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mac80211: fix miscounting of ttl-dropped frames

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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>
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Bob Copeland 2019-01-17 16:32:42 -05:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 311acb0a9f
commit d0038e4d33
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions

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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;
}