[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 107/176] mac80211: Fix monitor MTU limit so that A-MSDUs get through

Sasha Levin
2021-09-09T12:47:06Z

From: Johan Almbladh <johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com>

[ Upstream commit 79f5962baea74ce1cd4e5949598944bff854b166 ]

The maximum MTU was set to 2304, which is the maximum MSDU size. While
this is valid for normal WLAN interfaces, it is too low for monitor
interfaces. A monitor interface may receive and inject MPDU frames, and
the maximum MPDU frame size is larger than 2304. The MPDU may also
contain an A-MSDU frame, in which case the size may be much larger than
the MTU limit. Since the maximum size of an A-MSDU depends on the PHY
mode of the transmitting STA, it is not possible to set an exact MTU
limit for a monitor interface. Now the maximum MTU for a monitor
interface is unrestricted.

Signed-off-by: Johan Almbladh <johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210628123246.2070558-1-johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/mac80211/iface.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 30589b4c09da..3a15ef8dd322 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -2000,9 +2000,16 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,

netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops(ndev, &ieee80211_ethtool_ops);

- /* MTU range: 256 - 2304 */
+ /* MTU range is normally 256 - 2304, where the upper limit is
+ * the maximum MSDU size. Monitor interfaces send and receive
+ * MPDU and A-MSDU frames which may be much larger so we do
+ * not impose an upper limit in that case.
+ */
ndev->min_mtu = 256;
- ndev->max_mtu = local->hw.max_mtu;
+ if (type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+ ndev->max_mtu = 0;
+ else
+ ndev->max_mtu = local->hw.max_mtu;

ret = register_netdevice(ndev);
if (ret) {
--
2.30.2