From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Frames that failed PLCP error checks are most likely
microwave transmissions (well, maybe not ...) and
don't have a proper rate detected, so ignore it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/rx.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/rx.c 2010-07-30 08:42:22.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/rx.c 2010-07-30 08:43:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -2615,28 +2615,37 @@ void ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *h
if (WARN_ON(!local->started))
goto drop;
- if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT) {
+ if (likely(!(status->flag & RX_FLAG_FAILED_PLCP_CRC))) {
/*
- * rate_idx is MCS index, which can be [0-76] as documented on:
- *
- * http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/ieee80211/802.11n
- *
- * Anything else would be some sort of driver or hardware error.
- * The driver should catch hardware errors.
+ * Validate the rate, unless a PLCP error means that
+ * we probably can't have a valid rate here anyway.
*/
- if (WARN((status->rate_idx < 0 ||
- status->rate_idx > 76),
- "Rate marked as an HT rate but passed "
- "status->rate_idx is not "
- "an MCS index [0-76]: %d (0x%02x)\n",
- status->rate_idx,
- status->rate_idx))
- goto drop;
- } else {
- if (WARN_ON(status->rate_idx < 0 ||
- status->rate_idx >= sband->n_bitrates))
- goto drop;
- rate = &sband->bitrates[status->rate_idx];
+
+ if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT) {
+ /*
+ * rate_idx is MCS index, which can be [0-76]
+ * as documented on:
+ *
+ * http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/ieee80211/802.11n
+ *
+ * Anything else would be some sort of driver or
+ * hardware error. The driver should catch hardware
+ * errors.
+ */
+ if (WARN((status->rate_idx < 0 ||
+ status->rate_idx > 76),
+ "Rate marked as an HT rate but passed "
+ "status->rate_idx is not "
+ "an MCS index [0-76]: %d (0x%02x)\n",
+ status->rate_idx,
+ status->rate_idx))
+ goto drop;
+ } else {
+ if (WARN_ON(status->rate_idx < 0 ||
+ status->rate_idx >= sband->n_bitrates))
+ goto drop;
+ rate = &sband->bitrates[status->rate_idx];
+ }
}
/*
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