linux-kernel - [PATCH] mwifiex: set needed_headroom, not hard_header

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Date:   Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:05:11 -0800
From:   Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi.bhat@....com>,
        Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@...vell.com>,
        Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
        Arend Van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: set needed_headroom, not hard_header_len

hard_header_len provides limitations for things like AF_PACKET, such
that we don't allow transmitting packets smaller than this.

needed_headroom provides a suggested minimum headroom for SKBs, so that
we can trivally add our headers to the front.

The latter is the correct field to use in this case, while the former
mostly just prevents sending small AF_PACKET frames.

In any case, mwifiex already does its own bounce buffering [1] if we
don't have enough headroom, so hints (not hard limits) are all that are
needed.

This is the essentially the same bug (and fix) that brcmfmac had, fixed
in commit cb39288fd6bb ("brcmfmac: use ndev->needed_headroom to reserve
additional header space").

[1] mwifiex_hard_start_xmit():
	if (skb_headroom(skb) < MWIFIEX_MIN_DATA_HEADER_LEN) {
	[...]
		/* Insufficient skb headroom - allocate a new skb */

Fixes: 5e6e3a92b9a4 ("wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver")
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
index 0a6da6fe2f89..1566d2197906 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
@@ -3052,7 +3052,7 @@ struct wireless_dev *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy,
 
 	dev->flags |= IFF_BROADCAST | IFF_MULTICAST;
 	dev->watchdog_timeo = MWIFIEX_DEFAULT_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT;
-	dev->hard_header_len += MWIFIEX_MIN_DATA_HEADER_LEN;
+	dev->needed_headroom = MWIFIEX_MIN_DATA_HEADER_LEN;
 	dev->ethtool_ops = &mwifiex_ethtool_ops;
 
 	mdev_priv = netdev_priv(dev);
-- 
2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog