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authorDavid Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>2011-01-30 14:10:48 -0500
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-02-03 16:42:44 -0500
commitbb4793b3c6370a1fed86978c6590241d770cb43e (patch)
treee611e923a4da5577f042571d7b50330f33900162 /drivers/net/wireless/wl1251
parente7332a41442bde1c14550998cadceca34c967dfc (diff)
wl1251: fix 4-byte TX buffer alignment
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/wl1251')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/tx.c26
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/tx.c
index 10112de5549..28121c590a2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/tx.c
@@ -213,16 +213,30 @@ static int wl1251_tx_send_packet(struct wl1251 *wl, struct sk_buff *skb,
213 wl1251_debug(DEBUG_TX, "skb offset %d", offset); 213 wl1251_debug(DEBUG_TX, "skb offset %d", offset);
214 214
215 /* check whether the current skb can be used */ 215 /* check whether the current skb can be used */
216 if (!skb_cloned(skb) && (skb_tailroom(skb) >= offset)) { 216 if (skb_cloned(skb) || (skb_tailroom(skb) < offset)) {
217 unsigned char *src = skb->data; 217 struct sk_buff *newskb = skb_copy_expand(skb, 0, 3,
218 GFP_KERNEL);
219
220 if (unlikely(newskb == NULL)) {
221 wl1251_error("Can't allocate skb!");
222 return -EINVAL;
223 }
224
225 tx_hdr = (struct tx_double_buffer_desc *) newskb->data;
226
227 dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
228 wl->tx_frames[tx_hdr->id] = skb = newskb;
218 229
219 /* align the buffer on a 4-byte boundary */ 230 offset = (4 - (long)skb->data) & 0x03;
231 wl1251_debug(DEBUG_TX, "new skb offset %d", offset);
232 }
233
234 /* align the buffer on a 4-byte boundary */
235 if (offset) {
236 unsigned char *src = skb->data;
220 skb_reserve(skb, offset); 237 skb_reserve(skb, offset);
221 memmove(skb->data, src, skb->len); 238 memmove(skb->data, src, skb->len);
222 tx_hdr = (struct tx_double_buffer_desc *) skb->data; 239 tx_hdr = (struct tx_double_buffer_desc *) skb->data;
223 } else {
224 wl1251_info("No handler, fixme!");
225 return -EINVAL;
226 } 240 }
227 } 241 }
228 242