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On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 17:45 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 16:08 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Johannes Berg
> >> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> > Now it crashes in the driver...maybe the txinfo to cb changes. Looking into it.
> >> >> > Tomas
> >> >> Looks like this is the second part keyconf is null
> >> >
> >> > Part? You mean fragment? What encryption algorithm? I've quickly looked
> >> > and all of them seem to do the control.hw_key assignment in their
> >> > respective _skb handler so it should be done for all fragments.
> >>
> >> The problem is w/o crypto
> >> I think this is not set on each fragment
> >> info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT;
> >
> > Ouch, you're right, the whole tx info isn't properly initialised for
> > fragments.
> >
> > Can you try putting
> >
> > memcpy(frag->cb, first->cb, sizeof(first->cb));
> >
> > at around line 690 of tx.c where this code is?
> >
> >                frag->priority = first->priority;
> >                skb_reserve(frag, tx->local->tx_headroom +
> >                                  IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_HEADROOM);
> >
> >
> > [now I know what the cause is. I had another patch that used skb_segment
> > to do the fragmentation, but that was dropped and skb_segment does copy
> > skb->cb while our code doesn't]
> 
> No crash but still not at home. No fragmented traffic on the air...grrr.

Hmm, ok. I'll give it a try later.

johannes

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