Bug#939853: iwlwifi: ASSERT 0xEDC with A-MSDU

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#939853: iwlwifi: ASSERT 0xEDC with A-MSDU
Date	2019-09-09 19:50 +0200
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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.
[...]

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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Bug#939853: iwlwifi: ASSERT 0xEDC with A-MSDU Christian <christian.stoitner@gmx.net> - 2019-09-09 16:00 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#939853: iwlwifi: ASSERT 0xEDC with A-MSDU "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2019-09-09 19:50 +0200
  Bug#939853: iwlwifi: ASSERT 0xEDC with A-MSDU Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-09-09 19:50 +0200

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