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",
