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Sergey Ryazanov 70f119fb82 ath10k: htt_tx: do not interpret Eth frames as WiFi 
The xmit path for the Ethernet encapsulated frames become more or less
usable since d740d8fd24 ("ath10k: unify tx mode and dispatch"). This
change reorganize the xmit path in a manageable way to properly support
various tx modes, but misses that the Ethernet encapsulated frame is a
special case. We do not have an IEEE 802.11 header at the begining of
them. But the HTT Tx handler still interprets first bytes of each frame
as an IEEE 802.11 Frame Control field.

Than this code was copied by e62ee5c381 ("ath10k: Add support for
htt_data_tx_desc_64 descriptor") and a2097d6444 ("ath10k: htt: High
latency TX support") to another handlers. In fact the issue in the high
latency (HL) handler was introduced by 83ac260151 ("ath10k: add mic
bytes for pmf management packet").

Ethernet encapsulated frame tx mode stay unused until 75d85fd999
("ath10k: introduce basic tdls functionality") started using it for TDLS
frames to avoid key selection issue in some firmwares.

Trying to interpret the begining of an Ethernet encapsulated frame as an
IEEE 802.11 header was not hurt us noticeably since we need to meet two
conditions: (1) xmit should be performed towards a TDLS peer, and (2)
the TDLS peer should have a specific OUI part of its MAC address. Looks
like that the rareness in TDLS communications of OUIs that can be
interpreted as an 802.11 management frame saves users from facing this
issue earlier.

Improve Ethernet tx mode support in the HTT Tx handler by avoiding
interpreting its first bytes as an IEEE 802.11 header. While at it, make
the ieee80211_hdr variable local to the code block that is guarded by
!is_eth check. In this way, we clarify in which cases a frame can be
interpreted as IEEE 802.11, and saves us from similar issues in the
future.

Credits: this change as part of xmit encapsulation offloading support
was originally made by QCA and then submitted for inclusion by John
Crispin [1]. But the whole work was not accepted due to the lack of a
part for 64-bits descriptors [2]. Zhijun You then pointed this out to me
in a reply to my initial RFC patch series. And I made this slightly
reworked version that covered all the HTT Tx handler variants.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20191216092207.31032-1-john@phrozen.org/
2. https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20191216092207.31032-1-john@phrozen.org/

Reported-by: Zhijun You <hujy652@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220516032519.29831-3-ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com
History 2022-05-22 15:27:51 +03:00
arch net: SO_RCVMARK socket option for SO_MARK with recvmsg() 2022-04-28 13:08:15 -07:00
block block: don't print I/O error warning for dead disks 2022-04-15 06:33:03 -06:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation wireless-next patches for v5.19 2022-05-03 17:27:51 -07:00
drivers ath10k: htt_tx: do not interpret Eth frames as WiFi 2022-05-22 15:27:51 +03:00
fs net: sysctl: introduce sysctl SYSCTL_THREE 2022-05-03 10:15:06 +02:00
include mac80211: extend current rate control tx status API 2022-05-16 10:05:02 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2022-04-28 13:02:01 -07:00
lib selftests/sysctl: add sysctl macro test 2022-05-03 10:15:07 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm kasan: prevent cpu_quarantine corruption when CPU offline and cache shrink occur at same time 2022-04-27 13:28:48 -07:00
net mac80211: minstrel_ht: support ieee80211_rate_status 2022-05-16 10:07:58 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Reduce the sampling interval in xdp1_user 2022-04-20 14:58:29 -07:00
scripts hardening fixes for v5.18-rc3 2022-04-12 14:29:40 -10:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Clevo NP70PNP 2022-04-21 21:23:47 +02:00
tools selftests: forwarding: add basic QoS classification test for Ocelot switches 2022-05-03 17:24:45 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt KVM: SEV: add cache flush to solve SEV cache incoherency issues 2022-04-21 15:41:00 -04:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Vasily Averin's email address 2022-04-08 14:20:36 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS wireless-next patches for v5.19 2022-05-03 17:27:51 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc4 2022-04-24 14:51:22 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.