This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: mac80211: fix station NSS capability initialization order
to the 6.1-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:
wifi-mac80211-fix-station-nss-capability-initializat.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b148a9221ba8d4a8747370cb893aa6ca2f283297
Author: Benjamin Lin <benjamin-jw.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 18 16:07:22 2024 +0800
wifi: mac80211: fix station NSS capability initialization order
[ Upstream commit 819e0f1e58e0ba3800cd9eb96b2a39e44e49df97 ]
Station's spatial streaming capability should be initialized before
handling VHT OMN, because the handling requires the capability information.
Fixes: a8bca3e9371d ("wifi: mac80211: track capability/opmode NSS separately")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Lin <benjamin-jw.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118080722.9603-1-benjamin-jw.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[rewrite subject]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index aa5daa2fad11..be48d3f7ffcd 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -1767,6 +1767,8 @@ static int sta_link_apply_parameters(struct ieee80211_local *local,
params->eht_capa_len,
link_sta);
+ ieee80211_sta_init_nss(link_sta);
+
if (params->opmode_notif_used) {
/* returned value is only needed for rc update, but the
* rc isn't initialized here yet, so ignore it
@@ -1776,8 +1778,6 @@ static int sta_link_apply_parameters(struct ieee80211_local *local,
sband->band);
}
- ieee80211_sta_init_nss(link_sta);
-
return 0;
}
