Commit fc885189 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville

mac80211: don't check rates on PLCP error frames

Frames that failed PLCP error checks are most likely
microwave transmissions (well, maybe not ...) and
don't have a proper rate detected, so ignore it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 86df5f72
......@@ -2615,14 +2615,22 @@ void ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (WARN_ON(!local->started))
goto drop;
if (likely(!(status->flag & RX_FLAG_FAILED_PLCP_CRC))) {
/*
* Validate the rate, unless a PLCP error means that
* we probably can't have a valid rate here anyway.
*/
if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT) {
/*
* rate_idx is MCS index, which can be [0-76] as documented on:
* 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.
* 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),
......@@ -2638,6 +2646,7 @@ void ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
goto drop;
rate = &sband->bitrates[status->rate_idx];
}
}
/*
* key references and virtual interfaces are protected using RCU
......
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