openwrt/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/394-mac80211-fix-rate-control-for-retransmitted-frames.patch
Felix Fietkau ee5b593435 mac80211: fix crash in drivers relying on mac80211 retransmitting packets for powersave clients
This showed up primarily on rt2x00

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
(cherry-picked from commit d1ea575baa)
2021-11-23 18:30:04 +01:00

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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:39:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: fix rate control for retransmitted frames
Since retransmission clears info->control, rate control needs to be called
again, otherwise the driver might crash due to invalid rates.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.14+
Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Reported-by: Robert W <rwbugreport@lost-in-the-void.net>
Fixes: 03c3911d2d67 ("mac80211: call ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl() when dequeue")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
---
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1835,15 +1835,15 @@ static int invoke_tx_handlers_late(struc
struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(tx->skb);
ieee80211_tx_result res = TX_CONTINUE;
+ if (!ieee80211_hw_check(&tx->local->hw, HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
+ CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);
+
if (unlikely(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRANSMISSION)) {
__skb_queue_tail(&tx->skbs, tx->skb);
tx->skb = NULL;
goto txh_done;
}
- if (!ieee80211_hw_check(&tx->local->hw, HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
- CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);
-
CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_michael_mic_add);
CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_sequence);
CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_fragment);