This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: don't require VHT elements for HE on 2.4 GHz
to the 5.9-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:
mac80211-don-t-require-vht-elements-for-he-on-2.4-gh.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6db73e4b05335fe318b2d00d97b6291ee17532e8
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 13 14:01:57 2020 +0200
mac80211: don't require VHT elements for HE on 2.4 GHz
[ Upstream commit c2f46814521113f6699a74e0a0424cbc5b305479 ]
After the previous similar bugfix there was another bug here,
if no VHT elements were found we also disabled HE. Fix this to
disable HE only on the 5 GHz band; on 6 GHz it was already not
disabled, and on 2.4 GHz there need (should) not be any VHT.
Fixes: 57fa5e85d53c ("mac80211: determine chandef from HE 6 GHz operation")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201013140156.535a2fc6192f.Id6e5e525a60ac18d245d86f4015f1b271fce6ee6@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 2e400b0ff6961..0f30f50c46b1b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -5359,6 +5359,7 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_assoc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct cfg80211_assoc_request *req)
{
bool is_6ghz = req->bss->channel->band == NL80211_BAND_6GHZ;
+ bool is_5ghz = req->bss->channel->band == NL80211_BAND_5GHZ;
struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd = &sdata->u.mgd;
struct ieee80211_bss *bss = (void *)req->bss->priv;
@@ -5507,7 +5508,7 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_assoc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (vht_ie && vht_ie[1] >= sizeof(struct ieee80211_vht_cap))
memcpy(&assoc_data->ap_vht_cap, vht_ie + 2,
sizeof(struct ieee80211_vht_cap));
- else if (!is_6ghz)
+ else if (is_5ghz)
ifmgd->flags |= IEEE80211_STA_DISABLE_VHT |
IEEE80211_STA_DISABLE_HE;
rcu_read_unlock();
