From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING from mac80211
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:11:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC1B2F3.3070300@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304539363.3563.28.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On 05/04/2011 03:02 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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?)
Thanks. I do remember the thread now that you refreshed my memory. That patch
does fix my problem.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 20:11 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
2011-05-04 20:11 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-05-04 20:15 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-05 4:47 ` Mohammed Shafi
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