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authorBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>2019-01-17 16:32:42 -0500
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2019-01-19 09:11:44 +0100
commita0dc02039a2ee54fb4ae400e0b755ed30e73e58c (patch)
tree12bcd45b0320ced690b34d47a591e33da05ba076 /net/mac80211
parent9c5d3afac436beef91b7a6312068e9360c7d8446 (diff)
mac80211: fix miscounting of ttl-dropped frames
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 45aad3d3108c..27a337bc8acf 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -2723,7 +2723,9 @@ 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;
}