netdev - Re: mac80211 truesize bugs

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Message-Id: <20080501.035335.216935614.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 May 2008 03:53:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	johannes@...solutions.net, mb@...sch.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211 truesize bugs

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 03:49:50 -0700 (PDT)

> I guess it's the pskb_expand_head() calls done by net/mac80211/tx.c
> I suspect we'll need to orphan early in order to accomodate these
> adjustments, otherwise socket memory buffer allocations will
> be corrupted.

I think the mac80211 encryption paths on TX could be doing this as
well, just something I noticed meanwhile.

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