mac80211: don't WARN on short WMM parameters from AP
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1845038 commit 05aaa5c9 upstream. In a very similar spirit to commit c470bdc1 ("mac80211: don't WARN on bad WMM parameters from buggy APs"), an AP may not transmit a fully-formed WMM IE. For example, it may miss or repeat an Access Category. The above loop won't catch that and will instead leave one of the four ACs zeroed out. This triggers the following warning in drv_conf_tx() wlan0: invalid CW_min/CW_max: 0/0 and it may leave one of the hardware queues unconfigured. If we detect such a case, let's just print a warning and fall back to the defaults. Tested with a hacked version of hostapd, intentionally corrupting the IEs in hostapd_eid_wmm(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190726224758.210953-1-briannorris@chromium.orgSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
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