From: Ping-Ke Shih 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 Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220103013623.17052-1-pkshih@realtek.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- --- 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",