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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Re-fix accounting of the tailroom-needed counter

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On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 08:39 -0500, Ido Yariv wrote:
> When hw acceleration is enabled, the GENERATE_IV or PUT_IV_SPACE flags
> only require headroom space. Therefore, the tailroom-needed counter can
> safely be decremented for most drivers.
> 
> The older incarnation of this patch (ca34e3b5) assumed that the above
> holds true for all drivers. As reported by Christopher Chavez and
> researched by Christian Lamparter and Larry Finger, this isn't a valid
> assumption for p54 and cw1200.
> 
> Drivers that still require tailroom for ICV/MIC even when HW encryption
> is enabled can use IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_RESERVE_TAILROOM to indicate it.

Applied. Let's hope it sticks this time :)

johannes

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