mac802154: Send beacons using the MLME Tx path

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Using ieee802154_subif_start_xmit() to bypass the net queue when
sending beacons is broken because it does not acquire the
HARD_TX_LOCK(), hence not preventing datagram buffers to be smashed by
beacons upon contention situation. Using the mlme_tx helper is not the
best fit either but at least it is not buggy and has little-to-no
performance hit. More details are given in the comment explaining this
choice in the code.

Fixes: 3accf47627 ("mac802154: Handle basic beaconing")
Reported-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230214135035.1202471-5-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>

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Miquel Raynal 2023-02-14 14:50:33 +01:00 • committed by Stefan Schmidt

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