wl1251: fix 4-byte TX buffer alignment
authorDavid Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:10:48 +0000 (20:10 +0100)
committerGrazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:53:01 +0000 (15:53 +0300)
This implements TX buffer alignment for cloned or too small skb by
copying and replacing the original skb.
Recent changes in wireless-testing seems to make this really necessary.

Signed-off-by: David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/tx.c

index 10112de..28121c5 100644 (file)
@@ -213,16 +213,30 @@ static int wl1251_tx_send_packet(struct wl1251 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb,
                wl1251_debug(DEBUG_TX, "skb offset %d", offset);
 
                /* check whether the current skb can be used */
-               if (!skb_cloned(skb) && (skb_tailroom(skb) >= offset)) {
-                       unsigned char *src = skb->data;
+               if (skb_cloned(skb) || (skb_tailroom(skb) < offset)) {
+                       struct sk_buff *newskb = skb_copy_expand(skb, 0, 3,
+                                                                GFP_KERNEL);
+
+                       if (unlikely(newskb == NULL)) {
+                               wl1251_error("Can't allocate skb!");
+                               return -EINVAL;
+                       }
+
+                       tx_hdr = (struct tx_double_buffer_desc *) newskb->data;
+
+                       dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+                       wl->tx_frames[tx_hdr->id] = skb = newskb;
 
-                       /* align the buffer on a 4-byte boundary */
+                       offset = (4 - (long)skb->data) & 0x03;
+                       wl1251_debug(DEBUG_TX, "new skb offset %d", offset);
+               }
+
+               /* align the buffer on a 4-byte boundary */
+               if (offset) {
+                       unsigned char *src = skb->data;
                        skb_reserve(skb, offset);
                        memmove(skb->data, src, skb->len);
                        tx_hdr = (struct tx_double_buffer_desc *) skb->data;
-               } else {
-                       wl1251_info("No handler, fixme!");
-                       return -EINVAL;
                }
        }