Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
rtlwifi-rtl8821ae-fix-connection-lost-problem.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:15:05 -0500
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>

commit b8b8b16352cd90c6083033fd4487f04fae935c18 upstream.

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.

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

@@ -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;
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.13/rtlwifi-rtl8821ae-fix-connection-lost-problem.patch