mac80211: Use the right headroom size for mesh mgmt frames
Use local->tx_headroom instad of local->hw.extra_tx_headroom.
local->tx_headroom is the max of hw.extra_tx_headroom required by the
driver and the headroom required by mac80211 for status reporting. On
drivers where hw.extra_tx_headroom is smaller than what mac80211
requires (e.g. ath5k), we would not reserve sufficient buffer space to
report tx status.
Also, don't reserve local->tx_headroom + local->hw.extra_tx_headroom.
Reported-by: Simon Morgenthaler <s.morgenthaler@students.unibe.ch>
Reported-by: Kai Scharwies <kai@scharwies.de>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
index 41ef1b4..a172517 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
int hdr_len = offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u.action.u.self_prot) +
sizeof(mgmt->u.action.u.self_prot);
- skb = dev_alloc_skb(local->hw.extra_tx_headroom +
+ skb = dev_alloc_skb(local->tx_headroom +
hdr_len +
2 + /* capability info */
2 + /* AID */
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
sdata->u.mesh.ie_len);
if (!skb)
return -1;
- skb_reserve(skb, local->hw.extra_tx_headroom);
+ skb_reserve(skb, local->tx_headroom);
mgmt = (struct ieee80211_mgmt *) skb_put(skb, hdr_len);
memset(mgmt, 0, hdr_len);
mgmt->frame_control = cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FTYPE_MGMT |