From b8b8b16352cd90c6083033fd4487f04fae935c18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:15:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem
Git-commit: b8b8b16352cd90c6083033fd4487f04fae935c18
Patch-mainline: v4.14-rc6
References: bsc#1051510

In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read
of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi
this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection.
This regression was located using bisection.

Fixes: 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues")
Reported-and-tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11+
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ static u8 _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(struct rtl
 	}
 	if (0 == tmp) {
 		read_addr = REG_DBI_RDATA + addr % 4;
-		ret = rtl_read_byte(rtlpriv, read_addr);
+		ret = rtl_read_word(rtlpriv, read_addr);
 	}
 	return ret;
 }