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From 9a98302de19991d51e067b88750585203b2a3ab6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:02:27 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: fix firmware is not ready to run
Git-commit: 9a98302de19991d51e067b88750585203b2a3ab6
Patch-mainline: v4.18-rc6
References: bsc#1051510

Without this patch, firmware will not run properly on rtl8821ae, and it
causes bad user experience. For example, bad connection performance with
low rate, higher power consumption, and so on.

rtl8821ae uses two kinds of firmwares for normal and WoWlan cases, and
each firmware has firmware data buffer and size individually. Original
code always overwrite size of normal firmware rtlpriv->rtlhal.fwsize, and
this mismatch causes firmware checksum error, then firmware can't start.

In this situation, driver gives message "Firmware is not ready to run!".

Fixes: fe89707f0afa ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Simplify loading of WOWLAN firmware")
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0+
Reviewed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c
index a3f46203ee7a..4bf7967590ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ static void rtl_fw_do_work(const struct firmware *firmware, void *context,
 		       firmware->size);
 		rtlpriv->rtlhal.wowlan_fwsize = firmware->size;
 	}
-	rtlpriv->rtlhal.fwsize = firmware->size;
 	release_firmware(firmware);
 }
 
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2.18.0