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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Return untuned timestamp in case of invalid bitrates

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On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 20:37 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 13:42 +0000, Chaitanya Tata wrote:
> >> In case the driver sends MCS9 and doesn't advertise CBW
> >> (or) advertises 20MHz bandwidth, return the timestamp As is,
> >> instead of returning 0 as timestamp.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya T K <Chaitanya.mgit@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> net/mac80211/util.c |    2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c index 06265d7..bc92b25 100644
> >> --- a/net/mac80211/util.c
> >> +++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
> >> @@ -2265,7 +2265,7 @@ u64 ieee80211_calculate_rx_timestamp(struct ieee80211_local *local,
> >>       if (WARN_ONCE(!rate,
> >>                     "Invalid bitrate: flags=0x%x, idx=%d, vht_nss=%d\n",
> >>                     status->flag, status->rate_idx, status->vht_nss))
> >> -             return 0;
> >> +             return ts;
> >
> > I think this is wrong - we've already warned, we know we have no usable
> > timestamp, and this should never happen anyway.
> 
> Timestamp is just off by packet length (as we dont have proper MCS rates),
> but still we can use it as un-rewinded timestamp.

You've just hit a WARN_ONCE()! This case really shouldn't happen, and
you should change the driver to not hit it. If you don't have a valid RX
bitrate, this is probably the least of your worries.

johannes

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