Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2012-09-20

Re: regression: tethering fails in 3.5 with iwlwifi

From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2012-09-20 12:58:56
Also in: netdev
Subsystem: mac80211, the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 14:45 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
quoted hunk
I guess you only need to make sure 14 bytes of ethernet header are
available before eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 61c621e..ffe5f84 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1795,9 +1795,13 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)

                if (skb) {
                        /* deliver to local stack */
-                       skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
-                       memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
-                       netif_receive_skb(skb);
+                       if (pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ethhdr))) {
+                               skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
+                               memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
+                               netif_receive_skb(skb);
+                       } else {
+                               kfree_skb(skb);
+                       }
                }
        }
Does not help, this one does:
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 61c621e..6888586 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1797,6 +1797,7 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 			/* deliver to local stack */
 			skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
 			memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
+			skb_linearize(skb);
 			netif_receive_skb(skb);
 		}
-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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