Commit eaef6a93 authored by Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan's avatar Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan Committed by John W. Linville

mac80211: Fix a warning due to skipping tailroom reservation for IV

The devices that require IV generation in software need tailroom
reservation  for ICVs used in TKIP or WEP encryptions.
Currently, decision to skip the tailroom reservation in the tx
path was taken only on whether driver wants MMIC to be generated
in software or not. Following patch appends IV generation check for
such decisions and fixes the following warning.

WARNING: at net/mac80211/wep.c:101 ieee80211_wep_add_iv+0x56/0xf3()
Hardware name: 64756D6
Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W   2.6.39-rc5-wl
 Call Trace:
[<c102fd29>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a
[<c1465c4e>] ? ieee80211_wep_add_iv+0x56/0xf3
[<c102fd4d>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13
[<c1465c4e>] ieee80211_wep_add_iv+0x56/0xf3
[<c1466007>] ieee80211_crypto_wep_encrypt+0x63/0x88
[<c1478bf3>] ieee80211_tx_h_encrypt+0x2f/0x63
[<c1478cba>] invoke_tx_handlers+0x93/0xe1
[<c1478eda>] ieee80211_tx+0x4b/0x6d
[<c147907c>] ieee80211_xmit+0x180/0x188
[<c147779d>] ? ieee80211_skb_resize+0x95/0xd9
[<c1479edf>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x64f/0x668
[<c13956fc>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x368/0x48c
[<c13a8bd6>] sch_direct_xmit+0x4d/0x101
[<c1395ae1>] dev_queue_xmit+0x2c1/0x43f
[<c13a74a2>] ? eth_header+0x1e/0x90
[<c13a7400>] ? eth_type_trans+0x91/0xc2
[<c13a7484>] ? eth_rebuild_header+0x53/0x53
[<c139f079>] neigh_resolve_output+0x223/0x27e
[<c13c6b23>] ip_finish_output2+0x1d4/0x1fe
[<c13c6bc6>] ip_finish_output+0x79/0x7d
[<c13c6cbe>] T.1075+0x43/0x48
[<c13c6e6e>] ip_output+0x75/0x7b
[<c13c4970>] dst_output+0xc/0xe
[<c13c62c9>] ip_local_out+0x17/0x1a
[<c13c67bb>] ip_queue_xmit+0x2aa/0x2f8
[<c138b742>] ? sk_setup_caps+0x21/0x92
[<c13d95ea>] ? __tcp_v4_send_check+0x7e/0xb7
[<c13d5d2e>] tcp_transmit_skb+0x6a1/0x6d7
[<c13d533b>] ? tcp_established_options+0x20/0x8b
[<c13d6f28>] tcp_retransmit_skb+0x43a/0x527
[<c13d8d6d>] tcp_retransmit_timer+0x32e/0x45d
[<c13d8f23>] tcp_write_timer+0x87/0x16c
[<c103a030>] run_timer_softirq+0x156/0x1f9
[<c13d8e9c>] ? tcp_retransmit_timer+0x45d/0x45d
[<c1034d65>] __do_softirq+0x97/0x14a
[<c1034cce>] ? irq_enter+0x4d/0x4d

Cc: Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Reported-by: default avatarFabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
Tested-by: default avatarFabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 1a5b306f
......@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ static int ieee80211_key_enable_hw_accel(struct ieee80211_key *key)
if (!ret) {
key->flags |= KEY_FLAG_UPLOADED_TO_HARDWARE;
if (!(key->conf.flags & IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_MMIC))
if (!((key->conf.flags & IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_MMIC) ||
(key->conf.flags & IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_IV)))
key->local->crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt--;
return 0;
......@@ -161,7 +162,8 @@ static void ieee80211_key_disable_hw_accel(struct ieee80211_key *key)
key->flags &= ~KEY_FLAG_UPLOADED_TO_HARDWARE;
if (!(key->conf.flags & IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_MMIC))
if (!((key->conf.flags & IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_MMIC) ||
(key->conf.flags & IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_IV)))
key->local->crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt++;
}
......
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