mac80211: Fix bug in getting rx status for frames pending in reorder buffer
Currently rx status for frames which are completed from reorder buffer is taken from it's cb area which is not always right, cb is not holding the rx status when driver uses mac80211's non-irq rx handler to pass it's received frames. This results in dropping almost all frames from reorder buffer when security is enabled by doing double decryption (first in hw, second in sw because of wrong rx status). This patch copies rx status into cb area before the frame is put into reorder buffer. After this patch, there is a significant improvement in throughput with ath9k + WPA2(AES). Signed-off-by: NVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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