2023-03-26 15:27:19

by Felix Fietkau

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Subject: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: fix receiving mesh packets in forwarding=0 networks

When forwarding is set to 0, frames are typically sent with ttl=1.
Move the ttl decrement check below the check for local receive in order to
fix packet drops.

Reported-by: Thomas Hühn <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Nick Hainke <[email protected]>
Fixes: 986e43b19ae9 ("wifi: mac80211: fix receiving A-MSDU frames on mesh interfaces")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
---
net/mac80211/rx.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index bab839a0f59a..7e270eaeef72 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -2769,14 +2769,6 @@ ieee80211_rx_mesh_data(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sta_info *sta
if (sdata->crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt)
tailroom = IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM;

- if (!--mesh_hdr->ttl) {
- if (multicast)
- goto rx_accept;
-
- IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(ifmsh, dropped_frames_ttl);
- return RX_DROP_MONITOR;
- }
-
if (mesh_hdr->flags & MESH_FLAGS_AE) {
struct mesh_path *mppath;
char *proxied_addr;
@@ -2807,6 +2799,14 @@ ieee80211_rx_mesh_data(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sta_info *sta
if (ether_addr_equal(sdata->vif.addr, eth->h_dest))
goto rx_accept;

+ if (!--mesh_hdr->ttl) {
+ if (multicast)
+ goto rx_accept;
+
+ IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(ifmsh, dropped_frames_ttl);
+ return RX_DROP_MONITOR;
+ }
+
if (!ifmsh->mshcfg.dot11MeshForwarding) {
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest))
goto rx_accept;
--
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