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On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 17:24 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> This patch fixes RX packet alignment issues in the zd1211rw driver.
> This is based on a patch by Johannes Berg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, I guess you tested it.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c	2007-12-29 17:14:41.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c	2007-12-29 17:15:00.000000000 +0100
> @@ -623,6 +623,8 @@ int zd_mac_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, c
>  	const struct rx_status *status;
>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
>  	int bad_frame = 0;
> +	u16 fc;
> +	bool is_qos, is_4addr, need_padding;
>  
>  	if (length < ZD_PLCP_HEADER_SIZE + 10 /* IEEE80211_1ADDR_LEN */ +
>  	             FCS_LEN + sizeof(struct rx_status))
> @@ -674,9 +676,22 @@ int zd_mac_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, c
>  			&& !mac->pass_ctrl)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	skb = dev_alloc_skb(length);
> +	fc = le16_to_cpu(*((__le16 *) buffer));
> +
> +	is_qos = ((fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_FTYPE) == IEEE80211_FTYPE_DATA) &&
> +		 ((fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_STYPE) == IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA);
> +	is_4addr = (fc & (IEEE80211_FCTL_TODS | IEEE80211_FCTL_FROMDS)) ==
> +		   (IEEE80211_FCTL_TODS | IEEE80211_FCTL_FROMDS);
> +	need_padding = is_qos ^ is_4addr;
> +
> +	skb = dev_alloc_skb(length + (need_padding ? 2 : 0));
>  	if (skb == NULL)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> +	if (need_padding) {
> +		/* Make sure the the payload data is 4 byte aligned. */
> +		skb_reserve(skb, 2);
> +	}
> +
>  	memcpy(skb_put(skb, length), buffer, length);
>  
>  	ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(hw, skb, &stats);
> 

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