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| author | Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-07-26 10:05:38 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-07-28 09:39:30 +0400 |
| commit | 550fd08c2cebad61c548def135f67aba284c6162 (patch) | |
| tree | 8aa7c4d20a9faeb42261b75cfa38d8fd27b574ff /net/mac80211 | |
| parent | d8873315065f1f527c7c380402cf59b1e1d0ae36 (diff) | |
| download | linux-550fd08c2cebad61c548def135f67aba284c6162.tar.xz | |
net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared
After the last patch, We are left in a state in which only drivers calling
ether_setup have IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING set (we assume that drivers touching real
hardware call ether_setup for their net_devices and don't hold any state in
their skbs. There are a handful of drivers that violate this assumption of
course, and need to be fixed up. This patch identifies those drivers, and marks
them as not being able to support the safe transmission of skbs by clearning the
IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag in priv_flags
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
CC: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/iface.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index cd5fb40d3fd4..556e7e6ddf0a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -698,6 +698,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops ieee80211_monitorif_ops = { static void ieee80211_if_setup(struct net_device *dev) { ether_setup(dev); + dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING; dev->netdev_ops = &ieee80211_dataif_ops; dev->destructor = free_netdev; } |