On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:23 +0200, Luis Carlos Cobo wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:32 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > This patch fixes mac80211 to not use the skb->cb over the queue step > > from virtual interfaces to the master. The patch also, for now, > > disables aggregation because that would still require requeuing, > > will fix that in a separate patch. There are two other places (software > > requeue and powersaving stations) where requeue can happen, but that is > > not currently used by any drivers/not possible to use respectively. > > On net/mac80211/rx.c:ieee80211_data_to_8023() cb is used for mesh frames > to save the original mesh header. Then if the frame has to be forwarded, > the frame is queued on the virtual interface and > net/mac80211/tx.c:ieee80211_subif_start_xmit() expects the mesh header > to remain in the cb if the frame is not originally from the local host. > It's a different step from the one you mention, but as I understand it > it may suffer the same problem right? Indeed, that cannot be done. Good point, I'd thought that case was different. johannes
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