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authorZhu Yi2006-12-20 09:11:58 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville2007-01-03 02:56:26 +0100
commitfe5f8e2a1c5c040209c598a28e19c55f30e1040d (patch)
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parent[PATCH] ieee80211: WLAN_GET_SEQ_SEQ fix (select correct region) (diff)
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[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
index 0e94fbbf7a94..b85857a84870 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
@@ -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: