Several MAC address comparison functions assume 16 bit alignment for pointers
passed to them. Since the addition of the control_port field, alignment
for the IBSS bssid was off by one, causing a severe performance hit on
architectures without efficient unaligned access (e.g. MIPS).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index cee0c74..c413058 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ struct ieee80211_if_ibss {
bool control_port;
- u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];
+ u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2);
u8 ssid[IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN];
u8 ssid_len, ie_len;
u8 *ie;
--
1.7.3.2
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