netdev - Re: regression: tethering fails in 3.5 with iwlwifi

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:48:16 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression: tethering fails in 3.5 with iwlwifi

Or its a buggy protocol ?

IP/UDP/TCP definitely works, but maybe another protocol assumes its
header is in skb->head


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 14:45 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> I guess you only need to make sure 14 bytes of ethernet header are
>> available before eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
>>
>> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
>> index 61c621e..ffe5f84 100644
>> --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
>> +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
>> @@ -1795,9 +1795,13 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
>>
>>                 if (skb) {
>>                         /* deliver to local stack */
>> -                       skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
>> -                       memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
>> -                       netif_receive_skb(skb);
>> +                       if (pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ethhdr))) {
>> +                               skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
>> +                               memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
>> +                               netif_receive_skb(skb);
>> +                       } else {
>> +                               kfree_skb(skb);
>> +                       }
>>                 }
>>         }
>
> Yeah I was looking at the same code just now. However, we had actually
> inserted the skb_linearize() *after* eth_type_trans(), so I'm confused.
> Maybe it still works, more or less by accident?
>
> johannes
>
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