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mac80211: fix forwarded mesh frames AC & queue selection

There are two problems with the current code that have been highlighted
with the AQL feature that is now enbaled by default.

First problem is in ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(),
ieee80211_select_queue_80211() is used on received packets to choose
the sending AC queue of the forwarding packet although this function
should only be called on TX packet (it uses ieee80211_tx_info).
This ends with forwarded mesh packets been sent on unrelated random AC
queue. To fix that, AC queue can directly be infered from skb->priority
which has been extracted from QOS info (see ieee80211_parse_qos()).

Second problem is the value of queue_mapping set on forwarded mesh
frames via skb_set_queue_mapping() is not the AC of the packet but a
hardware queue index. This may or may not work depending on AC to HW
queue mapping which is driver specific.

Both of these issues lead to improper AC selection while forwarding
mesh packets but more importantly due to improper airtime accounting
(which is done on a per STA, per AC basis) caused traffic stall with
the introduction of AQL.

Fixes: cf44012810cc ("mac80211: fix unnecessary frame drops in mesh fwding")
Fixes: d3c1597b8d1b ("mac80211: fix forwarded mesh frame queue mapping")
Co-developed-by: Remi Pommarel <repk@triplefau.lt>
Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel <repk@triplefau.lt>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Escande <nico.escande@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220214173214.368862-1-nico.escande@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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Nicolas Escande and committed by
Johannes Berg
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net/mac80211/rx.c
··· 2923 2923 ether_addr_equal(sdata->vif.addr, hdr->addr3)) 2924 2924 return RX_CONTINUE; 2925 2925 2926 - ac = ieee80211_select_queue_80211(sdata, skb, hdr); 2926 + ac = ieee802_1d_to_ac[skb->priority]; 2927 2927 q = sdata->vif.hw_queue[ac]; 2928 2928 if (ieee80211_queue_stopped(&local->hw, q)) { 2929 2929 IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(ifmsh, dropped_frames_congestion); 2930 2930 return RX_DROP_MONITOR; 2931 2931 } 2932 - skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, q); 2932 + skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, ac); 2933 2933 2934 2934 if (!--mesh_hdr->ttl) { 2935 2935 if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1))