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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING from mac80211
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 22:02:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304539363.3563.28.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DC1AF49.7080204@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20110504_215621_111957_531CD5AD)

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:55 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Johannes and John,
> 
> A regression in recent versions of mac80211 are generating the WARNING at 
> net/mac80211/wep.c:101, because the skb headroom is less than WEP_IV_LEN or the 
> tailroom is less than WEP_ICV_LEN. My testing indicates that it is a headroom 
> problem as the following hack "fixes" it:

See also this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/69062/focus=69150

and the resulting patch:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/69190
(not sure why it was RFC?)

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04 19:55 WARNING from mac80211 Larry Finger
2011-05-04 20:02 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-05-04 20:11   ` Larry Finger
2011-05-04 20:15     ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-05  4:47     ` Mohammed Shafi

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