linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 28/33] mac80211: fix rx reordering with non explicit / psmp ack policy

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20220523165752.970359604@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 May 2022 19:05:17 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 28/33] mac80211: fix rx reordering with non explicit / psmp ack policy

From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>

[ Upstream commit 5e469ed9764d4722c59562da13120bd2dc6834c5 ]

When the QoS ack policy was set to non explicit / psmp ack, frames are treated
as not being part of a BA session, which causes extra latency on reordering.
Fix this by only bypassing reordering for packets with no-ack policy

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420105038.36443-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/mac80211/rx.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 5a38be9145ff..e60a53c056c0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1204,8 +1204,7 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_reorder_ampdu(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx,
 		goto dont_reorder;
 
 	/* not part of a BA session */
-	if (ack_policy != IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_ACK_POLICY_BLOCKACK &&
-	    ack_policy != IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_ACK_POLICY_NORMAL)
+	if (ack_policy == IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_ACK_POLICY_NOACK)
 		goto dont_reorder;
 
 	/* new, potentially un-ordered, ampdu frame - process it */
-- 
2.35.1