mac80211 is checking is the skb is aligned on 32 bit boundary. But it is checking against ethernet header, whereas Linux expect IP header aligned. And ethernet ether size is 6*2+2=14, so aligning ethernet header make IP header unaligned. Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index 9776f73..0845fb3 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx) * mac80211. That also explains the __skb_push() * below. */ - align = (unsigned long)skb->data & 3; + align = ((unsigned long)(skb->data + sizeof(struct ethhdr))) & 3; if (align) { if (WARN_ON(skb_headroom(skb) < 3)) { dev_kfree_skb(skb);