycles. Fixes: a82dfd33d123 ("wifi: rtw88: Add common USB chip support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Tested-by: Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260518142311.10328-1-luka.gejak@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c
index f63900b6621d..2122ff5ab50a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ void rtw_tx_report_purge_timer(struct timer_list *t)
void rtw_tx_report_enqueue(struct rtw_dev *rtwdev, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 sn)
{
struct rtw_tx_report *tx_report = &rtwdev->tx_report;
+ unsigned long timeout = RTW_TX_PROBE_TIMEOUT;
unsigned long flags;
u8 *drv_data;
@@ -201,7 +202,11 @@ void rtw_tx_report_enqueue(struct rtw_dev *rtwdev, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 sn)
__skb_queue_tail(&tx_report->queue, skb);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tx_report->q_lock, flags);
- mod_timer(&tx_report->purge_timer, jiffies + RTW_TX_PROBE_TIMEOUT);
+ if (rtwdev->chip->id == RTW_CHIP_TYPE_8723D &&
+ rtwdev->hci.type == RTW_HCI_TYPE_USB)
+ timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(2500);
+
+ mod_timer(&tx_report->purge_timer, jiffies + timeout);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtw_tx_report_enqueue);