[REGRESSION][BISECTED][STABLE] MT7925: mDNS and IPv6 broken in kernel 6.14.3 and above

Mon May 5 16:15:27 PDT 2025

On Monday, May 5th, 2025 at 3:20 AM, fossben at pm.me <fossben at pm.me> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Monday, May 5th, 2025 at 12:48 AM, Mingyen Hsieh Mingyen.Hsieh at mediatek.com wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 00:39 +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > 
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> > > On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 06:47 +0000, Mingyen Hsieh (謝明諺) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 01:14 +0000, fossben at pm.me wrote:
> > > > 
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> > > > > 
> > > > > Hello all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > After upgrading to 6.14.3 on my PC with a MT7925 chip, I noticed
> > > > > that
> > > > > I could no longer ping *.local addresses provided by Avahi. In
> > > > > addition, I also noticed that I was not able to get a DHCP IPv6
> > > > > address from my router, no matter how many times I rebooted the
> > > > > router or reconnected with NetworkManager.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reverting to 6.14.2 fixes both mDNS and IPv6 addresses
> > > > > immediately.
> > > > > Going back to 6.14.3 immediately breaks mDNS again, but the IPv6
> > > > > address will stay there for a while before disappearing later,
> > > > > possibly because the DHCP lease expired? I am not sure exactly
> > > > > when
> > > > > it stops working.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've done a kernel bisect between 6.14.2 and 6.14.3 and found the
> > > > > offending commit that causes mDNS to fail:
> > > > > 
> > > > > commit 80007d3f92fd018d0a052a706400e976b36e3c87
> > > > > Author: Ming Yen Hsieh mingyen.hsieh at mediatek.com
> > > > > Date: Tue Mar 4 16:08:50 2025 -0800
> > > > > 
> > > > > wifi: mt76: mt7925: integrate *mlo_sta_cmd and *sta_cmd
> > > > > 
> > > > > commit cb1353ef34735ec1e5d9efa1fe966f05ff1dc1e1 upstream.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Integrate *mlo_sta_cmd and *sta_cmd for the MLO firmware.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Fixes: 86c051f2c418 ("wifi: mt76: mt7925: enabling MLO when
> > > > > the
> > > > > firmware supports it")
> > > > > 
> > > > > drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c | 59 ++++-------
> > > > > ----
> > > > > --------------------------------------------
> > > > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > I do not know if this same commit is also causing the IPv6 issues
> > > > > as
> > > > > testing that requires quite a bit of time to reproduce. What I do
> > > > > know with certainty as of this moment is that it definitely
> > > > > breaks in
> > > > > kernel 6.14.3.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've attached my hardware info as well as dmesg logs from the
> > > > > last
> > > > > working kernel from the bisect and 6.14.4 which exhibits the
> > > > > issue.
> > > > > Please let me know if there's any other info you need.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > Benjamin Xiao
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for reporting this issue, we will aim into this.
> > > > 
> > > > Can you provide me with your testing steps?
> > > > 
> > > > Best Regards,
> > > > Yen.
> > > 
> > > Hi Yan,
> > > 
> > > I see the same IPv6 issue on my Framework 13 (Ryzen 5 AI 340) with an
> > > mt7925e WiFI module. My setup is just a home router with native IPv6
> > > both for my uplink and in the LAN. The problems with IPv6 can already
> > > be seen just in the LAN for example by checking which IP was used for
> > > SSH, in my setup it should always be IPv6 but falls back to IPv4 in
> > > the
> > > broken state.
> > > 
> > > As another data point, I tried reverting cb1353ef3473 ("wifi: mt76:
> > > mt7925: integrate *mlo_sta_cmd and *sta_cmd") on top of 6.15.-rc4.
> > > This
> > > fully restores IPv6 for me. Also note I'm running this with the
> > > mt7925
> > > firmware version 20250425073330 from linux-firmware's master branch
> > > as
> > > I had some dropped connections with earlier firmware.
> > > 
> > > So it definitely looks like that commit also broke IPv6 and not just
> > > mDNS. Note that if if I use DHCPv6 instead of router advertisements,
> > > on
> > > the latest firmware, but without the revert, I get a global IPv6
> > > address added to the interface but then native IPv6 addresses are
> > > still
> > > uncreachable. With the offending patch reverted my SSH session to an
> > > IPv6 only host works fine and is stable. Also I'd be willing to test
> > > a
> > > proper fix as I rely on IPv6 heavily due to having to use CGNAT for
> > > IPv4 but not for IPv6.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Niklas
> > 
> > Hi Benjamin & Niklas,
> > 
> > Can you help to try this patch? I can get IPv6 address through this
> > patch.
> > 
> > If it can work at your environment as well, i will upstream it and add
> > test tag with you.
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c
> > b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c
> > index a42b584634ab..fd756f0d18f8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c
> > @@ -2183,14 +2183,14 @@ mt7925_mcu_sta_cmd(struct mt76_phy *phy,
> > mt7925_mcu_sta_mld_tlv(skb, info->vif, info-
> > 
> > > link_sta->sta);
> > > mt7925_mcu_sta_eht_mld_tlv(skb, info->vif,
> > > info->link_sta->sta);
> > > }
> > > -
> > > - mt7925_mcu_sta_hdr_trans_tlv(skb, info->vif, info-
> > > link_sta);
> > > }
> > 
> > if (!info->enable) {
> > mt7925_mcu_sta_remove_tlv(skb);
> > mt76_connac_mcu_add_tlv(skb, STA_REC_MLD_OFF,
> > sizeof(struct tlv));
> > + } else {
> > + mt7925_mcu_sta_hdr_trans_tlv(skb, info->vif, info-
> > 
> > > link_sta);
> > > }
> > 
> > return mt76_mcu_skb_send_msg(dev, skb, info->cmd, true);
> > 
> > Thanks~
> > Yen.
> 
> 
> Hi Yen,
> 
> I manually applied the changes on top of 6.14.5 and mDNS seems to work along with IPv6! I will do more testing for the rest of the day to see if the issue is completely fixed but so far looks good at least for the 5 minutes I've been testing it.
> 
> Thanks for the fix,
> Ben

I've now used 6.14.5 with the patch applied for most of the day and it's been working great! mDNS has been rock solid and so has IPv6.

Would appreciate it if this fix got backported to the 6.14 series!

Ben