Re: regression: tethering fails in 3.5 with iwlwifi

Hi,

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            56138f5 iwlwifi: dont pull too much payload in skb head
            3edaf3e mac80211: manage AP netdev carrier state

The second patch (AP carrier state) actually exposed a connman issue
which I fixed and submitted a connman patch:
http://lists.connman.net/pipermail/connman/2012-September/011232.html

However, Eric's patch still causes tethering problems to me.

Let me recap a bit. Artem is using connman, which sets up the wifi
interface as part of a bridge. It runs wpa_supplicant to create an AP
(only AP and mesh mode interfaces can be bridged anyway).


Eric, you said:

I would say some part of the stack assumes a header (I dont know wich
one ?) is pulled in skb->head/data, and thats a bug.

Always use pskb_may_pull(skb, XXX) to make sure you can access XXX
bytes in skb->data

I thought we'd figure out which part of the stack assumes a header, so I
asked Artem to test a one-line patch which adds "skb_linearize()" before
"netif_receive_skb()" in mac80211. This makes it work, but I'm not sure
where after that the bad assumption might be.

johannes