From: James Prestwood Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:55:53 +0000 (-0700) Subject: wifi: mac80211: remove/avoid misleading prints X-Git-Tag: v6.6-pxa1908~2727^2~14^2~10 X-Git-Url: https://git.dujemihanovic.xyz/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=092197f1f47f8359b46ea62445d87561949b577d;p=linux.git wifi: mac80211: remove/avoid misleading prints At some point a few kernel debug prints started appearing which indicated something was sending invalid IEs: "bad VHT capabilities, disabling VHT" "Invalid HE elem, Disable HE" Turns out these were being printed because the local hardware supported HE/VHT but the peer/AP did not. Bad/invalid indicates, to me at least, that the IE is in some way malformed, not missing. For the HE print (ieee80211_verify_peer_he_mcs_support) it will now silently fail if the HE capability element is missing (still prints if the element size is wrong). For the VHT print, it has been removed completely and will silently set the DISABLE_VHT flag which is consistent with how DISABLE_HT is set. Signed-off-by: James Prestwood Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 54b8d5065bbd..d8484cd870de 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -4409,8 +4409,11 @@ ieee80211_verify_peer_he_mcs_support(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, he_cap_elem = cfg80211_find_ext_elem(WLAN_EID_EXT_HE_CAPABILITY, ies->data, ies->len); + if (!he_cap_elem) + return false; + /* invalid HE IE */ - if (!he_cap_elem || he_cap_elem->datalen < 1 + sizeof(*he_cap)) { + if (he_cap_elem->datalen < 1 + sizeof(*he_cap)) { sdata_info(sdata, "Invalid HE elem, Disable HE\n"); return false; @@ -4676,8 +4679,6 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_channel(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, } if (!elems->vht_cap_elem) { - sdata_info(sdata, - "bad VHT capabilities, disabling VHT\n"); *conn_flags |= IEEE80211_CONN_DISABLE_VHT; vht_oper = NULL; }