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wifi: mac80211: skip rate verification for not captured PSDUs
authorBenjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:26:18 +0000 (14:26 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:37:30 +0000 (10:37 +0100)
[ Upstream commit 7fe0d21f5633af8c3fab9f0ef0706c6156623484 ]

If for example the sniffer did not follow any AIDs in an MU frame, then
some of the information may not be filled in or is even expected to be
invalid. As an example, in that case it is expected that Nss is zero.

Fixes: 2ff5e52e7836 ("radiotap: add 0-length PSDU "not captured" type")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110142554.83a2858ee15b.I9f78ce7984872f474722f9278691ae16378f0a3e@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/mac80211/rx.c

index 59baca24aa6b90212b739839e49714308a6c8fc2..dcf4b24cc39cf6340ff836cf56a194d45055819c 100644 (file)
@@ -5352,10 +5352,14 @@ void ieee80211_rx_list(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
        if (WARN_ON(!local->started))
                goto drop;
 
-       if (likely(!(status->flag & RX_FLAG_FAILED_PLCP_CRC))) {
+       if (likely(!(status->flag & RX_FLAG_FAILED_PLCP_CRC) &&
+                  !(status->flag & RX_FLAG_NO_PSDU &&
+                    status->zero_length_psdu_type ==
+                    IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ZERO_LEN_PSDU_NOT_CAPTURED))) {
                /*
-                * Validate the rate, unless a PLCP error means that
-                * we probably can't have a valid rate here anyway.
+                * Validate the rate, unless there was a PLCP error which may
+                * have an invalid rate or the PSDU was not capture and may be
+                * missing rate information.
                 */
 
                switch (status->encoding) {