Commit 9e78315a authored by Felix Fietkau's avatar Felix Fietkau Committed by Stefan Bader

mac80211: fix fast_tx header alignment

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607404

commit 6fe04128 upstream.

The header field is defined as u8[] but also accessed as struct
ieee80211_hdr. Enforce an alignment of 2 to prevent unnecessary
unaligned accesses, which can be very harmful for performance on many
platforms.

Fixes: e495c247 ("mac80211: extend fast-xmit for more ciphers")
Signed-off-by: default avatarFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
parent e0536417
......@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ struct ieee80211_fast_tx {
u8 sa_offs, da_offs, pn_offs;
u8 band;
u8 hdr[30 + 2 + IEEE80211_FAST_XMIT_MAX_IV +
sizeof(rfc1042_header)];
sizeof(rfc1042_header)] __aligned(2);
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
};
......
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