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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2009-11-09 22:03:22 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-11-11 23:09:18 +0100
commite5d6eb8305a4c116fc94ce28b8136c538c92442f (patch)
tree574cea8cb9ce8cb52c07a2c39c9d91248bd4027f /net/mac80211
parentrt2x00: fix some typos and punctuation in comments (diff)
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mac80211: fix max HT rate processing on mac80211
The max MCS index is 76, fix the higher check to allow through frames received at MCS 76. This is a non-issue for current drivers as MCS 76 is only possible with a device supporting 4 spatial streams. While at it change the WARN_ON() on invalid HT rates to a WARN() to provide more useful information. This will help debug issues when the driver is passing up a bogus HT rate value. The rate must map to a valid MCS index which can be any of the values in the set [0 - 76] (inclusive). Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 76478362a538..006cf89df70b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -2441,9 +2441,21 @@ void ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
goto drop;
if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT) {
- /* rate_idx is MCS index */
- if (WARN_ON(status->rate_idx < 0 ||
- status->rate_idx >= 76))
+ /*
+ * rate_idx is MCS index, which can be [0-76] as documented on:
+ *
+ * http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/ieee80211/802.11n
+ *
+ * Anything else would be some sort of driver or hardware error.
+ * The driver should catch hardware errors.
+ */
+ if (WARN((status->rate_idx < 0 ||
+ status->rate_idx > 76),
+ "Rate marked as an HT rate but passed "
+ "status->rate_idx is not "
+ "an MCS index [0-76]: %d (0x%02x)\n",
+ status->rate_idx,
+ status->rate_idx))
goto drop;
/* HT rates are not in the table - use the highest legacy rate
* for now since other parts of mac80211 may not yet be fully