mac80211: use exact-size allocation for authentication frame
The authentication frame has a fixied size of 30 bytes
(including header, algo num, trans seq num, and status)
followed by a variable challenge text.
Allocate using exact size, instead of over-allocation
by sizeof(ieee80211_mgmt).
Signed-off-by: Fred Zhou <fred.zy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 3c8283b..1fb31f9 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -1081,8 +1081,8 @@
struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt;
int err;
- skb = dev_alloc_skb(local->hw.extra_tx_headroom +
- sizeof(*mgmt) + 6 + extra_len);
+ /* 24 + 6 = header + auth_algo + auth_transaction + status_code */
+ skb = dev_alloc_skb(local->hw.extra_tx_headroom + 24 + 6 + extra_len);
if (!skb)
return;