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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 13:45:04 +0200
commita68c04f4ee6a73cd8be44df32f00e1bcb41ec158 (patch)
treea1438d9676e63030c1b406cbbecd9d28a18a0af8
parent2a42951e935fdf53d14bb07a80202459b12f0480 (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 3106edb84fb4..a6e43314a4e9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ 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;
@@ -207,7 +208,11 @@ 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);