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. v4: added ACCESS_ONCE net/mac80211/rx.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index 9a08f2c..af61aeb 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -1253,6 +1253,13 @@ 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. Also make sure compiler won't + * do any weird assignments. + */ + hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)ACCESS_ONCE(rx->skb->data); seq = (sc & IEEE80211_SCTL_SEQ) >> 4; if (frag == 0) { -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html