[PATCH ath-next 2/2] wifi: ath11k: fix peer HE MCS assignment

Baochen Qiang baochen.qiang at oss.qualcomm.com
Thu Oct 16 18:49:00 PDT 2025


In ath11k_wmi_send_peer_assoc_cmd(), peer's transmit MCS is sent to
firmware as receive MCS while peer's receive MCS sent as transmit MCS,
which goes against firmwire's definition.

While connecting to a misbehaved AP that advertises 0xffff (meaning not
supported) for 160 MHz transmit MCS map, firmware crashes due to 0xffff
is assigned to he_mcs->rx_mcs_set field.

	Ext Tag: HE Capabilities
	    [...]
	    Supported HE-MCS and NSS Set
		[...]
	        Rx and Tx MCS Maps 160 MHz
		    [...]
	            Tx HE-MCS Map 160 MHz: 0xffff

Swap the assignment to fix this issue.

As the HE rate control mask is meant to limit our own transmit MCS, it
needs to go via he_mcs->rx_mcs_set field. With the aforementioned swapping
done, change is needed as well to apply it to the peer's receive MCS.

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: 61fe43e7216d ("ath11k: add support for setting fixed HE rate/gi/ltf")
Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c | 7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
index 49c639d73d58d46f869aec40f6439268526ea1bb..f142c17aa9aa7483b7d077d51b24aa7b5fd4c48d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
@@ -2522,10 +2522,10 @@ static void ath11k_peer_assoc_h_he(struct ath11k *ar,
 			he_tx_mcs = v;
 		}
 		v = le16_to_cpu(he_cap->he_mcs_nss_supp.rx_mcs_160);
+		v = ath11k_peer_assoc_h_he_limit(v, he_mcs_mask);
 		arg->peer_he_rx_mcs_set[WMI_HECAP_TXRX_MCS_NSS_IDX_160] = v;
 
 		v = le16_to_cpu(he_cap->he_mcs_nss_supp.tx_mcs_160);
-		v = ath11k_peer_assoc_h_he_limit(v, he_mcs_mask);
 		arg->peer_he_tx_mcs_set[WMI_HECAP_TXRX_MCS_NSS_IDX_160] = v;
 
 		arg->peer_he_mcs_count++;
@@ -2535,10 +2535,10 @@ static void ath11k_peer_assoc_h_he(struct ath11k *ar,
 
 	default:
 		v = le16_to_cpu(he_cap->he_mcs_nss_supp.rx_mcs_80);
+		v = ath11k_peer_assoc_h_he_limit(v, he_mcs_mask);
 		arg->peer_he_rx_mcs_set[WMI_HECAP_TXRX_MCS_NSS_IDX_80] = v;
 
 		v = le16_to_cpu(he_cap->he_mcs_nss_supp.tx_mcs_80);
-		v = ath11k_peer_assoc_h_he_limit(v, he_mcs_mask);
 		arg->peer_he_tx_mcs_set[WMI_HECAP_TXRX_MCS_NSS_IDX_80] = v;
 
 		arg->peer_he_mcs_count++;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c
index 942dfeb8b1af8553d1c872ac1444bfacf11f44cd..edff6fb613449c96edd049b8531d46e5f680cfea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c
@@ -2091,8 +2091,11 @@ int ath11k_wmi_send_peer_assoc_cmd(struct ath11k *ar,
 				     FIELD_PREP(WMI_TLV_LEN,
 						sizeof(*he_mcs) - TLV_HDR_SIZE);
 
-		he_mcs->rx_mcs_set = param->peer_he_tx_mcs_set[i];
-		he_mcs->tx_mcs_set = param->peer_he_rx_mcs_set[i];
+		/* firmware interprets mcs->rx_mcs_set field as peer's
+		 * RX capability
+		 */
+		he_mcs->rx_mcs_set = param->peer_he_rx_mcs_set[i];
+		he_mcs->tx_mcs_set = param->peer_he_tx_mcs_set[i];
 		ptr += sizeof(*he_mcs);
 	}
 

-- 
2.25.1




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