Commit 02f17c09 authored by Felix Fietkau's avatar Felix Fietkau Committed by Khalid Elmously

mac80211: round IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM up to multiple of 4

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1775771

[ Upstream commit 651b9920 ]

This ensures that mac80211 allocated management frames are properly
aligned, which makes copying them more efficient.
For instance, mt76 uses iowrite32_copy to copy beacon frames to beacon
template memory on the chip.
Misaligned 32-bit accesses cause CPU exceptions on MIPS and should be
avoided.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
parent fa6dd25d
......@@ -3898,7 +3898,7 @@ static inline int ieee80211_sta_ps_transition_ni(struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
* The TX headroom reserved by mac80211 for its own tx_status functions.
* This is enough for the radiotap header.
*/
#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM 14
#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM ALIGN(14, 4)
/**
* ieee80211_sta_set_buffered - inform mac80211 about driver-buffered frames
......
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