[PATCH] revert "orinoco: Information leakage due to incorrect padding"

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
index d3d4ec9e242e..70a3477a2061 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -490,7 +490,8 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                 return 0;
         }
 
-        /* Check packet length, pad short packets, round up odd length */
+        /* Length of the packet body */
+        /* FIXME: what if the skb is smaller than this? */
         len = max_t(int, ALIGN(skb->len, 2), ETH_ZLEN);
         skb = skb_padto(skb, len);
         if (skb == NULL)
@@ -547,7 +548,8 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                 p = skb->data;
         }
 
-        err = hermes_bap_pwrite(hw, USER_BAP, p, data_len,
+        /* Round up for odd length packets */
+        err = hermes_bap_pwrite(hw, USER_BAP, p, ALIGN(data_len, 2),
                                 txfid, data_off);
         if (err) {
                 printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error %d writing packet to BAP\n",