[PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath12k: Prevent multicast duplication for dynamic VLAN

Jeff Johnson jeff.johnson at oss.qualcomm.com
Thu Apr 24 07:08:58 PDT 2025


On 3/10/2025 4:01 PM, Muna Sinada wrote:
> Since dynamic VLAN traffic is software encrypted and encapsulated,
> mac80211 handles the duplication on each link for MLO dynamic VLAN
> multicast.
> 
> Currently in mac Tx op, all multicast frames are duplicated and are

Let's s/mac Tx op/ath12k_mac_op_tx()/ to be very specific where this is happening.

> assigned a mcbc_gsn. This is causing dynamic VLAN multicast traffic
> to be dropped in HW.

preference is to s/HW/hardware/

> 
> Prevent dynamic VLAN multicast traffic from being duplicated again in
> the driver. Check if incoming packet is a dynamic VLAN packet and
> avoid defaulting to multicast conditional.
> 
> Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.3.1-00173-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muna Sinada <muna.sinada at oss.qualcomm.com>

Don't spin a new version just to address those comments.

I can make them when I put the patch in the 'pending' branch if there are no
further review comments.

/jeff




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