This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: allow non-standard VHT MCS-10/11 to the 5.10-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-allow-non-standard-vht-mcs-10-11.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 726d0f25297f8cbfbcc2e5fa00ed9925ee67c094 Author: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 3 09:36:21 2022 +0800 mac80211: allow non-standard VHT MCS-10/11 [ Upstream commit 04be6d337d37400ad5b3d5f27ca87645ee5a18a3 ] Some AP can possibly try non-standard VHT rate and mac80211 warns and drops packets, and leads low TCP throughput. Rate marked as a VHT rate but data is invalid: MCS: 10, NSS: 2 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7817 at net/mac80211/rx.c:4856 ieee80211_rx_list+0x223/0x2f0 [mac8021 Since commit c27aa56a72b8 ("cfg80211: add VHT rate entries for MCS-10 and MCS-11") has added, mac80211 adds this support as well. After this patch, throughput is good and iw can get the bitrate: rx bitrate: 975.1 MBit/s VHT-MCS 10 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 2 or rx bitrate: 1083.3 MBit/s VHT-MCS 11 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 2 Buglink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192891 Reported-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220103013623.17052-1-pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index 6a24431b90095..d27c444a19ed1 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -4800,7 +4800,7 @@ void ieee80211_rx_list(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, goto drop; break; case RX_ENC_VHT: - if (WARN_ONCE(status->rate_idx > 9 || + if (WARN_ONCE(status->rate_idx > 11 || !status->nss || status->nss > 8, "Rate marked as a VHT rate but data is invalid: MCS: %d, NSS: %d\n",