netdev - Divide error in minstrel_ht_get_tp

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Date:   Sat, 29 May 2021 18:57:28 +0200
From:   Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Subject: Divide error in minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg()

Hello.

The following woe happened on my home router running as a Wi-Fi AP with
MT7612:

```
[16592.157962] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[16592.163169] CPU: 2 PID: 683 Comm: mt76-tx phy0 Tainted: G         C        5.12.0-pf4 #1
[16592.171745] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./J3710-ITX, BIOS P1.50 04/16/2018
[16592.182155] RIP: 0010:minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg+0xb1/0x100 [mac80211]
[16592.188795] Code: 04 00 00 00 7f 1c 31 c9 81 fa f1 49 02 00 0f 9c c1 8d 0c cd 08 00 00 00 eb 08 8b 47 30 b9 01 00 00 00 69 c0 e8 03 00 00 31 d2 <f7> f1 ba 66 0e 00 00 39 d6 0f 4f f2 49 63 d1 48 8d 0c 52 48 8d 0c
[16592.208796] RSP: 0018:ffffb6a601293be8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[16592.214292] RAX: 000000000001a5e0 RBX: ffff9c658ee95170 RCX: 0000000000000000
[16592.222054] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000585 RDI: ffff9c658ee94000
[16592.229620] RBP: 0000000000000006 R08: 0000000000000006 R09: 0000000000000012
[16592.237254] R10: 0000000000000007 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9c658ee94000
[16592.244828] R13: 0000000000000012 R14: ffff9c658ee9534c R15: 0000000000000585
[16592.252635] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c66f8500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[16592.261086] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[16592.267326] CR2: 0000555d81abe7b8 CR3: 0000000116c10000 CR4: 00000000001006e0
[16592.274904] Call Trace:
[16592.277549]  minstrel_ht_update_stats+0x1fe/0x1320 [mac80211]
[16592.283730]  minstrel_ht_tx_status+0x67f/0x710 [mac80211]
[16592.289442]  rate_control_tx_status+0x6e/0xb0 [mac80211]
[16592.295267]  ieee80211_tx_status_ext+0x22e/0xb00 [mac80211]
[16592.311290]  ieee80211_tx_status+0x7d/0xa0 [mac80211]
[16592.316714]  mt76_tx_status_unlock+0x83/0xa0 [mt76]
[16592.321999]  mt76x02_send_tx_status+0x1b7/0x400 [mt76x02_lib]
[16592.334516]  mt76x02_tx_worker+0x8f/0xd0 [mt76x02_lib]
[16592.340091]  __mt76_worker_fn+0x78/0xb0 [mt76]
[16592.345067]  kthread+0x183/0x1b0
[16592.353378]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
```

`faddr2line` says it is this:

```
 430 int
 431 minstrel_ht_get_tp_avg(struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi, int group, int rate,
 432                int prob_avg)
 433 {
…
 435     unsigned int ampdu_len = 1;
…
 441     if (minstrel_ht_is_legacy_group(group))
…
 443     else
 444         ampdu_len = minstrel_ht_avg_ampdu_len(mi);
…
 446     nsecs = 1000 * overhead / ampdu_len;
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```

So, it seems `minstrel_ht_avg_ampdu_len()` can return 0, which is not
really legitimate.

Looking at `minstrel_ht_avg_ampdu_len()`, I see the following:

```
16:#define MINSTREL_SCALE  12
…
18:#define MINSTREL_TRUNC(val) ((val) >> MINSTREL_SCALE)
```

```
 401 static unsigned int
 402 minstrel_ht_avg_ampdu_len(struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi)
 403 {
…
 406     if (mi->avg_ampdu_len)
 407         return MINSTREL_TRUNC(mi->avg_ampdu_len);
```

So, likely, `mi->avg_ampdu_len` is non-zero, but it's too small, hence
right bitshift makes it zero.

Should there be some protection against such a situation?

Felix, could you maybe check this? Looks like you were the last one to
overhaul that part of code.

Thanks!

-- 
  Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)