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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/rx.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/rx.c index 69fa765e29b5..94b6e7297a1e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/rx.c @@ -104,10 +104,19 @@ static void iwl_mvm_pass_packet_to_mac80211(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, unsigned int hdrlen, fraglen; /* If frame is small enough to fit in skb->head, pull it completely. - * If not, only pull ieee80211_hdr (including crypto if present) so - * that splice() or TCP coalesce are more efficient. + * If not, only pull ieee80211_hdr (including crypto if present, and + * an additional 8 bytes for SNAP/ethertype, see below) so that + * splice() or TCP coalesce are more efficient. + * + * Since, in addition, ieee80211_data_to_8023() always pull in at + * least 8 bytes (possibly more for mesh) we can do the same here + * to save the cost of doing it later. That still doesn't pull in + * the actual IP header since the typical case has a SNAP header. + * If the latter changes (there are efforts in the standards group + * to do so) we should revisit this and ieee80211_data_to_8023(). */ - hdrlen = (len <= skb_tailroom(skb)) ? len : sizeof(*hdr) + crypt_len; + hdrlen = (len <= skb_tailroom(skb)) ? len : + sizeof(*hdr) + crypt_len + 8; memcpy(skb_put(skb, hdrlen), hdr, hdrlen); fraglen = len - hdrlen; |