The reported RX rate might be unexpected, causing kernel warns:
Rate marked as a VHT rate but data is invalid: MCS: 0, NSS: 0
WARNING: net/mac80211/rx.c:5491 at ieee80211_rx_list+0x183/0x1020 [mac80211]
As the RX rate can be index of an array under certain conditions, validate
it to prevent accessing array out-of-bound potentially.
Tested on HP Notebook P3S95EA#ACB (kernel 6.19.9-1-cachyos):
- No WARNING: net/mac80211/rx.c:5491 observed after the v2 patch.
The unexpected `NSS: 0, MCS: 0` VHT rate warnings are successfully
mitigated.
- The system remains fully stable through prolonged idle periods,
high network load, active Bluetooth A2DP usage, and multiple deep
suspend/resume cycles.
- Zero h2c timeouts or firmware lps state errors observed in dmesg.
Reported-by: Oleksandr Havrylov <goainwo@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CALdGYqSMUPnPfW-_q1RgYr0_SjoXUejAaJJr-o+jpwCk1S7ndQ@mail.gmail.com/
Tested-by: Oleksandr Havrylov <goainwo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324011001.5742-1-pkshih@realtek.com
pkt_stat->tsf_low = le32_get_bits(rx_desc->w5, RTW_RX_DESC_W5_TSFL);
+ if (unlikely(pkt_stat->rate >= DESC_RATE_MAX)) {
+ rtw_dbg(rtwdev, RTW_DBG_UNEXP,
+ "unexpected RX rate=0x%x\n", pkt_stat->rate);
+
+ pkt_stat->rate = DESC_RATE1M;
+ pkt_stat->bw = RTW_CHANNEL_WIDTH_20;
+ }
+
/* drv_info_sz is in unit of 8-bytes */
pkt_stat->drv_info_sz *= 8;