mac80211: ensure that mgmt tx skbs have tailroom for encryption
Some drivers use IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_SW_MGMT_TX to indicate that management frames need to be software encrypted. Since normal data packets are still encrypted by the hardware, crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt gets decremented after key upload to hw. This can lead to passing skbs to ccmp_encrypt_skb, which don't have the necessary tailroom for software encryption. Change the code to add tailroom for encrypted management packets, even if crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt is 0. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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