mac80211: Don't call rate control when HW handles it

Rate control should not be called to update the tx status
when HW does the RC.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rate.h b/net/mac80211/rate.h
index 669dddd405210551a58cabc61d9c1580cf71edac..998cf7a935b66f80b01600816fb81205d97759ea 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/rate.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/rate.h
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ static inline void rate_control_tx_status(struct ieee80211_local *local,
        struct rate_control_ref *ref = local->rate_ctrl;
        struct ieee80211_sta *ista = &sta->sta;
        void *priv_sta = sta->rate_ctrl_priv;
+
+       if (!ref)
+               return;
+
        ref->ops->tx_status(ref->priv, sband, ista, priv_sta, skb);
 }