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Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Fix warning due to msdu limit error

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Bhagavathi Perumal S <bperumal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some hardwares variants (QCA99x0) are limiting msdu deaggregation with
> some threshold value(default limit in QCA99x0 is 64 msdus), it was introduced to
> avoid excessive MSDU-deaggregation in error cases. When number of sub frames
> exceeds the limit, target hardware will send all msdus starting from present
> msdu in RAW format as a single msdu packet and it will be indicated with
> error status bit "RX_MSDU_END_INFO0_MSDU_LIMIT_ERR" set in rx descriptor.
> This msdu frame is a partial raw MSDU and does't have first msdu and ieee80211
> header. It caused below warning message.
> 
> [  320.151332] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [  320.155006] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3 at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c:1188
> 
> In our issue case, MSDU limit error happened due to FCS error and generated
> this warning message.
> 
> This fixes the warning by handling the MSDU limit error. If msdu limit error
> happens, driver adds first MSDU's ieee80211 header and sets A-MSDU present bit
> in QOS header so that upper layer processes this frame if it is valid or drop it
> if FCS error set. And removed the warning message, hence partial msdus without
> first msdu is expected in msdu limit error cases.
> 
> Tested on QCA9984, Firmware 10.4-3.6-00104
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhagavathi Perumal S <bperumal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

a2864772f33a ath10k: fix warning due to msdu limit error

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10688251/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches




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