From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Alan Fisher <acf@unixcube.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: rtlwifi drops most IPv6 packets
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:26:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E23664.70509@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54E19DD6.9050704@unixcube.org>
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On 02/16/2015 01:35 AM, Alan Fisher wrote:
Alan,
I looked at the routine, and it is returning true for all IPv6 packets.
Does the attached patch for 3.18 or 3.19 help?
Larry
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Index: wireless-drivers-next/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-drivers-next.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c
+++ wireless-drivers-next/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ u8 rtl_is_special_data(struct ieee80211_
offset = mac_hdr_len + SNAP_SIZE + encrypt_header_len;
ether_type = be16_to_cpup((__be16 *)(skb->data + offset));
- if (ETH_P_IP == ether_type) {
+ if (ETH_P_IP == ether_type || ETH_P_IPV6 == ether_type) {
ip = (struct iphdr *)((u8 *)skb->data + offset +
PROTOC_TYPE_SIZE);
if (IPPROTO_UDP == ip->protocol) {
@@ -1386,8 +1386,6 @@ u8 rtl_is_special_data(struct ieee80211_
}
return true;
- } else if (0x86DD == ether_type) {
- return true;
}
end:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-16 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-16 7:35 PROBLEM: rtlwifi drops most IPv6 packets Alan Fisher
2015-02-16 16:57 ` Larry Finger
2015-02-16 18:26 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2015-02-17 8:29 ` Alan Fisher
2015-02-17 16:43 ` Larry Finger
2015-02-22 22:49 ` Alan Fisher
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