mac80211: push rx status into skb->cb

Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into
skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it
in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that
drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now
accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all
drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making
them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive
function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be
optimised on its own schedule.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index 11cf45bce38..542ea025494 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static void ieee80211_mesh_rx_queued_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 
         ifmsh = &sdata->u.mesh;
 
-        rx_status = (struct ieee80211_rx_status *) skb->cb;
+        rx_status = IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb);
         mgmt = (struct ieee80211_mgmt *) skb->data;
         stype = le16_to_cpu(mgmt->frame_control) & IEEE80211_FCTL_STYPE;
 
@@ -671,8 +671,7 @@ void ieee80211_mesh_init_sdata(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 }
 
 ieee80211_rx_result
-ieee80211_mesh_rx_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sk_buff *skb,
-                       struct ieee80211_rx_status *rx_status)
+ieee80211_mesh_rx_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
         struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
         struct ieee80211_if_mesh *ifmsh = &sdata->u.mesh;
@@ -689,7 +688,6 @@ ieee80211_mesh_rx_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sk_buff *skb,
         case IEEE80211_STYPE_PROBE_RESP:
         case IEEE80211_STYPE_BEACON:
         case IEEE80211_STYPE_ACTION:
-                memcpy(skb->cb, rx_status, sizeof(*rx_status));
                 skb_queue_tail(&ifmsh->skb_queue, skb);
                 queue_work(local->hw.workqueue, &ifmsh->work);
                 return RX_QUEUED;