This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: set properly mac header
to the 6.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wifi-iwlwifi-mvm-set-properly-mac-header.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit aebe367d44a11a5e40d8710ad0a0af86b660e8ec
Author: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri May 10 17:06:35 2024 +0300
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: set properly mac header
[ Upstream commit 0f2e9f6f21d1ff292363cdfb5bc4d492eeaff76e ]
In the driver we only use skb_put* for adding data to the skb, hence data
never moves and skb_reset_mac_haeder would set mac_header to the first
time data was added and not to mac80211 header, fix this my using the
actual len of bytes added for setting the mac header.
Fixes: 3f7a9d577d47 ("wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: simplify by using SKB MAC header pointer")
Signed-off-by: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240510170500.12f2de2909c3.I72a819b96f2fe55bde192a8fd31a4b96c301aa73@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rxmq.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rxmq.c
index ce8d83c771a70..8ac5c045fcfcb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rxmq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/rxmq.c
@@ -2456,8 +2456,11 @@ void iwl_mvm_rx_monitor_no_data(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, struct napi_struct *napi,
*
* We mark it as mac header, for upper layers to know where
* all radio tap header ends.
+ *
+ * Since data doesn't move data while putting data on skb and that is
+ * the only way we use, data + len is the next place that hdr would be put
*/
- skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
+ skb_set_mac_header(skb, skb->len);
/*
* Override the nss from the rx_vec since the rate_n_flags has
