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[PATCH V3] mac80211: fix paged defragmentation

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Paged RX skb patch broke the defragmentation. We need to read hdr again
after linearization.

It fixes following bug
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2194

Signed-off-by: Zhu, Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Changed hdr reading.
v3: Added more comments.
 net/mac80211/rx.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 9a08f2c..6e2a7bc 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1253,6 +1253,12 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_defragment(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 	if (skb_linearize(rx->skb))
 		return RX_DROP_UNUSABLE;
 
+	/*
+	 *  skb_linearize() might change the skb->data and
+	 *  previously cached variables (in this case, hdr) need to
+	 *  be refreshed with the new data.
+	 */
+	hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)rx->skb->data;
 	seq = (sc & IEEE80211_SCTL_SEQ) >> 4;
 
 	if (frag == 0) {
-- 
1.6.3.3

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