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Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2023 13:44:03 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To:     Nicolas Escande <nico.escande@gmail.com>, nbd@nbd.name,
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Subject: Re: [regression] STP on 80211s is broken in 6.4-rc4
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 12:55:57PM +0200, Nicolas Escande wrote:
> Hello Felix,
>=20
> As user of the mesh part of mac80211 on multiple products at work let me =
say
> thank you for all the work you do on wifi, especially on 80211s, and espe=
cially
> the recent improvements you made for mesh fast RX/TX & cross vendor AMSDU=
 compat
>=20
> We upgraded our kernel from an older (5.15) to a newer 6.4. The problem i=
s STP=20
> doesn't work anymore and alas we use it for now (for the better or worse).
>=20
> What I gathered so far from my setup:
>  - we use ath9k & ath10k
>  - in my case STP frames are received as regular packet and not as amsdu
>  - the received packets have a wrong length of 44 in tcpdump
>    (instead of 38 with our previous kernel)
>  - llc_fixup_skb() tries to pull some 41 bytes out of a 35 bytes packet
>    this makes llc_rcv() discard the frames & breaks STP
>=20
> >From bisecting the culprit seems to be 986e43b19ae9176093da35e0a844e65c8=
bf9ede7
> (wifi: mac80211: fix receiving A-MSDU frames on mesh interfaces)
>=20
> I guess that your changes to handle both ampdu subframes & normal frames =
in the
> same datapath ends up putting a wrong skb->len for STP (multicast) frames=
 ?
> Honestly I don't understand enough of the 80211 internals & spec to pinpo=
int the
> exact problem.
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> It seems this change was already in the 6.3 kernel so I guess someone sho=
uld
> have seen it before (but I didn't find anything..) ? Maybe I missed somet=
hing...
>=20
> Anyway I'm happy to provide more info or try anything you throw at me.
>=20

Thanks for the regression report. I'm adding it to regzbot:

(Felix: it looks like this regression is introcued by a commit authored by =
you.
Would you like to take a look on it?)

#regzbot ^introduced: 986e43b19ae917

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