Commit fe5f8e2a authored Dec 20, 2006 by Zhu Yi Committed by John W. Linville Jan 02, 2007

[PATCH] ipw2100: Fix dropping fragmented small packet problem

The rx_data.header struct is ieee80211_hdr_4addr. If a wireless frame uses
ieee80211_hdr_3addr header and is less than 6 bytes, it will be discarded.
This is not likely going to happen for normal packets (since there is TCP, IP
headers). But if fragmentation is used, there will be such small trailing
packets. And they will be lost for ever.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 3eb54605

drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2664,7 +2664,7 @@ static void __ipw2100_rx_process(struct ipw2100_priv *priv)
		break;
		}
		#endif
		if (stats.len < sizeof(u->rx_data.header))
		if (stats.len < sizeof(struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr))
		break;
		switch (WLAN_FC_GET_TYPE(u->rx_data.header.frame_ctl)) {
		case IEEE80211_FTYPE_MGMT:

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