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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 09:35:51 +0000 (10:35 +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 538c6eea645f20e037415306e8639769f7c45b9f..ea6fe21c96c555e6678b51ef659d7dd4d92465f9 100644 (file)
@@ -5402,10 +5402,14 @@ 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) {