From 47d0cd6bccb4604192633cc8d29511e85d811fc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baochen Qiang Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:48:59 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] wifi: ath11k: fix VHT MCS assignment While associating, firmware needs to know peer's receive capability to calculate its own VHT transmit MCS, currently host sends this information to firmware via mcs->rx_mcs_set field, this is wrong as firmware actually takes it from mcs->tx_mcs_set field. Till now there is no failure seen due to this, most likely because almost all peers are advertising the same capability for both transmit and receive. Swap the assignment to fix it. Besides, rate control mask is meant to limit our own transmit MCS, hence need to go via mcs->tx_mcs_set field. With the aforementioned swapping done, change is needed as well to apply it to the peer's receive capability rather than transmit capability. Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.41 Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices") Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017-ath11k-mcs-assignment-v1-1-da40825c1783@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c | 13 ++++++++----- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c index 106e2530b64e9..367ca0c90167b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c @@ -2235,9 +2235,9 @@ static void ath11k_peer_assoc_h_vht(struct ath11k *ar, arg->peer_nss = min(sta->deflink.rx_nss, max_nss); arg->rx_max_rate = __le16_to_cpu(vht_cap->vht_mcs.rx_highest); arg->rx_mcs_set = __le16_to_cpu(vht_cap->vht_mcs.rx_mcs_map); + arg->rx_mcs_set = ath11k_peer_assoc_h_vht_limit(arg->rx_mcs_set, vht_mcs_mask); arg->tx_max_rate = __le16_to_cpu(vht_cap->vht_mcs.tx_highest); - arg->tx_mcs_set = ath11k_peer_assoc_h_vht_limit( - __le16_to_cpu(vht_cap->vht_mcs.tx_mcs_map), vht_mcs_mask); + arg->tx_mcs_set = __le16_to_cpu(vht_cap->vht_mcs.tx_mcs_map); /* In IPQ8074 platform, VHT mcs rate 10 and 11 is enabled by default. * VHT mcs rate 10 and 11 is not supported in 11ac standard. diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c index 0491e3fd6b5e1..942dfeb8b1af8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause-Clear /* * Copyright (c) 2018-2019 The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved. - * Copyright (c) 2021-2025 Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. All rights reserved. + * Copyright (c) Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. */ #include #include @@ -2061,10 +2061,13 @@ int ath11k_wmi_send_peer_assoc_cmd(struct ath11k *ar, cmd->peer_bw_rxnss_override |= param->peer_bw_rxnss_override; if (param->vht_capable) { - mcs->rx_max_rate = param->rx_max_rate; - mcs->rx_mcs_set = param->rx_mcs_set; - mcs->tx_max_rate = param->tx_max_rate; - mcs->tx_mcs_set = param->tx_mcs_set; + /* firmware interprets mcs->tx_mcs_set field as peer's + * RX capability + */ + mcs->tx_max_rate = param->rx_max_rate; + mcs->tx_mcs_set = param->rx_mcs_set; + mcs->rx_max_rate = param->tx_max_rate; + mcs->rx_mcs_set = param->tx_mcs_set; } /* HE Rates */ diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.h index 3c4885a12855b..0f0de24a38408 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.h @@ -4119,8 +4119,10 @@ struct wmi_rate_set { struct wmi_vht_rate_set { u32 tlv_header; u32 rx_max_rate; + /* MCS at which the peer can transmit */ u32 rx_mcs_set; u32 tx_max_rate; + /* MCS at which the peer can receive */ u32 tx_mcs_set; u32 tx_max_mcs_nss; } __packed; -- 2.47.3