4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit a0dc02039a2ee54fb4ae400e0b755ed30e73e58c ]
In ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding, we increment the 'dropped_frames_ttl' counter when we decrement the ttl to zero. For unicast frames destined for other hosts, we stop processing the frame at that point.
For multicast frames, we do not rebroadcast it in this case, but we do pass the frame up the stack to process it on this STA. That doesn't match the usual definition of "dropped," so don't count those as such.
With this change, something like `ping6 -i0.2 ff02::1%mesh0` from a peer in a ttl=1 network no longer increments the counter rapidly.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland bobcopeland@fb.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/mac80211/rx.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index af02d2136a066..7013b37637556 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -2510,7 +2510,9 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx) skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, q);
if (!--mesh_hdr->ttl) { - IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(ifmsh, dropped_frames_ttl); + if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) + IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(ifmsh, + dropped_frames_ttl); goto out; }