[openwrt/openwrt] mac80211: backport patch that allows receiving packets with non-standard VHT MCS10-11 rates

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dangole pushed a commit to openwrt/openwrt.git, branch openwrt-22.03:
https://git.openwrt.org/52e0ce23278e6c0228527a27c0f32bb2095769e1

commit 52e0ce23278e6c0228527a27c0f32bb2095769e1
Author: Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 25 21:09:14 2022 +0100

    mac80211: backport patch that allows receiving packets with non-standard VHT MCS10-11 rates
    
    Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name>
    (cherry picked from commit 56ae4eb90864373dd4663f579851290be74430aa)
---
 ...mac80211-allow-non-standard-VHT-MCS-10-11.patch | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/327-mac80211-allow-non-standard-VHT-MCS-10-11.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/327-mac80211-allow-non-standard-VHT-MCS-10-11.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c68e75574
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/327-mac80211-allow-non-standard-VHT-MCS-10-11.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih at realtek.com>
+Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 09:36:21 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: allow non-standard VHT MCS-10/11
+
+Some AP can possibly try non-standard VHT rate and mac80211 warns and drops
+packets, and leads low TCP throughput.
+
+    Rate marked as a VHT rate but data is invalid: MCS: 10, NSS: 2
+    WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7817 at net/mac80211/rx.c:4856 ieee80211_rx_list+0x223/0x2f0 [mac8021
+
+Since commit c27aa56a72b8 ("cfg80211: add VHT rate entries for MCS-10 and MCS-11")
+has added, mac80211 adds this support as well.
+
+After this patch, throughput is good and iw can get the bitrate:
+    rx bitrate:	975.1 MBit/s VHT-MCS 10 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 2
+or
+    rx bitrate:	1083.3 MBit/s VHT-MCS 11 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 2
+
+Buglink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192891
+Reported-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn at suse.com>
+Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih at realtek.com>
+Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220103013623.17052-1-pkshih@realtek.com
+Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
+---
+
+--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
++++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
+@@ -4945,7 +4945,7 @@ void ieee80211_rx_list(struct ieee80211_
+ 				goto drop;
+ 			break;
+ 		case RX_ENC_VHT:
+-			if (WARN_ONCE(status->rate_idx > 9 ||
++			if (WARN_ONCE(status->rate_idx > 11 ||
+ 				      !status->nss ||
+ 				      status->nss > 8,
+ 				      "Rate marked as a VHT rate but data is invalid: MCS: %d, NSS: %d\n",